BOOK REVIEW: Return All by Eve Dangerfield

 

Title: Return All
Series: Rebirth #2 - (can be read as standalone)
Genre: Contemporary sport romance
Trope(s): childhood sweethearts, rich heroine, friends-to-lovers, professional football player
Cliffhanger: no
Spice: 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥/5
Rating: ⭐⭐/5
Release Date: December 14th, 2021 

Thank you NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC. I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

This was a conflicting one. Return All is about a second-chance romance between our heroine, Mara, and our hero, Derek. They both grew up in this small town and were high school sweethearts. Then they got separated and ten years later, Derek is this famous football player while Mara is this rich girl and no one knows how she got rich. 

Here is what I liked and what put me off: Liked:

• The chemistry between Mara and Derek!

• The daddy kink 

Disliked:

• I didn't vibe with the author's writing (a lot of "!" at the end of the sentences, and I know the author is Aussie but some choice of words just made me cringe, i.e. "missus", "bloke", "footy", etc. I don't know, it just sounded weird and childish for me and I know some Aussie and they absolutely don't speak like that).

• The constant brand names thrown in (I get it... she is rich but you don't need to say every single brand that exists in the world for every single piece of clothing... it was just overdone)

• All characters were in the late twenties but acted very immature 

• The reveal about how she got rich wasn't that impactful... it was like "oh really? that's it?" very anticlimactic. Lastly, Derek didn't grovelling in my opinion. He broke the daddy/little girl's trust and just expected her to come back and never address it.

If you also read it, comment down below what are your thoughts? Do you like it or do you agree with my dislikes?