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Blurb
SOME GIRLS HAVE ALL THE LUCK
Unfortunately, I am not one of those girls. Not when I lost my apartment because my roommate let the lease lapse while I was traveling for work. Not when my brothers keep finding love and my mother keeps reminding me I’m still single. Not after a one-night stand during my older brother’s wedding has me waking up pregnant.
I have to keep it a secret—from him, and my family. I sure can’t tell my brother his teammate, Mateo Jose Espinoza, is the man I slept with. Confident, funny, Mateo…
A GUY CAN’T CATCH A BREAK
Just when I thought I’d found the girl of my dreams, she ghosts me. Worse? Her brother refuses to give me her number, and my calls to her office go straight to voicemail. I thought I was a catch; professional athlete, charming, raised with six sisters—I’m a guy who knows his way to a woman’s heart! What reason could she
possibly have for avoiding me?
When I finally catch up to True Wallace, I’m going to get the answer.
Review
3 stars
I love this series, and was so excited to be back with the Wallace clan – this time with Buzz and Tripp’s younger sister, True. It’s a surprise pregnancy romance, though not the story I was expecting, and while it’s a fun read it felt like half a book to me, lacking romance and all of the things that I really wanted to see.
The story begins with True coming to terms with the fact that she’s pregnant. She hooked up with one of Buzz’s teammates at his wedding, and though she shared an immediate connection with Mateo, she snuck out during the night and has been ignoring him ever since. And now she’s got a baby on the way.
Mateo fell hard and fast during his night with True. He wanted more, but she took off on him, and despite his efforts to get in touch with her, she has continued to ghost him (even blocking him on social media). He’s disappointed, but determined to get his chance with the girl he can’t forget about, and I completely fell for him before we even get a chance to see him with True.
Which leads me to my first problem with this book – it takes SUCH a long time for these two to get on the same page together. We get to see True dealing with her secret and deliberating when and how (and even whether!) to tell Mateo, while he’s desperately looking for a way to get in touch with her. Honestly, she ticked me off. Her behaviour was not ok, and I was really disappointed in how she handled the situation. When they do meet up, it seems awkward and uneasy, and then they’re dealing with an unexpected pregnancy. Mateo is sensational, all in from the very beginning, but the romance and the chemistry just isn’t there. They talk of course, and there is some fun text banter and some steamy time, but the emotion was lacking. Mateo would have been a wonderful romantic hero, and though we get glimpses of his potential, he never gets the chance to shine.
“I will do right by you in all the ways that matter.
I promise, True Wallace, I will not let you down.”
We get to see their original meeting in flashbacks throughout the book, and that’s where we get to see the chemistry. I would have loved to have started their story with their meeting rather than getting it piecemeal throughout the story, because it’s pretty much the only romance that happens and would have set the stage nicely for the story to come, but instead it comes in bits, which breaks up the flow of both their night together, and their reconnection, and I never really got a sense of how good they could be together.
And just when we start to get a glimpse of that, the story ends. The book finishes so abruptly, I wondered if it was part 1, because there’s so much we don’t see. And all the stuff we don’t see is all the stuff I wanted to see there’s no baby, no declarations of love, only a hint that yes, they’re going to give a relationship a try. That’s it.. I was disappointed. They had a great set-up, and I so wanted to see them come together and find their happy, but instead it’s only hinted at and we don’t get to see it.
She’s glowing – or maybe it’s just the lighting. Either way, she’s beautiful and pregnant and mine.
Well. Not yet, but she will be.
The bright side of this book is True’s brothers. Tripp, and particularly Buzz, are freaking hilarious and absolutely ridiculous as they go into ultra-protective big brother mode. And when you add in Mateo’s six hilariously overbearing, oversharing and over-involved sisters get, there are so many funny moments.
This book is good and has some really bright moments, and it had so much potential to be a fantastic read, but the heroine ticked me off, the romance wasn’t there for me, and it ultimately felt unfinished. I’m keen to see if True and Mateo’s story will continue in the background as (if) this series continues.
3 stars.
An Advanced Review Copy was generously provided by the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
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About the Author
Sara Ney is the USA Today Bestselling Author of the How to Date a Douchebag series, and is best known for her sexy, laugh-out-loud New Adult romances. Among her favorite vices, she includes: iced latte’s, historical architecture and well-placed sarcasm. She lives colorfully, collects vintage books, art, loves flea markets, and fancies herself British.
For a list of cities/venues Sara will be signing at, or to purchase signed books, please visit her website at www.authorsaraney.com
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