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Coach by Devney Perry
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did not like it

** spoiler alert ** I don't know why I decided to torture myself this week

Ford (Hero)
Millie (heroine)
Sienna (his first choice, aka other woman)

She is second best, his consolation prize now that his life has fallen appart.

They met when she was a sophomore and he a junior, the same night they met at a party ahe developed a crush but one week later he was already dating her nemesis and ex roomate Sienna. They dated for two years and at the sime time Ford and Millie become best friend. Clearly the girl is stupid.
You have a crush on a guy, he is dating a girl you don't like why the fuck you decide is a good idea to becomd his friend? I hate heroines who has no sense of self preservation. For fucks sake, why would you torture yourself like that staying close to a guy you already have a crush on knowing he is committed to someone else.
Of couse she felt in love and barely dated during those two years even though every guy on the footbal team was into her (minus the hero was was fucking her nemesis). Of course she never noticed the attention she got from all the other hot players and only dated guys who were not on the team and things never got past the third date.
For fucks sake why heroines always have to be unaware about being wanted by other men? Make the woman owns her sexuality please. This "she is so hot but doesn't realize it" shit is awful.

Anyway, suddenly after two year in a serious relationship with Sienna, who hated Millie and never hidden ir so Ford knew her dislike toward his bestie, he suddenly out of nowhere looked at Millie one day and felt the desire to kiss her. Just like that, after knowing her for two years and being with another woman. So romantic right? He then decided to break up with his long term girlfriend.

He broke up and some time after that Millie kissed him, he did not want her to think she was a rebound so he would wait a little longer to hit on her. After she left pos kissing him, Sienna showed up telling him she was pregnant. He had so much consideration toward the heroine he simply cut her off completely. He didnt even bother telling her about the baby, he then married Sienna and they were together for about 8 years. He never asked about the heroine to their friend in common, he never looked her up. Because he was married and she was a temptation is his excuse, if this book is about him and heroine this fact that tried to portrait him as an honorable husband fall flat to me because given the factor this romance story js about him and Millie it only shows he was perfect fine for a decade not even knowing if she was alive.

He kept one photo of her hidden and somehow for her this makes everything okay. It showed her they were friend and a romantic relationship was not in the carda for them. All her resentment vanished. Unfortunately not longer after that she is thinking about how he is the only man she ever loved and she loved him this whole time.

If a woman still loves a man who dated another woman the whole time they have known each other. A man who she kissed once and hasnt seen for a decade after he got married because he impregnate another woman. She does not need him. She needs a reality check, a therapist and a daddy dom to whip her ass a few times and spoil her rotten because the girl is clearly a masochist with seriously attachment issues.

She never really moved on, she dated but was never in love and of fucking course her last boyfriend turned into an asshole. God forbidden an heroine actually meeting a decent man. Of course had been 13 months a single, independent and attractive woman has had sex.

He is separeted has been 18 months and a few years before that he stopped having sex with his wife who had an affair. He asked for a divorced after he hurted his knee and retired from being a footbal player.

He never, never searched the heroine. Even after his divorce, actually he only met her again now because of a coincidence. Fate me ass author.
He is going to work in Montana, where they both went to college and she works there too, something that she always said she wanted to do. So yeah, fate right?
Ohh and when he found out she worked there as well he was no really happy because he was searching for piece and she is a complication.
You know alpha man who does anything for their heroines? Ford is not one of them
You know a man who is at least in love with the heroine? Ford is not one of those either

Oh to top it off there is my favorite romantic declaration by Ford:
"In another life, I would have kissed her with every sunrise. Every sunset. She would have been the woman cheering me on at the Super Bowl. The woman I’d gone home to every night. But that future wasn’t the one we’d been dealt. And I couldn’t regret the past ten years. I’d never regret my daughter."
I love it so much when they fuck up but don't regret it because of their kid. Imagine if he had not dated her nemesis and chosen her first? The kid could have been hers.

Of course heroine likes his kid right way, they create a bond fast, the child look just like her mother. Adorable. I love it when heroines always instantly connect with the child the hero had with another woman because of course us woman are always maternal and love kids. Well, except when that woman is the other woman of course she is a bad mother.

She is also willing to quit her job because of him. She deserved a crown guys. The most pathetic heroine ever (not really, there are tons of worst ones but emotions are high right now).

