Dare To Kiss
By: S.B. Alexander
What It's About!
Besides her family,
Lacey Robinson’s only other love is baseball. She’s on top of the world
when Arizona State University approaches her to discuss a scholarship.
To be the first girl ever to grace a college boys’ team is beyond what
she has ever dreamed.
Her fastball is impeccable, her curveball equally as good, and her slider annihilates anyone who dares to step in the batter’s box. But fate has its own way of throwing curveballs. When she looses her mother and sister to a home invasion, baseball and her dreams die with them. Tragedy has a way of seeping deep into her psyche, causing nightmares, panic attacks and blackouts. Diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, her psychiatrist recommends a change of scenery and picking up the things that she loved to do, and for Lacey that is baseball.
After a move clear across the country, only two things matter to Lacey—overcome her PTSD and make Kensington High’s baseball team. But trying out for the team comes with obstacles—the captain, Aaron Seever, doesn’t want a girl on the team.
Her life is further complicated when she meets Kade Maxwell, a tall, sexy and drool-worthy bad boy who has a magical touch that awakens her feminine side and a kiss that slowly erases her nightmares. But getting involved with him may be dangerous when Kade’s archenemy returns to town to settle a vendetta.
To complicate matters, her PTSD has taken a turn for the worse. She has to find a way to heal otherwise she may not have a chance at anything in life, especially love.
Her fastball is impeccable, her curveball equally as good, and her slider annihilates anyone who dares to step in the batter’s box. But fate has its own way of throwing curveballs. When she looses her mother and sister to a home invasion, baseball and her dreams die with them. Tragedy has a way of seeping deep into her psyche, causing nightmares, panic attacks and blackouts. Diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, her psychiatrist recommends a change of scenery and picking up the things that she loved to do, and for Lacey that is baseball.
After a move clear across the country, only two things matter to Lacey—overcome her PTSD and make Kensington High’s baseball team. But trying out for the team comes with obstacles—the captain, Aaron Seever, doesn’t want a girl on the team.
Her life is further complicated when she meets Kade Maxwell, a tall, sexy and drool-worthy bad boy who has a magical touch that awakens her feminine side and a kiss that slowly erases her nightmares. But getting involved with him may be dangerous when Kade’s archenemy returns to town to settle a vendetta.
To complicate matters, her PTSD has taken a turn for the worse. She has to find a way to heal otherwise she may not have a chance at anything in life, especially love.
My Thoughts!
I received this book through Net Galley in turn for an honest review.
It's important to know that the reason this book got a three star rating was because of Kade and his brothers. I liked reading about them. Lacey not so much...like at all. I get that she went through a tragedy that will haunt her for the rest of her life, but come on. She was not a very pleasant person. Drama didn't follow her everywhere she went. Her actions and personality strung that along. She was very self centered and acted like everyone owed her something. Especially when it came to baseball. (The whole five minutes that any baseball was written in.) So much for judging a book by it's cover. I wouldn't have chosen her for the team, for her lack of respect, punctuality, and lack of dedication and skill. I did not like her. I didn't bond with her through reading. I wasn't rooting for her to succeed in baseball or her relationship with Kade. To be quite frank he deserved better.
Speaking of Kade. I found her to have more chemistry with Kelton than with him. Weird. They just didn't fit to me. Maybe it was the whole polar bear thing. Or the fact that he let her treat him like crap and kissed her butt throughout the book that got me. On numerous occasions I told him to grow a pair.
The murder of her mother and sister was a huge part of the book, but we never found out what happened to them. That bugged me. Also I found her father to be really absent and secretive. I'm thinking something illegal is going on with that one.
I don't think I'll continue to read the rest of the series. Especially after I found that book 2 was just a continued story of Kade and Lacey. Just not my cup of tea.
It's important to know that the reason this book got a three star rating was because of Kade and his brothers. I liked reading about them. Lacey not so much...like at all. I get that she went through a tragedy that will haunt her for the rest of her life, but come on. She was not a very pleasant person. Drama didn't follow her everywhere she went. Her actions and personality strung that along. She was very self centered and acted like everyone owed her something. Especially when it came to baseball. (The whole five minutes that any baseball was written in.) So much for judging a book by it's cover. I wouldn't have chosen her for the team, for her lack of respect, punctuality, and lack of dedication and skill. I did not like her. I didn't bond with her through reading. I wasn't rooting for her to succeed in baseball or her relationship with Kade. To be quite frank he deserved better.
Speaking of Kade. I found her to have more chemistry with Kelton than with him. Weird. They just didn't fit to me. Maybe it was the whole polar bear thing. Or the fact that he let her treat him like crap and kissed her butt throughout the book that got me. On numerous occasions I told him to grow a pair.
The murder of her mother and sister was a huge part of the book, but we never found out what happened to them. That bugged me. Also I found her father to be really absent and secretive. I'm thinking something illegal is going on with that one.
I don't think I'll continue to read the rest of the series. Especially after I found that book 2 was just a continued story of Kade and Lacey. Just not my cup of tea.
