Welcome to the book review tour for Take a Chance on Me by Jaqueline Snowe. If you love spicy stories about sports and friends-to-lovers, then this is a great one for you! I have an excerpt for you to enjoy, as well as my review of the book. If you follow the tour, you'll be able to see what even more people think of this book. Please leave Jaqueline any comments and questions along the way!
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Please note that affiliate links are present within this post. Should you make a purchase through one, I may earn a small commission at no additional cost to you. I also received a complimentary copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.
Take a Chance on Me
Kate Zell and Brody Carlson have been best friends since elementary school. Their relationship had always been easy. Both of them loyal to a fault, they had been there for each other through everything: heartbreaks, hangovers, and tragedy. So when Kate needs a place to stay for three months, Brody doesn’t think twice about agreeing. After all, they had known each other forever. Would could go wrong living with his closest and oldest friend?
Apparently, everything. Three months in a small apartment becomes more than complicated. Brody shouldn’t be attracted to his dorky best friend…he most definitely shouldn’t. That would be absurd. She’s a relationship girl and he’s more a one-night-sans-clothes kind of guy.
One drunken dare of strip poker changes everything. Suddenly, two people with too much to lose play a dangerous game. The unapologetic playboy and the girl-next-door have a choice to make, if only their pasts didn’t keep getting in the way of their future.
Read an excerpt:
His biceps must’ve outweighed mine three to one—did he double in size? His shorts displayed strong, ripped legs that would seem too big if they belonged to anyone else. And what’s with that hair style? Buzzed on the sides with a wavy, longer part on top? Anyone else, it would look stupid. But on him, cool. I shook my head, my mood already better. Shit, I’d missed the guy. He saw me, and his face lit up.
“KZ! Get in here!”
He squeezed me tight, the air leaving my body for a quick second. I laughed into his chest, inhaling a subtle, masculine scent, and winced, hoping the lavender deodorant didn’t fail me. “Brody, you’re going to break me.”
“Deal with it. I missed you, punk. It’s good to see you.” His tall frame made me feel about two feet tall. I thought about pinching his side to have him stop, but he set me down.
I pushed him away, my grin taking up half my face. “Hey, stand there for a second and look pretty.”
“What?”
Ah, a look I had seen many, many times. Whenever I confused him or had an asinine idea, those brows joined as one and looked like a caterpillar.
“Just do it.” I pulled out the picture I’d ripped from the magazine. “I’m comparing before I get your autograph and sell it with the description of true to life. Hey, don’t judge me. I have student debt. I need the moolah.”
He glanced at the picture I held up. “God, you’re a dick.”
**My thoughts**
I'm officially a huge Jaqueline Snowe fan. This is my second book of hers that I have read and I love this one just as much as the first one. I was attracted to this title because it is a friends-to-lovers story, which is one of my favorites. Plus it involves a football player. I am a big football fan and love reading stories about sports players. I don't know why, but I do.
This story was fantastic. I love Kate. She is smart and sassy. Her chemistry with Brody is intense and intoxicating. She has some self-esteem issues from her previous boyfriend James being an ass, but holds it together well when around Brody and his buddies. He gives her the boost that she needs.
Brody is definitely kind of cocky as a star football player hoping to make it big in the NFL. He prefers to sleep around, but acknowledges that is to feel a gaping hole in his life left by his brother committing suicide a few years ago. He doesn't know how else to deal with his pain. But Kate is able to fill some of that void.
Neither one of them is perfect. They both are so realistic with their issues and flaws balancing out their finer points. This is the first time that they have realized that they have an attraction to each other. But time apart has helped them realize this. Absence makes the heart grow fonder, right?
The fire between the two of them is a slow burn, starting with a flicker in the beginning and gradually gaining in intensity. Even when the fireworks start to explode, they still take their time and don't dive into a highly sexual relationship, which seems much more realistic to me than those lust at first sight type of stories. I even want to be friends with these people in real life, because they are just a lot of fun.
Sports plus sass plus sexiness equals a pleasurable steamy read that kept me glued to my Kindle all evening long and was a great distraction from life's craziness. I can't wait for her next book to come out.
About Jaqueline Snowe
Jaqueline Snowe lives in Arizona where the “dry heat” really isn't that bad. She enjoys making lists with colorful sticky notes and sipping on coffee all day. She has been a custodian, waitress, landscaper, coach, and a high school teacher. Her life revolves around 200 high school kids, her two dogs who don't realize they aren't humans, and her wonderful, baseball-loving husband.Visit http://www.jaquelinesnowe.com/ to find out more about the author and her writing. She loves to hear from readers—so don’t be shy, send her a message!
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