EAT. SLEEP. FOOTBALL.
Those are Jackson Jennings, Jr’s three mantras. His entire life, he’s been a trained athlete with only one end-game: the Pro’s. No girls. No parties. No alcohol.
EAT. SLEEP. FOOTBALL.
Repeat.
Every Friday night, Triple J cruises the strip on campus, bored, lonely and conditioned not to party. But the night he meets Charlotte Edmonds on the side of the road, he wonders if his three mantras will ever be enough.
BIG. DUMB. JOCK.
Charlie has no time for Jackson’s antics. Not when he’s stealing her food or teases her to no end, making her tingle in all the right places. But if she’s ever going to have a boyfriend, she’d choose one who isn’t a Neanderthal. One with manners and actual time to spend with her. Not a hulking man-child who cruises the strip at night, in his Big. Dumb. Truck.
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Jock Road has one of the most adorable heroes that Sara Ney has ever written. I wanted to just cuddle him this entire book and was swooning all over the place. He was such a contradiction and it worked so well with the story. The big jock football player, with the southern drawl and jacked up pickup truck would probably make think that you'd be reading another of this authors douchebag heroes. But that's not the case at all. Jackson was actually a super cute, shy, guy that was so easy to fall for. His character was the one that had me smiling so much while I was reading this story and he made it a very fun book.
As much as I loved him though I found myself struggling with a few parts of this story. The pace was pretty fast, which didn't bother me at all, until we got to the end and everything felt like it was moving a little too fast and without not enough information. Even the relationship seemed to jump from the just-starting-out stages to the I love you's very quickly. It also left some things feeling unfinished.
And even though I love a good southern hero, there were a few too many times that Jackson's accent was pointed out. If happened over and over again where he would say something and then either in italics right after that the phrase would be typed again but spelled like the accent would sound, or Charlie would repeat what he said and again it would be in the spelling that made it clear he had an accent. It just got to be a little annoying, like I get it he has an accent...move on already.
"Why do you think I was talkin' so stupid?"
"Tawkin," She echoes, "...tawkin stoopid"
Overall, I enjoyed reading this story and I obviously loved Jackson. Even with the issues I had while reading I still thought it was a great NA romance and I would definitely recommend reading it. It can be read as a standalone with no problem.
Jock Road is the third book in the series. They aren't connected there standalone. I've enjoyed this series so much. The characters and stories have been great and this book was the same. This Book is quite different to the other 2 books but that was good. Jackson plays for the football team but he isn't like your normal footballer. Ye he's big, strong sexy and has woman all over him. But he doesn't want them well that's what he's been told for year that woman will ruin his career and distract him. He father is very hard on him but Jackson just want him to be proud of him. So he has done everything his dad has said until Charlie comes exploding into his life.
Charlie is a great character I luv how sassy she is and the banter she has with Jackson. I did find her annoying at time when she kept goin on about Jackson southern accent. I get you like it but it just was a bit to much after a while. I did like they way Jackson and Charlie met it was funny. The banter between them was great they kept each other on there toes. There connection was instant but I found the chase to go on a lil to long. I just wanted to see what Jackson was goin to be like with Charlie when he finally sorted his head out.
I enjoyed this book but there were just a few things that I found dragged a little. It was good that the characters were different and Charlie was the more experienced in a relationship. Jackson show how vulnerable he was at times and I did find it a bit weird caused in so used to having strong men in books but it was good as well cause some woman are more experienced. This did make me luv Jackson more and showed all men don't have to alpha. I would recommend this book I enjoyed it but I don't think it's the best in this series. But I'm a big fan of this author I luv her stories and characters and can wait to see what she does next.
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