Shoot me now. Ugh, ugh, ugh. I’m going to try to do this as quick and painlessly as possible.
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I didn’t like this. Like my ratin2★'s = it was ok.
Shoot me now. Ugh, ugh, ugh. I’m going to try to do this as quick and painlessly as possible.
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I didn’t like this. Like my rating says, it was ok but still, for me, a huge disappointment. I know I am going to be in the minority and most of you probably feel a little like this right now towards me…
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But seriously.
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Put your pitchforks away, you can’t love them all and the end of this series was a huge letdown for me. I was looking forward to this book, a lot. When I finished Blindsided I ended my review with this question: Has JJ (Jet) aged enough yet? I’m ready for his story now please!
This book is the answer to my question but sadly, the answer is…
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Jet has not aged enough yet. He hasn’t aged at all actually.
The setup in the previous book was perfect. I knew we would eventually get his story and I knew we’d have to wait a lot of years because at the time Jet was, I think 19? Way too young for his HEA. Way too young for Soren. I was ok with that wait. I had thoughts in my head how it would go. Longing, sightings, you know, build up.
Well, that’s not how it went down. Any which way I try to tell you my thoughts would be a spoiler so I’ll stop here, but it went down in a way I just didn’t like. Didn’t get and totally didn’t connect with.
Jet read like a child. Soren just read unbelievable and almost a little star struck, I felt nothing between the two of them. I never felt the love and really, I just didn’t like this installment and I AM BUMMED!
Maybe I’ve aged out of stories like this.
This was just not for me.
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It’s funny, I knew exactly how I felt about this book the entire read. I knew how I would rate it and mostly what I would say.
Then I read the end and It’s funny, I knew exactly how I felt about this book the entire read. I knew how I would rate it and mostly what I would say.
Then I read the end and all those thoughts and feelings became blurred.
The end made this book for me. Really. It’s not that I didn’t like it I just wasn’t over the moon until I read the ending.
Awwwwww! I even got misty eyed!
Alright, starting at the end is weird for me. Let’s start at the beginning. So, first off, this book is in the Fake Boyfriend Series but isn’t about a fake boyfriend relationship. I don’t know how I feel about that truthfully. I almost feel like the series name should be changed or something. I think there was a #.5 that also didn’t follow the theme also.
The other thing from the gate, I am not one of those readers who feels like every character introduced in a story needs their own story. I believe this. When I finished Trick Play I was all for the Quarterback’s story, at least that’s what I said in my review. So yeah, I guess I wasn’t averse to Talon and Miller’s story necessarily but as I read through it I kept thinking just maybe they didn’t need one. I don’t know. There was just something off between the two of them. I believed their friendship. No doubt. These two were bros and I felt that connection. I just don’t know if I ever really warmed up completely to their romantic relationship. Maybe because so much of their time together was not together, maybe because a lot of it truly just felt like benefits. I just don’t know but there was something missing. By the time I started feeling like just maybe there was more to the two of them it all kind of came to a screeching, insert drama, stop. I was upset with Miller. I didn’t necessarily get where he was coming from or why he couldn’t get the right words out to explain it to Talon since well, Talon would get it!
I think aside from the relationship disconnect my biggest issue was Miller and football. I didn’t believe he wanted it anymore. I swear I thought there was going to be this huge revelation at some point. He was going to realize he had a different calling or another better opportunity was going to present itself. The entire book read like he just didn’t have his heart set on it anymore. Not that he was defeated and depressed, even when he should have been working to get better and back on his feet he wasn’t. It didn’t make sense to me. I expected something totally different.
I probably needed more from when they were in college. I probably needed to know more about how and why with Miller from back then. I probably also needed to better believe they never touched each other. I don’t think I’ll even understand threesomes or foursomes with guys who don’t touch. How does that work really? No homo? Come on.
I hate that I sound so negative because really, the reading experience itself wasn’t. I enjoyed it, I really did. I laughed out loud. I was happy to see a lot of the guys from the other books, and it was of course, very hot. But yeah, I just didn’t love it and unfortunately I carried more of that with me than what I enjoyed. It happens.
But you can forget most of all that up there because oh, wow, that end. I don’t know why but it hit me right in the feels. That end was the feeling I was missing and man, when I finally got it I got it hard.
I guess I’ll just wrap with this wasn’t my favorite of the series and I honestly feel like maybe it should have been a spin-off of the series really, but it was better than ok and that end upped it’s rating at least by a ½ ★.
