The Chase: Briar U Sports Romance Book Review

Genre : Sports Romance

Series: Briar U

Synopsis:

Everyone insists that opposites attract, and they couldn’t be more spot-on when it comes to Summer and Colin Fitzgerald. It’s inexplicable, really, why Summer finds herself so irresistibly drawn to Colin. She typically doesn’t gravitate toward ink-adorned, video-game loving, hockey-playing nerds who peg her as flighty and superficial. His narrow perception of her is strike one. The fact that he’s chummy with her brother, his best friend harbors a crush on her, and she just moved in with them doesn’t help matters. Summer isn’t the type to chase after a man, and she has no intention of starting now. Her plate is full dealing with a new school, a questionable professor, and an uncertain future. So, if her enigmatic, brooding roommate comes to his senses and realizes what he’s overlooking, he knows where to find her.

Review:

This book was a total blast to breeze through! I mean, watching Summer and Colin duke it out was better than a comedy show. Colin’s not your typical macho hockey protagonist, and that’s a breath of fresh air. Instead of the usual confident banter, we get an introverted leading man. And Summer? She’s the ray of sunshine in Grumpy-ville, a bubbly blonde dealing with her own insecurities about a learning disability. And don’t even get me started on the rom-com tropes in play here: we’ve got the brothers’ best friend, roommates, opposites attracting, and the classic best friends’ crush scenario. It’s like the author threw all the tropes into a blender and hit ‘frappe’!

Favorite Quotes:

“She’s my muse. She’s my laughter. She’s my trigger. She’s my desire. But most of all, she’s my heart.”

“She has the kind of smile that makes a man want to start writing very bad poetry. Dazzling and genuine and as beautiful as the rest of her.”

“I feel like too many girls fail to remember one vital truth: we deserve someone who gives us one hundred percent. Half-assed effort isn’t effort. Half-assed love isn’t love. If a man isn’t all in, then we need to be all out.”