A single dad, sports romance from Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author, Devney Perry.

Football star. Single dad. And once, a long time ago, mine.

I’ve spent the better part of a decade forgetting Ford Ellis. If he had just stayed away from Montana, I might have erased the memory of his striking blue eyes and rugged smile forever. Avoiding him was easy when the only place I saw his face was on ESPN—and a remote control could fix that problem.

Except my boss just hired Ford as the new head coach for the Treasure State Wildcats. Not only will I be stuck watching him on the sidelines this season, but avoiding him will be impossible now that we’re working together.

Maybe I haven’t forgotten Ford. Maybe I still dream about what we might have been. Maybe he hasn’t forgotten me either.

Except those maybes won’t change the fact that we were never meant to be. Maybe he was mine once. But as of today, the only thing I’ll be calling Ford Ellis is Coach.

Review

Coach was decent. I’m noticing an annoying pattern with this author. For most of the books that I’ve had read by her, the male leads have an ex who is “terrible” and will 100% cause some issues within the story. I would have preferred if the reasoning for Ford becoming a single father had been different. Because although he and his daughter had an adorable and great relationship, the situation with her mother felt overdone by this author, and very much unoriginal.

Millie and Ford were an okay couple. They had their moments. However, I feel cheated with their romance. I would have loved to see more flashbacks of them within college, and them when they were sneaking around dating in the present. Instead, there’s a flash forward and then a major conflict that carries little weight since Millie does take him back afterwards. The sneaking around is one of the best things to read about in a romance. The stolen kisses! The sneaky glares! The secret meetings! But nope. In this book it’s summed up in a paragraph.

Final Thoughts

Coach barely succeeds on all the tropes that it was marketed for--- sports romance, workplace romance, friends to lovers, and second chance romance. Although the material is present, the book hardly spends time developing and showcasing the romance and the characters. It feels very mediocre and falls to evoke any feelings. Also, it’s similar to other releases by the author just with a different setting.

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