She resented the fact he chosed Sienna over her but she never had the guts to ask him about it. I think she can't exacly ask this without saying loud and clear that she is his second option, the author knows that too. She knows it. I know it.

Now some quotes with comments because they are ridiculous and I am on a roll

“See you around, Millie.� My Millie. Except she wasn’t mine anymore, was she? I’d lost her a long time ago when I’d walked away. When I’d made the wrong choice for myself. And the right one for my daughter."

"My Millie. Even when we’d just been friends, she’d always been mine. If she had actually wanted to date one of them, I probably would have lost my mind. Luckily, she’d never shown any interest. The only dates I remembered her going on had been with guys she’d met in class, not through athletics. No one had gotten past a third date, thank fuck."

- Where the fuck has she ever been his? When he was busy fucking for two years her nemesis and then impregnate her right before he finally broke up?
- Why the fuck this hypocrite is happy her love live was a shame when he was dating someone else? Why the fuck he think he has the right to lose his mind when he is already commited to someone else while she was totally available?
- Why he talks like he was not the one that for years chose someone else over her?

"But no matter how much she had gossiped about me, no matter how rudely she had behaved, I’d refused to give Ford up. And not once had I told him how awful she could be."
Give what up? God she has no pride why would you tortute yourself seeing them together when you like him, he may be his friend but it was with her he would go to bed to. It was her whom he impregnate. It was not like he was a prize honey.
She was hurt seeing them kissing and cuddling, she watched as their relationship started to crumble, he would spend less time with his girlfriend and more time with her and the guys (the girl likes crumbs) and she did not give him up, but guess what she got in reward to that? He gave her up, he married the other woman. Ohh and the little time he was spending with his girlfriend was sure very satisfying based on fhe fact they made a baby.

"Ford was more important than my career."
Her solid careed x Ford the man who didn't bother to see if she was alive in the last ten years.
Who is more reliable?? Tough choice

"Ford would choose me. I’d be his number one. I’d doubted that for ten years, but life had gifted us a second chance."
Poor girl desperate to be his first choice. You will never be it girl, please move on.

"I’d win Ford, no contest. I already had. I’d won him ten years ago."
Now she is delusional, poor thing. How the fuck she won 10 years ago? The man ghosted her, married Sienna and try to make it work, one of the things he did to help make his marriage work was totally removing her from his life and confessing Sienna about their kiss.

Now one thing I hate about second chance that has the hero having kids but the heroine not is the fact she will never ever be the first in his life. It will be his kid and he is right it should be the kid. However he will be the first in her life so she either should have had a kid too or she should be the mother to all his kids.

Now to make it even more romantic the real reason he was with Sienna


"How I’d ever ended up with Sienna over Millie was still a damn mystery. Maybe because Sienna had been so bold. So aggressive in her pursuit. She was beautiful. She’d been an athlete too, so we’d had that in common. And she’d fucked me the night we’d met. Chalk it up to a stupid guy too busy thinking with his dick."
So translating it: Sienna was hotter and more beautiful, she was bold while the heroine was shy, being real, it was not really a choice because Millie was not even a part of the equation, he hadn't notice her, even though it was obvious she had a crush on him at first sigh, he never even really noticed. He did not really choose Sienna over her, she was a friend to him just like the other guys, she was not even an woman he looked at with interest. Only after two years being her friend and fucking Sienna until he suddenly decided to break up because out of nowhere he looked ar Millie and wanted to kiss her she became someone he wanted to be with. Conveniently he desired when he was graduating college and going pro, after enjoying the last two years fucking the bold but shallow girl, because even though he broke while they were together up to the end the sex was happening, he even impregnated her. So now that he is going to NFL and needs to really focus he wants the shy girl who barely dates, loves sports and is reliable. It was like he needed something safe now and she was available.
At the same time he was happy her dating life was not agitated because she was his Millie and he wouldnt like to see her with any other player. All the while he dated a girl who never hidden the fact she hater her. Fucking hypocrite asshole.

