Synopsis
What started out as a joke— seduce Coach Wilder—soon became a goal she had to score.
With Olympic tryouts on the horizon, the last thing nineteen-year-old Kinsley Bryant needs to add to her plate is Liam Wilder. He's a professional soccer player, America's favorite bad-boy, and has all the qualities of a skilled panty-dropper.
• A face that makes girls weep – check.
• Abs that can shred Parmesan cheese (the expensive kind) – check.
• Enough confidence to shift the earth’s gravitational pull – double check.
Not to mention Liam is strictly off limits . Forbidden. Her coaches have made that perfectly clear. (i.e. “Score with Coach Wilder anywhere other than the field and you’ll be cut from the team faster than you can count his tattoos.”) But that just makes him all the more enticing…Besides, Kinsley's already counted the visible ones, and she is not one to leave a project unfinished.
Kinsley tries to play the game her way as they navigate through forbidden territory, but Liam is determined to teach her a whole new definition for the term “team bonding.”
A fun & sexy New Adult Romance (age 17+)
Excerpt
But just before she stepped inside, I heard the same sexy voice that I’d heard the previous night— the voice that said, I'm sexy and I know it.
"Morning ladies."
Every single girl froze and we turned in unison. Liam Wilder was standing a few feet away wearing workout gear and a friendly smile. Of course his friendly smile could easily be misconstrued for a take-your-panties-off smile, so it's a wonder we all managed to mutter shocked hellos. I guess he'd pulled up in the parking lot a few minutes after we did. I peered behind him and saw a black Mercedes SUV parked in the spot closest to the field house. A photographer was snapping pictures on the other side of the fence. Jeez, they wake up this early to get pictures of him?
"Oh, hi Liam." Tara smiled wide.
I shot Becca a gag-me face.
"You guys should probably call me Coach Wilder while we're at practice," he admonished. I had to fight to keep from cracking up. The shocked look on Tara's face was absolutely priceless, but it still wasn't enough to make me forget the awkwardness of the situation.
I couldn't look up at him. The last time we'd spoken, I'd literally asked him to show me his tattoos, which we both knew really meant I wanted him to show me his soccer balls. Hah. I'd have to tell Becca that one later. I tugged her and Emily forward without acknowledging Liam and headed for the conference room. Thankfully, Coach Davis was there already and Liam didn't follow us in.
Iva's Review
Scoring Wilder by R. S. Grey is a New Adult Romance with some steamy sex scenes and drool worthy soccer stars. The story is well thought out and engaging, and the characters very well balanced and likeable.
For rising soccer star, Kinsley Bryant, making the Olympic team is a strong possibility. As long as she doesn't get side tracked by her new coach - soccer superstar Liam Wilder.
Liam Wilder has the reputation of a party boy with a different woman on his arm each week but is it an interest in Kinsley or her soccer skills that has him keen to help her with her soccer drills?
Okay, so I am going to admit some bias here regarding the story due to the content. I love soccer and play myself. I also met my husband through soccer, and we often joke that the beginning of our relationship was all about soccer, sex and sleeping. Scoring Wilder was always going to appeal to me because of that, but R.S Grey has written the book so that even if you have no love of soccer, you will enjoy it.
R.S. Grey is a beautiful writer. Her books always whisk you away to reading land and it is very hard to jolt yourself away from the characters and story. Scoring Wilder is no different and will have you in reading heaven in no time. The story is told solely from Kinsleys perspective and is based around her first year playing college soccer.
Kinsley Bryant should have an ego the size of Texas; she is the number one recruit to come out of high school, she has a good chance at the Olympics and she has just been listed as one of the sexiest women in sport. But Kinsley has been dealt a massive blow twice in her private life which, along with being solely focused on soccer, keeps her level headed. She is a fun character with witty one liners and internal thoughts that will have you sniggering along with her.
Liam Wilder is definitely worth getting wild over. He reads hot! There is just enough bad boy mixed in with his new found maturity that makes him a perfect male lead. And he plays soccer and doesn't treat girls soccer as second rate, so he has my vote as a book boyfriend.
Minor characters play a huge part in the book and are just as likeable as the main two and provide a perfect backdrop to Liam and Kinsley and the development of the story.
Scoring Wilder is a feel good story. One that will suck you in and make you keen to watch the FIFA World Cup, just to see if you can find your own Liam Wilder.
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| Iva rates Scoring Wilder 4 & 1/2 hearts |
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I am a lover of books, chocolate, good TV, metaphors and similes, black labs, and cold weather. Seriously, if I had it my way I would be curled up on the couch with all of those things... everyday.
I live in Texas where I spend my free time writing and reading. My favorite authors are Mindy Kaling & Jonathan Safran Foer. I'm a comedy geek and love all things "funny". Women like Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, and Mindy Kaling are definitely the biggest inspirations for my writing, though I think my work tends to skew a bit smuttier than theirs.
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