Lena Knight: Nothing's fair in Love & Basketball

 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/242241104-nothing-s-fair-in-love-basketball

Ty is the new transfer to the basketball team shortly after arrival he ends up seeing MJ in the forced dance class that his team has to go to… he never believed in love at first sight until now.

MJ is beautiful and athletic she is the captain of the Volleyball team… which she enjoys but it wasn’t her original dream she had big plans to play basketball until the dark day everything changed for her the game she once adored she can’t even watch in person anymore… or pick up a basketball, the person she thought would be her biggest support turned against her and even now years later she can’t bring herself to go towards temptation that is Tyler… he’s handsome, charming and sweet but he’s a basketball player she can’t go there again…

Ty is patient and he can wait he can see how special MJ is and from his own painful past can see she’s been through something that will take time to navigate, but while he waits he can be her friend… and just maybe he will be there in the right place and the right time and when she realizes that he is worth the risk and it will be EVERYTHING!

Once MJ starts to let her walls down she comes face to face with her past will Ty be able to help her through it or will this be the end? 

*Sports Romance (Basketball MMC, Volleyball FMC) *college romance *love at first sight (MMC)

 *”who hurt you?”  *he falls first *spice *slow burn

 *Mental health representation  *found family  *Troubled past  

 State Challenge: New York

 *Indie Author 

 Trigger warnings à discussions of past history of abuse

Likes:  

This was a sweet story between MJ and Ty who both have had a troubled past history but are both patient with each other and when our FMC lets down her walls and allows Tyler to love her it is beautiful.

Likeable lead characters and side characters.  Tyler was raised with 4 other boys with their foster mother and they are true family goals.  Their friend group is great as well leading to additional found family.

If you are looking for a college sports romance that has h{e}art check this one out! 

Neutral:

Lots of pop culture references to songs I haven’t heard and books I haven’t read yet, I don’t usually listen to play lists in books but if you like books with a playlists you will probably enjoy this part of the book.

I felt the situation with one of the other students at the school and MJ was wrapped up pretty quickly and thought it would have had a bit longer section.

There were a few other sections that I felt would have had a different outcome in real life (mainly related to our MMC and a bit of a temper when it came to protecting our girl…) àI know that some of these things were made to be more dramatic for the plot though so not a big issue.