Title: Strikeout
Author: Millie Perez
Genre: Sports Romance
Format: ebook
Rating: Enjoyed
Spice: Flamin Hot Cheeto
Synopsis: Mateo Martinez, starting pitcher of the New York Monarchs needs one thing. A nanny for his daughter. What he doesn’t need? Is the temptation that is Isabella Morales as his LIVE IN nanny.
Thoughts: From the dedication to the very last page, I was in love. This book was a beautiful picture of the love and heartbreak of being so close, yet so far removed from your roots, cultura and people as well as a sweet and spicy love story.
Mateo is not only a hot professional ball player who is Latine, he’s also an older man and a single dad who loves his baby girl to pieces. Isabella is still trying to get her life back on track after a traumatic and very public end to her last relationship.
Getting out of her childhood bedroom in her parents apartment is step number one.
When Mateo’s search for a more permanent nanny for his daughter reaches her ear, via her mother, who is best friends’ with Mateo’s mom, Isabella decides this could be her chance to get out from under her parents and finally launch her business.
What follows is a mix of spicy and tender moments between the two that left me smiling like a lunatic and getting a little hot beneath the collar. Although the romance was beautiful and funny and all the things I look for in a good story. My favorite parts are where we get to see Mateo’s struggles with the disconnect he feels with his heritage, his people and his cultura. When he talked about that disconnect for the first time in public, it hit something deep in my soul. As a born Nuyorican who didn’t grow up speaking Spanish, I felt every one of his words and when Mateo said “Yo soy Boricua aunque naciera en la luna”, I cried big fat tears. ‘Cause same. I’m always looking for characters that look and sound like me and my familia. I’m constantly looking for myself in the pages of books and as usual, Millie Perez let me (and thousands of other Latine kids, raised away from their ancestral lands) feel seen, between the pages of this book.
Quotes:
“Who pissed in your Cafe Bustelo?”
-Anthony
“So I guess that means, for the time being, that your needs are of my concern.”
-Mateo
“Listen, man, if I was ambidextrous, I’d probably be doing double-handed criss-cross applesauce, too.”
-Ace
“Yo soy Boricua aunque naciera en la luna.”
-Mateo
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Rating:
LOVED= 5 Stars. A new fav. Will be talking about every chance I get.
ENJOYED= 4-3 Stars. It wasn’t a life changer but I would recommend.
0-2 Stars/ DNF= I will not post a review about a book I didn’t enjoy or did not finish. Good vibes only. I support anyone who’s brave enough to create their own work and put it out into the world for others.
Spice:
Puffy Cheeto- No Spice.
Crunchy Cheeto- Closed Door/Fade to Black
Flamin Hot Cheeto- Spicy. A few detailed scenes.
Takis- Erotica. With more mature themes.
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