Review: Game Changer was a Grand Slam for this reader!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 16, 2014
There is some HUGE grinning going on right now!  I <3 this story SO MUCH!  Brooks and Sasha are fantastic characters, and they're even better together!  This book combines so many of my favorite things in a romance novel: Guy falling for his best friend's sister, baseball, 'forbidden' romance, a woman doing whatever a man can (sometimes better than a man)...the list goes on and on!Sasha is the only girl in her family, with 3 brothers.  And all of those brothers have (or currently do) played baseball in the major leagues.  Sasha played softball in high school, but when an opportunity comes to play major league baseball, in order to help out one of her brothers...well, who could resist?  :)Brooks has been in love with Sasha for a while now...whether or not he's willing to admit it is a different story.  Besides, everyone knows the rules: it's 'hands off' when it comes to your best friend's kid sister.  But Brooks isn't sure he wants to follow the rules anymore.  And when Sasha goes and does something crazy, like joining a team full of male players, being with her may be the only way to protect her...but first, he'll have to convince a WHOLE LOT of people (including Sasha and himself) that it's the right thing to do.I'm not going to lie...there were a lot of tears shed on my part while reading this book.  Not only do Brooks and Sasha have some tough stuff to get through between themselves, but Sasha's brother, and Brook's best friend, is going through one of the hardest, scariest things a person could ever have to deal with.  Plus, there are some extremely beautiful moments that will have you crying your eyes out too!And the secondary characters?  Phenomenal!  They aren't flat and two-dimensional, they each have a story of their own, and change and grow throughout the novel.  And without them, Brooks and Shasha's story wouldn't be what it is.  Taylor is Landry's (one of the other players) 5-year-old daughter, and she is the funniest, most adorable little girl EVER!  Let's just say she tells it like it is. ;-)  And Tony, the team's manager, is the creator of one of my favorite moments of the book!  I can't leave out Grey, because she does so much to help Sasha see that not only is she worthy of Brooks, but she is worthy of playing the great American pastime, even if she is 'just a woman'.Some people are probably going to say that the ‘black moments’ aren’t hard enough, or long enough.  But I honestly think that the progression of events/arguments/talking things out is very natural.  The author didn’t force any of the black moments to drag out, 'just' so that they lasted longer.I also liked that even though this story is told in dual point-of-view, the author didn’t force changing POV every other chapter.  There were times when it was natural to stay in Sasha’s POV heading into the next chapter, or vice versa, and she did.Anyway, if you love a good sports romance, you MUST read this one!