The Wall of Winnipeg and Me in Some Like It Hot!

Jun 24, 2016 Jane Stewart rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: contemporary-romance, football, sports-romance

I really enjoyed the slowly developing romance, but the author was not good with things outside that relationship.

Too many New Adult authors have turned me off on 1st person point-of-view. But this author is reminding me and showing that 1st person can be good. The New Adult stories I don’t like have most of the conflict in the mind - everything is angst, grief, pain, mental anguish etc. Zapata does it differently and well. She has great relationship development and interaction. It’s engaging to I really enjoyed the slowly developing romance, but the author was not good with things outside that relationship.

Too many New Adult authors have turned me off on 1st person point-of-view. But this author is reminding me and showing that 1st person can be good. The New Adult stories I don’t like have most of the conflict in the mind - everything is angst, grief, pain, mental anguish etc. Zapata does it differently and well. She has great relationship development and interaction. It’s engaging to see the slowly developing relationship and wondering how and when they will ever get together.

My main complaint is that several times the author skipped over important scenes and then briefly TOLD what happened afterward instead of SHOWING what happened. It was jarring, like holes in the story. The author was only able to write about Vanessa and Aiden and did not show important action between Vanessa and other characters. Examples are in spoilers below.

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In spite of the spoilers, I still enjoyed the book.

There is one sex scene. There was warmth and desire.

AUDIOBOOK NARRATOR:
Callie Dalton did an excellent job.

DATA:
Narrative mode: 1st person. Unabridged audiobook length: 16 hrs. Swearing language: strong including religious swear words but not often used. Sexual language: moderate. Number of sex scenes: 1. Setting: current day mostly Texas. Book copyright: 2016. Genre: contemporary romance, sports romance, football. ...more

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May 07, 2017 Andrea (mrsaubergine) rated it it was amazing

Very much a slow burn, in fact a quarter of the book had gone by before anything much happened at all and Aiden isn’t very likeable in those early pages, but the UST that builds is well worth the wait. This was my first book by this author and I’m impressed that she managed to show everything without telling. It’s all there on the page, and with patience you get to see how they really feel for each other. Both Aiden and Vanessa have baggage, but there’s no angst between them. It was a delight, a ...more

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