Rocking Player - Victoria Pinder

Rocking Player

By Victoria Pinder

  • Release Date: 2020-03-03
  • Genre: Romance
Score: 3.5
3.5
From 203 Ratings

Description

Baseball games are supposed to be fun, right?  I got tickets to bring my son.

Popcorn, soda and an easy day in the sun, but then I saw him.

But Surprise! There’s Michael. His last name is Irons. He plays major leagues and he’s the father of my son.

Every instinct told me to take our boy and run. I hadn’t known his name or how to get in touch with him the past six years.

Now not only does he see me in the stand, it takes him a glance at my boy and he knows the truth.

It was like fate brought us to this point, but he climbed into the fan benches to talk and flirt.

I told myself it was just about our son, but alone, our conversations are getting heated. 

I didn’t expect our magical memory would be burned in his brain. 

Or he’d want me again.

All I wanted was a quiet life to raise my son. 

Ball players are dangerous. But what happens when the season ends? Let me tell you the truth… I never expected what actually happened.

Reviews

  • Rocking Player

    2
    By Noralynne
    Author needed to do research on depression and abuse victims. The father should have gotten the mother help in the form of counseling? Some areas simply didn’t make any sense and the female lead came across as weak and sniveling at times. The male lead also had issues that needed to be addressed with counseling, such as his fixation of money equaling a persons value. The ending was rushed and had the feeling of the author just being over it and wanted to finish it.
  • Below average

    2
    By Little Bigmac
    This story might have worked better as a short story, but the author stretched out the basic plot with a lot of repetition. Georgie has a weekend fling in the Bahamas but leaves without getting the guy’s last name. Fast forward 7 years and she takes her son to a baseball game, only to learn that her son’s father is none other than a pro player on the visiting team. He spots them in the stand and immediately recognizes the girl he’s always searched for and the mini-me at her side. I liked that basic plot, but after that, the story drags. Michael is obsessed with getting the biggest paycheck for his next contract. He feels he won’t be validated as the best player without the biggest dollars. He’s willing to ignore his new family’s wishes to get the bucks. That point is repeated ad nauseum. Georgie is determined not to love her husband too much and be a doormat like her mother was. She obsesses over this every minute of the day. It’s tiresome and repetitive. The son is cute but way way too mature for a 6 year old. He has his own phone and shoots videos and send them out on group texts? He texts his friends? First graders can barely read and write! He puts himself to bed at night without being tucked in, but Georgie is supposed to be this devoted mom? At one point, she walks by his room and notes his light is off so he must have gone to bed - then mentions it’s midnight! Those kind of things didn’t make sense. The grammar was poor - this book should have been better edited. The lack of commas drove me a little nuts and was distracting. Some sentences literally didn’t make sense. Didn’t anyone proofread this book before it was published? It felt like a first draft. It was better than a 1 star book, but I couldn’t stretch it to 3.
  • Horrid Character Development.

    1
    By Bernie Fisher
    I couldn’t finish this book. I was looking for a light read but this was exceptionally wretched. What a waste of money.