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My Review:Title: Jock Rule (Jock Hard, #2)
Author: Sara Ney
Series: Jock Hard #2
Published by: Indie
Release Date: December 6, 2018
Format: Kindle Book
Pages: 268
Genres: Sports Romance
Reading Challenges: CC's Goodreads Reading Challenge
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My rating:
Blurb:Kip Carmichael is no pretty boy.
He's a rough. Dirty. Giant. Hair so unruly, and a beard so thick, his friends on the team call him Sasquatch.
The first time Sasquatch lays eyes on Theodora "Teddy" Johnson across the keg at a party one night on Jock Row, she'd been relegated to the sidelines by her jock-hungry "friends."
Week-after-week, he watches beautiful but bashful Teddy getting overshadowed, and overlooked. Sasquatch finally broad shoulders his way through the crowd, offering to to be her hairy godmother. But the minute their eyes meet? He's a goner.
Teaching her the RULES for winning a jock will be the easy part. Not falling in love with her is going to be a losing game.
Oh man, these two are hilariously sexy. Kip is a big, hairy sarcastic dude with a bit of a chip on his shoulder. Can’t really blame the guy with his upbringing. He calls himself her Hairy godmother. Haha. Their chemistry is a bit awkward and I felt the romance jump from slow to intense real quick. The pacing of this story is unlike the last one. And I know we don’t want to read the same story but there was something that just felt off for me.
Teddy is very immature in my opinion. She’s in college for crying out loud! And she still doesn’t know how to stick up for herself. Her friends treat her like a straight up rug. And we don’t really see her evolve out of that, at least not enough for me. We just get a taste of it, and I was left feeling that something more was missing. It was hard to read honestly, and I really don’t see what Kip saw that attracted him to her in the first place. Maybe it was her quiet demeanor that made his protective instincts stand out. I just saw a woman with the mentality of a juvenile. Then all of the sudden she got sexy and it was weird. I couldn’t transition out of weird to sexy that fast. And their romance moved very quickly after that. When she freaked out on him for no reason was really my last straw at attempting to like her, she just isn’t my kind of MC.
Kip was the winner for me in this book. He was not creepy, although he cultivated the stereotypical look. Broad, scraggly beard, long unkempt hair…. He was awesome because under all that was a sweet, gentleman who really wanted to help Teddy stand up for herself. And he wasn’t afraid to give the tough love, often telling her straight up what her problem was and watching out for her at the college frat parties to make sure she wasn’t taken advantage of. I guess he liked that she was so unassuming and innocent. And she was refreshingly honest so I guess I could see that attraction.
Anyway, I love Sara Ney’s writing and while I didn’t identify with this female MC, I still enjoyed the story. I’ll be reading more from her.
I loved Kip, too! He was just…everything!