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My rating: 4 of 5 stars
SOME GIRLS HAVE ALL THE LUCK
Unfortunately, I am not one of those girls. Not when I lost my apartment because my roommate let the lease lapse while I was traveling for work. Not when my brothers keep finding love and my mother keeps reminding me I’m still single. Not after a one-night stand during my older brother’s wedding has me waking up pregnant.I have to keep it a secret—from him, and my family. I sure can’t tell my brother his teammate, Mateo Jose Espinoza, is the man I slept with. Confident, funny, Mateo…
A GUY CAN’T CATCH A BREAK
Just when I thought I’d found the girl of my dreams, she ghosts me. Worse? Her brother refuses to give me her number, and my calls to her office go straight to voicemail. I thought I was a catch; professional athlete, charming, raised with six sisters—I’m a guy who knows his way to a woman’s heart! What reason could she possibly have for avoiding me?When I finally catch up to True Wallace, I’m going to get the answer.
Hard Luck
”Twenty-something, single, and preggo!”
The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 🖤💙❤️💜
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📘📙
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌍
Character development: 🙂🥰☺️😎
Narrator(s): 🎙🎙
Narration type: Dual Narration
The heroine: True Wallace – she works for a sports recruiter helping high school athletes to get seen by colleges and get scholarships. Her two brothers Tripp and Buzz are professional athletes. Tripp is a professional football player and Buzz is a professional baseball player. While attending Buzz’s wedding a few months ago, she got to know his teammate Mateo and ended up spending the night with him and ghosting him in the morning.
The Hero: Mateo José Espinoza – he plays second base for the Chicago Steam pro baseball team. He is one of the stars on the team and in his early days he was quite a playboy, but that lifestyle got old a while ago. Lately he has liked forming a connection with a person before sleeping with them and despite the fact that he slept with True on the same day he met her, he already felt a bond with her.
The Story: when True finds out she is pregnant, at the same time as she was evicted from her apartment because her roommate kept forgetting to pay the rent, she is at a loose end. She moves in with her brother Tripp, but is a bit too freaked out to contact Mateo. Before she knows it, she is more than 11 weeks pregnant and still hasn’t told anyone except Tripp and his 15-year-old neighbor, who helps him out by walking his dog Chewy among other things.
This book had a good story, though I tend to like linear storytelling, I wish it would have started out the night of the wedding reception and gone from there. Instead, it starts on the day True moved into her brother’s place and as it went on there were frequent flashbacks to the night of the wedding and what went on between Mateo and True. I really dislike flashbacks, though I do see the fact that they can be a good plot device. I just didn’t see the need here.
I liked the characters and there were a ton of supporting characters. Trip and Buzz, and their significant others, were characters from previous books in this same series, so it was nice to see them again. Mateo has six sisters and I just loved them, they were all up in his business and quite hilarious about it. Though it was a bit hard to see Mateo as a big heartthrob type after seeing him as one of the younger siblings in a big boisterous family, and a bit of a mama’s boy to boot.
This book was a hard one, because the first half was pretty boring, but it did get better and better as it went along, especially as True finally tells Mateo and then they start to tell their families. The last hour had me laughing out loud. Tripp and Buzz were hilarious, especially Buzz who is way too involved in his sister’s life.
This audiobook was told in dual points of view via dual narration and was narrated by Alexander Cendese and Elizabeth Hart. I do really like Alexander Cendese, he has a great voice and puts a ton of emotion into his narration. Though, he does have a terrible female voice. So would really be better in duet narration. Elizabeth Hart is the opposite. Her male voice isn’t too bad, but her regular voice is so very annoying. I almost quit listening to this book because I had to turn the sound down each time she was narrating and turn it back up when Alexander was.
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