one day, abel's coach approached and told him to find a girlfriend to show that their team is family oriented and each player is committed. he is single, he don't date and he never sleep around, because he's pining after scarlett and nobody knows about it. the media has branded him the "unattainable bachelor" and the team's PR wanted him to fix his image. with this information, abel asked scarlett to be his fake girlfriend, which she didn't say yes to immediately. in exchange for this favor, he promised her that she'll get his house in return. it was scarlett and her bff's dream to live close to each other, and currently she's been living in her friend's pool house. abel gave her all the time she needed to think about his proposition and after a week scarlett said yes to him, and that's where everything started. I'm happy that Mae decided to study further & stop her business. She was banned from the industry because she outed her former boss for stealing money from underaged models for illegal activities, so he started spreading lies about her everywhere. She started her own company but it was going downhill. I'm happy that he went to jail. The epilogue was cute. ✨ he shushed her out of the house bc it was coming over her new found sister, whom she thought was her gf/ex and for what??? literally no purpose for this motive The book felt very rushed at it genuinely had no purpose what so ever. And I also can't get over the weird names he called her.

at the beginning he threw away all the food she cooked him bc she made him so nervous he couldn't eat?? He fell so hard from the start and that was right up my alley😮‍💨 Congrats to Abel being my first ever book boyfriend (that I can recall) with the name Abel. First off, you only need about 0.3% of your brain power to read through this. This is basic writing at it’s best (I’m so sorry to say this to a newish, independently published author, but NO). idk if it’s on purpose to focus more on the romance aspect but they’re supposedly grown adults with actual careers but it almost always feels like they’re college kids. who skip class often. it genuinely feels like even from the beginning, their whole lives revolve around each other which just feels off to me bc there was no structured timeline & like i said, a whole mess. the characters were almost unbearable. im still confused about Mae and Scarlett’s relationship and whether or not they were sisters. and while abel was a good guy and it was refreshing to see a book where the guy falls first, even I thought that he hated her, like why is he throwing away her food ??????? all of the characters could have been improved 10X more had the author spent a little more time on this book and developing a story where the readers truly feel connected to everyone they read about.

My Book Notes

Book Genre: Contemporary, Contemporary Romance, Football, New Adult, Romance, Sports, Sports Romance, Unfinished

all the characters in this book were annoying as hell. abel? freakishly obsessed with a woman he’s barely spoken to, and appears to have a brain condition that renders him incapable of functioning like a normal human being around her for 8 months. scarlett? scarily co-dependent with her best friend that she insists on calling her sister, and seems to have the emotional awareness of a 13 y/o. i also never knew that liking a color could be a personality trait, but hey, you learn something new everyday. the rest of the side characters? they were all loud and obnoxious, and basically read like the same person split into 3. ok this was tiktok scam at its prime, don't know how I had the will to finish this book but I do deserve a medal for it.The only reason this wasn't a complete 5 stars was the little jokey jokes about a certain religious group...it was, yes a little funny but also a bit tactless....they do honest work voluntarily....they could be out committing crimes or something....maybe we shouldn't make fun of them....consider one of them being a fellow reader and seeing that....I for one would a little upset/ offended again why keeping the sibling thing a secret???? literally no one gave a shit about them being related This book felt like it barely had any plot until the accidental pregnancy trip that came out of nowhere in the last couple of chapters and keep in mind that is one of least favorite tropes.

The only question was, would an enigma from Abel's recent past tear them apart for good or bring them closer together than ever? But I do how to say, it's very fast-paced. I was on chapter two last night at like midnight and was able to finish it today at two pm. And again, authors should seriously understand that being enemies and not liking eachother are two completely different things. They kept saying that the despised eachother and that they were eachother's nemesis or arch enemies when all it was was a misunderstanding that occurred in the second grade when they were just seven. I get that what happened did hurt her feelings but it's been over a decade since that incident and she should've seriously gotten over it. And the ending…the ending elicited an audible groan from me. ( he proposes, she says yes, they have a shotgun wedding the next day, then cheerfully try for babies, all cocooned in some of the worst writing, and *twitching members* I have ever had the misfortune to read). When she burned the dress.... you better believe I took a moment to meditate on that level of pettiness... I truly hope to achieve it one day.I’m gonna be a bitch just to save a lot of you your time and list a few reasons why this book was a 1 star read for me: