**A Disappointing Sports Romance: A Review of "Dirty Curve"**

I recently picked up "Dirty Curve", a sports romance novel by an author who has previously written another book that I found to be similarly ridiculous. As I began reading, I was excited to see how this author would tackle the world of baseball and romance. Unfortunately, my enthusiasm was short-lived.

One of the biggest problems with this book is the bizarre romance between the hero and heroine. The chemistry between them is non-existent, and their relationship feels more like a hating game than a genuine connection. I found myself struggling to understand why they were into each other, and it didn't help that the author seemed to be prioritizing plot twists over character development. The romance was just one aspect of the book that felt disjointed and unrealistic.

Speaking of plot twists, this novel has possibly the most ridiculous outline of any sports romance I've ever read. It's like the author took every cliche from the genre and mashed them all together into a messy, convoluted narrative. I won't give too much away, but let's just say that the twist at the end was both surprising and unsatisfying.

Another issue I had with this book was the way it handled themes of family and relationships. The hero, Toby, has a strained relationship with his parents, and his girlfriend, Lucy, is also dealing with her own issues. However, instead of exploring these themes in a thoughtful and nuanced way, the author seemed to be using them as a convenient plot device.

I did find some aspects of the book to be entertaining, particularly the character of Tobias himself. He's a talented baseball player who can build decks for people, but he also has a good heart and is driven by a desire to do what's best for his team. However, even this redeeming quality was overshadowed by the author's questionable decision-making.

One aspect that did surprise me was the involvement of the college coach. Without giving too much away, it seemed like the coach had a significant role in Toby's life, and their relationship added an extra layer of complexity to the story. However, even this plot thread felt somewhat convenient and underdeveloped.

Overall, I would not recommend "Dirty Curve" to anyone looking for a thoughtful or engaging sports romance. The book has some interesting elements, but it's ultimately let down by its poor writing, unrealistic characters, and convoluted plot. If you're looking for a good sports romance, there are far better options out there.

**The Author's Background**

It's worth noting that the author of "Dirty Curve" is also known for writing another book called "Boys of Brazia", which I found to be similarly ridiculous. This suggests that this author may have a tendency towards over-the-top plot twists and convenient character developments, which didn't bode well for my experience with "Dirty Curve".

**Puppies and Sleep Deprivation**

As I was finishing up this review, I couldn't help but think about how much sleep deprivation has been affecting me lately. I recently adopted a new puppy, who has been keeping me up all night with his constant need to pee. It's been a chaotic few days, but I wouldn't trade it for the world.

In fact, my exhaustion is so bad that I'm having trouble even writing this review. I've had to take breaks and recharge multiple times, just to try and get through to the end. It's not the worst book I've read all year, but it's definitely up there on my list of disappointment.

**The Final Verdict**

In conclusion, "Dirty Curve" is a disappointing sports romance that fails to deliver on its promise of engaging characters and an entertaining plot. While it has some interesting elements, such as Tobias himself, the book is ultimately let down by poor writing, unrealistic character development, and convoluted plot twists.

