First and Tension by Tara Sivec
First and Tension by Tara Sivec (Summersweet Island #4)
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My rating: 5 of 5 stars
First and Tension is a slow burn with a lot of tension and when it catches fire it’s a five alarm
What you need to know about “First and Tension”:
✔ Fake Relationship
✔ Dual Point of View
✔ Sports Romance
✔ Emily Flanagan, ex-professional cheerleader
✔ Quinn Bagley, professional quarterback
✔ Romantic Comedy
✔ Can be read as a Complete Standalone
✔ Summersweet Island #4
Emily Flanagan was fired from her professional cheerleading job and is returning to Summersweet Island where some complications await her.
Quinn Bagley quit his job on the LA Vipers so he could be a quarterback closer to his family in North Carolina for the Virginia Beach team but a rumour gets started that he quit and moved for Emily.
Quinn mistakenly thinks that Emily started the rumours and he sets out for the island to confront her with his jerk of an agent.
After a lot of craziness, Quinn and Emily end up having to fake a relationship to appease Quinn’s new scary boss.
But Quinn doesn’t want to fake anything and he just needs to figure out how to win Emily over.
First and Tension is filled with all of the great Summersweet Island characters you’ve already fallen in love with. Quinn and Emily are the champions of banter, teasing and laugh out loud situations. Their relationship also has the necessary emotional depth and a little angst.
First and Tension delivers on its promise of sexual tension, all the chemistry you could ask for and outrageous laughs. I highly recommend this romance.
WRITING STYLE: 5/5
PLOT: 5/5
WORLD-BUILDING: 5/5
PACING: 5/5
CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT: 5/5
ROMANCE: 5/5
HEAT: 5/5
Synopsis
It all started with a dare.
Emily Flanagan has been living her dreams the last four years as a professional cheerleader for the Los Angeles Vipers, thousands of miles away from her tiny hometown of Summersweet Island, Virginia. She’s got the world at the tips of her pom-poms… until she tells her boss to shove those pom-poms where the sun doesn’t shine.
After spending her last night in California with her biggest crush, Emily flies back home to Summersweet, resigned to her boring fate of running her parents’ business, never to be heard from again. Besides, there’s no use crying over a man who lives on the other side of the country, who she’ll never see again.
“Secret love affair for the new quarterback of the Virginia Beach Sharks, or a shocking tale of infidelity, leading all the way back to a birthday party Quinn Bagley threw at his previous home in Calabasas five months ago? New photos of the mystery redhead from the party surface, leaving fans to speculate all over social media, “Who is this woman who convinced Quinn Bagley to quit the Vipers and go to one of the worst teams in the league?”
Quinn Bagley is finally playing for a team that feels like a family, after years of playing with nothing but egos. Following an announcement that shocked the world—one he’d been wrestling with for months, if not years—it felt good to have that weight lifted off his shoulders. What he’s not happy about is that the woman who rocked his world the night she literally fell into his life turned out to be like every other crazy redhead he’s ever encountered, spreading lies all over social media and wanting to use him for something. He just wants to look her in the eyes and hear her admit it was all a game.
Except Emily Flanagan isn’t the hotheaded, rude woman he thought she was, out to screw him over. She’s sweet, sexy, and fun. Even if she does try to banish him from her island. She makes him feel normal, she makes him laugh, and she makes him want more.
He’s going to win her heart, even if he has to do it in overtime.
Let the real games begin, Miss Flanagan. I dare you.
To check out more by Tara Sivec see my review of one of the other books in the series. I hope you pick up a copy of First and Tension by Tara Sivec now that it’s live. Have you read anymore of the books I recommended in my June most anticipated list?