Block Shot by Kennedy RyanMy rating: 1 of 5 stars
DNF at 45%.
Jared Foster and Banner Morales were friends in college, until Banner was deliberately humiliated by Jared's 'friends'. A decade later they are both highly successful sports agents. Jared runs his own agency, with the help of his brother, whilst Banner runs the Los Angeles branch of the Bagley & Associates agency. Their paths rarely cross until Jared and his brother move their agency to LA from San Diego when his brother signs with the LA Waves NBA team.
Jared has tried on numerous occasions to apologise to Banner and explain that he was no part of the plan to humiliate her, in fact the exact opposite. But as an overweight Latino girl Banner was unwilling to listen. Now Banner may still be bigger than 90% of the women in LA, but she's toned and curvaceous.
Banner's first client was before she was even licensed, a young Spanish-speaking player who had recently lost his entire family requested an interpreter for his discussions with Cal Bagley and then refused to sign unless Banner was his agent. All these years on, she and Zo became friends and have recently gone public as a couple.
Jared has lived up to his playboy reputation and (barely) dated a series of hot women, but he feels nothing for any of them. Heck, he doesn't even like many of them. The only woman he can tolerate was the girl who he spent one night with in college and then thought she was some sick joke initiation challenge.
Try as she can to hate him, when Banner and Jared are thrust together to organise a charity fundraiser on behalf of their respective clients, the sparks still fly. Fr his part, Jared will do whatever it takes to get back the only woman he has ever had feelings for.
I was really enjoying this. Sexy, sassy, sports, and a kickass FMC - what isn't to love? Then Banner did something I can't get over and *poof* I don't want to read this anymore. (view spoiler)Also, this had degenerated from a story with a plot to being just a rinse-and-repeat series of vaguely coercive make-out scenes where Jared physically intimidated Banner by pushing into her space, pinning her against surfaces etc. If it isn't cool for (for example) Cal Bagley to do that then it isn't cool for Jared to do it. Predatory behaviour isn't okay when they guy is young and good-looking. Sorry, rant over.
I had thought that I had read some of Kennedy Ryan's books before, which is one of the reasons I requested this book, but it seems I was mistaken.
I received an ARC from the publisher via NetGalley in return for an honest review.
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