Jock Blocked

Pippa Grant — 2020

She can't let him score... Call it superstition, but when a guy bats as hot as Brooks Elliott, you don't mess with what's working. And what's working is him keeping his pants zipped and doing all of his scoring on the field. So when I hear he's planning to ditch his V-card now that he's been traded to baseball's lovable losers--aka my home team and my reason for living every March through October--I do what any rational, dedicated, obsessed fan would do. I make a plan to stop him. But the thing about stopping him is that it requires spending time with him. Lots. And lots. And lots of time. And the more time I spend with him, the more I like him. Not as the guy who's going to help save my favorite team and finally bring home a championship ring, but as the guy who's helping me in my quest to bring back the team's old mascot. Who also loves making pancake and bacon sandwiches. And who would do almost anything for his love of the game. But after all this time of jock-blocking him...do I even have a chance? And if I do, are we both destined to a life of celibacy in the name of winning? Jock Blocked is a home run of a romantic comedy featuring the world's most superstitious sports fan, baseball's oldest virgin hero, a rogue meatball, an adorable puppy with a cussing problem, and the best lovable losers. It stands alone and comes with a happily ever after more satisfying than a game-winning grand slam.

Reviews

lindsey@lindseybell

Aug 16, 2022

2.5 stars - strong start but i draw the line at the mascot walking her down the aisle

Nicola Sarah Brooks@nikkisbooknook

Aug 3, 2022

I had to go back and do a re-read of this series so far now that I know Cooper's book is coming soon!

Mackenie is seriously superstitious and beyond fanatical about her baseball team. She ropes family and friends into all her weirdness and they just go with it. Her team may be the worst in the league but to her, they are still gods. So when they get a new player transferred and Mac realises his secret, she is on a one-woman mission to save her team - even if she has to think up ever crazier plans to keep his "virtue" intact!

Brooks loved his team almost as much as Mac loves the Fireballs so being transferred to some no-hoper team has cut him deeply. He's not going to make friends and he wants out as quickly as possible. He got as far as he did by being the older Virgin in baseball - so now that his team doesn't want him he's determined to lose his v-card ASAP! Now he and the Fireball's biggest fan have locked horns!!

Mac and Brooks are some of the biggest superstitious nuts I've ever read about. Mac takes FANATIC to a new level! I loved her sweet but oh-so-strong adoration of the players, so much so she can't talk to them, lol. Brooks was a grump on a mission to lose his v-card but as he spends more time with the team and Mac, he finds himself realising that he may just have found a new family. They won't replace his NY family but family is what you make it.

I loved the little glimpses of the Bro Code characters and snorted more than a few times at Parker's phone auto-correct antics. Smart, sweet, smexy and a SportsRomance that even I, non-sports person that I am, enjoyed tremendously.