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A review by sydneys_neverendingtbr
Unsteady by Peyton Corinne
2.5
I’m so conflicted about this book honestly. I wanted to love it so bad as I’ve struggled to find a good sports romance that I love. But I really struggled with the relationship.
Sadie was understandably rough and closed off in the beginning of the book. She is struggling with SO much so I understood her need to keep people at arms length. But as the relationship progresses, she stays rude, sometimes even down right mean, to Rhys and constantly snaps at him or ignores him for weeks.
Rhys is a very emotionally developed as character. He struggles with his anxiety of skating again and the stress of being a captain when he feels he doesn’t deserve it. He is absolutely whipped for Sadie, sometimes to his detriment. He honestly felt like such a doormat, never once holding Sadie accountable for saying some truly cruel things to him when all he wants to do is care and love her and her brothers. The fact he convinced himself he needed to “be better” to get Sadie to trust him was absolutely heartbreaking because he was nothing but emotionally honest with her.
This book sits just along the outside of instalove. I craved more romance between them but mostly got lust. There were so many sex scenes that I, the erotica reader, skimmed most of them. The sex didn’t grow their relationship or connection, it was just there to fill pages. I wish most of them were cut, along with the all the back and forth of Rhys trying to get Sadie to even look at him. If that was cut, there would be a well done plot. Most of the pain points in the book were wrapped up in the last 10%. With all the extra smut cut, it would also give so much more time for their relationship to actually develop.
Sadie was understandably rough and closed off in the beginning of the book. She is struggling with SO much so I understood her need to keep people at arms length. But as the relationship progresses, she stays rude, sometimes even down right mean, to Rhys and constantly snaps at him or ignores him for weeks.
Rhys is a very emotionally developed as character. He struggles with his anxiety of skating again and the stress of being a captain when he feels he doesn’t deserve it. He is absolutely whipped for Sadie, sometimes to his detriment. He honestly felt like such a doormat, never once holding Sadie accountable for saying some truly cruel things to him when all he wants to do is care and love her and her brothers. The fact he convinced himself he needed to “be better” to get Sadie to trust him was absolutely heartbreaking because he was nothing but emotionally honest with her.
This book sits just along the outside of instalove. I craved more romance between them but mostly got lust. There were so many sex scenes that I, the erotica reader, skimmed most of them. The sex didn’t grow their relationship or connection, it was just there to fill pages. I wish most of them were cut, along with the all the back and forth of Rhys trying to get Sadie to even look at him. If that was cut, there would be a well done plot. Most of the pain points in the book were wrapped up in the last 10%. With all the extra smut cut, it would also give so much more time for their relationship to actually develop.