Has JJ (Jet) aged enough yet? I’m ready for his story now please!
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So, I have typed and deleted this review at least twenty times already. Everything I type up sounds like I hatIn a sea of 5★ reviews there is me. Ugh.
So, I have typed and deleted this review at least twenty times already. Everything I type up sounds like I hated the book. I didn’t. But guys, I’m seriously at a loss.
This wasn’t at all what I expected it to be.
Bummer.
So, let’s try to get this out. Let me reiterate. I didn’t hate this. It was well written and I stayed up way past my bedtime, even for a Saturday night, to finish it but yeah, well, it just didn’t work out for me. The setup seemed like it was going to be kind of fun and then there would be the discovery and then there would be the romance but that is not how it went down. The setup part went on too long and went from a simple little lie to full on deceit and well, that is not cool. I just didn’t buy Law’s reasoning at all. I get it, it snowballed and the longer he avoided it the harder it was yadda yadda yadda, I get that, but still, he was deceiving Reed pretty much the whole book and well, it wasn’t cool. Oh, and that point in the book when he took Anders’s advice and just continued to take what he could get while he was getting it, well, that right there pretty much ruined any chance he had to be loved by me. It changed the whole thing to doing it on purpose and I’ll say it one more time, that is not cool.
There really wasn’t any romance. There was fucking with “Anders” and bros with Law. I am all for falling for your friend type stories but again, that’s not what happened here. Well, maybe it did but no, not fairly or really.
So, the twin thing. It all just seemed contrived to me. What happened to Anders is pretty fucking serious, yeah? I mean HUGE but I don’t know if I completely comprehended the whole needing Law to break up with guys for him thing. It all just felt weird to me.
I just don’t know.
And then Law’s “secret”. I just can’t believe with how close we are to believe these two brothers are that Law would have kept this from Anders and the reasoning why just didn’t jive for me.
See, it sounds like I hated the book. I didn’t. I like the idea of these twins. I like that the story had a pretty serious, no, really serious, back story. I like this attorney friend of Reeds’. I totally hope it is him in the next book. I liked the kids and all that too. Overall I liked it, really I did, I think mostly I missed the romance and the groveling. The drama at the end kind of forced their hands a little bit and well, I don’t know. I just don’t.
I guess you just can't win them all. I'll definitely read the next one.
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This series is really just a good time. Eden Finley takes a trope that can at times be brutal and just does it right all the way through the story. ThThis series is really just a good time. Eden Finley takes a trope that can at times be brutal and just does it right all the way through the story. There are all the emotions you would expect to have with this type of story but never too much or anything crazy over the top. I always have a great time reading anything in this series and this one fit right in.
I liked both of these boys and watching them navigate whatever they thought they weren’t doing was touching and hysterical.
There were a couple nervous moments but as I mentioned before, Eden Finley knows this trope and does it so freaking well!
Overall another great addition to a great series.
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Cute, cute, cute. This was a very good follow up! As a fan of the fake relationship setup, well, I welcome a series that focuses just on that. This seCute, cute, cute. This was a very good follow up! As a fan of the fake relationship setup, well, I welcome a series that focuses just on that. This series is doing it just about right. This book left me feeling pretty much the same way the first book did and that is a good thing. There is nothing wrong with this formula honestly. It was a little bit bumpy getting started and then mostly predictable with this sort of setup but not at all bad. Fun comes to mind.
I thought Matt was going to get on my last nerve truthfully but once he got out of his own way I liked him. Like I said, the beginning was a little rocky. He was just so angry and standoffish I didn’t know how long I was going to be able to put up with that. He didn’t seem appreciative at all for the help. Thankfully that didn’t last forever. Once we really got to know him he had a huge heart of gold and I wanted everything for him.
Noah didn’t bother me nearly as much as I expected him too. I think he was perfect for Matt and was a huge help in keeping him grounded. He didn’t read crazy spoiled to me, just kind of lost. I ended up loving him toward the end once he really opened his eyes and just got it. Love looked really good on him.
I’m digging the series and am invested in who is next. The setups for the next books are done really well and I hope the author continues to write about the secondary characters. The author asked the readers to let her know if we wanted more books at the end. I guess she doesn’t want to write it if we don’t want it or something?? Seemed a little odd to me, but yeah, Lennon seems cool. I want his story. And yes, let’s let JJ (Jet) grow up a bit first but then yeah, I’m all for his story as well. Oh, and the Quarterback. Yes please.
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