Review

What to Expect:
⋆✴︎˚｡⋆ sports romance ➺ baseball ➺ friends to lovers ➺ 3rd act breakup ➺ depression ➺ suicidal thoughts ➺ panic attacks ➺ grief ➺ infidelity but not between the main characters ⋆✴︎˚｡⋆

I did enjoy Josie and Daniel’s romance, and how caring Daniel was for Josie. But l also had some issues.

Considering how this book started and all the themes dealt, I genuinely expected more depth. Sadly, I couldn’t feel all the emotions in the writing.

Also, some reviewers is calling this a slow burn but I disagree. I think their feelings one to another moved too fast, and their relationship felt too much like insta-love to me.

Another thing that is important to say is that although this book is classified as young adult, due to the main characters age and all, it doesn’t read as one. Too much.spicy.scenes! Which I think it was overdone. Once they began it was in almost every chapter.

Another problem I had was with the length. I do believe this book could have easily been much shorter without losing any essential parts of the story. This book was way too long for a romance novel.

Overall, I liked it, but it didn’t quite met my expectations.

The Midnight Strike Series:

Please Don’t Go

∗ Each book in this series features a different couple and can be read as a complete standalone. But for maximum enjoyment, follow the recommended reading order. ∗

° ༘🖇ྀ₊˚ Favorite Quote 🖇₊˚ෆ

❝ It’s crazy how something cataclysmic can make you physically feel like the world has stopped moving, but the reality is that it’s only you who stopped.❞

❝ It’s weird how silence can feel so loud.❞

❝ Well, now she’s your ex and one day she’ll be my wife. She moved on; it’s time you do too.❞

❝ I smile at her. “I’m strictly yours like I hope you’re strictly mine.” My heart thrashes, liking the sound of that. Her lips stretch into a small smile. “Strictly mine. Strictly yours.” ❞

❝ I don’t want to give you my pain.” “I have pain; you have pain. I’m pretty sure they’ll somehow cancel each other out.❞

Blurb

He felt like he was drowning.

She was about to drown.

Josefine Resendiz, is struggling to figure out her life. Between her complicated relationship with grief and not having a single clue how to feel what she can’t understand, she’s sinking and isn’t sure how to float back up to the surface.

Daniel Garcia, shortstop, a budding ray of sunshine, and potential first round pick for the MLB Draft, has life figured out. At least, that’s what everyone assumes. On the surface, he’s the embodiment of happiness and life. But beneath it all, guilt and grief have been consuming him since his brother passed away. Unsure how to deal with his feelings, he bottles them up and masks the pain of haunting reminders behind a mask of smiles.

That’s until he stumbles upon Josefine on Christmas Day. That wasn’t supposed to happen. He wasn’t supposed to be there but neither was she, at least not for long. The night evolves into something neither one of them expected and when morning comes, she’s nowhere to be found.

He can’t stop thinking about her. She wants to forget him. But fate seems to have plans for them.

Once the semester begins they find out they have a class together, and avoiding Daniel becomes hard when they’re paired to be hiking buddies. Much to Josefine’s chagrin, she likes him more than she cares to admit. And Daniel is struggling to keep everything he’s bottled up around her.

Hesitantly and unknowingly, they’re opening up old wounds they wanted to keep closed. Feeling grounded around each other. And unintentionally falling in love.

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