Wallflower

By Samantha Leigh

This had the ingredients to be great, but there was just too much of… something?

The Ugly Truth:

Objectively, this was not necessarily a bad book, it was just one that lost my attention by page three. I do not even think there was an element of this book that was wrong, it was just me who is over reading the same thing.

As with all other sports romances, you have your grumpy hot shot hockey player, Chord Davenport, who is worried for his next career move and shows that worry by being a menacing jerk to everyone around him. On top of that, you have generational and new wealth just rolling in his pockets, so the guys living a pretty cushy life. His introduction was also the first time I realized this book was just not going to hit for me. For starters, it took me like thirty pages ton wrap my head around his name and the fact that it was not Chad, because he sure as heck was acting like one. Secondly, while he had some cutie boy instances, I thought overall he put himself in weird situations for no reason – like move out of the way if a girl is doing her laundry, what??? Additionally, I just wished he was more in touch with his family. Obviously that was a big plot point, but still, it bothered me he did not understand the possibility of resentment from others as well as he should have.

Violet James is your classic does everything for everyone else and is an angel hidden under glasses. It felt so 2000s popular boy falls for the shy nerd girl that it almost was embarrassing to read. I wanted her to have some backbone and to take charge of her life, but each time I thought she would go one way, she went the complete other. I also did not like her insta-love thing with her boss – or maybe more insta-lust – either way the sequence of events that led to the relationship happening were rushed, or maybe just, ~lame~.

I think this is for anyone who is not burnt out from hockey romances and wants to continue to see that lofty love that you can only get from reading.