Annoying Superstitions

Hardball by CD Reis

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Megan had suggested I read this book. I love baseball, Go Mariners, and who doesn’t love a good looking baseball player. I figured, what the heck I’ll give it a shot.

The story is about Vivian, a Middle School librarian for the Los Angeles Unified School District, typical romance leading lady in that she thinks she’s not attractive and everyone else thinks she’s a knockout. Snore. Vivian helps out the PE teacher at her Middle School and goes on a field trip to meet some L.A. Dodger players. This is where our leading man comes in, Dashiell, Dash, Wallace, who was “proportioned by Da Vinci and sculpted by Michelangelo”.  Shocker, he’s rude to her when she asks him to sign a ball for her Dad’s birthday.

Magically this guy appears in her school asking if one of her students stole his glove. Everyone knows baseball players are annoyingly superstitious. If you didn’t know this, well you do now and the fans are just as bad. So, his glove is missing and he flirts with her so she will agree to work extra hard to find it.

When they finally start screwing things get really weird for me. It takes a lot for me to become uncomfortable and this book made me REALLY UNCOMFORTABLE. Anytime I hear or read the word “pussy” I cringe. NOTHING IS SEXY ABOUT THIS WORD. NOTHING. Just stop it. This book uses that word multiple times every time they have sex. 

Dash ends up telling her that by spring training they won’t be seeing each other anymore, which if you honestly think about it being a fan of baseball I totally see the big name guys who are single doing this. I really wasn’t shocked by it. He also had some routine he wanted to stick to during spring training and during the season, aka he wanted to screw these other women he had lined up to give him his “luck”. Once again…wasn’t shocked. Ha. Annoying superstitions at work again.

Soon Dash thinks that her “sex juice” is what is giving him luck. Ew. That glove that the kids stole had a pin his dead sister gave him in it, which apparently gave him all his luck before it was stolen. Like I said, annoyingly superstitious. Of course Vivian thinks he only loves her because she brings him luck and has all these seconds thoughts and other things happen because of it, which are stupid but I guess read it if you'd like to find out what happens to Dash and Vivian.

The book down right had no plot to follow and made me uncomfortable. I don’t even think it deserves one champagne. When I looked up the review score on Goodreads I was shocked, people actually enjoyed this book. Did they read the same book that I read? 

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-Rachel