If you're looking for a good sports romance, there are far better options out there. But if you do decide to pick up "Dirty Curve", just be aware that it's not going to be an easy or enjoyable ride. And maybe take a nap before you start reading – trust me, you'll need it.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhello welcome back to my channel in today's video we're going to be doing something a little bit meta and also a little bit lazy and we're going to be doing a little bit of a day in the life type video i'll be honest with you i kind of overbooked myself this week i thought that i was finally done with my tough videos and uh i was incorrect i say that all of the stuff that i have to read for the next week and a half is stuff that i'm excited to read so that's good but i have sort of like over scheduled myself i have not only daily vlogs to complete on certain days but i also decided that i was going to read an additional book a day on top of daily vlogging which kind of brings me to today i'm supposed to both finish the atlas 6 and project hail mary and i have not read enough of them to be able to do that and also still vlog so this is taking you along with me and kind of showing you my day in the life of me vlogging for chanmus right okay so let me pull out my notes app and show you exactly what we're working with because you know what we are far enough into chamas to where i feel comfortable enough showing you uh exactly what i'm talking about so so i've mapped out my entire month like this i broke down each day and what book i needed to read what days i needed to film certain things what days i needed to film daily vlogs versus sit down videos and like edit and upload so i'm scrolling through hopefully on your screen uh exactly what i have to get done and today i need to again finish project hill mary and atlas six and film this daily vlog which we're doing right now so killing two birds with one stone um i also want to eat dinner i may or may not exercise today i kind of want to but i just don't know if that's entirely possible given the stuff i have to get done i need to play with the cats i need to feed the cats so yeah i'm tired already just thinking about it but i am ready to get things done i will not be updating on these two books in this vlog but i will update you on how far i'm getting in these books and if i have any time i'm going to attempt to start clearing off my goodreads tbr let me know in the comments down below if that's something that you personally do uh did i say goodreads tbr i meant currently reading at the end of the year i like to look at my currently reading see what's still on it i feel like some books kind of just languished there once i like get to the halfway point and it's not for a video so i would like to finish some of those romances and if i have enough time today i definitely want to do that we're going to read those books and i am going to hopefully do some like time lapse stuff you can see me playing with my cats and editing and all the things because not only am i gonna be filming clips for those videos i also immediately edit after i film a clip so anyway i'm very much over explaining everything this vlog's gonna be super short if i don't so okay i'm gonna get into it roll that beautiful bean footage i was thinking that way back i can't imagine if i stayed back what would happen if i never found you i ended up grabbing dinner with hayden we got back i started reading more or listening to more of project hail mary and now i'm 50 into it again i'm like i don't know i feel like i'm just underestimating the amount of time that it takes to finish certain books sometimes i can just slam out like multiple reads back to back in a day lately just hasn't been happening so i'll be lucky to finish this book tonight but yeah i i got home and i started reading and i also played with the cats and like did some stuff around the house which i'm sure you saw i also took my nail polish off which i know is not the most exciting thing but if you're someone like me who struggles to like get certain tasks accomplished painting my nails is one thing that like i always want my nails to be nice i don't really want to take the time to do it if you break it down into smaller pieces it's nice so today i just like took off my nail polish and then i like filed my nails and then in a couple days i will paint them and it will feel like less of a hassle so anyway i think i need to take that approach maybe when uh deciding to schedule myself like give myself much more time that i think i'm going to need to read things but that will be something that i do in 2022. i can't do that right now but i will do it next year i'm giving myself a lot more grace when it comes to making content in the new year so it's nothing it's nothing that y'all will see like you're still going to see content like pretty frequently from me but hopefully the behind the scenes will be a little bit more breezy for me i don't think i knew what busy was until this month i kind of want to switch gears though so this video isn't totally boring i think i'm going to try to finish this book right here dirty curve i i know i talked a little bit about trying to clear off my currently reading shelf and that is something that i desperately want to do before the year is over like a lot of the books that i'm currently reading are four videos and i know that i'm going to finish them before the year's up there's like two or three books on there that i'm at the 50 mark and i just haven't picked them back up again this book i definitely need to pick back up it's a little ridiculous i think it's a baseball romance it's either baseball or football and our hero has a tutor who has been assigned to him and she is not really into it and i feel like this is a trope that happens time and again in new adult sports romances but oh my god this one is like to the extreme our heroine we find out is actually a single mom and she is having to juggle so many different things i think she has a i think she has a different job but she also tutors and she's a full-time student and now she's just trying to make ends meet but she's also having to deal with this baseball player or football player i actually i really don't remember what the sport is i'll figure it out once i pick the book back up but the interactions between the hero and heroine are not what i was expecting and i was also not expecting their kind of tension to