Steamy and entertaining romance novel.
Pro Baseball Player Risk Kincaid has returned to his Florida hometown to see his "rebound lover" Jacy Grayson. Risk and Jacy have known each other since high school where he comforted her after a messy breakup. Since then, he has rushed to her side and into her bed each time she breaks up with her current boyfriend. Risk has decided he is in love with Jacy but is afraid to tell her. Jacy has loved Risk forever. Over the years she has made up many boyfriends and break ups just to get Risk back in her bed. How will he react when she tells him that she wants him permanently in her life?
Meanwhile, Jacy's best friend, Stephanie "Stevie" Cole has had a relationship with hometown hero Pitcher Aaron Grayson (Jacy's cousin). Their relationship has cooled in the last year. Stevie hoped that they would get back on track when Aaron came to town to help with a local fundraiser. Her hopes were crushed when Aaron announced his engagement to Natalie Llewellyn. Zen Driscoll is in town for the fundraiser too. He is attracted to Stevie and feels bad that she found out about Aaron's engagement in public. Zen befriends her and hopes to get her mind off of Aaron and onto Zen.
I admit that contemporary romance is not a favorite genre. I usually like a little more plot with the pages and pages of sex scenes. I expected this story to be light and funny, but I really didn't like some of the characters. Jacy drove me crazy. She is described as free spirit who wears mismatched clothes and changes her nail polish daily. She runs a coffee shop where she stirs sugar cubes into the coffee with her finger while the old men drool. Yuck! Risk wasn't much better. He was constantly thinking about how to tell Jacy he loved her, yet it took him a month to get around to doing it.
The secondary romance was a little better. I liked Zen and his willingness to take his time with Stevie. He also seemed the most down-to-earth baseball player out of the many who came to the fundraiser. Stevie had issues with her body image and self-esteem. I could understand that, but since it was drummed into us over and over again, it became monotonous. My rating: 2 Stars.
Meanwhile, Jacy's best friend, Stephanie "Stevie" Cole has had a relationship with hometown hero Pitcher Aaron Grayson (Jacy's cousin). Their relationship has cooled in the last year. Stevie hoped that they would get back on track when Aaron came to town to help with a local fundraiser. Her hopes were crushed when Aaron announced his engagement to Natalie Llewellyn. Zen Driscoll is in town for the fundraiser too. He is attracted to Stevie and feels bad that she found out about Aaron's engagement in public. Zen befriends her and hopes to get her mind off of Aaron and onto Zen.
I admit that contemporary romance is not a favorite genre. I usually like a little more plot with the pages and pages of sex scenes. I expected this story to be light and funny, but I really didn't like some of the characters. Jacy drove me crazy. She is described as free spirit who wears mismatched clothes and changes her nail polish daily. She runs a coffee shop where she stirs sugar cubes into the coffee with her finger while the old men drool. Yuck! Risk wasn't much better. He was constantly thinking about how to tell Jacy he loved her, yet it took him a month to get around to doing it.
The secondary romance was a little better. I liked Zen and his willingness to take his time with Stevie. He also seemed the most down-to-earth baseball player out of the many who came to the fundraiser. Stevie had issues with her body image and self-esteem. I could understand that, but since it was drummed into us over and over again, it became monotonous. My rating: 2 Stars.
The author didn't even bother to get the rules of the game right; in the first 4 pages, she claimed the visiting team had a walk-off homerun to win the World Series. I actually returned this book to the store as unreadable. That is a first for me.
This book had two romantic stories wraped into one. I think the author could have almost written two books in order to do each romantic storyline justice. Overall it was a good read!
great book, very fast read
great book, really fast read
Squeeze Play is a light, fun, sexy read. It was a lot of fun to read. You cared about the main characters. You don't need to be a baseball fan to thoroughly enjoy this fun read thankfully I am a baseball fan ((GO DODGERS))) LOL
The first in a series called "Boys of Summer." Funny and very sweet with great secondary characters who will be getting their own stories in the future according to the author's website.
Sizzlin! Can't wait to get to know the other ballplayers.
I really enkoyed this book, it was a fast very sexy read!
Risk Kincaid was finding out that the life of a pro baseball player wasn't all it was cracked up to be. The fame, the fortune, the fans--what good were they when he kept striking out with the one woman who really mattered to him? Jacy Grayson was sassy and spirited, but she only saw him as her rebound lover--the man who picked up the pieces when her heart was broken. Yet Risk had never stepped down from the plate before, and he certainly wasn't going to start now. The bases were loaded--all Risk needed to do was show her that the diamond he had in mind wasn't found on a baseball field.
Great fun book.
very cute...great characters!
1st in series.
I loved that there were more than 2 'main' characters. Very well written. I couldn't put it down. I can't wait to read the others in the series.
I loved that there were more than 2 'main' characters. Very well written. I couldn't put it down. I can't wait to read the others in the series.
Overall a fun read, but the author is obviously not too much of a baseball fan. The many errors in the baseball parts were quite annoying.
I never have read this author before but I was pleasantly surprised. Iam actually going to get the other books written by this author because I liked this one so much. Good read!!
MY FIRST BY KATE ANGELL,WON'T BE MY LAST.FUN,SEXY,CHARMING FRESH AND UNIQUE. HUMOROUS,ROMANTIC AND LOTS OF FUN TO READ.
Light, sweet yet hot read!!
I really enjoyed this book. I'm not a baseball fan, but the author has a way of keeping the storyline going without boring you with baseball. This was a sassy and fun book that followed the blossoming relationships of three couples, including Jacy and Risk. I enjoyed the relationship between Stevie and Zen even more. Stevie was a very relatable character.
"Fun characters. Fast-paced. Play ball!" - Lori Foster, New York Times Bestselling Author
If you like vapid, baseball reads where the sex is all wham-bam-thank-you ma'am, this is the book for you. If not, try The Catch. Much better character development.
