Neither thinks the other is long-term potential. But there’s this whole problem of whether they’re a real couple or a pretend couple, and what will happen when their month ends. Wade and Sam can’t keep their hands off each other, and they slowly develop an emotional intimacy (which Shalvis does a very nice job with). It is a pretty weak setup, but the characters are lively and interesting, so it works. This is because some woman is claiming Wade fathered her child.
But her family is the “you help me or you’re useless to me” kind, so the characters deal with some of the same emotional issues.īasically, one night before either Double Play or Slow Heat takes place, Wade and Sam got stuck in an elevator and had “wild monkey sex.” They’ve never gotten along since then, but now the team needs them to act like a couple for a month to keep a few important sponsors happy. Sam, on the other hand, is serious and grew up rich. He often went hungry and had no adult role models. Wade’s an easy-going charmer and playboy, but he had a terrible time as a child because his father was a useless drunk and his mother abandoned him right after birth. Slow Heat features the Heat’s catcher, Wade O’Riley, and publicist, Samantha McNead. I wanted to pinch him and tell him to get on with it. But, for me, Pace was a little too relaxed in going after what he wanted. I really liked how the plot comes to a climax and how it ends. Pace is a decent leading man, but not one who’ll stand out in my memory after a few months. It was neat to see how her conversations influence what she writes and how she struggles to write about people she comes to care about. Blog reporter Holly Hutchins is determined to find out the team’s secrets, starting with the delectable Pace. In Double Play, Santa Barbara Pacific Heat pitcher Pace Martin is trying to hide a shoulder injury and looking for something more in life now that he realizes he can’t play baseball forever. (One of the awesome things about e-books is how easy it is to find older books, not that these are that old.)Īnyway, I’d never read a Shalvis book before, and I was pleased by her engaging story-telling and her well-thought-out characters.
I recently came across a pair of baseball books by Jill Shalvis, Double Play (July 2009) and Slow Heat (February 2010). So, it probably goes without saying that I love sports books too – Seabiscuit, Friday Night Lights, Susan Elizabeth Phillips’ Chicago Stars’ series. There’s just something about that kind of overcoming-all-the-odds plot that reminds me of – yes I’m going to say it – romance novels and their happy endings. If my husband has a game on (of any sport), I’ll watch, but I don’t go out of my way to.
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