Title: In her own league
Author: Liz Tomforde
Publisher: Golden Boy Publishing
Genre: Romance
Pages: 416
My Rating: ❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤

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In her own league

Reese Remmington is the first woman to own a baseball team, and there is a lot of pressure to do everything right. She is more than qualified, but when you’re a woman leading a men’s sports team, all eyes are on you. She can’t afford any distractions and has to stay fully focused on the team.

It doesn’t help that the field manager, Emmett Montgomery, is a former All-Star turned coach who treats his players like family and the field like home. Everyone loves him. He’s not happy that his new boss seems to be all about numbers and money and doesn’t appear to care much about the team.

But after being forced to spend a lot of time together for work, Emmett realizes that she actually does care; she’s just afraid of making mistakes. And slowly, the spark between them becomes harder and harder to resist.

Review

I’m not always up to date with new releases, in the sense that I never really know which books are coming out in a year or even six months. So when I read the last book in The Windy City series about Rio, I thought that was it. I assumed it would be the final book in the series.

And technically, it was. This book is more of a standalone, but I still see it as part of the series anyway. So I was wrong, and I’m so happy that Liz Tomforde wrote this book.

The story is super cute, amazing, and uplifting. I’m all for girl power, especially when a woman works in a highly male-dominated field, and she’s the boss. How cool is that? I was definitely rooting for her and hating anyone who stood in her way or questioned her.

I understand why a lot of people thought she was cold, but she was just really focused on improving the team. She didn’t want any distractions, which made her come across that way, even though she wasn’t. So yeah, I really liked Reese.

And of course, I also liked Emmett. He appeared in the other books, and everyone already loves him. He’s the field manager, but the team feels like his family, which I thought was really sweet.

In my opinion, this is one of my favorite books in The Windy City series. Okay, technically, it isn’t part of the series according to Goodreads, but I’m counting it anyway.

It had everything I needed: girl power, so much chemistry, and great banter. I was eating it up. I loved this story so much.

And suddenly… I had a crush on an older man. He was basically the perfect man in my opinion, supportive, uplifting, and her biggest fan. I loved that.

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Title: The Right Move
Author: Liz Tomforde
Publisher: Independently published
Genre: Romance, Drama
Pages: 426
My Rating: ❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤

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The Right Move

Ryan is a successful basketball player and he only wants to focus on basketball. He does not want any distractions. That means that his apartment is pretty much empty, organized, and clean. He also does not date. Indy is the opposite. She is messy, colorful, and loud. And now she is staying with Ryan because she has no other place to live. They both have had bad experiences with love. Ryan was cheated on in college and he even thought he was going to be a father. Indy was in a relationship with Alex, but he also cheated on her. But the more time they spend together, the more they start to like each other

Review

This is the second book in the Windy City series. The first book (Mile High) was about Ryan’s sister Stevie and ice hockey player Zanders. I was really excited to read this book because I really liked Ryan’s character in the first book. He was so nice to his sister. They have a really special bond and not just because they are twins.

The characters are likable. The characters were already introduced in the first book, so I already had an image of them. I knew Indy’s story a little bit and how Alex cheated on her. But in the second book,g you will find more about Indy and her wish to start a family, even though that is going to be hard. She has no idea if she even can get pregnant. Ryan does not want any distractions, so there is no place for a relationship. He just wants to focus on basketball. But he has his own struggles.

At first, Ryan isn’t thrilled that Indy is going to stay at his apartment for a while. But he does everything Stevie wants, so she lets Indy stay. When they spend more time together, they start liking each other a bit more. I think they bring the best out of each other. They are cute together. Ryan is a great male main character. All those little things he did for Indy. He even learned how to sign and that part made me cry. He is truly a good man. Exactly what I expected since he was also very nice to his sister in the first book.

