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Sweet Spot (Richmond Rogues #5)

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ScoreJames "Law" Lawless is the star second baseman for the Richmond Rogues, the wildest group of free swingers ever to barnstorm their way through the big leagues. So when he hooks up with a seductive stranger at a costume party, it feels like he just hit the winning run of the World Series.

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Published May 2nd 2012 by Kensington Publishing Corp. (first published May 1st 2012)

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Jun 16, 2012 Saly rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: single-titles, rom-contemporary, read-in-2012

I had several problems with this book, first the way it started, the heroine is dressed as Wonder Woman, scouting a club for her employer and the hero is dressed as Captain America, in tights, ughh. Then, suddenly in the club which is sexually charged these two dry hump each other in public, another negative point, the heroine runs away then leaving her lasso behind and the hero is determined to find her.

The hero is James "Law" Lawless, second baseman for the Richmond Rogues and the only heir to...more I had several problems with this book, first the way it started, the heroine is dressed as Wonder Woman, scouting a club for her employer and the hero is dressed as Captain America, in tights, ughh. Then, suddenly in the club which is sexually charged these two dry hump each other in public, another negative point, the heroine runs away then leaving her lasso behind and the hero is determined to find her.

The hero is James "Law" Lawless, second baseman for the Richmond Rogues and the only heir to a huge hotel empire. He is well known for his charities and is a typical jock, loves women and doesn't want to commit. He meets the heroine Catherine again at the investment firm run by his friend Zen, where Catherine is a rising star. He doesn't know that they have met, though he is attracted to her and his rising tent pays homage to that. Again ughh, he is a grown man who can't control himself in public.

The heroine recognizes who he is and determined that he doesn't find out that she was Wonder Woman, they are poles apart, she is all about family while he is filthy rich and has lived his life in hotels with his grandfather. They spend time together for business when she learns about his rescue dog, love for comics and how the fact that he lost his parents on his eight birthday still hurts him. I found many things superfluous in the book, like there way too much description when James took Catherine to his place for business, he kept on describing each and every thing he did for charity and it didn't come across that well.

Then there is another story about the man-whore Brody, who left his small home-town behind seven years ago, doing his best to forget that place and his drunk father who blamed him for never making it to majors and Mary, the woman whose virginity he took and gave a ring to(in pity of some kind). When he sees Mary is in Richmond, he is angry and is quite hurtful with comments about how she should be back home and isn't fit for city life. Mary was kind of a ninny, she is shocked to hear that Brody has not been waiting for her and instead has quite the reputation with the ladies, she still loves him and wants to marry him, though she tries to take the offensive. Brody can't play well in his games which makes him angry and when Mary comes to the club he goes to play, he doesn't like it when someone else hits on her. Mary then just ups and leaves, reconciled to the fact that Brody won't marry her but he follows her and proclaims his love. I liked this story when I didn't want to, but I never felt Brody ever apologized to Mary for deceiving her, hell the woman waited for him for seven years and he came across as typical over-sexed athlete. Mary just fell into his arms.

I didn't like Catherine and James romance so much, they have sex one time, suddenly James wants to marry her and they are in love. Plus, their team is acquired by his grandfather and in the end we are given updates on all the previous couples, how now all of them want to knock up their wives.

I really liked the other books in the series, the writing felt really off in this one, plus there was a huge gap in the books because of publisher problems and my memory was fuzzy, I felt there was an attempt to over-sex the book.(less)

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May 07, 2012 Jane Stewart rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: contemporary-sports-romance, baseball

2 ½ stars. Nothing special or different. I didn’t smile. But I was interested enough to keep reading.

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Law plays second base for the Richmond Rogues pro baseball team. He has plenty of money from a trust fund plus his ball playing. He likes collecting original issue comic books. He doesn’t want intimacy from women, just sex. He’s thinking about buying a night club where customers dress in costumes. He goes there dressed as Captain America and has some passionate kissing and touching wi...more

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May 01, 2012 Tam B. rated it 4 of 5 stars

This was a great end to the series. The book stayed with the formula of the previous books with a starring romance and a secondary one. I really liked both our hero (Law) and heroine (Cat). I liked the progression of the Rogues from "players, to married to wanting to be family men. I thought this was handled with great humour and fun.

