The Player Next Door | Kathy Lyons

Finished 29/10/15

STARS 3*

I want to start off by saying even though it only got 3* from me, I enjoyed it however I was not like wow! Or this is AMAZING. There were things in the book that just did not work for me, however it was indeed cute in a strange way!

Tori Tori Tori, I like her however she majorly frustrates me, the sole reason for this is because of her character. She is the kind of person who in real life I just don't click with, complete opposite to myself.
She acts ditzy, but is super clever. Her attention span  is like 2 seconds yet she's a university professor. So i think that is one of the main reasons i did not fall in love with this book. I just could not fall in love with Tori. Which in a book kind of needs to happen, so the book becomes your life line and you can't put it down.

I liked the story line, it was cute however I feel like I had read it before in a way, however this is a slightly worse version. It reminds me of 'a neighbour from hell.'

I found that the story line rushed quite a bit. In the beginning it was all going in a good direction. Tori moved on from her Ex Edward and meet the pro athlete Mike. They meet in a strange yet quite funny way. Which i was thinking ah okay maybe the book will improve and i will fall in love with it. Nope did not happen. Anyway Tori meets Mike hanging upside down on her roof. Yep you read that correctly she was hanging off her roof.
#roofinggonewrong!

This was all sweet and cute. Mike and Tori had their sexual tension and such and then BAM they slept together. I was like wow this is moving way to fast for me! I felt like all the spark had gone, and Tori's lack of attention span was starting to really eat away at me.
Tori only wants a summer romance with Mike to get over her Ex or so she says. However she keeps thinking she's falling in love, however theres no encounters or tension to show this. She then has this rocky summer lovin' with Mike until he leaves for the Basketball season to start.

This leads to the part of the book that I like the most which was most defiantly the ending, LOL no not because it was over ahhh, but because it was cute. There was tension and it was more sexy! I just wish the whole book had of lived up to it!

Overall it was not the hot sports romance I was envisioning!