Long Shot
Ratings31
Average rating4.3
This book made me feel so many emotions. I was furious at Caleb, sympathetic for Iris and I wish I had an August of my own. This is my first book from Kennedy Ryan so I didn't have any expectations, but consider my expectations raised very high. I will recommend this book to anyone who likes a heart wrenching story with the perfect balance of sweet and smut.
DNF. I didn't like the direction this book was heading. Weak heroine who has crazy chemistry with the hero but has a boyfriend she doesn't really seem to like but she stays with him anyways and gives up her dream because she gets pregnant by him. Not my favorite storyline.
read for swoon sisters book club live discussion: april 2022
this was literally amazing and every single aspect was done to perfection
im p sure bayou was written a hundred times over. i thought this was an emotional rollercoaster of a ride but where are my tears. caleb had an easy way out. he shouldnt have died. he should have suffered more
Ho-ly shit. This book.
I went into this expecting a light hearted sports romance, but got very much the opposite. It was amazing but perhaps could do with the blurb being rewritten to be a bit more accurate and warn readers of the heavy topics in the story.
To say this is heavy is actually an understatement, it is very heavily focused on domestic violence with very graphic on page abuse and rape. Be warned.
However this is also totally about courage, survival, hope and love. Iris and August, and of course Sarai, are incredible characters and their story will be hard to forget.
THIS HAS TO BE SAID... THERE SHOULD BE HUUUUUGE TRIGGER WARNINGS PLASTED ALL OVER THE PLACE FOR THIS BOOK. IT IS AN INCREDIBLY ROUGH RIDE THAT LASTS FOR THE MAJORITY OF THE BOOK AND IT IS GRAPHIC.
This is not your typical romance book in any way. If you are looking for light and romantic, this is NOT it. I was looking for light. Everything about this story and journey is not typical, at least I didn't feel like it was all in one book but it is realistic. Realistic as in the things that go down are real. It was just a bit much to get it all in one book. There are a lot of twist and turns. It definitely reminded me of Spanish Novelas where they throw every impossible scenario in there and then it all works out in the end. You won't find that the scenarios written in the book are wrong or inaccurate it's just all piled on, one on top of the other.
The cover of the book is what drew me in initially but it was the woman we met in the first chapter that kept me there. With that said, we don't really see that woman again once that initial meet and greet has been put to rest.
I might review some more but I'm not sure yet on which platform. I finished the book. I read the bonus story. I definitely want to read the other two books in the series. Even though the author states they are stand-alones, they still have at the center characters we met in this book and who were pretty important. With that said I suggest you definitely start with this book first. I will be cautious about reading the other two because I can't handle heavy like this right now, right now. So maybe later.
Loved this book but it was very triggering. Kennedy is great with words and descriptions, but I felt like some of those scenes didn't have to be so descriptive.
This book made me feel so many emotions. I was furious at Caleb, sympathetic for Iris and I wish I had an August of my own. This is my first book from Kennedy Ryan so I didn't have any expectations, but consider my expectations raised very high. I will recommend this book to anyone who likes a heart wrenching story with the perfect balance of sweet and smut.
This was an extremely emotional book. Definitely suggest checking TW as it deals with heavy subjects and describes the actions.
Very heartfelt emotional story.
Iris is stuck in a loveless and abusive relationship. She fears for her safety, and feels isolated and alone.
She meets August as a chance encounter, and feels instant connection. Like they have known each other for years.
Time passes, they cross paths occasionally as they are in the same circles but their timing to start something is never right.
August knows that she is the one, so he waits. He waits YEARS for her.
Even when they get together, he waits. She sets the pace, and he is just there. Silent and stoic. A great man. An imperfect one, but he is there for her. He helps her in ways that isn't controlling like her ex did.
This was a heart breaking but wonderful story about timing, survival, and owning who you are and being true.
I got 2 and a half hours into this 13-hour audiobook. The narration is just fine, if that's your thing.
There are trigger warnings all over this thing, so that's not a surprise if you check the reviews (emotional abuse, partner abuse, rape). I was prepared to go into that, though I'm not crazy about those things showing up in a romance novel, where I expect lightness and fun and misunderstandings, not women being abused.
I personally can deal through those warnings and be okay, even if I'm glad to know about them in advance, but my own trigger doesn't often show up in content warnings, and that's pregnancy problems and pregnancy loss. Heroine Iris finds out she's pregnant by her controlling basketball-player boyfriend, and is concerned that she's miscarrying near the end of the first trimester because of heavy bleeding, and the doctor puts her on full bed rest/pelvic rest. And that's when I knew I was done with this. I just can't do it right now.