Review: Enjoyable but not a stand out
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 22, 2014
Reviewed by JenBook provided by Innovative Online Book Tours for reviewReview originally posted at Romancing the BookAs a sports fan and an avid romance reader, you’d think that I would have enjoyed this book more than I did.  It’s not that it’s a bad story.  But it’s more I had trouble connecting with the characters and their motivations.Let’s start with Tyler.  He’s fresh off winning a Super Bowl and now he’s stuck in the San Juan Islands for a couple months in order to claim an inheritance.  He constantly projects a bad boy persona to the public, but private he’s not sure who he is… and the reader is taken along with his journey of self discovery.  So, yes, Tyler does grow during the book.  But it was that trip that often had me shaking my head.  Tyler yo-yoed so often, I was confused throughout most of the book.And then there is Lavender.  A girl with some major family issues and a dislike of, but an attraction to jocks.  So, when Tyler moves in next door, she’s not happy.  Throughout the story, Lavender has to deal with her insane grandmother, absentee father and odd relationship with Tyler.  Lavender grows as well, and I was often shaking my head here too.  I just could understand her and all her screwed up relationships.The love scenes were scorching hot and plentiful.  Ms Davenport was quite inventive in a few of those scenes.  But, they also fit into the story and help with the development of Tyler and Lavender’s relationship.The book was well written and obviously well researched.  The book touches on emotional abuse within a family.  And while I was often frustrated with the characters in the situation, it was handled quite well.In the end, this was a middle of the road read for me.  It was enjoyable enough, but it doesn’t stand out.  However, I am curious enough that I will likely check out some other books in this series to see what Ms Davenport does to these football players.