Beauty and the Baller try to spin a romance between mortal enemies, news reporter Heather, and the pro footballer Austin, that tries to draw from the story of Beauty and the Beast as inspiration, but it didn't quite work.
WARNING: SPOILERS WILL FOLLOW
Reporter Heather tries to get a scoop on the pro footballer Austin who always wear a half-mask after his car accident. When he complained to the TV station, she was fired by her douchebag boss. She decided to call him and give him a piece of her mind, and he mistook her for an escort he called in and let her in, and she intrigued him as she is beautiful. They decided to meet, and he got her a job at a non-profit he sponsored apart from his life as a pro-footballer. They meet and date and fell in love and bang each other quite a bit. Coach believes he was not performing up to his potential and tell him to cut off the relationship, and when they were caught banging in the non-profit office by a paparazzi's blurry pix she was let go as well. So what do they do? He quits pro football, and starts off as a business owner, She joined him. The end (with a bit of epilogue that they married, he got his face fixed, and they have beautiful kids).
The threat to their love was never fully articulated other than pretty nebulous external threats from the coach and such.
She told him, between the love-making, that he never needed the mask, and that's basically the only really dramatic stuff.
She was fired by no less than TWO douchebag bosses, and he quit after being lied to by the coach and to make an impossible choice: Heather, or his career. Is that really any darkest hour? And where did the idea that he'd be a business owner come from after being a footballer?
A decent book up to mid-point, but the rest of the book went downhill fast.
Category: contemporary // bad boy
Primary Plot: reporter fell for the bad boy football linebacker who wears a mask...
Tropes: enemies to lovers, sports, reporter,
Overall Rating: 3/5
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