Reviewed by Becca
TITLE: Ball Drop
SERIES: Welcome to Morningwood Omegaverse #2
AUTHOR: Kiki Burrelli
PUBLISHER: self-published
LENGTH: 170 pages
RELEASE DATE: December 21, 2018
BLURB:
Young, cocky, and all alpha, he wants the one man he can’t have.
Rough around the edges and just a tad aggressive, twenty-year-old Maddox has more testosterone than he knows what to do with. He’s an alpha tiger shifter and the town’s rich, pretty boy with a chip on his shoulder to match. The circle of people he cares for is more of a dot, occupied by a single man, his college track and field coach, Wesley.
Closer to forty than he’d like to admit, Wesley is the gorilla omega who never quite found the one to settle down with. Not for lack of trying on his parent’s part. They can’t stop setting him up. Sometimes, they even try to trap him. Like when they stole his heat suppressors right before a date, hoping it would drive him into the man of their dreams.
But Wesley retreats to the one spot he knows he can be alone over the weekend while he rides out his heat. He sets up camp in his office on campus, ready to endure another torturous heat without relief.
Except, his plan to ride it out alone is ruined when Maddox breaks into the school on his own agenda. That agenda is quickly derailed when he stumbles upon his coach in need. Coach makes Maddox feel like maybe he isn’t just the town’s asshole. He’s an alpha. Wesley’s alpha.
While Maddox strives to be the type of man Wesley would want to obey, his conniving, abusive father has hatched a plan that threatens to ruin everything. With the holidays swirling around them, and the new year looming, finding their kiss at midnight seems impossible but Maddox didn’t work this hard discovering his home in Wesley to give up now.
Ball Drop is the second installment in the Welcome to Morningwood Omegaverse Romance series. It can be read as a standalone, though would be better enjoyed in order. It features themes of a school-based, age gap romance centered in a small town occupied entirely by shifters.
REVIEW:
Wow. This story was a surprise. It gave a twist I was not expecting. But a good one.
When I read book 1, I really hated Maddox. He was growing on me a little by the end when he mellowed toward Harris, but for most of the book I didn’t like him at all. Of course, nothing like eating your words. This story brings out a whole new side to Maddox. And what really makes him act the way he does. Why he is the way he is.
Even though Wesley and Maddox both tried to hide it, it was obvious to some what was going on between them. Or at least that there was chemistry. Wesley had been trying to fight it, considering he is the Coach for the university and Maddox is a student. Maddox could’ve cared less. He just wanted Wesley with a force he’s never known. But they fought against it. Until one night when Maddox was trying to find a place to get away from the hell that was home. When Maddox gets to the locker room at school to get his liquor, he hears someone. It’s Wesley. Trying to ride out a heat in privacy away from everyone and everything. Maddox can’t help but take care of him. And everything they’ve been fighting come forward with an explosion.
Maddox surprised me. There was a whole different side to him that came out in this book. He was softer, compassionate, caring. But being a tiger shifter with testosterone galore did not help everything that was going on with him. It made everything worse more often than not. But Wesley brought out so much gentleness to him. And after that night, Maddox seemed to mellow more. He wasn’t prone to violence as much with Wesley calming him. I felt for him too. Seeing all that he was going through. It would have made me act out, too, in ways.
Wesley tried to hold back because of the age difference and that Maddox was his student. But no matter how much he tried to deny it, Maddox was his alpha. And he felt better for it. He felt more like himself with Maddox. He felt whole with Maddox. And I loved their connection. Yeah, Maddox could still be a cocky little shit, but they were happy together. They could be themselves. Who they were meant to be.
This has been a good series. Good book. I’m waiting to see who Dusty gets paired with.
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