Sunny Shelly’s Review: The Bombshell Effect, by Karla Sorensen

Title: The Bombshell Effect

Author: Karla Sorensen

Genre: Sports Romantic Comedy

Release Date: June 14, 2018
Cover Designer: Najla Qamber

Allie Sutton just got a new job.

Not one she wants, and definitely not one she’s prepared for. She hadn’t seen her dad in years, so the last thing she expects upon his sudden death is to inherit the thing he loved more than anything (or anyone) … the professional football team he owned for the last twenty years.

Luke Pierson does not want a new boss.

What he wants is to be a good father to his daughter, the best quarterback possible for his teammates. What he doesn’t need is a blonde bombshell ruining the team’s chances at another championship. Especially when that bombshell turns out to be his new neighbor. The neighbor he was a complete jerk to the first time they met.

For the sake of the team, they treat each other like complete professionals. In public, at least. Behind closed doors, it’s a different story. And the fallout of giving in to that heat is something neither one of them can see coming.

Sunny Shelly’s Review: 4 Stars

The Bombshell Effect has all of the components I look for in a good sports romance. And Luke is a single dad, too! Bonus!

The first few meetings between Allie and Luke were classic — they both made assumptions about the other, but MAN, did his a-hole behavior towards her come back to bite him in the behind! Big time! From there, their professional relationship is strained thanks to all of the sexual tension brewing between them. Being neighbors lends to some steamy moments between Luke and Allie away from the football team, which eventually leads to their no-strings relationship.

While I was rooting for this couple to work out their issues and get their HEA with adorable little Faith, I did have a problem with the fact that Allie and Luke knew practically nothing about one another before the big declaration of love. (And since Luke had some major groveling to do, it really was a BIG declaration.) I just found that to not sit right with me, especially after Luke realized while they weren’t speaking that he didn’t know much about Allie’s routine or life outside of the team. Well, then, find out, dude! And I didn’t feel that the reader got to know much about Allie’s estranged relationship with her dad, which was such a huge part of the beginning of the book and colored Luke’s initial impressions of her. Did they not ever have a conversation about that? Did it happen in between the scenes that I read?

That aside, The Bombshell Effect is an easy, entertaining story between a wound-tight single dad and the new female owner of the football team he plays for, who shakes up his world with a sack he never saw coming. I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

Well, let’s see … I’m a wife and a mother. If the things that I write bring a smile to someone’s face, then I’ve done my job. I am obsessed with Outlander (both the books and the show). I’m almost exclusively a romance reader, which means some people will never consider me a literary snob. If I could meet one historical figure, it would be Jane Austen. I received my Bachelors in Public Relations and worked in health care marketing before I had my babies. I hate Twitter. I do it, but I hate it. Also, if you want to get on my good side, bring me wine and I’ll love you forever.