I have to admit I wasn't wild about the secondary romance, more because I thought Brody was a bit of a jerk and I'm not really sure what I thought of Mary - more p...more

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Aug 30, 2012 Wanderlust rated it 4 of 5 stars

Cover & Title - 3.5/5, the cover doesn't link in for the book to me at all.
Favorite Character - Cat

I haven't read any other book in this series but i still managed to get into this book. I think if i had read the others then i might of liked it more but it was fine as a standalone book. It seemed more like two short stories in one book than one entire book, it covered both Law & Brody in it. The story was interesting & the sexual tension between Law & Cat was hot. I wanted to sl...more

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May 16, 2012 Kathy Martin rated it 3 of 5 stars

This was a nice sports romance. Pro baseball player and trust fund baby James "Law" Lawless meets Catherine May when he is checking out a popular local club. He is dressed as Captain America; she is dressed as Wonder Woman. They hook up on the dance floor but then Cat runs leaving her lasso of truth behind. Law is fascinated and determined to locate her again.

The next day he meets Cat when he visits a financial adviser and she is the rising star of the firm. She helps him scout out businesses th...more

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May 04, 2012 Elizabeth rated it 4 of 5 stars

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Kate hit another home run this book was amazing.

Law has it all the career,money and women he doesn't realize anything is missing until one night he meets Wonder women ,Law doesn't know what it is about her but spark's fly and Law will do anything to get her into bed. But before he can ask Wonder women who she really is she runs away from Law and leave her whip now Law will do anything to find out who the owner of the whip is and he will stop at nothing until he find her.

Catherine (wonder women...more Kate hit another home run this book was amazing.

Law has it all the career,money and women he doesn't realize anything is missing until one night he meets Wonder women ,Law doesn't know what it is about her but spark's fly and Law will do anything to get her into bed. But before he can ask Wonder women who she really is she runs away from Law and leave her whip now Law will do anything to find out who the owner of the whip is and he will stop at nothing until he find her.

Catherine (wonder women) is a women who is use to being on top she has a great job and boss and she also doesn't know what she's missing until she goes to check out a club for her boss. She also happens to be dressed as Wonder Women to blend in the crowd and she's ready to leave for the night when Captain American (Law) catches her eye and catherine is not a implosive person she tends to think before she does anything but when Captain American comes over her brain shuts down and Catherine acts like someone she's never acted before and before she knows it she is coming in the middle of the dance floor.

After her episode at the club Catherine is ready to get back to her job and forget about Captain American but what she doesn't realize is that her current client was Captain America and Catherine will do anything to hide the truth fro Law. But Law will find out sooner or later will Catherine give into her feeling for Law or will she run scared and forget all about law?

I love this book Kate writes the best sport romances!
What I love most about the book was that there was no major problems in the book it was all about the characters learning to trust each other and trying to find how to best fit each other.

The only problem with this book is that Kate always adds a secondary characters that are also trying to find love and I hated both characters. Brody was a jerk he asked Mary to marry him 7 years ago than he left her without breaking there engagement and Mary thinks that here engagement is still on and that Brody is busy with Baseball that's why he hasn't come back for her so she chooses to move to Richmond so she an be close to Brody. But when Brdy see's her he's all mean and tells her how he wants her to go back to where she came from and that she is pathetic for waiting for him and that he has moved on and has been sleeping around with a whole bunch of chicks. What does Mary do she's all nice to Brody and tells him how she will always love him and BLAH BLAH. Mary was so spineless and Brody was a coward and deserved to end up alone for being a cheater and a user.

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Apr 28, 2013 Elisha rated it 3 of 5 stars

I was disappointed that this was the story that ended the series.

The conflict and the situations between the characters were good. There was promise. But then it focused too much on it, and also on the conflict with the team ownership thing that there was less focus on the romance. Oh there was enough romance, but it didn't have enough to build up a relationship that would seem natural. The romance felt rushed.

There wasn't enough Brody and Mary and yes, again, it really felt rushed. There weren'...more

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Jul 01, 2012 CL rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: romance-sport, romance, read-in-2012, romance-series

1.5*

I have so many issues with this book starting with Law's obsession with the Wonder Woman and Cat at the same time and how one minute he was obsessed with finding WW and then the next he decided to settle for Cat. I could just about accept this but the Brody/Mary's storyline? I am disgusted!!!! This is surely one of the worst written romance storylines ever? I mean I get that romance books aren't meant to reinvent the wheel and they all follow one of 5 set story arcs and the characters all co...more

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Apr 29, 2012 Lady Lioness rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: genre-contemporary-romance, read-april-2012, subgenre-sports

A sports romance involving actual sports scenes. Who woulda thunk?

