by Becca and Rebekah (link)
Genre het, romance
Pairings Isaac/OFC, Taylor/OFC, Zac/OFC
Length 38 chapters and epilogue
Status Completed
From the moment I saw Becca and Rebekah’s teaser for Full Count, I was excited. Okay, I don’t know the first thing about baseball. I just like any story that is set in a well-developed alternate universe, and I knew that with baseball being a passion of these two authors’, they would do their setting justice.
Sure enough, they include plenty of details and descriptions that help a baseball novice like myself understand and really paint the picture. For someone who knows more about baseball than me, it might be overkill, but I appreciate it. The writing is mostly strong, although it varies a bit from chapter to chapter, making me wonder which author is at the helm at times when the grammatical errors and typos are a bit more widespread. Still, the errors are minor and don’t take much away from the story.
In spite of the unique setting, Full Count is a fairly standard piece of chicklit. Boy meets girl. Boy and girl hook up. Then, there’s an obstacle. That obstacle turns out to be Erin’s father, who is Zac’s coach. The story’s summary already set this up as the main conflict, but it ends up blowing over pretty quickly. Zac’s trade to another team and his sometimes explosive temper seem to be bigger stepping stones for his relationship with Erin, and there are times when his temper bothers so much that I’m not even rooting for them to work things out.
But, it’s chicklit, and so of course they do work things out. There are plenty of steamy, but not too steamy, sex scenes along the way, and enough little details to flesh out the characters to keep it feeling too much like a formulaic little story, but Full Count is still a comfortable, feel good sort of read.
Review by Bethany (website)