Lulu Moore's The Shake Off Review!
The Shake Off
By: Lulu Moore
Release Date: December 20, 2023
Publisher: Lulu Moore
Author Website: https://www.lulumoorebooks.com/
5 Stars
In The Shake Off, book two in The New York Lions series, Lulu Moore takes love to the playoffs for a great read!
Ace Watson, star pitcher with enough charm and talent to fill a stadium. Payton Lopez, smart, gorgeous and unattainable. When this pair meets their worlds get thrown off axis and not in a good way as their first encounter sets Ace off on a bad luck streak that could threaten his promising career. With a little bit of negotiating and a large learning curve Ace and Payton set things back in order but their worlds as they knew them change irrevocably.
This couple was a mix of simple and complicated. Their attraction was raw and fiery at a basic level but their emotional attraction was one filled with layers that neither had explored until each other. Relationships were a new territory for Payton and Ace both having managed previously to avoid commitment and focus on their physical needs with no strings. The interactions between this couple were charming and easy to get caught up in. Ms. Moore did a great job of sneaking in the feelings with this pair and keeping their interest in each other growing rather than waning.
Lulu Moore does a wonderful job of combining wit and earnest feelings. All of her relationships from friendships to romantic are authentic and deep rooted in love and loyalty giving her a devoted reader base. One of the hardest things an author can do is create not just characters that are interesting but ones that are impossible not to be emotionally invested in and Lulu Moore does that regularly. Of note if any baseball team was going to give my beloved Mets a run for their money it would be The New York Lions! The Shake Off is the perfect book to fall in love with as you close out 2023!
*I was given an advanced copy. All opinions expressed are my own. *
*While part of a series this book can be read as a stand alone.*