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A review by tagoreketabkhane31
Reckless by Becca Steele
3.0
So this is my second Becca Steele novel, and while it's still in her interconnected universe of novels, thankfully the story only has one crossover character so it's not tied to the story of "Blindsided" that I had read earlier in the year.
This story is part of the multi-author series "Black Diamond Resort & Spa" and follows the story of Theo and Jordan, who have hated each other since they met at a soccer camp when they were both 13. Now at 19-20, they both meet again playing on the same EPL soccer team and after Jordan took Theo's position on the field.
After some public fights between the two, at the end of the season their team sends them to the Resort to work our their differences and become better teammates, and well the story sets itself up.
Steele writes in New Adult (NA) space, where her characters are still working out the teenage angst, the world will end, but not quite being teens anymore. That is pretty much what it felt like reading the stories of Theo and Jordan. They were pretty much teenagers thrust into the spotlight being professional athletes on the same team, and even while at Black Diamond, it was hard to remember that they were different people, even when reading their POVs because it was hard to get a different voice from the two of them. Unless Steele dropped a detail that was only found in Jordan's POV, it was easy to get confused between the two of them.
As a massive positive, I appreciated that the two of them stayed enemies for a long time, and that even their feelings were believable as it changed from hatred to something else. While I understand the pacing based on the overall series, I do wish that there had been more time and detail given to the reader on how their enemity developed into friendship before the romance occurred.
Post Black Diamond, they became very cliched and cheesy with each other, and honestly I was speed reading hoping the book would end quickly as they got their HEA after coming out and being together.
Not a bad read, but nothing exciting with the exception that Steele in improving how she approaches enemies to lovers very well now.
This story is part of the multi-author series "Black Diamond Resort & Spa" and follows the story of Theo and Jordan, who have hated each other since they met at a soccer camp when they were both 13. Now at 19-20, they both meet again playing on the same EPL soccer team and after Jordan took Theo's position on the field.
After some public fights between the two, at the end of the season their team sends them to the Resort to work our their differences and become better teammates, and well the story sets itself up.
Steele writes in New Adult (NA) space, where her characters are still working out the teenage angst, the world will end, but not quite being teens anymore. That is pretty much what it felt like reading the stories of Theo and Jordan. They were pretty much teenagers thrust into the spotlight being professional athletes on the same team, and even while at Black Diamond, it was hard to remember that they were different people, even when reading their POVs because it was hard to get a different voice from the two of them. Unless Steele dropped a detail that was only found in Jordan's POV, it was easy to get confused between the two of them.
As a massive positive, I appreciated that the two of them stayed enemies for a long time, and that even their feelings were believable as it changed from hatred to something else. While I understand the pacing based on the overall series, I do wish that there had been more time and detail given to the reader on how their enemity developed into friendship before the romance occurred.
Post Black Diamond, they became very cliched and cheesy with each other, and honestly I was speed reading hoping the book would end quickly as they got their HEA after coming out and being together.
Not a bad read, but nothing exciting with the exception that Steele in improving how she approaches enemies to lovers very well now.