How romantic is that it took two years for him to finally notice? Two years of being best friends with her while having a long term relationship with her nemesis. A little while before he broke up he impregnated the grilfriend. Ditched the heroine like a hot potato so he could be a daddy and a husband. Never ever looked up to see how she was. Hurted his knee and his career as a player ended then he decided to ask for a divorce because the marriage was not good, his wife wanted to continue to be married but he found out she was cheating. Then 18 months after his injury and separation (1 year since divorce) he is now a coach and by coincidence is working with her again. She is now his by default. Everything is not like he expect, he is a coach which is the second good thing if he cant be a player. He is with her which is also the second best thing. This is not romantic, this a man chosing the safe option. She coincidently lives in the same city he went to and also work at the same place, she likes his kid, she never really moved on, she likes sports and supports his new job, later she is willing to sacrifice his career for him, a middle class woman who worked hard her whole life willing to be jobless so the millionaire ex player who is now a coach and can easily coach somewhere else does not have his life disrupted.

Their hea: she is basically his daughter mommy now, her own mother is absent and the heroine only has sons with him (two boys) and she would do anything for the 3 kids.
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Darlene I read WAY to many books You know what I hate.. when guys get someone prego and they think they have to marry that person.
You can coparent with thag perosn but you don't need to marry them.


Becky I hate it too! Here the blame is put on the other woman basically.

"Our marriage had been doomed from I do. After the paternity test results had come through, Sienna had used her tears as a weapon. She’d manipulated my fears and capitalized on my panic. She’d cried on my shoulder and told me how frightened she was to be a single mother. When she’d tossed out the idea of an adoption, I’d lost my mind. The idea of someone else raising my child . . .
Fuck no. So I’d solved Sienna’s problem. I’d offered to marry her, and she hadn’t even blinked."

Then stayed married for almost a decade.


Darlene I read WAY to many books What a dumbass.. would've taken her to court.
I swear.. im kinda glad I never read any of her books. From what the Comment above could be true. Lol


message 4: by Stephanie~ (new)

Stephanie~ You are a life saver with this review🙏🙏


message 5: by Kristina (new)

Kristina Thanks for the warning on this one. I was eyeing it because my kindle really wants me to read it. 🤮. I can’t take weak heroines!


message 6: by Kristina (new)

Kristina Also echoing rasa, this author seems to have internalized misogyny she needs to work through before I can read her. Get therapy Devney!


message 7: by Allison (new)

Allison this sounds like a nightmare @rasa i’m so glad we’ve come to our senses about the books we’ll read


message 8: by C.K. (new)

C.K. Darlene I read WAY to many books wrote: "You know what I hate.. when guys get someone prego and they think they have to marry that person.
You can coparent with thag perosn but you don't need to marry them."


It's the 21st century so they don't have to marry the woman that they knock up. The H usually divorces other woman anyway.


message 9: by Sonia (new)

Sonia Bahahaha! She DOES need a daddy Dom!!


message 10: by Sonia (new)

Sonia Kristina- these books that keep getting shoved in our faces like�
Why kindle?!?! Why goodreads??!! 😐


message 11: by Sonia (new)

Sonia GREAT REVIEW!!


Sheen⚘ ⃰⃰ (reads only manhwas now) Thank you for the review!


message 13: by Kristina (new)

Kristina @sonia kindle suggestions are the devil!


message 14: by Ava (new)

Ava I never removed a book from my tbr so fast


message 15: by [deleted user] (new)

God this book sounds awful.


Becky Thank you Carol!


message 17: by Lesli (new)

Lesli Amen! Couldn’t have said it better myself!


message 18: by A (new) - rated it 3 stars

A L Great review. Talk about a book that was hyped on hot air 🥵


message 19: by Adi (new)

Adi Reads I can feel the frustration just reading your review, i hate this kind of second chance romance. ughhh!!!!
An Entertaining review of a frustrating story 💕


Jenny My thoughts exactly!!!


message 21: by Adriana (new)

