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.
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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.
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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