I enjoyed finally getting to read the last book in the Richmond Rogues series. The 'b' plot was kinda shoehorned in, but I liked the main plot. What can I say, I'm a comic book geek and I loved the dichotomy of a jock/geek hero. Also, the dogs were adorable. I googled the heroine's dog, a Schipperke. So cute! We've always had goldens, but I fell in love with some of those dog pics.

Adorableness aside, Sweet Spot would be a great...more

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Sep 30, 2012 Judy (Geeky Reading) rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: own

~3/5
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I’ve read all of this series by Angell, and have really enjoyed each book. (Oh, well, excluding the short story in that anthology, because I can’t find it in a bookstore, damnit.) It bothers me that her books are so hard to find, as I think several of them are out of print, or at least most stores don’t seem to carry them, because they’re so good. I found the first one in the series, luckily, at the used bookstore in my town, just on accident. It was in the wrong...more ~3/5
[Also available at my blog.]

I’ve read all of this series by Angell, and have really enjoyed each book. (Oh, well, excluding the short story in that anthology, because I can’t find it in a bookstore, damnit.) It bothers me that her books are so hard to find, as I think several of them are out of print, or at least most stores don’t seem to carry them, because they’re so good. I found the first one in the series, luckily, at the used bookstore in my town, just on accident. It was in the wrong section, I’d never heard of her before, but it sounded interesting. If I hadn’t seen it there, I probably still wouldn’t have heard of it, either, so I’m glad I did.

Anyway, about Sweet Spot. This one… wasn’t my favorite, but was in no way bad. It focuses on James Lawless (Law), who’s a second baseman for the Richmond Rogues baseball team (and, while I know nothing about sports, any sport, I don’t mind reading about them so much, particularly when they’re in the romance genre). He’s been with the Rogues since the beginning, I think, but we haven’t seen much of him till now. He decides to expand his investing, and ends up with Cat working for him, who he unknowingly romanced at a masquerade-esque Halloween club.

This goes pretty much where you would expect it to, and it does it in a good way. They work together, have a bit of a hard time accepting it but do fall for each other, the whole having a fling thing is revealed, happily ever after. It’s a sweet story, and there’s very little sex in it, as there usually is in Angell’s stories.

There's also a side story romance between another baseball player, Brody, who's a major playboy, and his old sweetheart who he kind of got engaged to but left behind and never talked to again, Mary. There wasn't a lot of this story, and it was just okay at first but did grow on me. And, again, this goes pretty much where you'd expect.

I think this is the last Rogue’s book, which sucks. She has some other books out, though, and I hope to get them at some point, but they’re so hard to find! Ridiculously hard.(less)

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May 14, 2012 Jess rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: for_review, contemporary, sports_romance

Review posted: Happily Ever After - Reads
Blog rating: 3.5/5

The very first chapter brings a cute meeting for the hero and heroine, Law and Catherine. They’re both dressed up in costumes at a hot night club, Haunt, where every night is like Halloween. Club goers dress up in their best costume and leave their inhibitions at the door. Catherine is there to see firsthand how the club is doing, as a financial advisor, she’s checking the club out for a client as a possible investment opportunity. She g...more Review posted: Happily Ever After - Reads
Blog rating: 3.5/5

The very first chapter brings a cute meeting for the hero and heroine, Law and Catherine. They’re both dressed up in costumes at a hot night club, Haunt, where every night is like Halloween. Club goers dress up in their best costume and leave their inhibitions at the door. Catherine is there to see firsthand how the club is doing, as a financial advisor, she’s checking the club out for a client as a possible investment opportunity. She goes as Wonder Woman and meets her match in Captain America. They share a steamy dance that has Catherine acting very unlike her usual polished, professional self. After a close encounter that leaves her literally breathless with Captain America, she runs out, leaving her version of Cinderella’s slipper behind: Wonder Woman’s Lasso of Truth. Captain America, aka Law, finds it and vows to find his woman.

