Rocking Player

Author needed to do research on depression and abuse victims. The father should have gotten the mother help in the form of counseling? Some areas simply didn’t make any sense and the female lead came across as weak and sniveling at times. The male lead also had issues that needed to be addressed with counseling, such as his fixation of money equaling a persons value. The ending was rushed and had the feeling of the author just being over it and wanted to finish it.

The prologue didn’t make any sense. Book was rushed at the end of it. Not worth the read. Good thing this book was free or I never would have read it

This story might have worked better as a short story, but the author stretched out the basic plot with a lot of repetition. Georgie has a weekend fling in the Bahamas but leaves without getting the guy’s last name. Fast forward 7 years and she takes her son to a baseball game, only to learn that her son’s father is none other than a pro player on the visiting team. He spots them in the stand and immediately recognizes the girl he’s always searched for and the mini-me at her side. I liked that basic plot, but after that, the story drags. Michael is obsessed with getting the biggest paycheck for his next contract. He feels he won’t be validated as the best player without the biggest dollars. He’s willing to ignore his new family’s wishes to get the bucks. That point is repeated ad nauseum. Georgie is determined not to love her husband too much and be a doormat like her mother was. She obsesses over this every minute of the day. It’s tiresome and repetitive. The son is cute but way way too mature for a 6 year old. He has his own phone and shoots videos and send them out on group texts? He texts his friends? First graders can barely read and write! He puts himself to bed at night without being tucked in, but Georgie is supposed to be this devoted mom? At one point, she walks by his room and notes his light is off so he must have gone to bed - then mentions it’s midnight! Those kind of things didn’t make sense. The grammar was poor - this book should have been better edited. The lack of commas drove me a little nuts and was distracting. Some sentences literally didn’t make sense. Didn’t anyone proofread this book before it was published? It felt like a first draft. It was better than a 1 star book, but I couldn’t stretch it to 3.