go as far and as long as it has it's like finally sort of cracked her like hard demeanor and her like insistence on not hanging out with him longer than she has to you know for like the tutoring sessions but they're still kind of on like tenuous ground here and i don't know how this is going to turn into a romance i'm also wondering if like the twist of this is going to be that he is actually the baby's father and like he just couldn't remember having sex with this girl or not yeah i don't know it's an it's an interesting book the ratings were really good i got like heavily advertised this on kindle unlimited so i decided to pick it up i'm not regretting it and i definitely want to know what happens but i don't know that it's like a great book hero is characterized very not douchey but like there's a very particular type of writing i'm trying to figure out what to compare it to and i really can't think of anything but it's extreme and yeah i'm just ready to finish this book because it's like i've already gotten this far i might as well finish it out um these boys are just having the time of their life right now so i'm gonna try to get a little bit further in this book and i'll keep you posted i'm gonna finish this tonight like if i can't finish project tell mary like i'm definitely gonna finish this book so did i say this book was good or wasn't bad this book is ungood it's not the worst thing i've ever read but i also just like don't understand the choices that were made here at all so i know the characters names now we have tobias and meyer tobias is a baseball player he is really into his tutor i guess and she has like uh been very resistant to him the entire time and not in like a fun flirty way more so like i have a kid and i don't have time for your sort of way the weird part of the book is that the baseball coach is the one that procured the tudor for tobias meyer has a weird relationship with him and i'm actually kind of thinking that maybe the baby is the the baseball coaches which feels very weird and i don't really like the way he's treating her like even if you don't like your baby's mother treating her the way that you're treating her is bizarre like it would make more sense for the baseball coach to just not want anything to do with her but instead he takes her from being just a regular tutor for the school makes sure that she's a tutor for athletics and tries to control her life don't really understand it and then on top of that the romance is just like it's bizarre i don't understand it i don't understand why they're into each other and we had sort of like a hating game lucy telling off josh's parents moment with meyer standing up to tobias's parents about how you know just because he's not a doctor doesn't mean that he's not a great man and he's so good at baseball and he like builds decks for people but it just didn't it did not feel like it was the right moment for that like they have not even really kissed yet and maybe you're into slow burn but like it just didn't it did not make any sense and i am willing to overlook some of it and just think that like you know hey part of this is because i'm picking this book up after not having read it for a while that's maybe why it feels a little disjointed i remember almost everything from when i initially was reading this like i started like i picked it up again and i'm not lost it's just like why are these choices being made did you need your camera time again okay i'm gonna finish this i guess i just need to know who the baby's father is like it's just it's definitely a whodunit here you're welcome for this just quality entertainment today i am obviously very alive i don't think i've said this but puppies are a lot of work i think you all know that probably if you've had a dog before but holy i have not gotten sleep in the past like three days since whenever we got him because he wakes us up in the middle of the night to go pee like an actual infant so i'm so tired but i'm finishing this book today it's not the worst book i've read all year but it's up there i finished dirty curve um wow i did figure out who done it this book has possibly the most ridiculous outline of any sports romance i've ever read so i guess like congratulations to the author for that one thing i didn't realize when i picked this up was that this is the same author who wrote boys of brazia which i also thought was ridiculous so i guess i shouldn't be surprised my problem with this book was almost all of it i did not buy the chemistry between the hero and heroin which was like the biggest thing but on top of that the plot twists were absolutely ridiculous since i'm telling you not to pick this up i'm just going to go ahead and spoil it if you do want to pick up this title i guess don't watch the rest of this video but oh i thought you were nugget but do you want to be on camera too would you like to say hi would you like to say hi okay oh wait oh god catception there's a cat right here too it is nugget we'll all be damned the plot twist here we know that meyer has a child named bailey we think at one point that the baby is tobias's baby like they had a hook up and he didn't realize that he had gotten this woman pregnant we find out actually that the baby is the coaches but they did have an encounter tobias and the girl meyer while she was pregnant so it's not his baby but he can be there for the i don't it doesn't it doesn't make any sense it doesn't make any sense i'm also very tired but what's the point of having him think that he was the baby's father i think the biggest thing too was like why why was the coach involved like they sorry had to log into my computer so my screen would light up i'm using this i'm using my computer screen as lighting why was why was meyer at any point married to the coach like from my understanding she's a college student and how old is this man yeah i don't know that's something that i just completely missed uh something that was lost in translation i don't recommend it i kind of feel like this is a one star read for me that feels really mean i don't know anytime i give a book one star i just feel really mean but i don't care like this was not good there was really nothing about this book that i felt was redeemable or like would recommend to people so wow what a way to end a vlog a one-star read it's okay it's okay it's okay i'm gonna go take a big sleepy nap that will hopefully last eight to nine hours i will see