Review Striker by KyAnn Waters
Posted by Nicole on Feb 1, 2012 in C Reviews, Contemporary, W-Z Authors | 0 comments
Sports writer Max Myers just discovered he lives next door to the hottest soccer player to hit the field. If he scores a coveted interview with the reclusive striker for the Denver Blaze, he could take himself from sports blogger to mainstream sports authority.
Riley Grayson has no interest in interviews or in outing his private life to the public. He wants to be known for the scoring he does on the field and not in the sack. But Max is a temptation he can’t resist. Taking a chance, Riley and Max discover they have more in common than passion for soccer and hot sex between the sheets.
Just as they begin to trust each other outside the bedroom, Max is put in a no-win situation: write an article about Riley exposing accusations of drug use, or risk destroying his own credibility. If he does, he’ll lose Riley. If he doesn’t, he’ll lose everything he’s worked hard to achieve.
A very interesting cute novel about an Out Sports writer and an in the closet soccer star, who both are working on their own individual careers and are working on overcoming their own trust issues and their problems. This is a straightforward contemporary romance, with some great focus on the issues regarding the media and their relationship with persons of interest and people who are in the public spotlight. However this could have been a story between a star and anyone who could be seen as less than in anyone’s eyes.
Aside from saying that he was gay, this was just a regular really short romance novel with a slight issue/problem that was addressed by both partners. There was no real angst about being homosexual, or about the soccer star fearing repurcussions because he was gay.
Don’t get me wrong it was addressed a little, but that wasn’t the focus of the book. This was a romance that just happened to feature two male characters, not a M/M romance persay. I liked that about it while I also disliked it. I liked the fact that it was just a romance novel and that we are now getting to the point in society that all romance’s are being treated in the same way, but I also felt like there should have been more given to their romance. It deserved more angst more tension, more problems than it had. I liked it and I didn’t. Its an odd sensation but I will certainly read more from Ms. Waters when it becomes available before making a decision about her purely based on this novel.
Overall Rating: C
