Full-Court Press

Loved!!!!

A friends, to enemies, to lovers.

Banner is absolutely fierce, and I hope I can be as cool as her one day.

Jared, tough sports agent but has a soft spot for his college best friend.

Hard to describe this without giving much away.

A must read!

Ugh this book was so hard to get through and I nearly DNFd it a few times.

My main issue with this entire book was Jared. Now I love an alpha hero, but Jared was just a dick. An arrogant, selfish dick. Every word which came out of his mouth made me roll my eyes, and whenever he talked about ‘taking Banner back', it just sounded so cold and shady. There was just nothing redeeming about him.

Although it was rough, I've decided on a 2.5 star ratings for 3 reasons:

1 - Kennedy Ryan's writing is great.
2 - Banner and Zo (it should have been their love story!)
3 - The epilogue. It was a good epilogue. It will give it half a star.

I have a feeling that book 3 about Lotus and Keenan will be more like book 1, so I am going to continue and read that one, as well as reading other Kennedy Ryan books. I think this one just didn't gel with me and that's okay.

CW: Overly obsessive thoughts and talk about weight. PCOS. Cancer-like illness. Manipulation. Mom calling her daughter a straight up “Puta”. (NO, MA'AM)

One: “En las buenas y las malas” is “Through the good and the bad” not “Through thick and thin”.

Two: I thoroughly enjoyed this book more than Hoops 1 because I was not ready with that book and it didn't feel safe. #1 reason for not continuing with this series for a year and a half. I felt safe in this book. HOWEVER, it got real tiresome having Ms. Morales talk about her obsession of weight ALL. THE. DAMN. TIME. It lasted throughout the entire book. She included it in her motivation speeches about her career acting like she tucked it away to be the bad ass chic in the room but she never really did. It always circled back to that. When you are the greatest, people who admire you don't see the body. When you are the greatest, haters will always fall back to the body because that is all they have to grasp onto and even then it is nothing but a weak comeback. Give yourself some grace, please.

When a man is telling you over and over again that he loves every dip, every curve, every little thing and has never done anything to contradict it; take it in and hold on to that power.

UGH... I'm sure there are people that obsess that much but as someone that has found so much success and is brilliant at what she does in every aspect outside of her weight, I expected more from Ms. Morales.

2.5 stars

I really disliked this one, which is a shame since I loved the first one. Unfortunately, I'm reviewing this 4 months after actually reading it so I can't even remember fully why I disliked it– I just get this “UGH” feeling when I think about it.

Heads up: There is cheating in this book
(Thankfully I wrote a note about that), this is probably one of the main reasons I dislike this book. I have a hard time forgiving cheaters. There was no reason for it and for the other character to be almost egging it on made no sense.

I also have a hard time liking second chance romances, especially if they work in the same field. Why didn't they [in this case Jared] try to reach out to Banner before this?

I will read Hook Shot since I've heard such good things about it. I hope it redeems this book.