you tomorrow with a video that is pre-filmed and actually good so thanks so much for watching if you watch this whole thing i love y'all so much and until tomorrowhello welcome back to my channel in today's video we're going to be doing something a little bit meta and also a little bit lazy and we're going to be doing a little bit of a day in the life type video i'll be honest with you i kind of overbooked myself this week i thought that i was finally done with my tough videos and uh i was incorrect i say that all of the stuff that i have to read for the next week and a half is stuff that i'm excited to read so that's good but i have sort of like over scheduled myself i have not only daily vlogs to complete on certain days but i also decided that i was going to read an additional book a day on top of daily vlogging which kind of brings me to today i'm supposed to both finish the atlas 6 and project hail mary and i have not read enough of them to be able to do that and also still vlog so this is taking you along with me and kind of showing you my day in the life of me vlogging for chanmus right okay so let me pull out my notes app and show you exactly what we're working with because you know what we are far enough into chamas to where i feel comfortable enough showing you uh exactly what i'm talking about so so i've mapped out my entire month like this i broke down each day and what book i needed to read what days i needed to film certain things what days i needed to film daily vlogs versus sit down videos and like edit and upload so i'm scrolling through hopefully on your screen uh exactly what i have to get done and today i need to again finish project hill mary and atlas six and film this daily vlog which we're doing right now so killing two birds with one stone um i also want to eat dinner i may or may not exercise today i kind of want to but i just don't know if that's entirely possible given the stuff i have to get done i need to play with the cats i need to feed the cats so yeah i'm tired already just thinking about it but i am ready to get things done i will not be updating on these two books in this vlog but i will update you on how far i'm getting in these books and if i have any time i'm going to attempt to start clearing off my goodreads tbr let me know in the comments down below if that's something that you personally do uh did i say goodreads tbr i meant currently reading at the end of the year i like to look at my currently reading see what's still on it i feel like some books kind of just languished there once i like get to the halfway point and it's not for a video so i would like to finish some of those romances and if i have enough time today i definitely want to do that we're going to read those books and i am going to hopefully do some like time lapse stuff you can see me playing with my cats and editing and all the things because not only am i gonna be filming clips for those videos i also immediately edit after i film a clip so anyway i'm very much over explaining everything this vlog's gonna be super short if i don't so okay i'm gonna get into it roll that beautiful bean footage i was thinking that way back i can't imagine if i stayed back what would happen if i never found you i ended up grabbing dinner with hayden we got back i started reading more or listening to more of project hail mary and now i'm 50 into it again i'm like i don't know i feel like i'm just underestimating the amount of time that it takes to finish certain books sometimes i can just slam out like multiple reads back to back in a day lately just hasn't been happening so i'll be lucky to finish this book tonight but yeah i i got home and i started reading and i also played with the cats and like did some stuff around the house which i'm sure you saw i also took my nail polish off which i know is not the most exciting thing but if you're someone like me who struggles to like get certain tasks accomplished painting my nails is one thing that like i always want my nails to be nice i don't really want to take the time to do it if you break it down into smaller pieces it's nice so today i just like took off my nail polish and then i like filed my nails and then in a couple days i will paint them and it will feel like less of a hassle so anyway i think i need to take that approach maybe when uh deciding to schedule myself like give myself much more time that i think i'm going to need to read things but that will be something that i do in 2022. i can't do that right now but i will do it next year i'm giving myself a lot more grace when it comes to making content in the new year so it's nothing it's nothing that y'all will see like you're still going to see content like pretty frequently from me but hopefully the behind the scenes will be a little bit more breezy for me i don't think i knew what busy was until this month i kind of want to switch gears though so this video isn't totally boring i think i'm going to try to finish this book right here dirty curve i i know i talked a little bit about trying to clear off my currently reading shelf and that is something that i desperately want to do before the year is over like a lot of the books that i'm currently reading are four videos and i know that i'm going to finish them before the year's up there's like two or three books on there that i'm at the 50 mark and i just haven't picked them back up again this book i definitely need to pick back up it's a little ridiculous i think it's a baseball romance it's either baseball or football and our hero has a tutor who has been assigned to him and she is not really into it and i feel like this is a trope that happens time and again in new adult sports romances but oh my god this one is like to the extreme our heroine we find out is actually a single mom and she is having to juggle so many different things i think she has a i think she has a different job but she also tutors and she's a full-time student and now she's just trying to make ends meet but she's also having to deal with this baseball player or football player i actually i really don't remember what the sport is i'll figure it out once i pick the book back up but the interactions between the hero and heroine are not what i was expecting and i was also not expecting their kind of tension to go as far and as long as it has it's like finally sort of cracked her like hard demeanor and her like insistence on not hanging out with him longer than she has to