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What happens when you fall for your biggest competition? Sara Rider scores with this charming romance about soccer stars battling their tough opponents and playing the field of love.
Lainey Lukas has sacrificed everything—sleep, family, carbs, a life—to earn her spot as the top player and captain of the Seattle Falcons women’s soccer team. She’s determined to lead her team to a national championship and finally earn the sport the respect it deserves—and nothing will throw her off her game. When Lainey’s hero Gabe Havelak, star of the Seattle Surge, crashes her team’s first press conference—making the Falcons look like a joke to the local media and humiliating Lainey in the process—she’s hell-bent on revenge.
Charming, confident Gabe is practically a god to Seattle soccer fans, but he doesn’t mind a little friendly competition from tough-as-nails Lainey, with her top-notch athletic skills, her mile-long legs, and her girl-next-door freckles. But when he learns the Falcons are booting the Surge from their coveted practice space to the notoriously cursed Cricket Field, those warm feelings give way to crippling superstition. With his contract up for renewal and his thirty-fourth birthday just weeks away, Gabe will risk anything to protect his position with the Surge.
The rivals agree to settle their differences in a Battle of the Sexes competition—a test of skills, fitness, and willpower. At first the situation seems win-win: Gabe gets the chance to earn back the Surge’s practice space, and Lainey’s team will finally get some much-deserved media attention. But as the friction between them becomes hot enough to spark and smolder, Lainey and Gabe are entering new territory—and with both of their careers on the line, love might just be the toughest opponent of all.
Lainey Lukas has sacrificed everything—sleep, family, carbs, a life—to earn her spot as the top player and captain of the Seattle Falcons women’s soccer team. She’s determined to lead her team to a national championship and finally earn the sport the respect it deserves—and nothing will throw her off her game. When Lainey’s hero Gabe Havelak, star of the Seattle Surge, crashes her team’s first press conference—making the Falcons look like a joke to the local media and humiliating Lainey in the process—she’s hell-bent on revenge.
Charming, confident Gabe is practically a god to Seattle soccer fans, but he doesn’t mind a little friendly competition from tough-as-nails Lainey, with her top-notch athletic skills, her mile-long legs, and her girl-next-door freckles. But when he learns the Falcons are booting the Surge from their coveted practice space to the notoriously cursed Cricket Field, those warm feelings give way to crippling superstition. With his contract up for renewal and his thirty-fourth birthday just weeks away, Gabe will risk anything to protect his position with the Surge.
The rivals agree to settle their differences in a Battle of the Sexes competition—a test of skills, fitness, and willpower. At first the situation seems win-win: Gabe gets the chance to earn back the Surge’s practice space, and Lainey’s team will finally get some much-deserved media attention. But as the friction between them becomes hot enough to spark and smolder, Lainey and Gabe are entering new territory—and with both of their careers on the line, love might just be the toughest opponent of all.
Review :
For the Win is the first book in The Perfect Play series by debut author Sara Rider and already I'm looking forward to reading book two. I have read a lot of sports romance books but not many about soccer and to top that off none about women's soccer so For the Win was a real treat!
I want to start off by saying I really enjoyed this book. It's hilarious, sexy and the characters are ones I look forward to seeing again and again.
Lainey is the top soccer star in her field and while she plans to win the World Cup again she needs to focus but when Gabe starts pushing her buttons it leads to a battle of sexes that everyone will remember. Lainey and Gabe try to get the best of one another while this event is broadcasting on live tv and omg is some of this hilarious! I really enjoyed how Ms. Rider didn't make this all about soccer (since I know nothing about the sport) but made it fun which only made me enjoy this story more.
I really enjoyed Lainey, she was strong, independent, goal oriented and a little socially awkward but she was a great heroine. Her development through the story of making friends and finding love made her enjoyable to read about. Gabe who is the hometown hero was sexy, charming, and really had it all but with Rider's description of him it was good to know he had some flaws. I really enjoyed how Gabe starts flirting with Lainey and she doesn't take to his advances but with each time they get within a foot of one another the sparks start to fly and tension starts to rise.
The dialogue is funny and I felt the story was fast paced. I couldn't find a moment where I felt the story was dragging in any way. The romance was perfectly written and not rushed and these two characters just didn't jump into bed. Although the story was about soccer and it did focus on that I enjoyed the whole battle of the sexes theme and how it played out.
The secondary characters also brought in some funny moments and made me really want to read about them. It looks like Jainey's story will be next and I can't wait! She has a great sense of humor and turned out to be a really good friend to Lainey even if it didn't start out that way.
One of my favorite lines is this book was "cock or spoon"? If you're interested in finding out more you definitely have to read For the Win. You won't be disappointed! Rider is definitely a new author to look forward to reading and I personally can't wait for more of her work in the future.
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