"Third time was the charm, right?"

A heart-wrenching sports romance filled with unrequited love and mutual pining. This book really proved that friends-to-lovers is the superior trope.

LJ and Marisa
LJ and Marisa? Mutual Pining at it’s finest. They were an amazing couple and the long wait was 100% worth it! Also, usually in (hetero) romances, it’s the male character who creates the final conflict that tests the relationship of the main characters, but I really liked that this time around it was actually Marisa who made that mistake! It was definitely a fun twist. I loved seeing their relationship progress from best friends, and I really enjoyed all the flashbacks we got to see!

“I love you, Marisa.” This wasn’t the first time he’d said it, but this time it felt different. It felt heart-stoppingly, soul-scorchingly different.

The Timeline
I don’t always like when books span over the length of others in the series but it worked well here! Although Jules and Berk’s book was sort of ongoing, it never felt like we were reading the same parts of the story twice, and it was fun to see the spots where the two books aligned. 


The Plot
I feel like the plot of this book was less memorable simply because when I think of this book I only think of how good the couple was, but it was definitely still a really enjoyable plot! I liked seeing Marisa and her father’s relationship slowly heal. I wish we saw more of LJ’s family!

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