Published by Self-published Genres: Contemporary, Romance, Sports
Format: eARC
When I met Amber Lakes, I had no idea that she would become a shining star in my dark, miserable life. Her smile was never supposed to warm my heart, and the sight of her tears were never supposed to make me want to hunt down the person who’d caused them. We were never supposed to touch, or kiss, or do many dirty things on campus that I knew could jeopardize my career. None of it was supposed to happen because she’s my student-my athlete-and I’m her college track coach. I could lose everything by being with her, but I’ve fallen too darn hard, and despite how big the risks are, it’s to late to turn back now.
This is the story of Amber and Joaquin.. Both of these characters have suffered from tragedies in their lives. Amber has run track since she was just a little girl and was determined to be the fastest and best at it. Her father was a track coach and he took her with him everyday and just set her loose and let her run. This lead to the love of running and she still wanted to keep her dads memory alive of her being a great track star. She is off to college and that is where she meet Coach Torres who never smiles and is really hard on the athletes. Life has not been easy for him either. And while that is bad enough this story focuses on the inequality and racism of people of color. There is a huge age difference between thee characters and then the forbidden aspect of him being her college coach in track and how they should never be together. But sometimes things are just meant to be and will be no matter how much you fight it or how wrong you think it is. It is a beautiful story so I wouldn’t let the age cap and forbidden thing have anything to do with me not picking this book up and reading it. If you do you are missing one amazing story. This too was my first book by Shanora Williams but it won’t be my last. I loved how she built her characters, gave them hearts, big ones and showed the realness of what it is like to be of color in this day and age.
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