The Knockout Rule
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5.0 • 2 Ratings
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Publisher Description
"Siskind’s latest slow-burn romance is stay-up-all-night addictive and proves love hits when you least expect it…
Growing up with an adoring father for a boxing legend isn’t all sunshine and rainbows. It looks more like hospital visits, bloody noses, and cracked ribs.
Isla Slade now works as a physiotherapist, helping athletes heal their bodies. Except for boxers. She has no interest in reliving the stress of her teen years. Dating someone in the boxing world? She’d rather snort wasabi powder.
Until she meets Preston Church.
Preston manages heavyweight boxing darling Brick Kramarov. A brute who’s built tougher than his name, with a cocky attitude to boot. She wants nothing to do with either man, but her father begs her to help them prepare for a huge Vegas fight.
She doesn’t expect Preston to recite romantic poems and slowly break her resolve. His fascinating mind gets under her skin, even if his star athlete reminds her how much she hates boxing.
Too bad it’s Brick coaching Preston how to woo Isla, falling for her from the sidelines. Once she finds out, she’ll have to decide if she can risk loving another man who puts it all on the line for the knockout."
Customer Reviews
Beautifully layered slow burn
Listed as 4th in series but stands alone beautifully. I've read book 3 and there was a little nod to one of the characters that made me light up so there are probably little fly by mentions for other characters in the series, but you don't feel like you're missing anything if you don't recognize the mentions.
This book has some amazing layers in it's slow burning awesomeness:
- Working Relationship (Physiotherapist and Boxer)
- Misunderstandings (His public image as a boxer isn't who he really is inside)
- Relationship Coaching (He's helping his manager woo her)
- PTSD (She has issues with Boxing as whole thanks to her father and has to confront it)
- An adorable snorty bull dog
- The best hugs ever!!!!
- Audiobook Treat: foreign & ancient languages (so yummy in the ears even if I had no clue what was being said since I couldn't google translate like I can when reading text)
Isla grew up the daughter of a boxer and has been deeply impacted by this experience. Now her father is asking her to help him by treating a boxer when she has explicitly said she won't ever work with Boxers. And this boxer is the worst based on what she's seen in promos and online, he's loud, speaks with a Russian accent and has the vocabulary of a Neanderthal.
Eric doesn't like being "Brick" the dumb boxer, but supporting his family with his fists is something he can do and he will do it even if it means putting his own dreams/passions aside. He and Isla get off on the wrong foot because she only knows his public persona, but once they get past that misperception, he finds someone he truly enjoys spending time with.
The audiobook was performed by Kimberly M. Wetherell and I want more of her. She was everything as Eric! This character has a love of linguistics and speaks multiple languages (most notably his mother tongue Russian) and there are phrases in other languages sprinkled throughout the story like little treasures. None of them sounded forced or painful, Kimberly spoke them in a way that sounded effortless and sent shivers down my spine. In addition to Eric and his lingual gymnastics, she made Isla and her emotional journey so very real. I felt every moment and got choked up at times with this performance.
I received a copy of the Audiobook via NetGalley for my honest review.
Great Slow Burn Romance!
This is the fourth book in the Showmen series. Isla and Preston's story is beautifully written, emotional, and heartwarming, filled with drama, and romance. They are both interesting characters. Isla is caring and supportive. Preston is handsome, and devoted to his family. I liked their slow-burn romance. Kimberly M. Wetherell did a great job with the narration.