Jock Row by Sara Ney | REVIEW!

 

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Synopsis:

Scarlett is always the sensible one: The sober driver. The planner. The one holding your hair back while you're worshiping the porcelain gods.

Week-after-week, she visits Jock Row with her friends-- the university's hottest party scene and breeding grounds for students athletes. And if keeping her friends out of trouble, and guys out of their pants, was a sport, she'd be the star athlete.

Being a well known jock-blocker gets her noticed for all the wrong reasons; just like that, she's banned from Jock Row. NO GUYS WANTS A GIRL AROUND WHO KEEPS THEIR JOCK FRIENDS FROM GETTING LAID.


"Rowdy" Wade is the hot shot short-stop from the university's baseball team-- and the unlucky bastard who drew the short straw: keep little Miss Goody Two-Shoes out of the Baseball House.

But week-after-week Scarlett returns, determined to get inside.


About the Author:
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Sara Ney is the USA Today Bestselling Author of the How to Date a Douchebag series, and is best known for her sexy, laugh-out-loud New Adult romances. Among her favorite vices, she includes: iced latte's, historical architecture and well-placed sarcasm. She lives colorfully, collects vintage books, art, loves flea markets, and fancies herself British.

My Review:

This book held much promise when I started it. I freaking loved it! It was gripping and had me from the beginning. I'm not saying that the whole book wasn't like that but I did have some problems with it once I hit over the halfway mark.

Rowdy is awesome, I love his personality, I like Scarlett's too and I feel them kicking her out of the baseball house was a little dramatic, she didn't do anything that bad, but it is college and the guys saw her as a problem they didn't want, so they kicked her out.

Rowdy took it to another level, which is funny. You can feel the connection between them, that is undeniable. I love how the first half of the book is every Friday. The chapters are her and her friends every Friday night getting ready and going to the baseball house, though it comes to a point where Scarlett knows she is not going to be allowed in the house. It's funny because she prepares for it. It is winter, so she dresses for the weather and she starts bringing them food to eat on the porch, which is where she is kept every Friday night while her friends are inside the house.

I would have loved it so much if the whole book was them every Friday night but once you get more than halfway, it changes. They go on Christmas break and she ends up visiting Rowdy. I won't go into details because hello, spoilers, but they are grown right! They are in college, about to graduate, they are old enough to drink! Rowdy's father gives him a sex talk when she goes to visit. I was a little taken aback by that. I was like what! He is a grown man. He isn't a teenage boy, you don't need to tell him to be protected, he is a big boy, I'd hope he'd know to be protected and I'd hope this wasn't the first time you are having this talk with him, at almost 22 years old!

My second problem is, it ended WAY too fast. They come back from Christmas break and it just ends. I had whiplash. I would have liked a little more, which it why I wish the whole book was told of them every Friday night leading up to them graduating. But that's my opinion, everyone has one. I still did enjoy the book. I liked the chemistry between the two characters and Rowdy is hot. 

4 Owls!