The Play Maker by LM Carr

The Play Maker is the first novel I’ve read for LM Carr and I’m not sure how I feel about it overall.   I could only rate it 3 ¾ out of 5 stars for some reasons I’ve written below.  But up first, a summary of the novel.

Addison Jane “AJ” loved Julian way back in the day.  She has never gotten over the heartbreak of losing him, though she tries to keep him far from her every day thoughts he creeps in.   She has some wild days trying to get him out of her system, but now her career is the most important thing in her life.

Julian is a hometown hero coming back to town to accept the head coach job for the local NFL team.  The first thing he wants to do is win back his girl.  Has too much time passed between them for him to have a chance?  The only way he will know is to try, he goes for it full steam ahead.  Will she give in to a second chance?

Having never read the author before I wasn’t sure what to expect.  First, this novel is written solely in the female first person POV.  I’m not crazy about first person novels, I enjoy feeling what they feel but all the I sentences usually end up driving me crazy.  With it being only female POV, I really missed getting into Julian’s head and thought process.  I want to know more about why he did what he did, how he felt during difference scenarios etc. 

The novel also bounced around in the storyline really, really quickly.  Some shifts made sense others did not.  There were a couple plot points that I was scratching my head over, where they actually needed to move the storyline along?  

I don’t know if all that would discourage me from reading another novel by the author but I will put all that into the mix whenever another pops up on my feed.  I voluntarily read and reviewed a provided copy without expectations.  All opinions expressed are my own.