5+ stars for Drives Me Crazy: A College Soccer Romance (Lesson in Love) by Tara September #bookreview #collegesoccerromance #soccerromance #newadultromance #romance #mustread
The opposites attract trope is on full display here and I couldn’t read it fast enough.
Title: Drives Me Crazy: A College Soccer Romance (Lesson in Love)
Author: Tara September
Genre: College Soccer Romance, College Sports Romance, Contemporary Romance
Book Blurb:
What happens when Miss Perfect 🎓 meets Mr. Penalty? ⚽️
He’s a rulebreaker with heart. She’s a rule follower with ambition. Can teaming up on a college service project abroad bring these two opponents together? Together, they might just rewrite each other’s playbooks.
VALERIE:
I’m wearing many hats my senior year at Thatcher College—Sorority president, Honor Code Review member, Beyond Borders Teaching Chair—and there are just six more months until graduation. All my careful planning is paying off, just like my parents and I knew it would. The one hiccup? Or maybe the solution? Enlisting, or rather coercing, the help of soccer player Diego Delarosa. And when I say player, I mean player. At least that’s what I’ve always thought—cocky, frustrating, infuriating … and possibly the exact kind of chaos I didn’t know I needed. Who knew a routine teaching trip would lead to an adventure of a lifetime?
DIEGO:
Soccer is my life. My future. My everything. No backup plan needed—especially not one designed by a bossy, high-achieving blonde with a folder for everything. But when I get caught skipping a class I technically passed, I’m sentenced to two weeks of community service in a small town in Mexico under the watchful eye of Valerie Perkins, a.k.a. Miss Perfect. She’s driven, intimidating, and way out of my league … and I can’t stop thinking about her. This was supposed to be a punishment. Turns out, it might be the best play I’ve ever made.
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Welcome back to Thatcher College, where opposites attract and worlds collide. The Lesson in Love series features interconnected, new adult standalone romances set on a small, private college campus in New England where the good girl gets stuck with the bad boy, and she’s not happy about it. That is, until their chemistry together makes her question everything she thought she knew about him.
My Review:
Soccer star Diego loves playing the field, both on and off the pitch. He’s tried to catch the eye of perfect Valerie but she’s never given him more than a scathing glance. When he gets in trouble for not attending classes, he’s given a choice: suspension from playing soccer or go on Valerie’s Beyond Borders teaching trip in Mexico over winter break. Diego assumes it will be torture, but things change when he spends time with Valerie and the young soccer kids. Suddenly, Diego is rethinking his life’s goals and wondering if Valerie will take a chance on him. Can the cocky player and the sorority girl with a plan for everything be perfect for each other?
Drives Me Crazy is a college sports romance I couldn’t put down. This time, the hero is a Latino soccer star who we met in a previous book of the Lessons in Love series. The opposites attract trope is on full display here and I couldn’t read it fast enough. The sparring between Diego and Valerie is humorous and makes for addictive reading. The descriptive narration pulls the reader into the story. Tara September takes her knowledge as a soccer mom and infuses Drives Me Crazy with all the soccer tidbits. The romance is a bit of a slow-burn with fake dating, close proximity, and dramatic tension. But it’s the characters that make Drives Me Crazy an unputdownable read.
Diego is the hero in this romance, and I thoroughly enjoyed reading from his point of view. He’s a player, especially with the women, and he’s got a killer smile to prove it. Tara September puts a wrench in his plans when Valerie appears to not be taken in by his charming smile. The player gets played. This character grows in many ways when in Mexico. He learns life is more than soccer. Even though Valerie drives him crazy, he’s starting to fall hard for Miss Perfect. A reformed player is what makes Diego a hero to love.
Tara September has penned another impossible to put down college sports romance. If you love romance with characters who leap from the page, you have to read Drives Me Crazy. Highly recommend!
My Rating: 5+ stars
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Author Biography:
Bestselling, multi-award-winning romance author of steamy & sassy Contemporary and New Adult stories that will leave you "grinning like a Cheshire Cat." Residing in NYC and Southwest Florida, Tara holds a master’s degree in journalism from New York University and is the proud mom to twin boys and four writing distractions, I mean cats.
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Reviewed by: Nancy