4.5 Little League Stars 
 This book. It killed me. It slayed me. It was awesome!!! 
 I have to be honest. The main reason I chose to read this book was because it had very short chapters. I LOVE books with short chapters. Why?? Because a lot has to go down in those few pages to keep the ball rolling and Alessandra really knows how to do that. 
 I'm an emotional reader. I take on a lot of the feelings that the characters are experiencing, always have. I wish that I didn't because if so, I would've finished this book in 2 days. But I just couldn't. I needed time away to regroup from the roller-coaster that I was riding on. 
 Ty Rollins is a 17, soon to be 18 year old ball girl for the NY Yankees. She bleeds the pinstripes. They are her life, her family, her everything. That is until bad boy Chase Stern is traded in from the Dodgers. The moment Chase lays eyes on Ty, it's undeniable that their chemistry was going to sky rocket. But they both have a sad past. Both losing someone close to them, making them both vulnerable. 
 "...you're my best friend, Ty, And I haven't had a best friend in a really long time." 
 I was really enjoying the push and pull in this book. It's been a while since I've read a forbidden love. But as I progressed in the story, the understanding that things were not going to go the way I expected loomed in front of me. 
 I think that the way I described the feeling that I had half way through the book was, "like a simultaneous bitch slap while taking the ALS ice bucket challenge." I was not prepared. And I was pissed..... 
 Although it's not preferred, I really respect when an author can drag me through a situation that I don't want to be in. Normally, I would just DNF, or push it to the side for a few days. But this book was my broke back mountain. I couldn't quit it. I had to know. How was Chase and Ty going to get their happy ending? What is going on with the murders? I HAD TO KNOW!!! 
 There are so many of my pet peeves in this book. It could've been a 2 star or a 5 star. What made the difference: Alessandra Torre's writing. The progression and pacing of the book, in and out of the main story line, the side plot of the murders corresponding with the overall story was so incredibly well done. **slow claps** I was hooked. 
 And then, as my good friend Wil would put it...BOOM!!! Chase was back, and as soon as he laid his eyes on Ty, they were right back where they were 4 years ago. 
 "Whatever asshole said that absence made the heart grow founder was right. Before, I fell for him with a teenager's love, bold and passionate, no real obstacles to overcome, no real consequences to consider." "....I could see the full path of destruction this would cause. I saw it, and in that moment, I didn't care. I couldn't care. There was right, there was wrong, and there was love. And love trumped it all." 
 His love never yielding. Ty was his and he was damn sure going to make it happen, no matter the consequence. 
 "What do you want from me?" 
 "Everything. I want a life with you. I want to be the father of your children. I want every second we missed and a million more. And I'll give away the world to get it." 
 Things were messy, real messy. How was everything going to resolve? How was everything going to fit in? Little did I know that everything was right in front of me, yet it was still kind of invisible at the same time. That takes a lot of talent. That's what I've always enjoyed about Torre's writing. It was a Moonshot, brilliant.