Pick Six by Max Monroe

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Title: Pick Six
Author: Max Monroe
Series: Mavericks Tackle Love #2
Published by: Tantor Audio
Release Date: September 4, 2018
Format: Audiobook
Narrator: Stephanie Rose, Aiden Snow
Length: 7 hours and 50 minutes
Genres: Romantic Comedy, Sports Romance, Contemporary
Source: Hoopla
Reading Challenges: Lenoreo's 2021 Audiobook Challenge, Lenoreo's 2021 Diversity Reading Challenge
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My rating:

Blurb:

From theNew York Times & USA Today bestselling author of TAPPING THE BILLIONAIRE comes a cocky and feisty hate-to-lovers standalone romance.

Sean Phillips is a sexy as sin enigma.
Cocky. Promiscuous.
The New York Mavericks star wide receiver.

His quick moves and sure hands extend way past the lines of the football field—and into the bedroom.
Sure of himself and sure of his life, Sean’s convinced he can handle anything. But when beautiful, pint-sized Six Malone delivers a challenge he’s never faced before, his certainty starts to waver.

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Six Malone is a force to be reckoned with.
Feisty. Hilarious.
The popular YouCam vlogger Pick Six.

The chance to work with the Mavericks on an eight-episode vlog series is the opportunity of a lifetime, and Six knows it. But after an interesting first encounter turns into a head-to-head battle with cocky football star Sean Phillips, her attention shifts—to keeping herself from falling in love.

Too bad spending time with the team is part of the job, and Sean has a flawless track record…of getting what he wants.

Pick Six: A term used when a quarterback throws an interception and a defensive player returns it for a touchdown, resulting in six points.

Pick(ing) Six: When a man-wh*ring baller meets his match.

My Review:

4 stars — You know what?  This was not as crazy and over the top as I’d been expecting.  I think Max Monroe rides that line for me, where my secondhand embarrassment just gets to be too much, and in general this one survived my cringe test.

I think part of what helped me enjoy this book even more were the narrators.  I’d only listened to one from Ms. Rose before, but she was sassy and funny, with great comedic timing and great voices.  And this was my first by Mr. Snow, but damn that low voice was sexy and fun to listen to!  He had his own great pacing and timing, and could dish up some deadpan like no ones business.  I also enjoyed his voices, even his female voices — and that doesn’t happen that often necessarily for me (I’m pretty fussy).  So there’s a large part of me that knows that I probably enjoyed this book even more because I listened to it…I have a feeling it would have been a 3.5 or lower otherwise.

As for our two main characters?  Well, Six was pretty bold and sassy and hilarious.  Occasionally she would go a bit too far with her pranks and protecting herself, but I hung in there with her anyways.  I loved that she could pull off the straight man so well, and you could feel her passion for her job.  I wouldn’t have minded seeing her actually interact with her parents at some point, but at least we got to see her chat with her BFFs.

And Sean was exactly as he’s described in the blurb — cocky BEYOND belief.  But for some reason it didn’t bother me too much.  Maybe because Six was always knocking him down a peg?  Maybe because you could tell that there was more to him?  That other than the cockiness, he had a pretty good head on his shoulders and he worked hard to earn the confidence he had.  He didn’t take his job for granted.

The steamy scenes were pretty solid.  The prolific penis talk got a bit much for me, but I wasn’t surprised by it.  I wish we’d gotten to see them together with their feelings a bit more — it was a lot of lust since they were both hiding their feelings in one degree or another.  But I did love that you could feel their friendship as well.

The guys from the team were pretty hilarious.  I loved the way Six fit into the group so well.  And it was interesting to see Cassie and Thatcher.  I’ve still avoided their story, and while they had some fun moments in this one, I can tell that I might have to permanently skip their story — I’m pretty sure it would cross the line for me.

All in all it was fun, it gave me laughs, and I highly recommend the audio because the narrators were delightful!