Monday, June 24, 2019

Release Blitz & Book Review: Teardrop Shot by Tijan

Teardrop Shot
by Tijan
Genre: Contemporary Sports Romance
Release Date: June 24th, 2019

Blurb:

I asked for his criteria for bed buddies–that's the PG version.

He swore at me and said he didn’t do groupies.
And just like that, our friendship was off to a great start.

Reese Forster was the starting point guard for the Seattle Thunder.

Gorgeous. Cocky. Loved by the nation.

He’s also attending preseason basketball training camp where I used to work.

Correction: where I work again, because I was fired from my last job.
And dumped.
And I might have a tiny bit of baggage, but that’s normal. Right?

Reese and I shouldn’t have become friends.
We shouldn’t have become roommates.

And we really shouldn’t have started sleeping together … (Except we did.)

I’m adorably psychotic. He’s in the NBA.
This is not a disaster waiting to happen, at all.

Teardrop Shot is a 100k standalone sports romance.
 
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45701029-teardrop-shot


Buy now:
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Barnes and Noble: https://bit.ly/2XtBnBE


About the author:
 
Tijan is a New York Times Bestselling author that writes suspenseful and unpredictable novels. Her characters are strong, intense, and gut-wrenchingly real with a little bit of sass on the side. Tijan began writing later in life and once she started, she was hooked. She’s written multi-bestsellers including the Carter Reed Series, the Fallen Crest Series, and the Broken and Screwed Series among others. She is currently writing a new YA series along with so many more from north Minnesota where she lives with a man she couldn’t be without and an English Cocker she adores.​
 
Enter the giveaway for a Teardrop signed paperback and swag giveaway here: https://bit.ly/2X0TxGC


My review: 

I need more stars! Five are not enough! This beautiful and most perfect story deserves more stars!!

Really, my love for this book knows no limit. This was my third book by this author so far and I'm starting to realize that she has a very rare talent because her stories are never as they seem. I absolutely love their uniqueness and how the author surprises me every time with her unexpected ways and fabulous writing.

When you read a lot of books from a certain genre they tend to be very similar at times. This one though, I've never read a story like it even though one might think it could be too mainstream with a classic genre like sports romance. That's a reason why this author is brilliantly talented. She takes something mundane and normal and turns it into something special and new.

Charlie was dumped and fired. One might think it couldn’t get any worse, right?! Well, wrong. But when a job opportunity presented itself to her, she had no other choice but to take it. Little did she know that her favorite basketball team and player were her new clients. Freak outs were expected but never would she have dreamed for Reese Forster to notice her. Not only did he pay attention to her, but he also didn’t look at her like others do, as if she was crazy, because he saw her for who she really was. An odd friendship developed between them but how long could this go on with him being a pro basketball player and her being held down with all that baggage she carried around?!
‘It wasn’t right, or it shouldn’t have been, that just a memory could strip someone of everything. But it worked.’
I devoured this unputdownable book. I loved Charlie and her quirky ways. My heart broke for her already in the beginning when I didn’t even know what she went through or what was going on. There was a sadness to her, behind all her crazy, and it broke my heart. You can imagine how soul shattering it was when her secret was revealed. I cried a lot with this book but it wasn’t an ugly cry story. It was just so emotional and also somewhat personal that it touched me deeply. I don’t have the same story than Charlie but I know what it meant to put on a brave face and hide your true feelings deep inside where they start eating at you. You can let it destroy you or you can open up and let them out. Either way is very hard and not possible to manage alone.
‘Crazy was a nice firm wall that I kept around myself, shielding people from getting too close, or from me connecting as a real human being kinda way. It was a good firm wall locked around me, and the more he was watching me, the more that wall was getting dents in it, and that was the bad part.’
Reese wasn’t one of the typical heroes. He wasn’t the asshole kind or the sweet loving guy. He was a pro basketball player and a loner. He had his own shadows and struggles to deal with and the things that were revealed made him very likeable. I really felt with him. He seemed hurt, closed off and didn’t let people in easily which was not only because of his job. He was a great and caring guy but still somewhat an enigma. Definitely very intriguing.

These characters were like a breath of fresh air and so unique. I loved how Charlie kept Reese on his toes and I laughed so much. But their story also brought tears to my eyes and made my heart ache. They went through some very tough situations in life and it broke me so bad. My heart shattered for them.
‘”You don’t stop loving someone even if they’ve forgotten you.”’
This story was a perfect example of why I became a book-lover. It had all the feels, it had that familiarity of being new but also personal. It made me forget my surroundings and wrapped me up in a blanket of comfort. It made me feel loved but also heartbroken at the same time. It broke me but didn’t destroy me. It got me and caught me. It was my aching best friend.

-- I voluntarily reviewed an ARC of this book given by the author. --

My rating: 5 of 5 Stars
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