The story itself is also good. I enjoyed reading it. It was one of those book I couldn’t stop reading. It was hard to put the book down. I have only one problem with this book. The smut was a little bit too much. There were too many spicy scenes in this book for me. I don’t mind a little smut, but I think it was a little bit too much.
The ending (epilogue) made me happy. I just love happy endings a lot and this one made me smile a lot. I was just so happy for the main characters.

I already know the third book is going to be about Kai. They introduced him in this book maybe two or three times. But he wasn’t there a lot, to be honest. He just lives in the same building as Ryan Shay and he has a kid. He is constantly firing his nannies because he is a single dad. Yes, I want to read this book. But I was sort of expecting a book about Rio. For some reason, I am very excited to read about him. There are only three books in the series as I am writing this review, but I hope Liz will write a beautiful love story for Rio as well.

Overall, I enjoyed it a lot. But again, there were just too many spicy scenes and it was a little bit too much in my opinion. The good news is that you can easily skim those parts and you won’t miss a single thing. I can still recommend this book series by Liz Tomforde.

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Title: Mile High
Author: Liz Tomforde
Publisher:  Independently published
Genre: Romance
Pages: 488
My rating: ❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤

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Mile High

Stevie is a flight attendant and this year she is going to be a flight attendant for the ice hockey team The Raptors. One of the hockey players is Evan Zanders and he is also the most attractive one. Good thing he is also the most annoying one because she does not date sports players after a previous relationship experience with another athlete. But it is so hard to resist him.
Evan Zanders is one of the Raptor players and according to the media, he is a bad boy who gets into fights and hooks up with girls every single night. But that couldn’t be further away from the truth. And now he has a crush on his flight attendant. He does literally anything to get her attention and to get her in his bed.

Review

Normally the books I read have around 400 or maybe 500 ebook pages. This one was 700 pages according to my Kobo reader. So this is the first time, I read a big book. Although, now I think about it. ‘Thing We Never Got Over’ by Lucy Score was pretty big as well. And I am always afraid to read big books because they will get boring eventually. Especially when it comes to romance, there will be a lot of boring details and parts that I don’t care about.

But honestly, it wasn’t that bad. Sure, it wasn’t a quick read for me compared to the other books I’ve read in the past. I took me a couple of evenings to finish it since I only read for 1-2 hours every single night before going to sleep.

I think I liked Stevie. She cares more about the shelter than her job. And I felt so bad for her about how her mother talked to her. I am surprised that she did not cut her mother off years ago. It made me so angry. Stevie´s brother is the best. Honestly, I liked his character the most in this book. I am really looking forward to reading his story. Hopefully, he won´t let me down. But it sounds like he is a good person. And I loved the brother/sister relationship between Stevie and her brother. They were best friends.

Not sure how I feel about Evan Zanders. First of all, what’s up with using last names instead of first names? I’ve seen and heard this before. And it is not just Zanders, I think they barely used first names. But Evan Zanders has a bad-boy reputation. He even has a list of women on his phone and which city they live in. So I didn’t get the part he claims that is just fake and how that is not him. But there are also things that made me like him. He wears Stevie’s ring 24/7 and he starts to be more open about what is going on in his life. And the fact he adopted a dog was cool. Men with dogs/cats are attractive for some reason.

The setting was pretty cool. I wonder if Stevie’s job really exists and if each team has their own plane crew. Sounds pretty cool. The idea that you are in a different city each week is amazing. I have to say that I am not American, so I don’t know much about American sports like Ice Hockey (or Basketball/American football). So I still don’t know what it means that Evan Zanders had to sit in the penalty box each time and for how long. Maybe it is like regular hockey (which is popular here).

Overall, I still think it was a good story. Maybe a little long for me. I am not used to reading big books because I am too impatient. Maybe I should read more big books, so I will have more patience for books like these. I still enjoyed it. I am really looking forward to reading the second book in the series, which is about another American sport: basketball. Hopefully, I will also see a glimpse of Stevie and Zanders now. But I think we will, since Stevie is so close with her brother.

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