I loved the first one in this series, Beauty and the Baller, and we met Tuck in that book, so it was nice getting to know more about him and have him find his HEA. Francesca had such an interesting background and I adored her character. But because this is an author I pretty much just read any of her books with barely a glance ahead of time at the whole synopsis, I didn’t realize this was going to be a surprise pregnancy story. Even though now as I read the last paragraph of the blurb I see it is right there plain as day. I’m not saying that’s a bad thing! That trope is just as good as any and of course I liked this story a lot!

There were so many wonderful characters. I loved all the people in Francesca’s life, her besties/roomies, Darden, the grumpy old man in the building, the doorman, etc. She even had some great customers from both her tattoo job and then her art job. I loved all the intricate family background story for her as well as what happened as the story went on.

Then of course we had Tuck’s friends. His family had their own emotional aspects of the story. He had ex girlfriend problems too. Plus there was the being an older football player. I love how the author threw in some references to Kansas City, my town, and their football team. Even if they didn’t use the actual team name, because it just doesn’t work that way in romance/fiction. Of course his roommate/teammate Jasper was a blast as well. And I’m wondering if we might get Jasper’s story next, although we kind of have an idea who his love interest might be.

Obviously the pregnancy was a surprise, but also kept a secret for the longest time. So many times I just kept silently telling her to tell him! It was again obvious that he was going to be upset. But maybe, just maybe, like a good romance novel, he’d get over it. However the time that it ended up coming out, well that may have been actually the right time, any earlier and maybe Tuck hadn’t had the things happen yet that he would need to see how much he did want that kind of life.

A wonderful story, loved it!

Review first posted on Lisa Loves Literature.