It really was a fun meeting for these two characters, as their next meet up happens in the professional world, Catherine ends up working for Law as Haunt and a few other potential business opportunities are on his plate and now Catherine’s as she advises him. Catherine realizes first that he was her Captain America, but Law is clueless that he’s spending time with Wonder Woman, a woman that he can’t get out of his head.

Their story goes back and forth between them meeting on a professional level and getting closer personally, to the detailed baseball scenes involving Law and his Richmond Rogues that Kate Angell always does so well. I appreciate the detail she puts into her stories with regards to the baseball team. The books in this series were never just about baseball players, we get details about how their season’s going and actual game details. As a baseball fan, I enjoy reading about the men out on the field and hearing if they won or lost and how they're doing in the standings.

I thought Law and Catherine’s romance was very sweet, even if it did lack some detail, or just more page time. The supporting romance storyline with Brody and Mary (more on that later) took up too much time and took away from Law and Catherine’s story. I wanted to see more of them together on page, but what we do get is a nice, very angst free romance. I also enjoyed the small addition of both their dogs. Law has a boxer who’s described as being so excited he bounces. It just struck me funny every time he came on page bouncing, picturing what that must look like. It’s a small detail, but one that I found fun and charming.

Mary and Brody have the secondary romance in the book, and it did absolutely nothing for me. Brody comes off as an immature guy, a player (both on and off the field) who’s all about the hype and wanting nothing to do with his small town background. Whereas Mary is the ultimate small town girl. She comes off as naïve and she waited for Brody for 7 years to come back and marry her. Seven. Years. Their story and romance held zero of my attention, and I would have rather had their page time given to Cat and Law’s story.

While the story didn’t blow me away, it is still a fun read and nice ending to the Richmond Rogues series, which I am sad to see conclude. There’s a series epilogue at the very end that gives us a peek at where each Richmond Rogue is at in their life both professionally and personally. All the stories for all the Richmond Rogues are wrapped up in perfect happily ever after bows and even though it does come off as way too perfect, I still smiled as I was reading what each guy ended up doing, how many kids each couple had, and who ended up having the only girl of the bunch. This reads well as a stand alone, and fans of the Richmond Rogue’s will enjoy this final book in the series.(less)

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May 05, 2012 Anita rated it 4 of 5 stars

Loved this book. Cat and Law have met before at a costume party - she as Wonder Women and he was Captain America. A moment of passion lead's Law to search for his Wonder Women. Cat would rather forget the moment as she was embarrassed by her behavior that night. The next day they officially met at her work - she is going to help him with this investments. She realizes that it was Law who she shared her moment of passion with but she keeps it a secret - even after Law mentions that he's trying to...more

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May 07, 2012 Gizzard rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2012

Not sure I should be interested in a romance novel that the author isn't interested in. There was tons of description, none of it about people though. The oversharing reminded me of Nora Roberts too- all those things that Nora thinks are so cool, that just make her seem like an old fuddy duddy. And Angell is not Roberts.

I've loved many of the books in this series, but this one was just kind of boring and trite. Just not a well written book and no compelling characters.

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Oct 21, 2012 Rolyn rated it 3 of 5 stars

Just for the fact that the lead female character said that women work twice as hard just to prove themselves half the worth of men (not exactly using same words but with the same thought), I gave 3 stars. The ending was ok. The lead characters have strong personalities and not pushovers which I like. Also, there were minimal use of vulgar words and not much detail were given during those parts that the characters were getting too intimate.

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May 21, 2012 Karen rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: athletes-are-sexy, cheater-cheater-pumpkin-eater, droolworthy-male-leads, contemporary-romance, hero-a-complete-jerk, uber-rich-hero

4.5~ (:

Like previous installments in the Richmond Rogues series, this book contains two little romances instead one.

*WARNING* I have a thing for hot jocks, so I might have been a little biased when reading the book.

That aside, I LOVED the last installment of the Richmond Rogues. Sweet Spot was VERY hot without actually crossing the line into erotica. Angell's characters are also characters I can relate to, and it made the story so much more realistic. Sweet Spot was a nice mix of humor and rom...more

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Feb 23, 2013 Deava101 rated it 3 of 5 stars

T'was a good read but then the sideline characters (Brody and Mary) took over and I forgot that Catherine and James were the main characters.

