Blog Tour Review: Thrown by Love – Pamela Aares

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Book: Thrown By Love
Author: Pamela Aares
Series: Heart of the Game, #2
Tour Organized by: Indie Sage, LLC
Reviewer:  Shannon
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A kiss in a dark alcove triggers the greatest challenge of their lives…

Ace pitcher Scotty Donovan has been traded from his longtime team—and hates it. But to his surprise, he now finds himself in the sweetest game of his life: winning the heart of smart, sexy physics professor Chloe McNalley.

Chloe loves teaching, but she’s never fit into academia. When she falls for Scotty, she discovers his arms and heart are where she belongs. They share a passion for the game, a fascination for the mysteries of the universe and an increasing love for one another.

Then Chloe inherits Scotty’s new team. As player and team owner, they shouldn’t be dating. They try to hide their passion, until a blackmailer threatens them personally and professionally. Exposure could be the end of everything–Scotty’s career, Chloe’s team ownership, and their new love—unless they find a way to transcend the taboo standing between them.

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Reviewer’s Thoughts

3.5 Cocktails

THROWN BY LOVE was a book that surprised me.  It has the typical sports romance, that I enjoy, but it had super intelligent women who weren’t intimidating and were immediately likable.

Scotty Donovan and Chloe McNally meet at a fundraiser and immediately hit it off.  She’s a professor of Cosmology at Stanford and he’s the Giant’s star pitcher who happens to have studied astrology in college.  But when Chloe’s baseball owner father dies, leaving her the San Jose Sabers and their newest acquisition, Scotty Donovan, she finds herself in the position of following her heart or doing what’s best for her father’s team.

I liked both the these characters right away.  Scotty was a nice guy.  Even when he thought he was using women, he was just too nice.  He was just a guy from a farm in Nebraska living out his dream.  It was hard not to fall for him.  Chloe was equally as likable and you felt bad for the position she found herself in.  Despite being surrounded by baseball for most of her life, she was torn about delving into that world and having to give us her teaching position.  I give her credit for sticking with her father’s wishes, even when that meant she might have to throw away the only man who’s ever understood her.

This was m first Pamela Aares book and I really enjoyed it.  I’ll definitely be picking up more books in this series.  The romance was sweet and the couple had good chemistry, which kept me turning the pages.

Pamela is an author of contemporary and historical romance novels. Her first book, Jane Austen and the Archangel (Angels Come to Earth, #1) was released in 2012. Midnight Becomes You, (Angels Come to Earth, #2) will release in 2014, along with three more books in the Heart of the Game series, all releasing in 2014.

Before becoming a romance author, Pamela Aares produced and wrote award-winning films and radio shows including Your Water, Your Life featuring actress Susan Sarandon and the NPR series New Voices. After producing The Powers of the Universe and The Earth’s Imagination, she knew without a doubt that romance lives at the heart of the universe and powers the greatest stories of all.

Pamela holds a Master’s Degree from Harvard and lives in the wine country of California with her husband and two curious cats. Her love of nature led to adventures scuba diving the coral reefs of Fiji, exploring the cliffs of Greece, sea kayaking the Rosario Straits and white water rafting the wild and scenic rivers of the west—and romance!

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