After years of keeping the world at bay, Olivia Pratt is pulling off the ultimate performance—not only reluctantly posing as Will’s girlfriend but also insisting that she’s oblivious to his major-league appeal. But she can only lie to herself for so long. Being by Will’s side feels good. Really good. Maybe it’s finally time to make a pitch for everything she really wants—and to find out just how exhilarating love can be.
MY REVIEW:
Olivia Pratt is a 29-year-old, 4th
grade teacher in Texas. She really loves
being a teach and working with children.
She really is a natural. Truly
gifted at being nurturing. Which is so
had to believe once you consider her background and how unloved and neglected
she felt.
You see her older brother was to golden
child in her household. He was the one being groomed to be the pro baseball
star. So things like her dance lessons
couldn’t and shouldn’t interfere with their parent’s master plan to help him
get there. To the point where Olivia
learned how to be invisible. That is
until they needed her for some staged event.
Then she was only a prop. She
thought that once her brother signed with the Cardinals the nightmares would be
over but they had only begun.
You see his season in the majors wasn’t
even over when her brother got busted for using and selling drugs. Resulting with him losing his position with
the Cardinals and 5 years in the pen. To
say Olivia was pissed at him and her parents was an understatement. She had given up her childhood because of him
and never the attention of her parents.
A little over 5 years has passed and the only real calls she gets from
her mom is to tell her to call and mend fences with her brother.
Enter her new neighbor who moves in next
door. Will Vandergriff 31, a pitcher for
the Texas Rangers. He is still in the
early stages with this team he was traded from the Yankees. He’s not feeling too sure of himself because
since he’s gotten here he has had a bad pitching spell and he has felt
responsible for the losses the team has been getting. Apparently, so have the fans and sports
casters at Sport Center.
The only time he seems to smile or even
chuckle lately is when he is watching his new neighbor next door the “Crazy Cat
Lady.” She is beautiful he would have to
give her that but come on who puts their cat on a leash? This cat, a white Persian, has scratched the
lovin’ tar out of her and she still puts it on to walk it. Well, really you can’t call it walk it more
like drags it. Don’t get him started on
her OCD. But he can’t talk since he has
his baseball superstitions.
But one night after a game he has a party
at his place. Yes, it’s after
midnight. Yes, the music is on the
louder side. Yes, he is really ready to
pack it in but won’t for image sake. It’s
a party for goodness sake. When all of a
sudden there is pounding at his door.
Blake his only BFF on the team and his catcher answers it. You see he is in the kitchen putting out a
fire. No really putting out a good honest
fire a bimbo started and then must have put herself into shock decided to just
stare at it. Well, he had to do
something fast since it was getting close to the alcohol bottle. Burning his hand, a little. Not a good thing when you’re a pitcher.
So, when Blake comes to him and says hey man
someone’s looking for you at the door and he ask who? Blake saying some crazy eyed fan with a screw
driver he thinks of OCD neighbor.
When he goes to ask her, “What
do you want?” As he lusts over the fact that she is not dressed like a strict
librarian but just rolled out of bed sexed up kitten. When she says, “You want to turn your music
down?” Which reminds him yeah bitchy
librarian. Then he asks if she wants a
coke to drink or something else? She
says she can’t she has a date waiting and the music’s so loud that can’t watch
the movie. He doesn’t believe she has a
date.
There is something about her he likes and
he can’t put his finger on it and the same for Olivia. In fact, in Olivia’s case she does everything
in her power to despise him because she hates baseball. You see it took over her whole childhood and
she didn’t want it to be a part of her adulthood at all. So since the players were a part of the game
and he was a play she had to hate him right?
So why is she attracted to him?
Then one day he needs her help to be his
girlfriend. The thing is when she agrees
and goes to that first game he wins and in fact plays the best he has ever
played. Then he talks her into a second
game. Each game they find out a little
more about one another. Olivia’s biggest
problem with Will is that his image/ego is just too important to him when it
needs to be the people can he change that?
Can Olivia be that person?
Like when he asks her favorite color she
says, black. He says, not a color she
says, of course it is. If you add black
to any other color you get more depth to it.
It might create shadows or for layering, all color becomes richer when
you add a little black. How many of you
like black now?
This author had some very poignant lines
throughout this book. I found myself
high lighting them. They made me stop
and think for sure. Just like the part
about the color black. This author takes
something that a great many people suffer from to varying degrees and brought
it light in a humorous yet gentle non-threatening way.
The characters were well rounded and
true. They were funny and warm. People you could find as friends. I give this 5 stars. Provided by netgalley.com. Follow us at:
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