Score

by M.J. Williamz

Ronda Meyers plays cornerback for the Texas Stars. She’s the league MVP, and she plays hard both on and off the field. Ronda’s life is going great until she gets a devastating injury in the second game of the new season.

Gayla Adkins is Ronda’s assistant and part-time lover. She takes care of Ronda after her injury and does her best to nurse her back to health. In the process, they discover love. They’re very happy until Gayla suspects Ronda of becoming addicted to her pain pills. She gives Ronda an ultimatum—get off the pills or lose her.

Is Ronda strong enough to kick her addiction? Or will she choose the easy way out and lose Gayla?


Cover Artist: Sheri Halal
Genres
Contemporary / Romance

Genres: Lesbian

242 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2018

About the author

MJ Williamz was raised on California’s Central Coast which she still loves, but left at the age of seventeen in an attempt to further her education. She graduated from Chico State with a degree in Business Management. It was in Chico that MJ began to pursue her love of writing. Since 2002, she’s had over a dozen short stories accepted for publication, mostly erotica with a few romances thrown in for good measure. MJ lives with her wife, Laydin, and their son in Houston.

Reviews

[Joc · Rating 3 out of 5]

Book received from Netgalley and Bold Strokes Books for an honest review.

I’m never entirely sure what I’m going to get when I read a Williamz book. I’ve read seven so far and my enjoyment has ranged from great to not so much. A common thread is that I don’t connect well with most of the characters and I find myself less than involved in their lives and aspirations.

Rhonda is the MVP for a football team and a player on and off the field. She is well-known, popular and sexy. She is also a real estate agent and works well with her assistant, Gayla, who is a friend with benefits. Gayla remained of bit of a mystery to me for most of the novel. She seemed to be Rhonda’s agent as well, booking her as the local celeb for numerous fundraisers. Their relationship starts off as casual sex moving into something more serious.

Score fits into the erotic romance genre but when the first half of the book is mostly sex the eroticism is lost and the sex becomes tedious. The blurb was a little misleading as Rhonda’s injury only happens halfway through which left very little time to develop the addiction theme. The second half of the book was an improvement on the first but not by much.
2.5 stars rounded up.

[Kennedy · Rating 2 out of 5]

I wanted to enjoy the read but it was a struggle going page-to-page without connecting to the story. The most interesting part was Gayla's interaction with her family. We knew the drug dependency was coming but what happened prior to that was uninteresting. I never felt like I got to know the main characters and why they were in a friends with benefits "relationship". Ronda Meyers was a person taking advantage of her stardom but not always feeling good about herself and change was in the air. Gayla Adkins was not fully developed as a person. We know she is good at business and she cares about Ronda but the what else was missing.

Read provided by Bold Strokes Books, Inc. via NetGalley.

[Val · Rating 2 out of 5]

While I have some idea what I’ll be getting with this author, I have to say that there was too much sex in this book. You can only read “oh god, oh yes, etc” so many times before it becomes boring. I finally just started skipping the sex scenes. My other big gripe about this book is how easily Rhonda was able to get off the pain pills. As a women in recovery, I can assure you that any kind of addiction is not so easily vanquished. And if it is, you probably weren’t addicted in the first place. So I find it frustrating to see how very simple some people think the recovery process is. Hell, if it were that easy, everyone would just stop doing the things that hurt them but it just doesn’t work like that.

[Jane Shambler · Rating 2 out of 5]

So when I picked up this book, having read Williamz before, I couldn't help but be disappointed. I nearly didn't finish it but I oiwe the publisher so here go's.

There's a lot of sex. More than normal. I hear you saying that's not a bad thing right? Wrong. There is only so much you can take.
Also, the addiction. Seriously, she conquered it that quick? Addiction is something that takes years to banish. Sorry found that part a little unbelievable.

Story needs more developing in my opinion.

Enjoy!

[Andrea · Rating 3 out of 5]

I liked the idea of the story a lot – with the sport aspects, the struggle with addiction etc. but I just couldn’t connect with the characters or the story…

[Alicia · Rating 3 out of 5]

With the opioid epidemic try to show what happens in a relationship for one I felt no chemistry for the two main characters. Why Ronda didn't call a sponsor and why are you trying to kick a habit for someone when it should be for your own self preservation. Once Gayla shows up she basically says she kicked her habit to herself and them jumps in be with Ronda. This is not like over the course of time they get back together I'm all for supporting your partner but this was a little to fast.