Reread 2024

Two unlikeable MC's made this one a hard read. 
 
3 stars 

 

I wanted to like this one more than I did. 

 

I love stories with the themes of sports and antagonistic MC’s, the back and forth as they banter really works for me, but at the same time I need them to show a little bit of a softer more vulnerable side as that helps me connect with the character. My problem here was that for over 50% of the book, both guys were extremely antagonistic without the softer side showing, so they were highly unlikeable to me. I didn’t really understand what they saw in each other and why they were together. Rowan was too Dom/Alpha like without the likeable personality to go with it, and Mark was too busy trying to prove to every man and his dog that he was the big man and didn’t need anything from anyone. They were both too busy trying to stamp their dominance on their interactions that those same interactions became annoying and boring to read. Yeah characters can bicker and have barbs at each other, but usually you can see the connection throughout that. 

 

Amazingly enough the secondary characters more than made up for this and that’s what kept me reading on. The younger kids on the team were a highlight and I can’t wait to see what happens in their stories.