Author: Kayla Faber
Genre: Contemporary Romance 🌶️
Tropes: Straight to Sapphic, Slow Burn, Sports
Series: Wrestling Girls #2
Pages: 435
Published: March 20th, 2023
Format: ebook (KU)
Started: 12-09-2024
Finished: 12-16-2024
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synopsis
Liv doesn’t have much: a lousy job as a nightclub waitress she hates with every fibre of her being, a hostile mother with whom she has to share a tiny council flat, and a chronically empty bank account due to her mother’s drinking and gambling problems. Her entire world crashes when she suddenly finds herself jobless and homeless. Her only hope seemes to be the chance to earn a full-time contract at the Beatcave wrestling club in Camden. She’s not an excellent wrestler, but her old friend Rue did teach her something back in the day, so maybe she could have a chance.
Walking into the try-outs as a convinced straight girl, she meets Raisa, the most gorgeous young woman she has ever laid her eyes upon. Raisa is a tall, grumpy goth with the face of an angel and a ridiculously ripped body who seems to understand her better than Liv can understand herself. As they go through the three-month probation period at the Beatcave together, the two slowly start growing closer and little by little Liv finds herself drawn to beautiful Raisa in ways she can’t explain.
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- sooo good honestly loved this even though grumpyxsunshine is not really my thing
- Liv and Raisa were both just like perfect characters to me
- Raisa was literally everything I want out of a love interest for a mc legit perfection ‐ I loved that Liv grew on her so fast and she just went w/ everything she said it was sweet ‐ Liv was just so sweet too her and I loved it
- The slow burn the angst agh yes all their little moments together just simply being and feeling had me kicking my feet
- Loved that this book had more Roxie and Fiona content bc I feel like that’s going to fall off in the next books
- I loved Liv’s personality and how much fun she was despite her circumstances I hate when they make characters who have tough childhood hard and depressed like that’s totally valid and they probably are on the inside but I swear the ppl who have it rough usually end up being the most entertaining and sweetest ppl you’ve ever met ‐ also the fact that she just accepted that she loved Raisa pretty quickly was refreshing sometimes ppl don’t need to spend weeks contemplating their love life / sexuality and I admire that
- Honestly I’m a fan of third act break ups (only if there’s no like “cheating”) so I didn’t mind their little break but just like w/ the last book it was pretty obvious they were gonna keep all three of them
- Kind of left off on a cliffhanger on they’re personal lives tho but all my questions about it are probably in the next book but I don’t like that bc what if I don’t want to read the next book lol
- Only problem I had w/ this fr was the whole Agnes and Raisa thing I mean they had to have met when she was a teenager they probably fucked while she was still a teenager if she barely turned 21 in this and Agnes is like 35 unless I got that wrong?? I didn’t like that at all and all that just to make Raisa good in bed like that was gonna be believable whether or not she slept w/ Agnes in the first place idk I just don’t like unnecessarily pairing off characters like that when it obviously should’ve been a mentorxstudent relationship there and left it at that (I mean it still is but why make it weird?) just not really my cup of tea
- Would read again probably won’t finish the series tho bc idgaf about the characters they’re about ngl
noted & quoted
- First kiss
- Their fight scenes
- Raisa birthday
- Their first day at work
- First party + waking up the next morning
