Blind Side: A Fake Dating Sports Romance (Red Zone Rivals)

I've seen so many reviews on social media about this book, that I finally got around to reading it. It was interesting to read, the depths giana and clay would go to, to get the people they wanted was brilliant to be a part of. It was clear that the lines between them would blur until they couldn't hold back and the people they wanted in the beginning were no longer the end game. Giana was a cute character, I loved how so pushed herself out of her comfort zone and bossed the players around and did it well. Clay was brilliant in his scheme to seduce giana with the raunchy romance books she read. Great read.

4.5 stars! Loved this story, loved Clay & Giana! Amazing spice, great plot.And uhm the fact that Giana is a smut book lover like a lot of us was the icing. The book references were top tier and let’s be honest we’d like our men to have a little nose at the scenes we read and try them out.

Clay is, well, blindsided when his girlfriend of five years dumps him with no real explanation.So when he notices that Giana, his football team’s PR liaison, has a thing for a guy who seemingly doesn’t know she exists, coupled with the fact that she is too shy to approach him herself, a plan formulates in Clay’s mind.If he can convince Giana to fake date him, he knows he can get the guy she pines for to notice her. To want her in return. And he knows that it’ll get Maliyah’s attention back on him too. Giana gets her guy, Clay gets his girl. Win win.What could possibly go wrong?I loved these two together! Clay was just suuuuch a good guy, but to a fault. He always put everyone else first so much that he constantly sacrificed his own happiness and often didn’t even realise it.And Giana was just so timid and overlooked for most of her life, I adored that she wanted to challenge herself. Face her demons and come out stronger every time.Now I generally have a love/hate relationship with the fake dating trope, because it almost always goes hand in hand with miscommunication which aggravates me. However, Blind Side didn’t really have too much in the way of that which I was grateful for. Yes there was a point around the halfway mark where I was cursing Clay. And again at 80% where the heartache usually resides but that didn’t really end up being miscommunication as such…more just Clay refusing to say anything for fear of being swayed from his (ridiculous but sort of understandable) decision.The poor guy had so many manipulative douchebags in his life, he deserved someone as wonderful as Giana in his corner.

ʙʟɪɴᴅ ꜱɪᴅᴇ- ᴋᴀɴᴅɪ ꜱᴛᴇɪɴᴇʀ ✨☆ ☆ ☆ ☆.5“𝙄 𝙬𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙝𝙚𝙧. 𝙄 𝙬𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙨𝙤 𝙗𝙖𝙙𝙡𝙮 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙢𝙮 𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝙝𝙖𝙙 𝙖 𝙜𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙝𝙤𝙡𝙚 𝙞𝙣 𝙞𝙩 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙣𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙄 𝙬𝙖𝙨𝙣’𝙩 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙝𝙚𝙧.”𝕋𝕣𝕠𝕡𝕖𝕤-𝕤𝕡𝕠𝕣𝕥𝕤 𝕣𝕠𝕞𝕒𝕟𝕔𝕖.𝕗𝕒𝕜𝕖 𝕕𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕟𝕘.𝕧𝕚𝕣𝕘𝕚𝕟 𝕙𝕖𝕣𝕠𝕚𝕟𝕖.𝕠𝕡𝕡𝕠𝕤𝕚𝕥𝕖𝕤 𝕒𝕥𝕥𝕣𝕒𝕔𝕥.𝒔𝒖𝒎𝒎𝒂𝒓𝒚-Football star Clay Johnston’s high school sweetheart dumped him after 5 years together, Giana Jones is a shy girl that has a crush on a local musician that doesn’t know she exists. They both decide to fake date eachother so that musician boy notices Giana and Clay’s ex what’s him back. What started as a joke soon turned into something so much more..___________________________𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄-i am utterly in love with this couple. I was really excited to read Clay and Giana’s story after reading fair catch when ur first came out.Clay is actually perfect like I adore this guy so much and the way he treated Giana 😭😭 he is LITERALLY THE book boyfriend.I found myself internally screaming because I wanted the ex and the musician to GTF ASAP, I loved everything about this book and I cried when clay had to do something’s that you will learn about in the book. I needed a grand gesture and the man didn’t disappoint on that front I was so so happy with what he done for her.Giana knew Clay so so well and it showed throughout the book same goes for Clay with Giana, she saw so much more than this bubbly jock and I loved that about her. They so deserve eachother.I’ve been waiting on Holden’s book since meeting him in Fair Catch I’m sooo excited for Quarterback Sneak 🥳

Okay let’s start with Giana, I didn’t quite love her and I didn’t hate or dislike her either so a happy medium I guess. She was the typical nerd she had the glasses, the big curly hair and the unique dress sense. She was kinda too full on sometimes even tho she came off shy or quiet to other people, like she pounced on Shawn every time and the staring at him before the fake relationship started weirded me out a little.Clay, for him I just kept imagining clay from 13 reasons why 😅 again I didn’t love nor dislike him so happyMedium again but saying that I did like him a little more than Giana. He wasn’t the typical football player you usually read about, he was the nice one, the one you could count on and the relationship guy not that player guy which was a nice change I guess but I duno something about him felt off maybe he was too nice and a definite pushover with just about everyone except his friends & Giana.The whole plot of this book I liked it, I liked the blurb but reading it I duno there was something about it that just didn’t hit the spot for me maybe it was the fact that I’m not used to reading about the nice guy football players but I do like a fake relationship from time to time and it was just what I needed to get me out of my book slump 🤷🏼‍♀️ I won’t be reading the rest of the books in the series I think the blind side was enough for me.4.5 stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