Review of A Whole New Ball Game by Lauren K McKellar
When children's nurse, Zoe, almost runs over a man who steps in front of her car, she never imagines he'll come to mean so much to her, and change the entire course of her life. Sawyer is a professional football player for the AFL team, The Killers, who has discovered his recent ex is now dating his teammate and best friend. It distracts him so much that he steps into oncoming traffic and almost gets his ass run over. He comes across as the typical arrogant professional athlete Zoe tags him as at first, but when he visits one of her patients in the hospital, she sees a whole different, wonderful, side of him. Sawyer needs a date to a team gala and Zoe needs training to be accepted onto the Aussie Rules women's team to prove to her adorable patient that women can play football, so a deal is struck. But the two cannot possibly start to develop feelings for each other because she's leaving soon (hopefully) to go to Africa and Sawyer doesn't trust women any longer thanks to his malicious, sleazy ex. Sounds like a match made in heaven to me...
Unfortunately, A Whole New Ball Game just did not work for me. The relationship between Zoe and Sawyer is really under-developed and instead of this being a big hurrah for feminism and women in professional sports, it made more of a big deal about Zoe being a WAG than becoming a professional footie player. So 3 stars for the exciting premise, but not more stars because the execution is really lacking.
ARC via NetGalley.
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When children's nurse, Zoe, almost runs over a man who steps in front of her car, she never imagines he'll come to mean so much to her, and change the entire course of her life. Sawyer is a professional football player for the AFL team, The Killers, who has discovered his recent ex is now dating his teammate and best friend. It distracts him so much that he steps into oncoming traffic and almost gets his ass run over. He comes across as the typical arrogant professional athlete Zoe tags him as at first, but when he visits one of her patients in the hospital, she sees a whole different, wonderful, side of him. Sawyer needs a date to a team gala and Zoe needs training to be accepted onto the Aussie Rules women's team to prove to her adorable patient that women can play football, so a deal is struck. But the two cannot possibly start to develop feelings for each other because she's leaving soon (hopefully) to go to Africa and Sawyer doesn't trust women any longer thanks to his malicious, sleazy ex. Sounds like a match made in heaven to me...
Unfortunately, A Whole New Ball Game just did not work for me. The relationship between Zoe and Sawyer is really under-developed and instead of this being a big hurrah for feminism and women in professional sports, it made more of a big deal about Zoe being a WAG than becoming a professional footie player. So 3 stars for the exciting premise, but not more stars because the execution is really lacking.
ARC via NetGalley.
#bookreview #newrelease #LaurenKMcKellar #sportsromance #contemporaryromance #Australia #NetGalley #ARC
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