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**A free copy of this book was provided by the author in exchange for an honest review**

There was much I liked about this GFY, MMA book. But I was left wanting after finishing the story. Here we have a down and out Drew, seeking help from his uncle and getting a job at an MMA gym. Our other MC is Asher, a MMA champion and celebrity who is gay, but uses beards per the urging of his management.

Let’s start with the positive:
*I LOVE sports themed romanced and GFY/OFY trope. So this was up my alley.
*I enjoyed the slow burn of the first 1/2 of the book.
*The sex scenes were rather well-written.
*Drew had some depth to him.
*I kept reading the book.

Now on to things which niggled:
*There was next to no MMA in this book. Substituting any other sport would have likely kept the story the same. If you have an MMA fighter, show me some fights!
*I know very little about Asher. He’s rich and famous. He went to college. He has a tattoo. He drives a pickup truck. He lives in a large apartment with valet service. He’s gay.
*Drew sometimes seemed to have no issues with his newfound love of all things Asher; and sometimes he did. He never talked it out with anyone. He went from wanting to keep their relationship hidden to “not wanting to be someone’s dirty little secret.�� That’s a big 180 in the space of a couple of weeks for a once straight man.

Overall I liked it, but didn’t love it. I would have liked greater depth from both characters AND MMA included in the book. It does end with and HEA. It does have some burning kissing scenes, one during a storm which I particularly liked. This is the first MM book the author wrote. I’m not sure if she’s written in the MF genre, but I would have also liked a bit more complexity in her writing.