Thank you to Devney Perry and her team for the advance reader copy of Rally, the third interconnected standalone in the Treasure State Wildcats series.
What starts with a one-night stand grows into a wonderful romance. This book has some heavy miscommunication, which won’t be for every reader but if you love accidental pregnancy and a raw, heavy emotional book.
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Check out my more detailed thoughts below…
Pregnant. Homeless. Broke. Not what I’d expected for my senior year in college. Neither was Rush Ramsey.
We met the day I went camping and got stranded on the side of a gravel road. I didn’t believe in white knights who freed damsels in distress. Life had taught me that if something bad could happen, it probably would. The only person who would save me was me.
But Rush Ramsey rescued me that day. He was sweet and kind and charming. He made a dark, starry night a little less lonely.
I should have realized it was too good to be true. That an incredible night of passion would come with consequences. That the bad luck rollercoaster I’d been riding for twenty-one years wasn’t ready to stop.
Because Rush Ramsey, Treasure State University’s most eligible bachelor and quarterback extraordinaire, just got me pregnant.
- Characters: Devney writes characters that feel so real and raw, both Faye and Rush are thrown this curveball in life and rise above it. The growth that both these characters go on is remarkable. When we meet Faye she is incredibly guarded, she’s had to put up walls to get through life. Rush threatens those walls quickly. It was easy to love Rush, he stepped up so beautifully in the face of all the challenges he was thrown. On the topic of characters, Maverick was interesting and he did rub me the wrong way a few times, I am willing to keep an open mind when Devney writes his book next.
- Setting: Treasure State is a university in the college town of Mission, Montana. This is the first time in this series the book has featured two college kids rather than any staff/coaches at the school. It would have been great to have a bit more of the college dynamics. I loved the small-town diner that Faye worked at and the found family dynamics in that workplace.
- Pacing: This book just flew by. One tiny thing that bugged me is I felt like the story resolved a bit too easily at the end. I’ve found that this series has almost premature endings and that I wish there was a bit more flushing out or that this book continued a bit longer.
- Romance: Rush’s love for Faye was so heartwarming to read, especially when you figure out quite quickly that she is the type of girl who did not grow up with much love in her life. So many aspects of their relationship made me swoon, they do suffer a bit from miscommunication but I do think being that they were university students in their early twenties suddenly having a baby together that communication might not be their strong suit.
- Spice: This one takes some time to get spice forward, bringing on that slow burn, but a very understandable slow burn due to them figuring out their lives together with Squish.
Rally is 4/5 stars
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