The Dugout by Meghan Quinn Series: The Brentwood Boys #2
Published by Hot-Lanta Publishing LLC on September 19, 2019
Pages: 362
Genres: Sports Romance
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Let me ask you a question:
If someone is vying for your spot on a team and just so happens to injure you during practice, would you believe it was on purpose?
Word around campus is . . . it was no accident.
That injury has cost me everything; my starting position, my junior year—and the draft. Now, I’m a senior fresh off recovery, struggling to find my groove, until the day I run into a nervous, fidgety, girl with freckles, in the dining hall.
They call Milly Potter The Baseball Whisperer, The Diamond Wizard, and The Epitome of All Knowledge. She believes in baseball. She breathes it. She’s the queen of an infamous dynasty, but no one actually knows who she really is, and she plans to keep it that way.
One mishap in the panini line, one miscommunication in the weight room, and many failed attempts at an apology equal up to one solid truth -- Milly Potter never wants to speak to me again -- no matter how good my forearms look.
Little do we both know, she’s about to become more than just my fairy ballmother.
I’m learning that Meghan Quinn has a knack for writing laugh out loud sports romantic comedies where the sport truly is integral to the plot. The Dugout is very entertaining and, although I don’t follow baseball, I imagine it must be a baseball fan’s wet dream.
There is nobody more passionate and knowledgeable about baseball than Milly, but she gets easily flustered whenever she’s around the college’s star baseball player. Her awkward run-ins with Carson are cringe-worthy and hilarious. I thoroughly enjoyed her coaching sessions with Carson as she helps him perfect his swing and coaxes him out of his slump. Carson is 100% endearing. He loves every facet of Milly, quirks included. The story takes some surprisingly emotional turns that provide nice depth to the characters.
I liked The Dugout a lot, but I didn’t enjoy it as much as The Locker Room. Carson and Milly spend so much time convincing themselves that the other person couldn’t possibly be romantically interested in them that even I doubted whether or not they were attracted to each other. When they finally get together, I was thrilled to see the chemistry is there, but then they immediately start talking about being together forever. It’s like going from zero to one hundred.
I loved the humor in this book and we do get to see more of Knox (my favorite!) so that’s an added bonus. All in all, this was a very satisfying read. I’m looking forward to reading Jason’s story.
Recommended for fans of:
Baseball
Nerdy heroines
Romantic comedy
Caramel M&Ms
About Meghan Quinn
Born in New York and raised in Southern California, Meghan has grown into a sassy, peanut butter eating, blonde haired swearing, animal hoarding lady. She is known to bust out and dance if “It’s Raining Men” starts beating through the air and heaven forbid you get a margarita in her, protect your legs because they may be humped.
Once she started commuting for an hour and twenty minutes every day to work for three years, she began to have conversations play in her head, real life, deep male voices and dainty lady coos kind of conversations. Perturbed and confused, she decided to either see a therapist about the hot and steamy voices running through her head or start writing them down. She decided to go with the cheaper option and started writing… enter her first novel, Caught Looking.
Now you can find the spicy, most definitely on the border of lunacy, kind of crazy lady residing in Colorado with the love of her life and her five, furry four legged children, hiking a trail or hiding behind shelves at grocery stores, wondering what kind of lube the nervous stranger will bring home to his wife. Oh and she loves a good boob squeeze!
So I’m opposite of you. I think I liked this one more than The Locker Room. But I loved the third book the most. I did love Knox, though! Great review!