The Long Game

Elena Armas hit another one out of the park! I absolutely loved this book. As per usual, the book places you directly in the action, but I didn't feel confused as I played catch up. When the book opens up, Adalyn is almost immediately banished from her job as a high-up executive at her father's soccer team, and it takes quite a while to find out what exactly happened to cause this extreme punishment. The reward, however, for the reader is worth it as it brings many of the characters in the book together the more details about Adalyn's "incident" gets revealed. The viral incident (No spoilers!) is equal parts funny and heartbreaking as you realize the implications of what it means. The best part of the entire book is the characters. Adalyn is portrayed as an uptight, Type-A personality, but it becomes clear that she has just never been given the chance to be herself when she meets Cam. Cam is an ex-pro athlete hiding out, but he brings Adalyn's personality (and snark!) to the surface with each explosive, yet humorous encounter. This brings be to the second best part of this book: the dialogue or should I say the banter? Adalyn and Cam had such good quips and comments that I flew threw the pages. While both the main character's personalities are very unique and intense, I feel that everyone will be able to connect to a part of Adalyn's personal journey throughout this book. Overall, I highly recommend this book, and I can't wait to read the next one!

He's a famous footballer hiding out in a small town. She's "banished" by her dad to the same small town. They find joy in the local youth girls soccer team.

there was absolutely no chemistry, no spark and nothing that exciting happening between the two main characters. It started out less promising and became even more less promising, does that make sense?

the book began with adalyn who was shamed and banished after a video had gone viral. now, many companies and firms go through such shit but this just didn't make much sense to me. It felt exaggerated and stretched. Her father was a grade A asshole. So she moves into this small town for an assignment where she meets or almost runs over her love interest. The love interest is an absolute ass to her. He proudly admitted that he is mean and selfish, and i'm supposed to fall for his “charm” or lack thereof? He literally tells her several times that he wants her gone because she has disrupted his peace. She literally shows him her booking but he is still a bitch about it. And then few chapters in, all of a sudden he wants to fuck her. He is now into her. I got super confused, did i miss a chapter here? Did i misread this entire half of the book? What is going on? Suddenly, he is so protective of her, and wants to care for her??!!

And the third act conflict, my god. That was “bloody” stupid if you ask me. Because cameron literally said tell me more about the rumor and he literally didn't hide it from adalyn, he said he would have told her later. Her reaction was uncalled for. Fine get upset and what not, but really.