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Game, Set, Match #2
Love Simplified
Game, Set, Book Two
Life is about making choices. For nineteen-year-old Jalen Marten, the choices he makes will not only affect his life, but the life and career of his superstar tennis player boyfriend, Austin Suter. Jalen spends the summer following Austin around the pro tennis circuit playing the supportive friend as Austin adjusts to life on tour.
Keeping secrets from people is hard enough, but when the media, a horde of new fans, and staff and family who all think they know what’s best for Austin are involved, it’s even worse. Coming out to the world is not an option, so Jalen is forced to hide in the shadows. It doesn't always work, and Jalen begins to wonder if they should stay together. The next choice could make or break them as a couple, and both men wonder why love has to be so complicated.
Life is about making choices. For nineteen-year-old Jalen Marten, the choices he makes will not only affect his life, but the life and career of his superstar tennis player boyfriend, Austin Suter. Jalen spends the summer following Austin around the pro tennis circuit playing the supportive friend as Austin adjusts to life on tour.
Keeping secrets from people is hard enough, but when the media, a horde of new fans, and staff and family who all think they know what’s best for Austin are involved, it’s even worse. Coming out to the world is not an option, so Jalen is forced to hide in the shadows. It doesn't always work, and Jalen begins to wonder if they should stay together. The next choice could make or break them as a couple, and both men wonder why love has to be so complicated.
- GenresM M RomanceSports
286 pages, Kindle Edition
First published March 4, 2016
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Teegan Loy
21 books85 followersTeegan Loy began writing a long time ago. Notebooks filled with ideas were stacked around the house. One day, she sat down with renewed ambition and something fantastic happened: she completed a story.
Now most of her time is spent writing, but she takes an occasional break to go to the movies, where she imagines her stories on the big screen. She also enjoys watching hockey, filling her IPod with music and driving her daughter around town to various activities.
Now most of her time is spent writing, but she takes an occasional break to go to the movies, where she imagines her stories on the big screen. She also enjoys watching hockey, filling her IPod with music and driving her daughter around town to various activities.
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March 8, 2016
5 Heart Review by Danielle
Can I just start with saying I am blow away by this more than fabulous read! I couldn’t put it down and I wanted to keep going.
We start in this story where book 1 left off. We find Austin working the circuit and we are experiencing the show of love and affection between him and Jalen. But even more we get to see the struggles Jalen is experiencing and is trying to overcome.
Out of the blue, or at least for me , this story went in a complete different very unexpected direction, focussing on Jaelen and his maturing, I would like to call it. His quest to find himself and work on what’s important for him.
I do believe the author took a risk in proceding this way, by taking of the focus off Austin and Jalen together to mainly Jalen and the people he meets and the circumstances he is under.
It turned out brilliant. I totally got sucked in to the whole complete deal. I honestly started to feel emotionally involved with the people Jalen met, stated cheering for certain individuals, grieving for others and along with all of that, I just really wanted to hold Jalen.
The ending brings a realism and very carefully worked out way to sum up the story and brings us back to where it all started with Austin and Jalen. I certainly hope there will be more.
I can really say that if author Teegan Loy does an m/f spin of on this one about Evan and a certain young lady it would be the first m/f book I would read in like ages, and that is saying something :)
The development of Jalen, the way he sees himself, the people he meets, with struggles and friendship and the loyalty rocked my world. Where I was already impressed with part one of this series, this part two lays down a new, different, unexpected layer on top of that.
Highly recommended series!
This book was provided free in exchange for a fair and honest review for Love Bytes. Go there to check out other reviews, author interviews, and all those awesome giveaways. Click below.
Can I just start with saying I am blow away by this more than fabulous read! I couldn’t put it down and I wanted to keep going.
We start in this story where book 1 left off. We find Austin working the circuit and we are experiencing the show of love and affection between him and Jalen. But even more we get to see the struggles Jalen is experiencing and is trying to overcome.
Out of the blue, or at least for me , this story went in a complete different very unexpected direction, focussing on Jaelen and his maturing, I would like to call it. His quest to find himself and work on what’s important for him.
I do believe the author took a risk in proceding this way, by taking of the focus off Austin and Jalen together to mainly Jalen and the people he meets and the circumstances he is under.
It turned out brilliant. I totally got sucked in to the whole complete deal. I honestly started to feel emotionally involved with the people Jalen met, stated cheering for certain individuals, grieving for others and along with all of that, I just really wanted to hold Jalen.
