Review: Great fun & sexy little anthology about athletes & Olympics!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 20, 2014
I will admit it right off the bat: I am a huge fan of the Olympics. Yes, I like most major league sports too, but the Olympics are different. I never feel more pride, patriotism or excitement as I do when the Olympics are on. I want Team USA to smear the floor with the competition and win it for themselves & our country. You can bet that my DVR will be recording the upcoming games so I can watch as much as I can! I also barely read contemporary romance books so I figured I could give this one a shot since I knew I could connect to the subject matter at least. So now that is off my chest…I absolutely loved each and every story in Love and Other Games!Each mini love story is cute, fun and sexy! They each had overarching themes of sportsmanship, superstition and luck, which all took place at the same Olympic Games in Switzerland. I thought it was really fun that each story slyly remarked about another aspect of one of the other stories.  All of the characters/athletes made me do some serious laughing and swooning! I knew the Olympics were a time of much patriotism and competition but who knew they could be so damn fun & sexy too! I know this is a work of fiction but you know damn well I will be thinking about what the athletes are doing behind the scenes when I watch in February! So do yourselves a favor and grab a copy of Love and Other Games to get you in the mood for the Winter Olympics in just a few weeks!My really only issue with this anthology was the insta-love, I prefer a more drawn out realistic story of falling in love. However, I definitely understand that each mini love story was just that, a mini love story so there is only so much space to fill. I don’t read many anthologies so I don’t have much material to compare it to, so it is still a 4 heart book in my opinion. The stories had too many redemptive qualities to really let this drag my enjoyment down.This review was originally written and published on my blog on 1/20/14 & was given an arc in exchange for review  - http://bookcrush.in/reviews/blog-tour-review-giveaway-love-games/