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In the End Zone
Football’s hottest, bad boy is Marco's brand new neighbor. Marco, a lifelong lover of the ladies, has never been interested in men but there is just something about Eric Polwski.
Marco can’t get the blonde haired, blue-eyed athlete out of his head. Eric is on TV screens, underwear ads, and sunning himself in the backyard. Now his bad boy ways have gotten him into trouble.
Marco wants Eric to slake his For just one night he wants to know what it's like to be with another man.
Eric has an athlete's body that was born to win. But in his world, full of fakes and users, Marco is the only real thing. He doesn't want forever, he doesn't want pretense, and he just wants to satisfy some curiosity. If Marco wants one night, he’ll take it until he wants more. Even though Marco fights hard at the idea of this turning into anything serious, the winner in this football bad boy will do whatever it takes to win Marco's heart.
This Romance Short Story Was Formerly Titled Offside
Marco can’t get the blonde haired, blue-eyed athlete out of his head. Eric is on TV screens, underwear ads, and sunning himself in the backyard. Now his bad boy ways have gotten him into trouble.
Marco wants Eric to slake his For just one night he wants to know what it's like to be with another man.
Eric has an athlete's body that was born to win. But in his world, full of fakes and users, Marco is the only real thing. He doesn't want forever, he doesn't want pretense, and he just wants to satisfy some curiosity. If Marco wants one night, he’ll take it until he wants more. Even though Marco fights hard at the idea of this turning into anything serious, the winner in this football bad boy will do whatever it takes to win Marco's heart.
This Romance Short Story Was Formerly Titled Offside
- GenresM M RomanceSportsLGBT
2242 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 2016
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Displaying 1 - 13 of 13 reviews
October 4, 2017
Horrible writing
This book had terrible dialogue and the grammar omg find a new editor. This a m/m story so why were the genders switched. was Marco a girl or boy?? Gees.
This book had terrible dialogue and the grammar omg find a new editor. This a m/m story so why were the genders switched. was Marco a girl or boy?? Gees.
April 7, 2022
9/2/2018- ABSOLUTELY AWFUL!!!!!! Man this was some real garbage. The story was awful and the writing was so annoyingly bad. The characters are 2 men named Eric and Marco yet Marco is referred to as her, she, and herself by mistake so often that it made me unnecessarily confused. Anyway I would never read this again or recommend it to anyone.....
February 19, 2022
What a cynical way to get people to read a book? Oh I know, let's change one of the main characters from a woman to a womanising straight man and who maybe gay for his footballing neighbour!
If you are going to do this at least get an editor that is consistent and makes all the relevant changes to that MC throughout the story. This is appalling work editorially and it should never have been released until properly proof read...
If you are going to do this at least get an editor that is consistent and makes all the relevant changes to that MC throughout the story. This is appalling work editorially and it should never have been released until properly proof read...
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July 21, 2021
Rubbish translation
Wrong pronoun used throughout. Very, very poor. Not a story just a progression of sentences that barely made any sense.
Wrong pronoun used throughout. Very, very poor. Not a story just a progression of sentences that barely made any sense.
June 26, 2019
Very cofusing
There was a a lot of grammatical errors between pronouns of his and her. It was hard to follow the story. Made it very uncomfortable to read. During one of the sex scenes between the two main characters there was even a reference to a female body part.
Not what I thought it would be at all.
There was a a lot of grammatical errors between pronouns of his and her. It was hard to follow the story. Made it very uncomfortable to read. During one of the sex scenes between the two main characters there was even a reference to a female body part.
Not what I thought it would be at all.
November 25, 2024
Poor conversion of a mf romance.
So many unconverted pronouns that pull you right out of the story. Genitals that don't match the character. Just skip it.
So many unconverted pronouns that pull you right out of the story. Genitals that don't match the character. Just skip it.
May 5, 2019
Needs a good editor.
Van Cole offers a lot to read for free, which is nice. I'm definitely glad that I didn't pay for this. I'm on board for the basic plot, but the "relationship" happened way too fast. There are also a few distracting errors that throw a reader off; mostly moments where Mario became "she/her" when it was clearly he/his. A good editor could (should) catch & correct things like that.
Van Cole offers a lot to read for free, which is nice. I'm definitely glad that I didn't pay for this. I'm on board for the basic plot, but the "relationship" happened way too fast. There are also a few distracting errors that throw a reader off; mostly moments where Mario became "she/her" when it was clearly he/his. A good editor could (should) catch & correct things like that.
April 28, 2019
Bad attempt to make the story gay.
This book needs major editing. Really wanted to like it but gave up reading it half way through. The editor just gave up?
This book needs major editing. Really wanted to like it but gave up reading it half way through. The editor just gave up?
April 24, 2019
I liked the concept.
Too many mistakes in regards to male/female sexes. It must have been a straight story to begin with. Did take too much away from gay story line.
Too many mistakes in regards to male/female sexes. It must have been a straight story to begin with. Did take too much away from gay story line.
April 18, 2019
Ok read
Enjoyable enough to start with. Marco lusting after his new neighbour even though he'd never been interested in men. Short story that was riddled with errors. Marco even turns into a female at one point talking about her clitoris! Can't believe that wasn't caught!
Enjoyable enough to start with. Marco lusting after his new neighbour even though he'd never been interested in men. Short story that was riddled with errors. Marco even turns into a female at one point talking about her clitoris! Can't believe that wasn't caught!
February 19, 2022
Non-existent editing.
This story reads like a "conversion" from a straight storyline to a gay one. I also got the feeling that the story was badly translated into English as some of the sentence structures are clunky to say the least.
Avoid until a first rate editor is found to clear up the major errors in this book.
This story reads like a "conversion" from a straight storyline to a gay one. I also got the feeling that the story was badly translated into English as some of the sentence structures are clunky to say the least.
Avoid until a first rate editor is found to clear up the major errors in this book.
September 16, 2019
I like Van Cole books but this one didn’t do it for me. Angsty and lots of incorrect stuff at one point the book started describing Marco as a woman.
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