you know for like the tutoring sessions but they're still kind of on like tenuous ground here and i don't know how this is going to turn into a romance i'm also wondering if like the twist of this is going to be that he is actually the baby's father and like he just couldn't remember having sex with this girl or not yeah i don't know it's an it's an interesting book the ratings were really good i got like heavily advertised this on kindle unlimited so i decided to pick it up i'm not regretting it and i definitely want to know what happens but i don't know that it's like a great book hero is characterized very not douchey but like there's a very particular type of writing i'm trying to figure out what to compare it to and i really can't think of anything but it's extreme and yeah i'm just ready to finish this book because it's like i've already gotten this far i might as well finish it out um these boys are just having the time of their life right now so i'm gonna try to get a little bit further in this book and i'll keep you posted i'm gonna finish this tonight like if i can't finish project tell mary like i'm definitely gonna finish this book so did i say this book was good or wasn't bad this book is ungood it's not the worst thing i've ever read but i also just like don't understand the choices that were made here at all so i know the characters names now we have tobias and meyer tobias is a baseball player he is really into his tutor i guess and she has like uh been very resistant to him the entire time and not in like a fun flirty way more so like i have a kid and i don't have time for your sort of way the weird part of the book is that the baseball coach is the one that procured the tudor for tobias meyer has a weird relationship with him and i'm actually kind of thinking that maybe the baby is the the baseball coaches which feels very weird and i don't really like the way he's treating her like even if you don't like your baby's mother treating her the way that you're treating her is bizarre like it would make more sense for the baseball coach to just not want anything to do with her but instead he takes her from being just a regular tutor for the school makes sure that she's a tutor for athletics and tries to control her life don't really understand it and then on top of that the romance is just like it's bizarre i don't understand it i don't understand why they're into each other and we had sort of like a hating game lucy telling off josh's parents moment with meyer standing up to tobias's parents about how you know just because he's not a doctor doesn't mean that he's not a great man and he's so good at baseball and he like builds decks for people but it just didn't it did not feel like it was the right moment for that like they have not even really kissed yet and maybe you're into slow burn but like it just didn't it did not make any sense and i am willing to overlook some of it and just think that like you know hey part of this is because i'm picking this book up after not having read it for a while that's maybe why it feels a little disjointed i remember almost everything from when i initially was reading this like i started like i picked it up again and i'm not lost it's just like why are these choices being made did you need your camera time again okay i'm gonna finish this i guess i just need to know who the baby's father is like it's just it's definitely a whodunit here you're welcome for this just quality entertainment today i am obviously very alive i don't think i've said this but puppies are a lot of work i think you all know that probably if you've had a dog before but holy i have not gotten sleep in the past like three days since whenever we got him because he wakes us up in the middle of the night to go pee like an actual infant so i'm so tired but i'm finishing this book today it's not the worst book i've read all year but it's up there i finished dirty curve um wow i did figure out who done it this book has possibly the most ridiculous outline of any sports romance i've ever read so i guess like congratulations to the author for that one thing i didn't realize when i picked this up was that this is the same author who wrote boys of brazia which i also thought was ridiculous so i guess i shouldn't be surprised my problem with this book was almost all of it i did not buy the chemistry between the hero and heroin which was like the biggest thing but on top of that the plot twists were absolutely ridiculous since i'm telling you not to pick this up i'm just going to go ahead and spoil it if you do want to pick up this title i guess don't watch the rest of this video but oh i thought you were nugget but do you want to be on camera too would you like to say hi would you like to say hi okay oh wait oh god catception there's a cat right here too it is nugget we'll all be damned the plot twist here we know that meyer has a child named bailey we think at one point that the baby is tobias's baby like they had a hook up and he didn't realize that he had gotten this woman pregnant we find out actually that the baby is the coaches but they did have an encounter tobias and the girl meyer while she was pregnant so it's not his baby but he can be there for the i don't it doesn't it doesn't make any sense it doesn't make any sense i'm also very tired but what's the point of having him think that he was the baby's father i think the biggest thing too was like why why was the coach involved like they sorry had to log into my computer so my screen would light up i'm using this i'm using my computer screen as lighting why was why was meyer at any point married to the coach like from my understanding she's a college student and how old is this man yeah i don't know that's something that i just completely missed uh something that was lost in translation i don't recommend it i kind of feel like this is a one star read for me that feels really mean i don't know anytime i give a book one star i just feel really mean but i don't care like this was not good there was really nothing about this book that i felt was redeemable or like would recommend to people so wow what a way to end a vlog a one-star read it's okay it's okay it's okay i'm gonna go take a big sleepy nap that will hopefully last eight to nine hours i will see you tomorrow with a video that is pre-filmed and actually good so thanks so much for watching if you watch this whole thing i love y'all so much and until tomorrow\n"