I liked the idea of him looking for wonder woman but it too Law too long to figure it out. I wish Brody and Mary's story was another book because I would have loved to see her plans to get Brody (her missing fiance) back.

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Jun 10, 2012 Rachel Webb rated it 3 of 5 stars

I'm assuming this is the final book in the Richmond Rogues series as she put a rundown at the end of the book of all the previous characters' lives. It was an ok book, but definitely not my favorite of the series. The second story line with Brody and Mary kind of came out of no where and I would have liked more time spent on Law and Cat.

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Sep 19, 2011 Lindsay rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: kate-angell, sports-athletes, baseball, reviews

I loved Law & Cat’s story. It was a classic Richmond Rogues story.

Aside from getting to know new characters, I got to catch up with the lives of all the past Richmond Rogues.

It was also bittersweet because this book was a longtime coming and this was obviously the last book of the series. I have not seen anything specifically saying that but the epilogue made it clear. It’s nice to know what’s going to happen to the Rogues in the future.

I normally don’t have a problem with the secondary l...more

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May 06, 2012 Ro rated it 2 of 5 stars

Not a home run, for me.

I've been a fan of Kate Angells' Rogue Series. And although this seems to be the last of the series, I couldn't help but feel disappointed with the writing.

For me, the storylines were all over the place. First, Angell hooks you with Brody and Cat, then halfway through the book she does a complete 180 and brings in a new couple (I actually enjoyed reading their storyline-they should've had their own book) and doesn't even mention Brody and Cat.

Plots were scattered, there wa...more

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May 10, 2012 Tracy rated it 3 of 5 stars

I loved Kate Angell's previous books in the Richmond Rogues Series, but this one just wasn't as believable. The main male character Law, was just a little too good to be true. Still this book wrapped up the series nicely.

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May 18, 2012 Kelly rated it 2 of 5 stars

I really enjoyed this series, and the humor of the boys tats. But this one fell really short for me. Toooo long winded about things that didn't seem to matter to me anyway...I had a real tough time finishing it.

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Aug 16, 2012 Elana rated it 3 of 5 stars

Glad I finished the series. I like how she summed up each character and followed through on what each one ended up doing. Cute series overall though I wish they'd fix the typos on the digital versions.

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Jun 03, 2012 Mareli rated it 4 of 5 stars

more 3.5 than 4, but the half point is because she's Kate Angell!

Let me say that KA wrote better than this. But the story is cute and fun. They were nice and no heart-shattering troubles between them.

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May 12, 2012 Latte rated it 4 of 5 stars

Well darned. I didn't know this would be the last title in the series. I'd give this story a 3, bumping it up to a 4 for tying up all the loose ends in the epilogue. A nice, easy weekend read.

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May 12, 2012 Tracy rated it 4 of 5 stars

I loved it Kate! I liked the way you ended this series with a word about everyone. The Comic Book characters were Awesome and I loved the dogs! Good romance and good baseball. Loved it all around!

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Jul 10, 2012 Laura rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: sport-fiction, disappointing

I find this really hard to rate, I think if I'm being honest it was a 3.5* for me. I have been waiting for this book to be published for over two years and I'm not sure if the anticipation has slightly ruined it for me or if I just didn't enjoy the book as much as the rest of the series. I also found myself wondering if it was the same book I would have read if the original publishing date in 2010 had been kept to? The main couples in this book have almost been short changed as a lot of time is...more

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Jun 13, 2013 Amy rated it 3 of 5 stars

This book was ok. Simple characters, simple plot, simple writing. If you are looking for a a quick easy read while you are sitting at the pool or on the beach this one will work.

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Oct 29, 2012 Catherine rated it 3 of 5 stars

Very quick read. A very nice wrap up to the series. You were rooting for these characters to get together. Enjoyed the dogs in the book. A very "sweet" book.

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Jun 12, 2012 Karen rated it 4 of 5 stars

I enjoyed this book a lot. I liked the chemistry of the hero/heroine. I did not care for the secondary story with Brody though. Otherwise, a good fun read.

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Jun 15, 2012 Heather Mckenna rated it 3 of 5 stars

I liked it but it through me off a bit when halfway through the book they started talking about a new couple. ????? If you are going to do a 2 couple book, talk about both of them through out the WHOLE book.....

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