This is the gold standard for sports romance!The following ratings are out of 5:Romance: 💜🖤🤍💙💚Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Story/Plot: 📘📗📕📙📓World building: 🌅🌆🏙🏞🌃Character development: 👤👤👤👤👤The setting: Nashville & Daisy Tennessee The Hero: Jack Hawke, Superstar NFL Quarterback that won 4 championships, but never won a Super Bowl.The Heroine: Elena, a Librarian in the small town of Daisy with bit of a wild streak.I loved this sports romance story. It was funny, heartwarming, a bit tragic and so hot! The ro...

5 stars. 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟A fabulous rom-com, it ranks right up there along with all my other top favorites in this category.The story was total rom-com magic....I laughed, smiled and sighed at times ...I also felt my positive endorphin levels rising with each new page that I read!!!This has to be one of Ilsa Madden Mills best books ever IMO.It starts off with a Valentine's Day blind date misstep when Elena (a sweet librarian and albeit secret lingerie designer) mistakes Jack Hawke (a somewhat cynical and s...

Two opposites mending one puzzle, and one attraction that never seems to sizzle no matter how far away they run from each other... Jack and Elena, a couple filled with lots of chemistry and lust that truly breaks the pages. At first sight, it's kind of complicated to feel their attraction, but after a while it's a no brainer that they are meant to be. Elena is such a unique character that's for sure. She is quirky, introverted, smart, and sexy. Qualities in which to Jack's eyes make her worth

3 STARSThis book had so much potential to be a 5-star read for me.First Half: 5 Stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Fun, hilarious, steamy... and also fun (I know I already wrote "fun", but thats how fun this book was!) 😂 Second Half: 1 Star ⭐ Boring, boring, boring... and a bit stupid (in what world is a famous football player participats a theater show of a neighborhood community center? And what does that show have to do with everything that happened in the plot so far? And why, OH WHY, after all the rehearsals t

I was blindsided.All I've heard about this book from other reviews was: "the Hero watches K-drama and he's so sweet 🥺" That's when I knew, I had to read this book, but wow I did not care about neither Jack nor Elena. But then Jack goes and says: "I won't judge you for eating a pound of bread when we met, and you don't judge me for my K-dramas." Dude. Are u ok? Is your head ok? Is your brain ok? Are ur brain cells still intact??? If you judge a girl for eating bread ... no comment. Maybe that

I needed some time to decide how to grade this book because while I loved most parts of it, I also disliked certain parts of it. All in all, it is not a bad book, its good outweighs its bad. First of all, it is well-written and most importantly, it makes you feel but I think it is the hero that spoils it all. He’s had a traumatic childhood and it still affects him in a negative way. He cannot trust anyone. Especially, after the betrayal of his last girlfriend, who published a book about him whic...

✰ 4.5 stars ✰this was a hilarious, heartwarming and fun read between a sexy professional football player and a small-town librarian and I loved every moment of it. <3 Jack (H): ➴ a hero who reads and likes kdramas?? where can I find my own Jack? 😩 on a serious note, Jack was such a kind and respectful H (the way he would ask Elena (h) in the beginning if they could kiss had me swooning) that I couldn’t help but adore him. His lack of commitment and trust issues frustrated me towards the end, b...

4.5 StarsOh my lord! I absolutely adored Not My Romeo. Yes, the premise has been done before but that wasn’t important when the characters shined the way they did. Elena, Jack, Aunt Clara, Topher, Devon. I could go on. I liked every one of these characters and especially the two leads Elena and Jack. Elena is such a great heroine. A librarian who designs sexy lingerie in her spare time. Her first meeting with the famous and shy quarterback Jack was so much fun and immediately set the tone. Their...

4 STARS He’s going to crawl inside my heart. He’s going to break it into a million pieces. Ummm....excuse me? How and why is this my first Ilsa Madden-Mills book? I am shooketh! SHOOKETH! I'm now immediately rectifying my mistake by purchasing the woman's entire backlist. True story. But I digress.I totally misjudged this book based on the blurb. I was expecting just another famous jock meets nobody heroine fluffy romance. But this was so much more than that. It was packed full of feel...

Life is messy, love especially.A super sweet mistaken identity blind date book? Haha I don’t even know what to consider it. A football player and a librarian from a small town. It’s an enjoyable read. The H has social anxiety and I appreciated that. He also has many trust issues for good reason. The h is fun and sassy and also designs fun lingerie. I don’t know why but I really just enjoyed her. There’s a lot going on and a heap of angst, but overall it’s steamy sort of small town romance. Just

5 Stars!(ARC provided by Montlake)-Sometimes, fate gives you a bad game, but in the end destiny straightens it out. And you win. Elena Riley is a 26 yr. old, single librarian that lives in a small town in Tennessee called Daisy. Always feeling she's expected to be the perfect southern girl she is prim, proper and reserved. After a bad break up she needs to move on. It's time for some good to come her way. She agrees to step out of her comfort zone, and go on a blind date on Valentine's Day. I...

2.5 StarsThis book started out so promising. A case of mistaken identity, a distrustful hero who finds himself reluctantly intrigued by the heroine and a dash of chemistry and I thought "yeah, I can see myself liking this couple". And for a while I did. I looked forward to their interactions and it seemed like Jack was the type of guy who knew exactly what he wanted and was willing to work for it, but that was before I knew that he had commitment issues.While I loved Jack and Elena as individual...