{"id":33755,"date":"2018-06-02T08:05:46","date_gmt":"2018-06-02T12:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/?p=33755"},"modified":"2024-04-11T04:04:36","modified_gmt":"2024-04-11T08:04:36","slug":"review-the-slam-hemsworth-brothers-1-by-haleigh-lovell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/?p=33755","title":{"rendered":"Review: The Slam (Hemsworth Brothers, #1) by Haleigh Lovell"},"content":{"rendered":"

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4 stars!<\/b><\/p>\n

A smart, funny, sweet and sexy story with a unique twist to your usual college sports romance as the cocky campus playboy meets his match with a quirky, intelligent heroine with Asperger\u2019s Syndrome.<\/p>\n

Ender Hemsworth is the guy on campus that everybody wants. President of his fraternity, tennis superstar, wealthy, good looking and a magnet to the ladies, he appears to be living the dream. And then he receives a letter from his grandmother informing him that Adelaide, one of his childhood friends, is coming to live with him and his brother.<\/p>\n

Ender and Adelaide met as children when Ender and his brother travelled to Australia for a summer holiday and the three of them spent every moment of their time together and became close. Though when she arrives, the gorgeous woman who beams up at him is far from the gawky girl that Ender remembers.<\/p>\n

Adelaide is smart, sweet and kind, and she is very aware of the differences between herself and others, but she is embracing her new experience with everything she has. She\u2019s had enough of being singled out and judged for who she is, and she\u2019s looking forward to her fresh start in a whole new country. She has wonderful memories of the time she spent with Ender, and even with all of their years apart she still considers him her best friend, and as he helps her settle in, they come to an arrangement where he will be her \u2018social coach\u2019, helping her out with social cues, and such.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can be your safe person.\u201d
\nStraightening herself, she blinked at me. \u201cSafe person.\u201d That sounds a lot like a \u2018safe word\u2019, which brings to mind stuff like bondage, domination, sadism, and masochism.\u201d
\n\u201cBDSM\u201d? I coughed loudly. \u201cNo, nothing like that.\u201d \u2026 \u201cWhat I mean is, if you\u2019re ever unsure about any social cues, you can always check with me.\u201d
\n\u201cSo you\u2019re going to be my coach?\u201d Her eyes grew wide, though a smile played behind them. \u201cMy social coach?\u201d
\n\u2026 \u201cI guess you can call it that.\u201d<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But as Ender introduces Adelaide to the wonders and freeness of college life, of course their relationship begins to shift. Adelaide is curious about sex, and who better to help her out than her best friend and social coach? And so sex enters the equation, string-free and purely platonic, but changing things between them in ways that are all kinds of hot.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s not much to tell.\u201d I gave her a modest shrug of the shoulders. \u201cWe\u2019re just best friends with benefits.\u201d
\n\u2026 \u201cAnd you\u2019re okay with that?\u201d Danni looked incredulous. \u201cLike \/totally okay with being friends with benefits?\u201d
\n\u201cCorrect.\u201d I dabbed my mouth with a napkin. \u201cWhy wouldn\u2019t I be? He\u2019s my best friend and he keeps me sexually satisfied. We make passionate, delectable sex.\u201d<\/i><\/i><\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Adelaide is an absolute delight. Strong, smart and brave, I so admired the way she set about creating a new life for herself. She\u2019s very accepting of her limitations, and her mannerisms and thought processes are written in a way that make her utterly endearing, and I just loved her.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut why is a thigh gap even a desirable quality? If I had a thigh gap, my phone could literally slip through the space between my thighs and splash into the toilet if I dropped it.\u201d I frowned. \u201cAnd I like being on my phone when I\u2019m sitting on the toilet.\u201d<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And oh, I loved Ender. He\u2019s such a good guy and I love how he cared for Adelaide. He\u2019s no-nonsense and he respects and appreciates her just as she is, and though he has his own issues that he\u2019s struggling with, he doesn\u2019t hold anything back from Adelaide, which I really liked.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need \u2026 people who can see things from a different perspective. People who have a gift for finding and analysing information with their obsessive acquisition of hard facts, their insistence on logic, their ability to see things the way most of us aren\u2019t able to.\u201d<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Don\u2019t go into this book thinking it\u2019s a straightforward romance. It\u2019s not. Ender and Adelaide truly are friends with benefits, and it takes a while for real feelings to develop so \u2013 full disclosure \u2013 they are both with other people in different ways during the book. But it\u2019s only while they\u2019re still friends. Once feelings begin to develop, they are faithful to each other.<\/p>\n

The book ends in a good place, though there is still a lot of story to be told, and I\u2019m looking forward to reading more about their relationship progressing in the next book of the series \u2013 The Foreplay.<\/p>\n

This was a great read. Fun, sweet and very entertaining.<\/p>\n

4 stars.<\/p>\n

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The Slam (#1)<\/strong>
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