Scoring Wilder

Book reviews

29 Jan

Written By Anzhelika Li

Be prepared to swoon over Liam Wilder!

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1. SCORING WILDER by R.S. Grey

SYNOPSIS

What started out as a joke— seduce Coach Wilder—soon became a goal she had to score.

With Olympic tryouts on the horizon, the last thing nineteen-year-old Kinsley Bryant needs to add to her plate is Liam Wilder. He’s a professional soccer player, America’s favorite bad-boy, and has all the qualities of a skilled panty-dropper.

• A face that makes girls weep – check.
• Abs that can shred Parmesan cheese (the expensive kind) – check.
• Enough confidence to shift the earth’s gravitational pull – double check.

Not to mention Liam is strictly off limits . Forbidden. Her coaches have made that perfectly clear. (i.e. ‘Score with Coach Wilder anywhere other than the field and you’ll be cut from the team faster than you can count his tattoos.’) But that just makes him all the more enticing… Besides, Kinsley’s already counted the visible ones, and she is not one to leave a project unfinished.

Kinsley tries to play the game her way as they navigate through forbidden territory, but Liam is determined to teach her a whole new definition for the term ‘team bonding.’

BOOK REVIEW

How should I start this review, I wonder? Well, I’m just going to say that I’m a goner for R.S. Grey’s rom-com!

“What are you doing here?” he asked with a hard tone.
Okay. Not the best first line. Something like, ‘you look beautiful, have my babies’ would have been a little bit better.

Liam Wilder was a tattoo-covered, panty-melting, and totally swoon-worthy world-famous professional soccer (English football) player with a bad boy reputation who was never afraid of a little competition. He obviously played to win. He was exactly that kind of guy ladies cannot help but fall hard for… Highly determined, painfully honest, adorably sweet, and extremely sexy. Fuck… No wonder, Kinsley just couldn’t stay away…

Kinsley Bryant was a hard-working and feisty heroine who did everything she could to stay on top of her game and life in general. For the most part, at least. Because once Liam barged into her life, it was never the same…

Firstly, a relationship between a coach and a trainee is kind of forbidden, right? (The book was a lighter version of Kulti by Mariana Zapata minus a huge age gap). And secondly, dating a celebrity of the sports world while getting in the spotlight isn’t necessarily a beach walk…

“It feels weird thinking about you being my boyfriend,” I admitted sheepishly.
“Why?” he asked.
“I mean, I just watched one hundred thousand people chanting your name. Isn’t that crazy?”

Liam and Kinsley made a great dynamic duo with sparks flying all over the place. They fought, they flirted, they tried to resist each other and not get involved, and they made fucking love. It didn’t really matter what they did, all the interactions screamed tension about to combust. Liam and Kinsley had some impressive chemistry and shared some very tender feelings.

“This feels wrong. Should it feel wrong?”
“No, it’s not wrong,” he clarified simply in his controlled tone… “It only feels wrong because we’re having to sneak around… I’m sorry our relationship is such a fucked-up mess.”
“Hey! It’s OUR fucked-up mess, okay?”

And I absolutely loved how the two did their best to navigate the ups and downs of their forbidden (but not really) relationship. A huge smile on my face never faltered and kept annoying the hell out of me till the very end.

If you’re ready to meet America’s sweetheart hidden behind an image of a sexy bad boy, go ahead and read Scoring Wilder!