Ryan is an NBA superstar and his only focus is basketball. He likes order and has been keeping a perfect image throughout his career. So when his twin sister asks him to help her best friend Indy, and let her crash at his place after a bad breakup, he accepts begrudgingly. Indy is everything he thinks he doesn't need. She's like a tornado in his usually ordered and secluded life. Indie is also not a fan of staying at Ryan's place but she needs to save up money before being able to find an other place. As time goes by, they both realize that maybe they have more in common that what they initially thought. In this book, you'll find these different tropes : Fake dating, forced proximity, sports romance, he falls first, slow burn.
And that's an other one on Liz Tomforde's belt that I loved reading. Like in Mile High, this was a slow-burn romance, which I love and the author took her time to build the relationship wetween our two MCs. I thought I enjoyed Zander and Stevie in Mile High but Ryan and Indy really have my heart. They both had such great, real and flawed personalities. They had amazing chemistry, the communication between them was on point and their relationship was all around cute without an ounce of toxicity and we gotta love that! I loved that they both went through personal growth and that they helped each other on the matter.
Commenter  J’apprécie         00
Cette fois encore, j'ai adoré ma lecture. Les tropes font partie de mes préférés et j'avais déjà beaucoup aimé leurs interractions dans le T.1.
J'avais donc hâte de retrouver Indy et Ryan ici et je n'ai pas été déçue. Leurs conversations sont très drôles et tendres à la fois (Indy lit beaucoup de romances, y a plein de refs pour les adeptes du genre). Ryan est grognon, c'est un plaisir de le voir lâcher prise, tout comme assister à leur rapprochement.
Bien que l'approche soit différente du T.1, les valeurs véhiculées par cette histoire sont vraiment appréciables.
Comme dans chaque saga de ce genre, avoir des nouvelles du couple précédent est toujours un plaisir.
J'ai malgré tout trouvé qu'il y avait quelques longueurs, ce qui fait que ce n'est pas un coup de coeur, mais je ne tarderai sans doute pas à lire le T.3, l'aperçu qu'on a eu du protagoniste masculin promet également une histoire à la hauteur des deux premières.
Berf, si vous lisez en VO, c'est une lecture que je vous conseille et pour les autres, j'espère qu'elle sera traduite un jour car c'est dommage de passer à côté.
Commenter  J’apprécie         00
Très bien écrit, l'anglais est simple à comprendre. La relation entre les deux personnages est saine et ça fait du bien à voir. J'ai bien aimé ma lecture! Pas de cinq étoile car il manquait peut-être d'un quelque chose, ça reste une lecture romance assez clichée malgré tout ;)
Commenter  J’apprécie         00
'Why do you like reading fiction so much?' He asks without a hint of judgement.
'How else would you get to live a thousand lives in the span of only one? The beauty of fiction is that it makes you feel things on a visceral level. You can cry with those characters, laugh with them. It teaches you to look at another’s perspective, to have empathy. In nonfiction, you simply learn about something instead of feeling it.'
-Why do you like reading fiction so much?
-How else would you get to live a thousand lives in the span of only one? The beauty of fiction is that it makes you feel things on a visceral level. You can cry with those characters, laugh with them. It teaches you to look at another’s perspective, to have empathy. In nonfiction, you simply learn about something instead of feeling it.
She’s not just a happy-go-lucky girl with no perception of the terrible parts of life. She doesn’t shit rainbows or believe in unicorns, but she feels everything. Every emotion good or bad and for that reason alone she’s a breath of fresh air in my life. She’s living and I both admire her for it and am envious beyond belief.
I’m sorry someone let you believe you were hard to love, because, Blue, it’s the easiest thing I’ve ever done.
But I spend a lot of your money.
And I’m messy. You don’t like messy.
I like your mess.
And I’m needy. I have no idea how to be alone.
Good. I don’t want you to be alone. I want you to be with me.
Becoming Selfish - Liz Tomforde (Quick Cherry Publishing)