The ending brings a realism and very carefully worked out way to sum up the story and brings us back to where it all started with Austin and Jalen. I certainly hope there will be more.
I can really say that if author Teegan Loy does an m/f spin of on this one about Evan and a certain young lady it would be the first m/f book I would read in like ages, and that is saying something :)
The development of Jalen, the way he sees himself, the people he meets, with struggles and friendship and the loyalty rocked my world. Where I was already impressed with part one of this series, this part two lays down a new, different, unexpected layer on top of that.
Highly recommended series!
This book was provided free in exchange for a fair and honest review for Love Bytes. Go there to check out other reviews, author interviews, and all those awesome giveaways. Click below.
April 7, 2016
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Love Simplified picks up right where the last book leaves off. Thanks to Austin’s mom, Jalen is whisked away and joins Austin on his tour of tennis matches overseas. The guys are deliriously happy when they’re alone but Austin has responsibilities. What starts out as as long as we’re together nothing matters quickly gets smothered under keeping up appearances. There’s a lot of conflict over Austin and his image. Austin is still in the closet and Jalen doesn’t want him to come out even though he offers. He says it’s for Austin but it’s also because Jalen doesn’t want the attention. Will’s father has a very strong dislike of Jalen and poisons part of their entourage against him. Which essentially divides the group into two teams that bash heads at every turn. There’s so much tension in the air Jalen again buckles under the pressure and bails on Austin.
Despite not usually liking NA I enjoyed the first book in this series. It ended kind of open so I wanted to read this one for some closure. For me the first book balanced out more. Maybe it was that they were in high school and the angsty drama fest worked. In this one it just made me insane. It was way too much angst and way too unbelievable. The first portion of this book where Austin and Jalen get back together was good. I liked the struggle and the idea that no matter what they had each other. It lost me when Jalen runs off though. His character IMO came off as angry, irrational, selfish and somewhat cruel to me. Not exactly likable. But EVERYONE loves him. Except me apparently. I just didn’t buy into the “finding his own way again” vibe at the expense of Austin and other people’s feelings.
The majority of this book the MCs are apart. It’s mostly about Jalen finding his place in the world. Pining away over Austin even though he’s the one who severed all ties with a note at a horribly inopportune time. He runs off to LA where he’s whisked up by a group of kind people who give him a place to live, a job and hook him up with a recording deal. His new best friend who adopts Jalen upon his arrival in LA is a drugged out rich boy with major daddy issues that also happens to be a ridiculously talented artist and a hook up with the recording label Jalen wanted to sign with. It’s all very indulgent and riddled with wish fulfillment. Which felt totally unrealistic to me. That mixed will all the angst was just too much for me. I couldn’t enjoy any of the last three quarters of this book. Quite frankly it felt silly. While I liked Austin, Jalen just felt very immature. So much so that I had to skim all sex scenes towards the end of the book. Reading them made me feel icky.
Keep in mind I am NOT a fan of NA or angst so this book was a double no no for me. I wouldn’t have read it if I hadn’t liked the first one. Love Simplified just wasn’t for me. I didn’t like the main character at all and felt bad for his love interest who paid the price of heartache for his immaturity and indecision. Yes he was young but to me it didn’t give him a pass for his selfish behavior. I also thought the story totally implausible and far fetched. I have really enjoyed some of this author’s stories before this one but this one was just not for me.
Love Simplified picks up right where the last book leaves off. Thanks to Austin’s mom, Jalen is whisked away and joins Austin on his tour of tennis matches overseas. The guys are deliriously happy when they’re alone but Austin has responsibilities. What starts out as as long as we’re together nothing matters quickly gets smothered under keeping up appearances. There’s a lot of conflict over Austin and his image. Austin is still in the closet and Jalen doesn’t want him to come out even though he offers. He says it’s for Austin but it’s also because Jalen doesn’t want the attention. Will’s father has a very strong dislike of Jalen and poisons part of their entourage against him. Which essentially divides the group into two teams that bash heads at every turn. There’s so much tension in the air Jalen again buckles under the pressure and bails on Austin.
