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bookshelves: ku, mm, fighters, not-my-writing-style, wouldnt-read-again, friends-to-lovers, hero-disliked-frustrating, lost-interest-skimmed, push-pull, 3-stars, time-jumps-flashbacks, ending-abrupt-rushed, x-read-2018, x-pub-2018, x-author-first-read, sc-butt-virgin, slow-burn, ending-lackluster, standalone, x-added-2018, pacing-issues, pgs-100-199, lgbtq-bi-pan
Oct 02, 2018
bookshelves: ku, mm, fighters, not-my-writing-style, wouldnt-read-again, friends-to-lovers, hero-disliked-frustrating, lost-interest-skimmed, push-pull, 3-stars, time-jumps-flashbacks, ending-abrupt-rushed, x-read-2018, x-pub-2018, x-author-first-read, sc-butt-virgin, slow-burn, ending-lackluster, standalone, x-added-2018, pacing-issues, pgs-100-199, lgbtq-bi-pan
3 Stars
When Drew finds himself practically homeless and jobless, he turns to his uncle Pete to beg for a job at the training center he owns. Desperate for work, Drew accepts a job that is essentially janitorial and busy work. The training center is where he meets Asher, a MMA fighter training for an upcoming fight to defend his title. After a scandal rocked Asher's life, his management is determined to keep his sexual orientation a secret and sets up fake dates with women in the public eye. From their first meeting, each man feels a connection between them but is too afraid to act on it. For Asher, being outed as gay would ruin his career. For Drew, he's straight so he couldn't possibly be attracted to a guy.....right?
Overall, I enjoyed the story but felt it moved too quickly in parts and dragged on forever in others. I was either skimming and skipping pages or at the end of a passage thinking I had missed half of it. Drew and Asher hardly even touched each other (view spoiler). What bothered me was how rushed the last third of the book felt. It felt like they went from accepting they liked each other to oh, it's two weeks later then oh, it's been a month. Asher's fight was summarized in basically a page and then the major thing (view spoiler) that happened felt more like an afterthought than an important detail in the development of their relationship.
When Drew finds himself practically homeless and jobless, he turns to his uncle Pete to beg for a job at the training center he owns. Desperate for work, Drew accepts a job that is essentially janitorial and busy work. The training center is where he meets Asher, a MMA fighter training for an upcoming fight to defend his title. After a scandal rocked Asher's life, his management is determined to keep his sexual orientation a secret and sets up fake dates with women in the public eye. From their first meeting, each man feels a connection between them but is too afraid to act on it. For Asher, being outed as gay would ruin his career. For Drew, he's straight so he couldn't possibly be attracted to a guy.....right?
Overall, I enjoyed the story but felt it moved too quickly in parts and dragged on forever in others. I was either skimming and skipping pages or at the end of a passage thinking I had missed half of it. Drew and Asher hardly even touched each other (view spoiler). What bothered me was how rushed the last third of the book felt. It felt like they went from accepting they liked each other to oh, it's two weeks later then oh, it's been a month. Asher's fight was summarized in basically a page and then the major thing (view spoiler) that happened felt more like an afterthought than an important detail in the development of their relationship.
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September 29, 2018
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October 1, 2018
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Started Reading
October 2, 2018
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