Review: Not to my tastes.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 05 10, 2013
I was thoroughly underwhelmed by this book.I should give fair warning that sports books are not my favorite. I read them, but I don't have any fantasies involving athletes and I don't get anything special out of the theme. However, I wanted to try "Rush Me" because it is Carina Press's first go at the New Adult genre and it is based in New York, my neck of the woods.Another preface is that I am a New Jersey Jewish girl. You wouldn't think that that would be relevant but it kinda is here. This book is very religion-y and very Jewish. They talk a lot about having Shabbat dinner and going home for Rosh Hashannah. There are a lot of Jewish references. The reason that I said I was Jewish before stating this next statement is so no one thinks I'm being a jerk: I didn't like all of the religious talk in this book. I don't like reading much about religion in general and here it felt out of place and odd. Just saying...I also didn't feel the romance between Rachael and Ryan. In the first few scenes he is a complete jerk to her and she still lusts over him and wants him. It just came across as desperate and like something a girl with low self-esteem would do. I didn't connect to Rachael as a character after that.Just overall, this book didn't really work for me. I mean, it had some cute moments and I didn't mind reading it but I wouldn't seek this one out again.**Copy provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review**