Release Blitz with Review: Listen, Pitch (There's No Crying in Baseball #3) by Lani Lynn Vale

Title: Listen Pitch

Series: There's No Crying in Baseball

Author: Lani Lynn Vale

Genre: Sports Romance

Release Date: October 16, 2018  
Cover Model: Jacob Wilson  
Photographer: FuriousFotog

Rhys Rivera is the star short-stop for the Longview Lumberjacks. Many know him, even more love him. He has a pretty face, a quick smile, and an air of danger about him that everyone seems to adore.

He’s not known as the bad boy of baseball for nothing.

It all started with his father, who decided to be a criminal mob boss, then die.

Fortunately for his uncle, Rhys wants absolutely nothing to do with the family business and runs before anyone can figure out which way is up.

By the time his uncle, the successor to his father’s criminal empire, thinks to look for him, Rhys has made too big of a name for himself to be taken out quietly, and he wants to keep it that way.

Fast forward eight years, and Rhys is living life one breath at a time, just waiting for the other shoe to drop. That shoe coming in the form of a nosy neighbor who has no idea just how hot she is in her mail carrier uniform.

Her sweet little body and positive outlook on life make him want to laugh at how naïve she is when it comes to the way of the world.

The harder he tries to stay away, the weaker he seems to get, until one day he decides to put his morals on hold long enough to satisfy his cravings.

One time is all he needs—or so he tells himself.

But then two pink lines change everything, and all of a sudden, he doesn’t have just himself to worry about anymore.

My Review:

Source:  E-galley from Enticing Journey Book Promotions

My rating:  4 stars

This story reminded me more of the 2nd book in the series than the first one.  It is another favorite of mine, though.  I like that even though it was a baseball story, we also got a little bit more than just the sports romance, there was some mafia storyline thrown in as well.  I'm not really a mafia romance reader, but this one didn't go so far into that as to make it completely that type of story.  There was lots of drama and romance and steaminess.  But I also loved the funny moments.  Like when Rhys and Henley are at Rhys's sister's hospital room when she's giving birth.  That was hilarious!  Not to mention finding out about the surrogates, and then the actual pregnancy and what Henley shouted at Rhys for that one.  At first I tried to place everyone from the other stories, because I do remember, kind of, the accident that Rhys was in.  Soon enough, though, we got into where we had Furious George and also Wrigley, characters I loved in the earlier books.  I loved the detail of Henley being deaf, and how perfect and seamless it fit into the story.  I loved that Henley had her little 90s Porn fascination.  Although it seems as if maybe that would have come out later in the story for her and Rhys to enjoy or laugh about.  

I read a little excerpt at the end that is about a guy named Tyler, and he is a cop, so I kind of wonder if he is Henley's brother Tyler that we meet in this book?  I hope so, because the excerpt from that one sounds like one that is good.  I've already marked it on Goodreads.  Definitely give this series a try!  

If you want to read my review of the first two books in the series, you can click on the book covers below to take you to them.

I’m a married mother of three. My kids are all under 8, so I can assure you that they are a handful. I’ve been with my paramedic husband now for ten years, and we’ve produced three offspring that are nothing like us. I live in the greatest state in the world, Texas.

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Release Blitz Review: Quit Your Pitchin' (There's No Crying in Baseball #2) by Lani Lynn Vale @LaniLynnVale @EJBookPromos @inkslingerpr

Book info:

Title: Quit Your Pitchin'

Series: There's No Crying in Baseball #2

Author: Lani Lynn Vale

Genre: Sports Romance

Release Date: July 20, 2018  

Cover Model: Chase Ketron  

Photographer: FuriousFotog

My rating:  3.5 stars

 

What’s wrong with my butt?

She means those words to be directed toward the woman beside her, not him. But he can’t stop himself

from answering. Not when her ass is the most magnificent thing he’s seen in his life.

Apparently, answering her with ‘not a damn thing’ wasn’t what she was expecting.

She likely wasn’t expecting the baseball she took to the face at his next at bat, either.

All it takes is one ill-fated foul ball, and George Hoffman, Lumberjacks center fielder, falls head over

heels in love with Wrigley Field—and yes, that is her real name.

From that point forward, George and Wrigley fall into a fast whirlwind love that ends with them eloping

to Vegas. And he has his potty mouth, titty bar owning, pain in the ass grandmother to thank for it.

Not that he’s complaining or anything.

Who wouldn’t want to be married to a woman that made his heart race like he was in the final game of

the World Series?

The only problem is trying to convince her of that.

This is going to be a hard review.  You see, I LOVED the first book in this series, Pitch Please, and this second book had me hooked right away.  However, the romance/story moved really fast, and before we were even halfway through, it took a really, really sad turn.   And then, it just seemed to keep getting more depressing!  So many bad things happened to George and Wrigley, I had a lot of tears with this one.  In the end, they still got their HEA, but it was an emotionally wringing story.  I'm glad I read it.  I really did like George.  But Wrigley's family, especially her brother, well he sucked. And her sister, well, it was hard to decide on her. Because when I say it felt like it moved pretty quickly, there were some parts of the story that we only got a quick retelling from the characters about what went down, and I think I'd have liked to have that more fleshed out in the story.  If you enjoy sports romance, especially with hot baseball players, you need to read this series.  Just prepare to cry with this one.

 

I’m a married mother of three. My kids are all under 8, so I can assure you that they are a handful. I’ve been with my paramedic husband now for ten years, and we’ve produced three offspring that are nothing like us. I live in the greatest state in the world, Texas.

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