Focused A Hate to Love Sports Romance

Karla Sorensen — 2020

If you've ever seen your teenage crush ten years later, and he turns out to be a complete jerk, then you know how Molly Ward feels. The last time she saw Noah Griffin was the regrettable day that she decided to climb into his bedroom window and turn her unrequited crush into something more. That day was bad enough, but things are about to get worse. Noah has become one of the best football players in the country, and he's just landed on Molly's front step. As a new addition to the Washington Wolves roster, Noah's presence is the key to Molly's promotion in the front office. The problem is, Noah wants nothing to do with Molly, and his surly attitude is making her job very difficult. But he's got another thing coming if he thinks Molly will be intimidated by one grumpy football player, no matter how much he hates being around her. Once these two go head to head, their mutual dislike explodes into undeniable chemistry. But with what they have at stake, they just might detonate everything else along with it.

Reviews

celene@recluseperformer

Jan 23, 2023

splendidly delicious. brilliant. incredible. amazing. show-stopping. spectacular. 😩🤧 ((and omg the finnclaire tease tho at the end 👀 ready for the best friend's sister trope,,, woo))

sam@sammiev

Dec 15, 2022

this was amazing! chefs kiss MWAH I didn't want it to end but I couldn't stop reading it Step aside, Logan, there's a new stoic grump in town, and it's Noah Griffin. Childhood mistake returns into Molly's life and chaos ensues. Reading about Molly, with just her mere presence, ruining Noah's whole one-track mindset on life was GREAT! Noah's character development and epiphany that his life surrounding only his football career is empty without Molly - so well-written! The author's storytelling painted such a wonderful, blossoming love story between two people with a tricky encounter in the past, meet again and become enemies to coworkers/friends to soulmates hehehhe I LOVE I appreciate that Molly didn't try to fix Noah. She acknowledge that fixing him is not her responsibility and that she focused more on herself, which brought on positive progression where Noah was able to get his head out of his ass and realize his feelings for Molly yay I love seeing more of the Ward family especially with the new addition of Emmett. omg I love that the devil on Molly's shoulder is Paige and the angel on her other shoulder is Logan lmaoooo I wish we could see the Amazon documentary and the movie (basically fanedit) Noah made for Molly

Julie D.@luxurists

Mar 8, 2022

1.5 / 5

Neva Davies@booksofunknownorigin

Nov 18, 2021

4.75/5

Amanda J @librarianonbreak

Nov 17, 2021

unbelievable but enjoyable

Helena Cristina Nogueira Pereira@helenanogueira99

Oct 19, 2021

I really liked this one. The chemestry between the characters was good and i liked both characters. Looking foward for the sister's books!

Kim@kimberlyfayereads

Oct 6, 2021

Y'all, this book did things to me. It was sooooo freaking good. When I finished The Marriage Effect and saw Logan's sisters were getting books of their own, I totally did a happy dance. I was over the moon when I saw the honor of the first book went to Molly and that it was a second chance romance with her childhood neighbor, Noah. I wasted no time borrowing the audiobook from my library (thanks, Hoopla!) and diving right in. This one definitely gave me some little twinges of The Wall of Winnipeg and Me vibes — but I don't mean that in copy-catty kind of way. At all. (Of course, I compare every football romance I read to TWOWAM because it's the gold standard for me.) Fun fact: JJ Watt is mentioned in passing in this book too. I swooned. But, I digress. I think it was the combo of the grumpy, committed athlete and the romance with a woman he works with that caused the little twinges. Regardless, I loved it. And it had one up on TWOWAM because it was in dual POV. I loved being in both Noah and Molly's heads for this book. The audio was excellent. The story kept me totally hooked. I giggled, swooned and sighed. It was the perfect combo of sweet and hot and I adored every minute.