Caroline Richardson

Out of His League

alya adlina

thank you netgalley for giving this arc for free in exchange with a honest review. 

this is a wattpad book i didn’t expect anything at all…these two stars are for the romance and the smutty scene that’s all i mean there’s nothing great about this plot…it could be more shorter than this but overall the characters are cute for me and yes that’s all.

fer ❀

I didn’t realize this is a wattpad book so it was a re-release but it was decent i guess, even if it didn’t have the logo you could tell with the writing and the pace of the book. if you enjoy wattpad books then this is definitely for you bc it’s a fast, easy read, sports romance, so i can actually some people could enjoy reading this. 2.5/5 ⭐️

Thanks to net galley for the arc 🙏

Megan Costa

Rating 2.5 Stars 

	Out of His League was not a grand slam for me friends. 

While heading to a wine convention in Las Vegas, sommelier Gretchen Harper spots her favourite baseball player in the airport. Athlete Joshua Malvern is being sent down to Vegas from the major leagues. To cheer him up, Gretchen buys him a cup of coffee and Joshua bumps her up to first-class for a Vegas weekend she’ll never forget. 

I was very excited to get to this book. I love me a good sports romance, love a sweet cartoon cover, and really thought this book was going to be the home run I thought it was. Who doesn’t want to bump into their celebrity crush in an airport and then get whisked away on a whirlwind vacation? But I just left feeling disappointed. 

The thing that can make or break a book for me is the characters. I need to fall in love with at least one of the characters in a story for me to generally enjoy and continue on with the plot and I found that difficult to do with Gretchen and Joshua. I felt they weren’t fleshed out enough. There was so much dialogue in this story, but when I finished the book, I didn't feel like I knew them at all. 

I also felt that the story moved far too quickly for my liking. Within the first third of the book, both characters seem to be in love or at the very least deeply infatuated with each other. There were no stakes or difficulties getting to the point where they realized they had feelings for each other, thus making the realization quite underwhelming. I wanted pining and yearning, and I didn’t get it. 

 I didn’t feel a whole lot of chemistry between Gretchen and Joshua either. It felt rather forced. Their initial meeting isn't cute and serendipitous and can actually be read as fairly creepy. The author spends a lot of time telling us how the two characters feel about each other, telling us that they are attracted to each other and that the sexual tension is there, but she doesn’t show us this. The tension isn’t between the lines, it's quite literally stated within the text. 

	While Out of His League did have its shortcomings, I did appreciate that the author managed to throw me for a loop once or twice. While I love a good one-bed trope it was nice to see the hotel situation pan out differently than I had imagined. There was a heavy amount of spice within the story as well. I enjoyed reading a story set in Toronto as I haven't yet read any romances that take place near me. 

	All in all, Out of His League just wasn’t the book for me. But if you're looking for something quick, smutty, and sporty then definitely give this a go when it comes out. 

Thank you to Netgalley and Wattpad for giving me an early edition of the book in exchange for an honest review!

Emily 

Thank you NetGalley for providing me with the eARC 
 "You aren't a mess, but if you were, you'd be my mess."

3 stars

This book is exactly what it promises. It's sports romance, one weekend stand turned lovers and swoony romance . 
Let's start off with what I enjoyed. I loved seeing the Canadian rep and mention of cities outside of Toronto as a Canadian girl myself. I thought the main character was likeable, especially towards the last half of the story. 
I thought Josh, the main love interest and Major League Baseball player, was to die for. He was a little stand offish with a soft spot for our female main character. Josh is the perfect male lead for a sports romance.
I also enjoyed the last half, by about 200 pages I wasn't able to put the book down and I was just dying to get to the end. 
One of my favourite parts about this book was the dual POV, though because it was all written in third person it could get a little bit confusing as to who's perspective it was.
Can we talk about the friendship between Sharla and Gretchen, I mean now that is the kind of friendship everyone needs in their life.

With that being said, there are a few things about this book that didn't suit my personal taste, and that's okay! 
I didn't love where the book started off, I felt like I was thrown right into the world with very little context as to what was going on. I wish that the story had started just a touch earlier. 
This book also contains insta love, which is not a personal favourite trop of mine. I wish their relationship had been a bit more developed before Josh (view spoiler)[ shows up at gretchens door and all but confesses his love for her  (hide spoiler)]. 
The writing also felt underwhelming at times, but this seemed to have been fixed in the second half of the book which is probably why I enjoyed that half a lot more.

Liv R

It is a cute sports romance. If you like baseball and romance stories wrapped up into one, this is definitely something to check out. 

Although the story of Gretchen and Travis was really cute, after the time jump the story felt busy. Going from the first half of the story where it was focused only on them and their connection to the second half where they were seeing major events happening one after the other, it just felt like a lot. I understand it happens in real life, but it left the book feeling uneven from the first half to the second half. 

Although I felt the second half was a little bit much, the story itself was cute, and I think for sports and romance fans it is a good book. (you don’t need to know everything about baseball but knowing nothing might make it a little confusing at times)

Out of His League

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