Despite not usually liking NA I enjoyed the first book in this series. It ended kind of open so I wanted to read this one for some closure. For me the first book balanced out more. Maybe it was that they were in high school and the angsty drama fest worked. In this one it just made me insane. It was way too much angst and way too unbelievable. The first portion of this book where Austin and Jalen get back together was good. I liked the struggle and the idea that no matter what they had each other. It lost me when Jalen runs off though. His character IMO came off as angry, irrational, selfish and somewhat cruel to me. Not exactly likable. But EVERYONE loves him. Except me apparently. I just didn’t buy into the “finding his own way again” vibe at the expense of Austin and other people’s feelings.
The majority of this book the MCs are apart. It’s mostly about Jalen finding his place in the world. Pining away over Austin even though he’s the one who severed all ties with a note at a horribly inopportune time. He runs off to LA where he’s whisked up by a group of kind people who give him a place to live, a job and hook him up with a recording deal. His new best friend who adopts Jalen upon his arrival in LA is a drugged out rich boy with major daddy issues that also happens to be a ridiculously talented artist and a hook up with the recording label Jalen wanted to sign with. It’s all very indulgent and riddled with wish fulfillment. Which felt totally unrealistic to me. That mixed will all the angst was just too much for me. I couldn’t enjoy any of the last three quarters of this book. Quite frankly it felt silly. While I liked Austin, Jalen just felt very immature. So much so that I had to skim all sex scenes towards the end of the book. Reading them made me feel icky.
Keep in mind I am NOT a fan of NA or angst so this book was a double no no for me. I wouldn’t have read it if I hadn’t liked the first one. Love Simplified just wasn’t for me. I didn’t like the main character at all and felt bad for his love interest who paid the price of heartache for his immaturity and indecision. Yes he was young but to me it didn’t give him a pass for his selfish behavior. I also thought the story totally implausible and far fetched. I have really enjoyed some of this author’s stories before this one but this one was just not for me.
April 4, 2016
This is the sequel to Love Complicated and it must be read in order.
We met Jalen and Austin as two star crossed lovers who meet in high school and have to hide their love because Austin feels coming out will decimate his chances for success in the tennis world.
Jalen is this super talented singer/song writer and he… follows Austin around like a puppy and that’s about it.
**
After reading book one I was hoping that Jalen would finally get his own life and his own super stardom and his own back bone.
He doesn’t.
This book made me incredibly frustrated and I can’t believe that with all the talent Jalen has, the focus remains on Austin and his career.
The writing is fine, but I was just disappointed by the story line.
We met Jalen and Austin as two star crossed lovers who meet in high school and have to hide their love because Austin feels coming out will decimate his chances for success in the tennis world.
Jalen is this super talented singer/song writer and he… follows Austin around like a puppy and that’s about it.
**
After reading book one I was hoping that Jalen would finally get his own life and his own super stardom and his own back bone.
He doesn’t.
This book made me incredibly frustrated and I can’t believe that with all the talent Jalen has, the focus remains on Austin and his career.
The writing is fine, but I was just disappointed by the story line.
March 19, 2016
Another winner...
Another winner from Teegan Loy with this second in a great series. There were so many things I liked about this story...The snarky quips from Jalen, the open and close relationship between Jalen and his mother, the tight friendships. Austen had a tough and volatile relationship with his father and handlers but kept his love of tennis and Jalen true. Their love for one another had to overcome many emotional and difficult times but true love was a winner through it all.
I highly recommend this series. Hopefully there will be another book (or more?) to follow up on Jalen, Austen and their coterie of friends and family.
Another winner from Teegan Loy with this second in a great series. There were so many things I liked about this story...The snarky quips from Jalen, the open and close relationship between Jalen and his mother, the tight friendships. Austen had a tough and volatile relationship with his father and handlers but kept his love of tennis and Jalen true. Their love for one another had to overcome many emotional and difficult times but true love was a winner through it all.
I highly recommend this series. Hopefully there will be another book (or more?) to follow up on Jalen, Austen and their coterie of friends and family.
March 8, 2016
Loved It!
Absolutely awesome. I laughed some and I cried a lot! I thought it was a well written, emotionally packed story. It also had a lot of hot scorching sex scenes!!
Absolutely awesome. I laughed some and I cried a lot! I thought it was a well written, emotionally packed story. It also had a lot of hot scorching sex scenes!!
March 7, 2016
Jalen annoyed me in this book. I get why he did what he did, but not how. His age showed. A lot happens in this book but Jalen and Austin did get their HEA.
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March 27, 2016reviewed at www.lovebytesreviews.com
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