Sophia Rose Reviews: Jock Row by Sara Ney

 

Today Sophia Rose reviews Jock Row by Sara Ney book 1 in her Jock Hard series
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Jock Row by Sara Ney

#1 Jock Hard

New Adult Romance

Publisher:  Three Legacies LLC

Published:  4.1.22

Pages:  376

Rating: 4 stars

Format: ebook

Source:  Freebie

Sellers:  Amazon

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GoodReads Blurb:

Scarlett is always the sensible one: The sober driver. The planner. The one holding your hair back while you're worshiping the porcelain gods.

Week-after-week, she visits Jock Row with her friends—the universities hottest party scene and breeding ground for student athletes. And if keeping her friends out of trouble, and guys out of their pants, was a sport, she'd be the star athlete.

Being a well known jock-blocker gets her noticed for all the wrong reasons; just like that, she's banned from Jock Row. NO GUY WANTS A GIRL AROUND WHO KEEPS THEIR JOCK FRIENDS FROM GETTING LAID.

"Rowdy" Wade is the hot shot short-stop for the universities baseball team—and the unlucky bastard who drew the short straw: keep little Miss Goody Two-Shoes out of the Baseball House.

But week-after-week Scarlett returns, determined to get inside.

 

Sophia Rose's Review:

One night at a party hosted by the baseball jocks and an awkward scene starts a quirky-sexy friends to lovers romance.  Sara Ney is a new to me author and her books have long been on my radar.  I was glad to start my spring reading with a geeky gal and a guy baseball player finding their not really such opposites.

 

Jock Row was my kind of New Adult college setting romance.  I’m not one for all the excess drama and tempestuous emotions that many college romances are known for.  This was one light, even fluffy, but it was funny as all get out and not unnecessarily complicated.

 

Scarlett goes to an off-campus party hosted by a house of the college’s baseball team athletes.  Her two roomies are over the top excited to go and try to score the notice of one of these baseball gods.  Scarlett is just getting over a cold and tired of her own company.  She doesn’t see the appeal of chasing these guys, but a party’s a party and not her four boring walls.  Scar’s not impressed by a thing there and sorry she went until the guy booting our out for blocking his friends from scoring with her roommates has to hang out with her on the porch because she won’t go away.  Now, Rowdy Wade does get her heart to stuttering because he’s got a bit more substance to him.  She might just have to go crash another Jock Row party.

 

While the pair felt some initial attraction, the romance was slow burn and built with their friendship.  The bantering was funny as were their antics, but they shared a great deal about themselves with each other and learned to appreciate and respect what they both saw.

 

There’s not so much sports to this one so I wouldn’t necessarily label it a sports romance, buts part is of the ball team and the college setting.  As to plot, it’s not complicated and doesn’t pretend to be.  I liked the straightforwardness of the romance and the focus on two people meeting and learning to like and love each other through a series of scenes.

 

In summary, it was light and fun.  If you’re looking for a low-angst New Adult Romance with a smart-alecky heroine and an equally flirty, bantering hero in a friends to lovers then add Jock Row to your pile.

 

Author Bio:

Sara Ney is the USA Today Bestselling Author of the How to Date a Douchebag series, and is best known for her sexy, laugh-out-loud New Adult romances. Among her favorite vices, she includes: iced latte’s, historical architecture and well-placed sarcasm. She lives colorfully, collects vintage books, art, loves flea markets, and fancies herself British.

Website:  https://authorsaraney.com/

Sophia’s Bio:

Sophia is a quiet though curious gal who dabbles in cooking, book reviewing, piano-playing, and gardening. Road trips and campouts, museums and monuments, restaurants and theaters are her jam. Encouraged and supported by an incredible man and loving family. A Northern Californian transplant to the Great Lakes Region of the US. Lover of Jane Austen, Baseball, Cats, Scooby Doo, and Chocolate.

As a lifelong reader, it was inevitable that Sophia would discover book blogs and the joy of blog reviewing. Sophia is a prolific reader and audiobook listener which allows her to experience so many wonderful books, authors, and narrators. Few genres are outside her reading tastes, but her true love is fiction particularly history, mystery, sci-fi, and romance. Though, sorry, no horror or she will run like Shaggy and Scooby.

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