Book Description:
She’s good at achieving her goals…
College senior Sabrina James has her whole future planned out: graduate from college, kick butt in law school, and land a high-paying job at a cutthroat firm. Her path to escaping her shameful past certainly doesn’t include a gorgeous hockey player who believes in love at first sight. One night of sizzling heat and surprising tenderness is all she’s willing to give John Tucker, but sometimes, one night is all it takes for your entire life to change.
But the game just got a whole lot more complicated
Tucker believes being a team player is as important as being the star. On the ice, he’s fine staying out of the spotlight, but when it comes to becoming a daddy at the age of twenty-two, he refuses to be a bench warmer. It doesn’t hurt that the soon-to-be mother of his child is beautiful, whip-smart, and keeps him on his toes. The problem is, Sabrina’s heart is locked up tight, and the fiery brunette is too stubborn to accept his help. If he wants a life with the woman of his dreams, he’ll have to convince her that some goals can only be made with an assist.
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Our Review:
Reviewed by Donna ~ 3 stars
***ARC received for an honest review***
“I’m not the girl for John
Tucker, and I never will be.”
After the bomb was dropped at the end of The Score I was
more than eager for John Tucker’s story, he was a character that had always
blended into the background and we never really got to know him throughout the
other books in this series, but as they say, the quiet ones are often the
worst.
However, John Tucker was adorable in every sense of the
word. He really surprised me in The Goal. He was one of the most loyal and
loving guys out of all of them and had the patience of a saint to back it up
and with Sabrina James he certainly needed it. But also, Tucker was as sexy as
hell and had a filthy mouth, I never would have guessed it. For some godforsaken
reason Tucker loved Sabrina, whereas some guys would have given up and run for
the hills, Tucker was glutton for punishment, he took the punches, he took the
rejection, but would he get a happy ever after?
“Even if you hadn’t said you
loved me back, I’d take whatever scraps you were willing to give me as long as
I could be with you. I don’t give a shit if that makes me pathetic-”
Sabrina James, she was one cool customer who I just couldn’t
warm up to. I admired her drive and determination, her focus on bettering
herself but her treatment of Tucker just wound me up no end. She was the puppet
master and she definitely pulled all the strings and led our Tucker on a merry
dance. Her coolness and aloofness throughout just grated on my every last
nerve. If Tucker was insincere I could understand it, but she knew deep down
that she held Tucker’s heart in her hands and had no qualms about toying with
his emotions.
“It doesn’t matter how thin or
thick anyone’s wallet is. We all hurt. We all love. We’re the same. And your
past, who you live with, where you came from, it doesn’t have to matter. You’re
creating your own future, and I want to see where the road forward takes you.”
For me though, my biggest gripe with this book was pacing.
This story runs parallel with The Score and so a chunk of the plot line was
repetitive. I just felt that as situations were rehashed through someone else’s
eyes it lost its impact and for me interrupted my reading mojo. If you are
reading this as a standalone and have not read The Score, then this shouldn’t
be an issue. The first half of the book was particularly slow for me, however,
as everything hots up in the second half it pulled me back in.
“My goal, once upon a time, was
to succeed. I didn’t realize that success wasn’t grades or scholarships or
achievements, but the people I was lucky enough to have in my life.”
My heart definitely belonged to John Tucker in this book,
this guy had a heart of gold, was the most loving and giving, he gave Sabrina
everything she wanted and needed and yet she still kept him at arm’s length. He
was forever trying to bore little holes into her life and heart to inch that
little bit forward but she was an emotional fortress, it all seemed a little
one sided. They get there in the end but she was definitely a tough nut to
crack.
“I can’t make a single decision.
Not until Sabrina makes the most important one of all.”
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