The first half of The Baller was definitely 5 star worthy but the rest was 3 to 4 stars, so I'm settling on 4 stars overall. 
 I enjoyed this author's writing style. The story flowed really well and the book had good humor in all of the right places. 
 Brody and Delilah were really good together and I fell in love with Brody with the first gift he sent Delilah. 
 One thing I did keep thinking throughout the book is that even though Brody is a NFL player and they had scenes relating to football and interviews in the locker room and so forth, I really just didn't feel like he was actually a player. Not that I have any desire to read a book all about football, but I want a book about a football player to feel like he is a football player. 
 As far as the big twist, it was actually kind of refreshing in that it wasn't the expected issue and it wasn't overly dramatic. 
 The Baller was a good read and it held my interest from the very first sentence. I'd definitely recommend it. Overall, I'd give it 3.75 - 4.25 stars. I'll call it a 4.