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Sunny Shelly’s Review: Against The Boards, by Samantha Lind

 

Title: Against the Boards
Series: Indianapolis Eagles #5
Author: Samantha Lind
Genre: Contemporary Sports Romance

Release Date: February 21, 2019

Blurb
Reese
Blackwood
I’m called America’s
sweetheart.
They say I have
the voice of an angel.
I almost gave all
that up, thanks to a traumatic experience at the start of my career. Instead of
letting it define me, I chose to rise above. I showed everyone what a woman on
a mission could accomplish, and now I’m living my dream.
After one chance
meeting, my entire world changes. Austin is every woman’s fantasy, and he wants
me. While the attraction is there for me as well, I don’t need any distractions
right now.

Austin Jones

Focused.
Driven.
I’m the man I am
today because I never let the idea of settling down disrupt being the best I
can during my hockey career.
But then Reese
floats into my life and everything changes, and now all I want to do is pin her
against the boards.
They say
opposites attract. You can’t get more opposite than Country Music’s hottest
female singer and a hockey player from Canada. With competing travel schedules,
our instant attraction appears to be doomed from the start. Can it really be
love? Or is it just a hot ice-melting fling?

 

Sunny Shelly’s Review: 4 Stars
Against The Boards is another sweet, cute, easy read in Samantha Lind’s Indianapolis Eagles series. This book follows Austin and country sweetheart Reese. Her drummer, Michael, is the brother of Laura from Protecting Her Heart (#4). While the scene where Reese and Austin first meet actually takes place in the previous book, Against The Boards is a true standalone within this series.

What I liked most about this story was how the reader got the inside look at Reese and Austin’s long-distance relationship while she was on tour and he was in season. It could have been really easy for Lind to just fast-forward through all of that. But we really got to SEE how they get to know one another through text messages and phone calls.

I still find that Lind’s writing style is a bit clunky at times and she is super-descriptive with things that don’t need so much detail. But looking past that, this series has been quite enjoyable. Austin is a sweetheart, Reese is so damn cute, and they are just a cute, no-drama couple. If you want an easy-going romance, this is it!

Like the other books, the previous couples make appearances and the reader gets updates on those relationships. Even though Michael isn’t an Eagle, I would love to see the story between him and fellow band mate Miranda!

I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

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Author Bio

Samantha Lind is a contemporary romance author. Having spent the first 27 years of her life in Alaska, she now calls Iowa home where she lives with her husband and two sons. She enjoys spending time with her family, traveling, reading, watching hockey, and listening to country music. 
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