“When I looked at her the first time, it was like… everything made sense.” – 2.75/5 stars!

Attention! This book contains: sign language, cherry coke, big green eyes, body guards, library books, racism, long distance relationships, home cinema and a girl with attitude.



Ryker Lee is finally enjoying his senior year—he has great friends, hangs out with hot girls, and is on track to get a football scholarship that will set him up for college. Despite this, a small part of him wonders if there’s more to life than parties and meaningless hookups—and if football even means as much to him as it does to his fellow teammates. And when he meets the new girl at school, his world totally changes…

Aurora McClay is new to Lawton. She’s grateful that her twin brother, Hunter, is star of the football team and can help her adjust to her new school, but she’s not grateful at how overprotective he is over every person she meets. Just because she is deaf does not mean people have to treat her differently. When she meets Ryker Lee, the two of them spark an instant and intense chemistry, one that proves to be controversial not only because of Ryker’s reputation as a player, but also because of Aurora and Hunter’s father’s bigoted views about who Aurora can and can’t date.

Aurora and Ryker know in their hearts that they are meant for each other. But can their relationship endure the turmoil of rumors and prejudice?



Another quick romance book from the one and only, Abbi Glines! Making a Play, the fifth book in The Field Party series, follows Ryker Lee (Nash Lee’s cousin) and his love interest, Aurora.

For me the coolest aspect of this book was how the author decided to make our main character Aurora deaf. It’s not very common to find deaf characters in books, let alone giving the spotlight to them, so I applaud the author for that. I still think all that lip reading was a bit far-fetched, but… I digress.

The romance was mediocre and way far from being one of my favorites from the series. It blows my mind that the entire book takes place in a single week, so as you would expect it’s an instalove romance. I still prefer the original three romances over the last two ones. The story needed work and the characters lacked depth.

Racism was also part of this book, but I personally think it wasn’t very well accomplished. I think the book would be better if the author chose a single aspect to focus on: either the race issue or the fact our main character was deaf. It was a lot for the storyline considering how small the book is and the duration of the story.

To be completely honest I’m losing interest in this series. The good thing about these books it’s that they’re entertaining for what they are – short, quick reads -, but they lack quality. Not sure if the next book will be the last one, but I think the series already reached its peak… with the first book.

Anyways, I think the next book in the series will be about Asa and his love interest, so I’m curious to see how it will turn out.

xoxo,