Adriana Wow, I mean WOW, after the Garnet flats fiasco, I thought this series was going to be good, but UGH, WHYYY WHYYYY SHE FUCKING MAKES DOORMAT HEROINES who pinned for the MCs while they live their best lives??? I can't just can't , RebekaTHANK YOU FOR THIS


message 22: by Irum (new) - rated it 1 star

Irum Yikesss! Thanks for the heads up what a doormat of a heroine and a loser of a hero 💀✋I’ll pass
She’s basically second choice and always will be 🤢🤢🤢


message 23: by Irum (new) - rated it 1 star

Irum Brooo this book is basically her other book Garnet flats 2.0 she did the exact same story line man left because of ow had a baby 💀why she’s repeating stories when she knows that her other book got such a bad rating


message 24: by Beeg (new) - added it

Beeg Panda Great review, Rebeka! I hope your next heroines are worthier than this one


message 25: by Julia (new) - rated it 1 star

Julia If I could give your review 5 stars I would. I can’t believe I wasted my life on this book. You hit the nail on the head. Also- if I read one more “uh� or “um� I don’t know what I’d do.


currently being delulu So on top of seeing him and waiting for two years she has a sucky dating life and the hero didn’t talk to her for a decade and then she becomes a mother to a kid he had with Someome els � wtf


Cindy I needed that Daddy Dom comment! 😆 Danke!


message 28: by Melissa (new)

Melissa I had to dnf because I hated this hero so much.


message 29: by Amu (new)

Amu Wow, thank you for the review! Thank God I read this before I started the book. I wouldn’t like it either.


message 30: by Ana (new)

Ana thank you for this, that specific drama is everything i hate in a romance novel - now i don’t have to put myself through it.


Strawberriess Honestly this book was so disappointing. I can’t stand when the heroines whole personality is about the mc and the fact she was willing to quit her job for him was so stupid.


message 32: by Hassna (new) - added it

Hassna So not going to read this book after that review! 🥲


message 33: by angel (new)

angel so this is basically Garnet Flats 😭 why does she keep making her FMC’S doormats


message 34: by Jomana (new)

Jomana Othman Thanks for the review babe now I'll remove this thing from my tbr 😭😭😭


los tenis lectores Great review and thank you. I felt that this was a lame book of excuses for not being a grown up, and sometimes being inside Millie's head was exhausting.


message 36: by Beatrice (new) - added it

Beatrice Thank you for writing down my EXACT thoughts on this book, I literally couldn't go on anymore.


message 37: by Mish (new)

Mish Thank you for saving me from reading about this unbelievably self centered ass, who I'd have felt slimy even reading about. Jeepers, Millie. Honestly, could you actually do worse (as in, could you have picked a worse guy - serial killers, aside)? Doesn't sound like it! Thank you so much for saving me from reading this 🙏🏼


message 38: by Jena (new) - added it

Jena LOVED this review lol. Better than most books Ive been reading lately.


message 39: by Magui (new) - added it

Magui Cf Loved this review but spoiler alerts head up would have been great


message 40: by Nico Nico Ni (new)

Nico Nico Ni You have saved me from wasting my thanks 🫡


message 41: by Nico Nico Ni (new)

Nico Nico Ni *time


Do Your Reading My thoughts exactly. I simply couldn't get past the fact that if their paths had not crossed, if she had not been in the conference room mmc would have been on his merry way after meeting with Kurt and the president and not given fmc a second thought. So his declaration of remorse seems fake and convenient if nothing else.


Becky Magui wrote: "Loved this review but spoiler alerts head up would have been great"

I fix it now! The spoiler alert is on


❤️Court - Villains Do It Better❤️ 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏


Tanisha Inman My thoughts exactly. In 9 years she couldn’t find someone to have a real relationship with? He ghosted you! Be badass and move one! I had to DNF. This was pissing me off.


Raffaella Rebeka you are the best. Your review is gospel!


message 47: by Jacki (new)

Jacki Bucci Thanx you for saving me from this mess…just jlije Garnett flats…so stupid…other woman gets everything first …why does this author do this…have a back bone and she’s sooo beautiful…there were no other nice guts around…please…lately her books are hit or miss


message 48: by Jacki (new)

Jacki Bucci Ugh I’m so mad I didn’t spell check 😂😂😂


message 49: by A (new) - rated it 3 stars

A L Spot on!


message 50: by Paula (new)

Paula Wow Rebeka! I could not have said it any better had I read this mess! This is why I have lost interest reading these days. People who write this crap need a shrink. I honestly don't understand this type of writing. Who in their right mind think this is a romance or any bit of entertaining to read? I am so disgusted at these folks who write this crap but thankful to folks like you who save us the aggravation!

Hope you find a good one soon hun!


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