All Played Out: A Rusk University Novel (Rusk University, #3)

by Cora Carmack

In the third book in New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Cora Carmack's Rusk University series, a good girl is about to find out what happens when she creates the ultimate college bucket list and she sets her sights on a jock. First person in her family to go to college? CHECK. Straight A's? CHECK. On track to graduate early? CHECK. Social life? ...yeah, about that...With just a few weeks until she graduates, Antonella DeLuca's beginning to worry that maybe she hasn't had the full college experience. (Okay...Scratch that. She knows she hasn't had the full college experience). So Nell does what a smart, dedicated girl like herself does best. She makes a "to do" list of normal college activities. Item #1? Hook up with a jock. Rusk University wide receiver Mateo Torres practically wrote the playbook for normal college living. When he's not on the field, he excels at partying, girls, and more partying. As long as he keeps things light and easy, it's impossible to get hurt...again. But something about the quiet, shy, sexy-as-hell Nell gets under his skin, and when he learns about her list, he makes it his mission to help her complete it.
Torres is the definition of confident (And sexy. And wild), and he opens up a side of Nell that she's never known. But as they begin to check off each crazy, exciting, normal item, Nell finds that her frivolous list leads to something more serious than she bargained for. And while Torres is used to taking risks on the field, he has to decide if he's willing to take the chance when it's more than just a game. Together they will have to decide if what they have is just part of the experiment or a chance at something real.

• ISBN10: 0062326244
• ISBN13: 9780062326249
• Publish Date: 18 June 2015 (first published 12 May 2015)
• Publish Status: Active
• Out of Print: 5 April 2024
• Publish Country: US
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
• Imprint: William Morrow Paperbacks
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 336
• Language: English

Reviews

[thebookdisciple]

On of my favorite rereads still. Great audio too!

[Leah]

Mateo Torres. MATEO TORRES. *Deep sigh* He’s been plaguing the Rusk University books for two in a row, in the best possible way, until we finally got his story and man, was it hot and heavy. He made the books so much more fun, so I was stoked to finally read his story!

I loved this book. I loved Mateo and Nell, I loved their connection, their chemistry, I loved the idea of Nell's list, although it made me feel like a bit of a loser because there's loads of things on her list I haven't done, what in the world is beer pong? DO PEOPLE ACTUALLY PLAY IT OR IS IT JUST ALWAYS TALKED ABOUT? And the keg stand? ARE THEY REALLLLLL??!?!

Cora Carmack cements her status as one of the best (if not the best) New Adult author around. She just knows exactly what to write about and I adore the Rusk University books and I am STOKED for Stella's story coming May 1st. This has been a long, long wait, and I have no doubt it's worth it.

[nitzan_schwarz]

2015 tbr challenge

[Sam@WLABB]

Nell, aka Genius Girl, has spent her life focused on her goal of succeeding scholastically. So, here she is -- graduating with an engineering degree in two and a half years (WOW!), but maybe she missed something. Being Nell, she makes a list to tackle this problem, her college bucket list. Completing one of these items brings her into contact with Mateo Torres. He offers to help her with her list, and that is where all the fun begins. I really enjoyed this book. It was fun, flirty, light. Mateo and Nell had amazing chemistry. Mateo is so much fun, you cannot help but fall in love with him, and MY GOODNESS! This boy really can wear his heart on his sleeve. We were able to see both Mateo and Nell in a different light. Reading about some of their list hijinks brought me back to my undergrad days, and made me wistful, in a good way. I found myself so engrossed in their story. I was reading it on the train, on the way to work and at one point, thought I was on my way home, that's how involved I was in Nell and Teo's story. Another great Rusk book.

[Rowena]

Amazing. So freaking good. Full review to come soon. Mateo is my favorite. So is Nell. These two were just so freaking great. I loved their story.

[zarahoffman]

Review to come

[whisperingchapters]

This 4.5 coffee mugs review was first published on Latte Nights Reviews.

Cora Carmack is FANTASTIC! She always delivers a fun and thrilling story and they always keep getting better! The Rusk University series is my favorite New Adult Contemporary Romance series! There's no doubt in that. I'm always recommending it because it is awesome! Cora has a way of bringing all of her characters to life. Everyone is able to relate to them one way or another.

I still have the Silas Virus but Mateo is so...ahhh! He's hot and so sexual and so much fun! Mateo is the kind of guy that is the life of the party. He is shameless so you will most definitely find him without clothes at a party because that's just what he does and he doesn't care. He also doesn't have filter so he will be direct and say what he is thinking like, "I think about football. And food. But the rest of the time, I'm definitely thinking about your boobs." He just wants to have fun and spend a great time with friends. His focus has been football—he wants to go pro one day. Before football, Mateo was no one, according to him. After football, he feels like he finally has a purpose. But something happened a while ago that made Mateo into the clown of the group and Nell is going to find out.

Nell is the kind of girl who is bookworm and a nerd. At 20-years-old, she will graduate college with a major bio-medical engineering. Her focus in college has always been study, study, study. There haven't been time to make friends or go to a party. One talk with her roommate Dylan, who we met in All Broke Down, has her thinking that she hasn't been living her college life how she is supposed to and so Nell beings her Normal College Things list that she needs to do before graduating. I saw a lot of myself in her when I was in high school. Not because I was a nerd but because I didn't have a social life, per se. I did have friends but I tended to stay by myself. I had never gone to parties, drink, and a bunch of other stuff in Nell's list. Nell is shy and so not experienced, which Torres is gladly to step up and help her with.

When these two very different characters meet, it's an explosion waiting to happen. They have so much chemistry between them. Their romance is sexy and beautiful. Nell never thought that a guy like Mateo could understand her but he does and he even wants to help her with her list so she can achieve every single one of them. This third installment has been the most fun out of the Rusk University series. You will laugh and smile like a dork but that's okay because you will definitely be enjoying yourself. That is guaranteed. It is filled with humor, sexiness, romance, some awkward characters like some of us are in real life and let's face it. This wouldn't be a Cora Carmack book if the story didn't have those aspects.