It was fun getting a baseball player in this series that didn’t actually live in the baseball house/dorm that the others did. We also get to meet some football and other sports team members in this book, which makes me hopeful for a spinoff series of books! I thought for a while as I read that maybe the author wasn’t going to do the whole thing at the end where I just want to cry right before we get our HEA, but nope, she did it again! Gah! I’m always crying and laughing at all her books! (That’s a good thing in case you’re wondering)

But honestly this book was really mostly a New Adult romance, even if we got a bit at the end where they were adults and out of college and in the “real world”, if being a professional baseball player can be considered the real world to the rest of us normal people. The story was great, something I know that I’ve done in my own life, with not letting a friendship get ruined by becoming more, even if it did become a FWB type of thing. Keeping my feelings to myself in order to save myself from getting hurt if the other person didn’t reciprocate my feelings. However I really liked how Lincoln would call Indie out on doing things like this. When she’d try to pull away, or do something like try to find him a girl to hook up with, yeah, he got mad or hurt at first, and maybe took some time to deal with it. But then he went and he picked her up from wherever she was and made her go and just sit with him, until she was ready to talk, while telling her that no matter how hard she tried, she couldn’t shut him out, because he’d promised to always be there.

As usual the cast of characters in the story were all ones I loved. While we got some new ones as I mentioned above with the other athletes at the school, I also adored Lincoln’s two moms. And I liked how even though they seemed to have the perfect family, Lincoln talked about when he was younger and tried to say he wanted to go back to his birth parents, and how they dealt with it. We also got to spend some time with some of the other Brentwood Baseball players we know and love, Maddox Paige and Cory Potter.

Then there was the part where Indie read a book called The Mother Road. Hmm, might that be the book by that one author, oh, what’s her name again? Meghan Quinn? LOL!! And finally, there was so much about this book during the time they were in college and friends, especially the FWB parts that just reminded me of my college friends, some that I’m still friends with, others that are just fond memories that surfaced as I read this book.

Review first appeared on Lisa Loves Literature.