Reviewed by Kat

TITLE: Head to Head

SERIES: Nerds vs Jocks #3

AUTHOR: Eli Easton and Tara Lain

PUBLISHER: Self Published

LENGTH: 312 pages

RELEASE DATE: May 25, 2021

BLURB:

If these two don’t kill each other, they might fall in love.

Rand hates Jax because he’s the laid-back, vegan-eating, tree-hugging, total-Zen-until-I-get-a-chance-to-screw-you president of Sigma Mu Tau, the nerdy fraternity that’s the sworn enemy of Rand’s house, Alpha Lambda Alpha. What a phony!

Jax hates Rand for being the privileged, rich-heir-to-an-oil-empire, environment-destroying, soul-sucking president of the ALA jocks—but mostly because Rand hated him first. Rand has sent nothing but hateful vibes his way since the day they met. What a douche!

The enemies have never had a single conversation that didn’t involve shouting—until Jax’s old Buick breaks down on a road trip and Rand plays reluctant rescuer. Jax is forced to sit on Rand’s dead cow seats. Rand learns chickens can enter the living room and that Jax’s beliefs are more than skin-deep. The bitter rivals embark on a quest to save a family member and discover that sometimes animosity is a mask for crazy-hot attraction. With this much face time, head-to-head might become heart-to-heart.

HEAD TO HEAD is an enemies to lovers, forced proximity, opposites attract, searching for his sister, clashing cultures, MM romance—with a whole lot of fracking. 

REVIEW:

Another great story in the Nerds vs Jocks series.

Jax and Rand are the presidents of their respective fraternity houses. And there isn’t a member of either of those houses that don’t know how much they hate each other. But, when events lead to Rand begrudgingly having to give a stranded Jax a ride home they finally figure out what’s bugging them and has made them arch rivals.

I had wondered what these guy’s story was but I can honestly say I never saw what bugged Rand about Jax coming. But in all honesty neither did Rand! And I didn’t expect to find out that Rand’s dad was as evil as he was. That man was all about the all mighty dollar no matter the consequences to even his children’s lives. Now Jax’s family on the other hand, they were amazing and the way they took in Rand in when he was at his lowest was awesome. I did love that no one could get under Jax’s easy going personality but Rand. That’s a sign of great things to come that he could get him to blow his cool.

I have to say one thing, and I know it’s picky, but both authors are from the Pacific Northwest so this error really bugged me. “I’d really loved Lewis & Clark in Portland. It was much smaller than UW Madison and had a gorgeous campus—super green with ocean views.”  I did some of my graduate studies in Special Education at Lewis & Clark. There is no where on campus, or in the entire Portland metropolitan area, that has ocean views! It’s close to 100 miles from the coast. I should know because I was born and raised there with a vacation home on the Oregon Coast. Again, I know it’s petty but a super big error for me.

I can honestly say I’m super sad this series has drawn to an end. I know they got all of the guys stories told and they all got their hard earned HEA’s but I’m going to really miss them.

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