***2.5 stars*** 
 When I read the description of this book I thought "Sweet! This is totally something I'd totally love." 
 We have football, what looks to be a true menage situation, not just one where it's mfm the entire time, and as I started to read I was even more excited because Marian is an assistant coach, not just some desk jockey in the organization, but unfortunately my excitement fizzled as the story progressed and I found that there were more goal line stands than touchdowns with a couple of field goals happening in this one. 
 Part of the issue stems from the fact that I just couldn't connect with the main characters. It wasn't that I didn't like them, I just never felt like we really got to know them outside of what we're told over and over again about them. And even when the big issues were addressed, like the ones dealing with Marian's past, they just didn't have the emotional gut punch for me. Their relationship, even that of Cass and Beau's being taken to the next level, had an 'insta' feel to it and I felt like I was told that had these strong feeling for each other, rather than being shown them. I have to problem with people going with their gut, but seeing more of the three of them together would have been nice. 
 The other issue is that there wasn't much football going on in the book. The story takes place during mini-camp, so there are no games going on, but there isn't even a scene of drills going on or a scrimmage between the team. We hear about issues going on, but that's about it and anytime there is football talk it's in meeting or in the locker room/weight room, which isn't a bad thing, but a little field/practice time would have been nice. 
 Though the romance side didn't really do it for me there were other factors that actually worked for me. The fact that Marian was an assistant coach and that she had the respect of the organization and the players was a great touch instead of having her be the PR/media person or a pencil pusher in the organization. The bantering and bullshiting with the various players hat we meet was fun and in all honesty that was what kept me reading because it was when the other players were apart of the scene that we really got to see who our main trio were. And I do have to admit that the sex scenes were hot! I will admit that I still haven't figured out if I agree or not with the reasoning behind the last sex scene in the book, but as far as the scene itself? Yeah. It totally worked for me. 
 The Bottom Line: It was an enjoyable enough read, the sex was hot, but with the lack of connection with main characters I'm on the fence as to if I'll be giving the next in the series a shot even though I did like Tyler in this one. 
 ~ ARC received from Random House Publishing Group ~ Loveswept in exchange for an honest review ~