The Fantasy League: A Fake Dating Sports Romance (The League Book 1)

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The only question was, would an enigma from Abel's recent past tear them apart for good or bring them closer together than ever? Mae has been holding on to a grudge for too long. In 2nd grade, Molly (October's crush) made fun of Mae in front of others, hurting her badly & October just laughed without knowing that she had heard him. She knew it was childish but the words still stung her and made her cry. After a few chapters, she told him the whole story & he apologized to her for everything. ☺️ When she burned the dress.... you better believe I took a moment to meditate on that level of pettiness... I truly hope to achieve it one day. According to Mae Garten, those were a few of the choice words she’d use to describe her long-standing sparing partner, October Calhoun. But I do how to say, it's very fast-paced. I was on chapter two last night at like midnight and was able to finish it today at two pm.

Now, for reasons still unclear to me, his coach tells him he needs to find a fake girlfriend (for…PR? For…matchmaking? For…practice in speaking to others?). I do not understand this, but we will move on for the sake of the other atrocities that take place in this. I’m gonna be a bitch just to save a lot of you your time and list a few reasons why this book was a 1 star read for me: The book felt very rushed at it genuinely had no purpose what so ever. And I also can't get over the weird names he called her. And the ending…the ending elicited an audible groan from me. ( he proposes, she says yes, they have a shotgun wedding the next day, then cheerfully try for babies, all cocooned in some of the worst writing, and *twitching members* I have ever had the misfortune to read).

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idk if it’s on purpose to focus more on the romance aspect but they’re supposedly grown adults with actual careers but it almost always feels like they’re college kids. who skip class often. it genuinely feels like even from the beginning, their whole lives revolve around each other which just feels off to me bc there was no structured timeline & like i said, a whole mess. The only reason this wasn't a complete 5 stars was the little jokey jokes about a certain religious group...it was, yes a little funny but also a bit tactless....they do honest work voluntarily....they could be out committing crimes or something....maybe we shouldn't make fun of them....consider one of them being a fellow reader and seeing that....I for one would a little upset/ offended again why keeping the sibling thing a secret???? literally no one gave a shit about them being related October was caring, gentle, & attentive toward her. The aftercare scene was JUST SO CUTE. 🥺😩 Even though they hated each other, he never wanted to hurt her feelings. His dirty talking >>> one of my pet peeve is when a newer book is eerily similar to an older book, and this one just felt too much like The Wall of Winnipeg; from the plot, to the characters … it was like getting deja vu. while the book wasn’t entirely the same, i just had a hard time separating the two.

He fell so hard from the start and that was right up my alley😮‍💨 Congrats to Abel being my first ever book boyfriend (that I can recall) with the name Abel. This book felt like it barely had any plot until the accidental pregnancy trip that came out of nowhere in the last couple of chapters and keep in mind that is one of least favorite tropes. Scarlett's no became a tentative yes, and somewhere in the midst of their charade, the lines between ruse and reality became blurred.

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Book Genre: Contemporary, Contemporary Romance, Football, New Adult, Romance, Sports, Sports Romance, Unfinished Mae met him when she was 5 years old and developed a crush on him, but due to a misunderstanding, they both started to hate each other, always competed with each other, and argued. After high school, they went on to build their careers and met 7 years later.

I'm happy that Mae decided to study further & stop her business. She was banned from the industry because she outed her former boss for stealing money from underaged models for illegal activities, so he started spreading lies about her everywhere. She started her own company but it was going downhill. I'm happy that he went to jail. The epilogue was cute. ✨ at the beginning he threw away all the food she cooked him bc she made him so nervous he couldn't eat?? Scarlett Sawyer was surprised when Abel Abbott asked her to pretend to be his girlfriend on her resignation day. She accepted, but the lines between ruse and reality became blurred. The question is whether Abel’s recent past will tear them apart or bring them closer together.He was generally a happy person and a decent person, but when it came to being in the presence of October Calhoun, their pleasant demeanor was shot to shit. This was due to their hatred of October, who had invariably decided for both of them that their feud of the past couple decades was “slow moving with no point of contention” without consulting the narrator.The narrator had a pivotal moment with their arch nemesis, October, and that he was calling in a favor for his benefit. The narrator had an innate feeling that today was going to be a great day, but realized that it would be trampled over when they realized that he was turning their proudest moments around onto himself. The narrator had grown to loathe October because he always turned their proudest moments around onto himself. the characters were almost unbearable. im still confused about Mae and Scarlett’s relationship and whether or not they were sisters. and while abel was a good guy and it was refreshing to see a book where the guy falls first, even I thought that he hated her, like why is he throwing away her food ??????? all of the characters could have been improved 10X more had the author spent a little more time on this book and developing a story where the readers truly feel connected to everyone they read about. So, you could imagine Scarlett Sawyer's surprise when he asked her to go from personal chef to pretend girlfriend on the day of her resignation.Maybe I'll change my rating later once I get enough time to think about it but for now this is how it is.