Summary
What he wants he gets…
Knox Masters is a quarterback’s worst nightmare. Warrior. Champion. And…virgin. Knox knows what he wants–and he gets it. All American Football player? Check. NFL pros scouting him? Check. Now, he’s set his sight on two things. The national title. And Ellie Campbell. Sure, she’s the sister of his fellow teammate, but that’s not going to stop him. Especially not when he’s convinced Ellie is the one.
…but he’s never met her before.
But Ellie isn’t as sure. She’s trying to start a new life and she’s not interested in a relationship…with anyone. Beside it’s not just her cardinal rule of never dating her brother’s teammates that keeps her away, but Ellie has a dark secret that would jeopardize everything Knox is pursuing.
Knox has no intention of losing. Ellie has no intention of giving in.
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Review
Sports romances are my go to books – there’s something about my love of both of those topics that makes it the perfect combination, and when it’s done well, with great main characters and an even amount of action on and off the field, it doesn’t get any better for me.
That kind of story is exactly what I found when I read Sacked by Jen Frederick – Knox Masters and Ellie Campbell are a fantastic pair who share the love of football, their siblings, and eventually one another, but there’s more at stake for Knox and Ellie than winning the next game, making the right grade, or finding time to be together during the football season, and that’s why this book is so much more than your typical college sports romance story.
Even with the insta-love and the whole idea of a star college football player being a virgin, which would seem unrealistic to many, Sacked was a fantastic read because Frederick moved beyond those cliched ideas and took them deeper, proving and developing the reasons behind them and allowing readers to buy into them.
Sacked is about so much more than Knox and Ellie’s relationship; it illustrates what a football team does for one another: the sacrifices, the encouragement, camaraderie. It shows the drive college athletes need to have to be the best and the dedication required to juggle everything that’s thrown at them when they’re treated as gods of the gridiron. Readers also are led to understand how far people are willing to go to ensure that failure does not become an option when the game is on the line.
Knox is the quintessential college football athlete in that he lives and breathes the game, but he definitely values more in life than what he can get by being the star. He’s the complete package, and he’s driven to get everything he wants and when part of what he wants is Ellie, he’ll stop at nothing to have her – in all ways.
Ellie’s not a football groupie, but she knows and loves the game, and she has her brother to thank for that knowledge. She’s sworn off football players, so she fights her attraction to Knox, but his persistence pays off, and what transpires is a relationship filled with hot sex, witty banter, and a connection that is too good to deny, but there’s a bigger picture issue that Ellie doesn’t have the nerve to reveal and it just might be the end to more than her relationship with Knox.
Sacked is sports romance at its finest. Jen Frederick created fantastic leading characters in Knox and Ellie and then surrounded them with a group of friends that brought laughs and fun with them.
Sacked is definitely a must read.
A complimentary copy was provided by the author/publisher in exchange for an honest review.
4.5 Poison Apples
Excerpt
I lock my legs to keep from falling over and pull out the biggest barrel I have. “Masters, there are things about me that if you knew you wouldn’t want to spend another minute in my presence.”
He considers my words, the silence taking on a heaviness and part of me already aches for what I could have if I was just any other girl at Western. “Have you killed anyone?” he finally asks. I can feel his eyes assessing me and I keep my gaze averted afraid of what
I’ll see in his moss green gaze.
“No.”
“Have you slept with my brother?”
“What?” I can’t prevent myself from gawking at Masters, who’s smiling as he asks the question. “No! God, I’ve never even met him!”
“Are you catfishing poor athletes from Auburn? Wait, don’t answer that because I don’t think I’d find that objectionable. Oh, I have it—” He snaps his fingers.
“This isn’t a joke, Masters.”
He tucks a stray piece of hair behind my ear. “Until you tell me what it is, it’s not a reason to be apart either.”
I suck in my lower lip to prevent throwing myself at him and telling him to take me.
“Why?” I ask helplessly.
“Because I like you.”
He grips me by the chin and lays down gentlest, sweetest kiss. In that kiss he tells me everything. That he wants me. That he’s willing to take it slow. That he’s not giving up.
He kisses me as if this is the only thing he wants to do for the next ten hours.
His lips barely move but I can feel everything in me surge toward him. The short wedges
I shoved on this morning suddenly feel precarious. I grip his shoulders to steady myself and then find myself rising up on my tiptoes to press deeper against him. He hauls me flush against him until I can no longer touch the floor.
His one hand palms nearly my entire back while the other angles my head for better access. He may be a virgin, but the guy knows how to kiss. His tongue is finding places inside my mouth that I didn’t even know would feel good.
All the pent up desire that has been boiling in me for days comes pouring out of me. I attack him with my next kiss, biting his lower lip, sucking on his tongue. Against my belly I can feel the hard ridge of his erection.
“God,” I breathe as he abandons my mouth to trace the line of my jaw with his lips. He growls in response and pushes me back against the bookcases but I don’t even mind that the shelves are biting into my back. I just want more.
And he gives it to me. We cling to each other, feeding off of each other’s seemingly endless need until I hear a gasp and then a muted giggle. And those two faint sounds somehow manage to break through the haze of lust and bring with it the realization that
I am in a very public place. I wriggle against him and he sets me down reluctantly.
“We’re in the bookstore,” I say in a scandalized voice.
“You’ve never kissed a guy in the bookstore before?” He grins, the wicked mischievous one I’m beginning to associate with something tremendously naughty. “There’s a first time for everything.”
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