Review: Taking a Shot by Jaci Burton

Title: Taking a Shot

Author:  Jaci Burton

Series: Play by Play

Publisher:  Berkley Heat

Format: ebook

ISBN: 0425245527

Genre: Romance
Release date: March 6th 2012

Number of pages: 309

If you want to score, you have to get in the game…

The last thing Jenna Riley needs is more sports in her life. While her brothers are off being athletic superstars, she’s stuck running the family’s sports bar, whether she likes it or not. Then in walks pro hockey stud Tyler Anderson. As much as Jenna would like to go to the boards with him, she’s vowed to never fall for a jock-even one as hot as Ty.

Ty, intrigued by the beautiful bar owner, becomes a regular. He senses that Jenna wants to do something more with her life. And as he gains her trust, the passion between them grows, as does Ty’s insistence that Jenna should start living for herself. With his encouragement, Jenna starts to believe it, too…

But first, Jenna has to figure out what she wants, what she needs, who she loves, and if she has the passion and pride to take a shot at having it all-including Ty…

Okay this story was a well done romance, but at the end I felt like something was missing and it made me realize that Jenna was running from something but she didn’t had a reason to. Just weird to me, since both her brothers play sports and neither are bad guys.

 

I love Jenna attitude since the other books in this series and how she managed to work with this guys and still has her freedom. Both her brothers are athletes and she manages her family sports bar, but se also runs from anything related with a relationship and a athlete, which is weird to me, since the only people she knows are the ones on the bar and they all think off sports as a divinity.

 

But I loved this relation and how Ty managed to overcome her plans and strike at her heart was genius. He’s a very dangerous and smart guy, but still manages to be sweet and family orientated. I loved him and how much his in love with Jenna.

 

 

SERIES IN ORDER

#1 – The Perfect Play
#2 – Changing the Game
#3 – Taking a Shot
#4 – Playing to Win
#5 – Thrown by a Curve
#6 – One Sweet Ride

Review: Changing the Game by Jaci Burton

Title: Changing the Game

Author:  Jaci Burton

Series: Play by Play

Publisher: Berkley Heat

Format: ebook

ISBN: 0425242404

Genre:

Romance

Release date: August 2nd 2011

Number of pages: 299

Most people play by the rules. Gavin and Liz aren’t most people….

Win at any cost. That’s always been the mantra of sports agent Liz Darnell. When she carries things too far and risks losing her number-one client, baseball pro Gavin Riley, Liz realizes that she’ll have to work extra innings to win him back. It might not be too much of a stretch. She’s had a thing for this player’s moves since she first laid eyes on him, and by the looks of it, he wants her just as bad.

Gavin’s more than ready—especially when Liz is offering herself as part of the bargain. And as much of her as Gavin wants. For added thrills, he decides to throw a little curve ball Liz’s way to see just how far she’s truly willing to go to keep him as a client. But when love unexpectedly enters the playing field, neither Liz nor Gavin are ready for the biggest game-changer of them all.

 

I loved The Perfect Play and it’s been so long since I read and unfortunely I did not write a review, so most of the story slipped from my mind and I regret not re-reading before continuing the series.

 

Changing the Game is the second book and most of the characters were introduced on the first book. We met Gavin and Liz while following Mick and his romance with Tara. But Liz made a mistake and tried to break up the couple that destroyed her professional relationship with the football superstar. Gavin is Mick’s younger brother but also a player, but his specialty is baseball and he continued working with Liz.

 

One weekend Gavin and Liz relationship changed, but Mick and the family had a little too much to say about it.

 

I liked this book, but not as much as the first one, maybe because Gavin was supposed to be a womanizer and he demonstrated this in the bedroom really good, but his relationship with Liz had it’s ups and downs several times. I expected him to better with the words an woo her into bed and into a big future together.

 

But the sexual scenes were very steamy and I liked how Liz tried to stick with reality and pretend she had all under control. Gavin was also really good with his family and friends, not thinking his career was everything in life.

 

Overall the book was a good romance but not the best in this series.

 

SERIES IN ORDER

#1 – The Perfect Play
#2 – Changing the Game
#3 – Taking a Shot
#4 – Playing to Win
#5 – Thrown by a Curve
#6 – One Sweet Ride