Frayed A Small Town Sports Romance (Willow Springs Series Book 1)

Laura Pavlov — 2021

Bad boy football star. Innocent girl next door. Two different worlds. One small town. A million reasons why they should have stayed away from one another. My name is Adelaide Edington, and my life was mapped out for me before I even entered the world.Who I'd date, where I'd attend college, what I'd be when I grew up. But there comes a time in everyone's life when they face a fork in the road.Should I go left, or should I go right?It didn't matter as long as I didn't remain stagnant any longer. Jett Stone opened me up to a whole new world. Reminding me that it was okay to find my own way. I could have roots in Willow Springs and still spread my wings and fly. What I didn't expect was to fall in love with the broody football player.The boy I'd known since kindergarten.The boy who I wasn't supposed to be with-but had somehow become my everything.

Reviews

nanafark@nanafark

Sep 19, 2023

it’s been a nice story and a nice meaning behind this book and i enjoyed myself while reading it but i wasn’t impressed or convinced.

it being a young adult romance —which means the POVs are written as if being a young adult— although this makes it quite genuine, i couldn’t find it genuine enough. most of the things felt unrealistic and i was a bit irritated with some of the dialogues and the internal monologues (she has my back, i have your back, they have my back, we have our backs etc., etc. 😅) maybe that’s why i can’t be related, and having read other young adult romances before i can tell that my age gap isn’t the reason i can’t.

also, the love triangles is something i don’t like reading and seeing someone being perfect and then being the asshole and then being super good irritates me. plus the fact that it makes me sad when people with history end up like that and when someone has to be hurt 😔.

also, it created a few questions for me that i didn’t get the answers.

anyway, it was okay. i was calm and enjoyed my evenings and afternoons reading it. to be honest, i want to see what i’ll think about the next book in the series because i like the trope much more!