Item: The Coaching Hours
Rating: 2.00
Author: funstm

by Sara Ney

THERE ARE NO DOUCHEBAGS IN THIS STORY.

Well, there are, but they’re not who this story is about.
This story is about me—the coach’s daughter.
When I moved to Iowa to live with my dad, the university's take-no-prisoners wrestling coach, I thought transferring would be easy as pie—living with my father would be temporary, and he'd make sure his douchebag wrestlers left me alone.
Wrong on both counts.

ASSHOLES ALWAYS COME OUT OF THE WOODWORK WHEN THE STAKES ARE HIGH.

A bet is placed, and I'm on the table. After one humiliating night and too much alcohol, I find the last nice guy on campus. And when he offers to rent me his spare bedroom, I go all in. It’s time for the nice guy to finish first.
Midnight chats and spilling my problems turn to lingering touches. Lingering touches turn to more.
And the ultimate good guy has the potential do more damage than any douchebags ever could.

I was expecting to like this - but I just didn't. The first three quarters were enjoyable but the constant miscommunications annoyed me. The last quarter just irritated me. She gets pregnant? Really? And he doesn't come home? The whole thing just pissed me off. The romance failed towards the end.

Plus it wasn't what I expected. It sounded like it was going to be a feisty heroine who pursues a nice man but it really wasn't. For one, I don't know that Elliot was all that nice. For two, Anabelle wasn't particularly feisty or confident. And she didn't really pursue him either. Neither of them said what was on their mind. Neither really made a move. And while Elliot was mostly at fault for keeping them in limbo, Anabelle wasn't particularly motivated to fix it.

So honestly I'm wavering between 2 and 3 stars because it just wasn't as good as some of Sara Ney's other books. 2.5 stars, rounded down.

The Coaching Hours (How to Date a Douchebag, #4)

by Sara Ney

Reviewed by funstm on Jan 17, 2021

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