"Scoring a home run, this hockey, softball and baseball-fusion sports romance is filled with sweet, spice and all things entertaining, escapist rom-com."
A grudge baseball match pitches local players against the Boston Bearcats hockey team. Robbie’s locker room bragging is a swing and a miss with softball pitcher Skylar Paige as the two teams size each other up; which is unfortunate as he is immediately enamoured with perhaps the one woman immune to his charms. Fortunately, the opportunity arises to spend more time with Skylar at her family’s ultra competitive annual series of challenges, posing as her fake boyfriend and helping her catch the attention of her long-term crush.
We all know where this is going, and while there are a few curveballs along the way the journey is one that is filled with flirty banter and red hot chemistry (well, my review copy didn’t say “fourth base guaranteed” on the cover for nothing). For me, where Tessa Bailey really knocked it out of the park was the characters. He may be a player, but Robbie constantly wears his heart on his sleeve - from the initial realisation that the playboy life might not really be him, to the par for the course rom-com dude overprotectiveness and expressing his vulnerability in rather endearingly and entertainingly blunt fashion. His actions making Skylar feel like there was someone on her team for the first time was sweet bordering on swoonworthy as she begins to let her guard down.
I haven’t read the other books in the Big Shots series, and I don’t think that you necessarily need to read them beforehand, but we do get appearances from Robbie’s teammates including the couples focused on in The Au Pair Affair and Dream Girl Drama. So if you’re a reader who prefers to enjoy each couple’s story in order, take that under advisement. Having previously enjoyed Tessa Bailey’s Hot and Hammered series (centring around a development company), I found Pitcher Perfect as easy to fall into as that series. The pages seemed to fly by and I happily spent my afternoon and evening swept away in Rocket and Redbeard’s romance. Fans will go wild for this fun, hot, feel-good read that will sit perfectly in any sports romance roster.
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