Trope Tuesday: College Sports Romances: December 2023

 Hello my fellow readers, I'm here to bring you my first installment of Trope Tuesday where each month I will be attempting to read books with specific tropes from romance to fantasy to mysteries, and exploring where I feel these books either succeeded or missed the mark, for me, with these tropes. 

So two out of three books I ended up reading were Wildcat by Rebecca Jenshak, The Lie by Karla Sorensen, and I DNFed Meet Your Match by Kandi Steiner.  I ended up rating Wildcat 3 stars and rated The Lie 2 stars. These books both approached the forbidden romance trope within the college sports romance trope. I thought Wildcat's approach made the main love interests somewhat more likable than the couple in The Lie. I feel like the books were both able to integrate the sports and the romance together well together. I think the issue was I just wasn't in either of the romantic relationships that were going on in each of the books. Meet Your Match just didn't grab me at all. I kept waiting to be invested in the story and it just wasn't happening.  

I still enjoy college sports romances, these may just not have been the books for me. I'm very excited about next month's edition of Trope Tuesday. I will be focusing on reading different forms of retellings in books. 












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