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I have a thing about books where one character is famous in some way and the other is your regular average everyday person. It’s what I like to call… my catnip. I love to see what happens when a big time actor or athlete pulls a regular normal person into their orbit. It changes both of their worlds. So, when I read this synopsis, I was intrigued.
I should’ve known that Reiss would take this idea and tilt it just a bit. While Dash is a typical somewhat full of himself, hotshot professional baseball player, he is quite interesting. He finds himself quite enamored with the lovely Vivian and she could care less. (Not that she doesn’t find him attractive, she totally does) It’s funny actually, how it all plays out and how Vivian realizes Dash is impressed with her.
Vivian is a lovely character, she isn’t harpy or full of issues. She has a great job that she loves and a father she adores, she doesn’t really need Dash. In fact, she calls him on his crap a good majority of the time.
It took me a little bit of time to understand Dash and the depth of his habits and traditions (superstitions) where baseball was concerned. But once I got it, the depth of all of it, I appreciated Dash and his “world”. I’m not going to give away too much because I believe it’s worth the reader’s time to slowly understand Dash. His need to control as much as possible, including his time with Vivian in the bedroom.
Speaking of his time in the bedroom and out of it for that matter… holy crap.
“Take the dress off, sweetapple.”
I paused. He didn’t say please. He didn’t even look at me as he peeled a chunk off the fruit. The he glanced up. I should have felt threatened by the way he looked at me. He was being bossy. He expected me to just do what he said. But his expression was kind and gentle, and I wanted all the things he’d promised.
And let me tell you, the man delivers. For real…allllll the things. Dash has an edge that I did not see coming and Vivian adapts. Don’t let her adapting fool you, though. Dash has some moments of utter and complete assdom (yes I made that up) and she puts her foot down and he has some very eye opening moments.
While she makes a few decisions in her life regarding Dash that I didn’t completely understand until Reiss gently helped me understand why Vivian does… what she does. Now don’t get worried, it’s nothing terrible or icky. As always, I appreciated the way Reiss guides her characters.
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