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Snow Tip Falls #2

Asking for Trouble

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‘Kissing his body, I took his flesh between my teeth. Applying pressure, he groaned.’

Imagine meeting a boy who has everything you don’t want in a guy, but then he kisses you and it is the best feeling of your life.
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NERO
Most people wouldn't consider East Tennessee University the big city. But when you come from a small town like Snow Tip Falls, it’s more than you can handle. And when you've lived your life with secrets and the football universe shines that big ol' light on you, it's enough to push you over the edge. At least, it did me.

It's a good thing Kendall was there to catch me. He doesn't remember the day we met, but I do. It was the moment I confirmed what I always thought, I like guys.

But what do I do now that the coach, and the law, have mandated that I see Kendall three days a week? What does that mean for my NFL prospects? What does it mean for my too often broken heart?

KENDALL
I don't like football players. They made my life hell in high school. It turns out that gay, and weird wasn't a good combination.

Now in University, my dream is to help others as a therapist. That starts by becoming a student counselor. So maybe I shouldn't have drawn a picture of a football player hanging from a noose on my professor's empathy questionnaire.

In either case, he told me that I had to tackle my hang-up head-on to get what I wanted. So, now I'm counseling the worst of the worst, Nero Roman, a football player whose rippling body I can’t stop picturing naked… and on top of mine.

Turns out there's more than I expected under his rough exterior. And now I have to figure out how to stop having feelings for my football player client before he hurts me like so many guys have before?


Note: This book is a part of the author's 'Love is Love Collection', meaning that it is available as a spicy romance in 'My Weakness', a wholesome romance in 'I Don't Date Football Players', a steamy wolf shifter romance in ‘Tortured Wolf’, and a Male/Male romance in 'Asking for Trouble'.

522 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 20, 2021

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Alex McAnders

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Librarian Note: Alternate name of Alex Anders.

Alex McAnders is the author of steamy, funny, tear jerking gay and bisexual romances. When Alex isn't rock climbing or playing games with friends, he's debating the pros and cons of being single, and writing sexy male/female romances as Alex (MF) McAnders, steamy male/female shifter romances as Alex (Shifter) McAnders, and clean male/female romantic comedies as Alex (Sweet) McAnders. To find more of his MMF and MM romance, check out his website at www.AlexAndersBooks.com where you can also sign up for his newsletter and receive free books.

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22 reviews
January 4, 2024
This author is a scam artist, republishing the same book over and over with a spicy version, wholesome version, MF version, MM version, PNR version etc with almost no changes. Not only is this against Amazon rules, they're stealing from real authors doing real work and from readers expecting a decent story. No idea how they're getting away with it or how people are so confused when it's literally right in the blurb. Pathetic.
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255 reviews88 followers
March 8, 2023
I never thought of Cage and Quinn as a healthy non toxic couple, but they are in comparison to these two idiots
FYI: anger management issues should not be romanticized
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811 reviews9 followers
July 17, 2022
Kendall and Nero

I'm not reviewing the first part of the anthology as I already read that separately and reviewed there. I was sure that Nero was gay/bi in the first book. So it came as no surprise that he figured it out by this book. Alex has a way of getting me super invested in the characters and then breaking my heart and making bawl and then putting me completely back together. Great book and I can't wait for the others to come out. I can't wait for Lou to get his HEA.
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342 reviews2 followers
November 3, 2025
Nero is cages brother who also apparently likes boys even though he always liked girls but then he saw this boy Kendall at his brothers graduation and is like oh he’s hot.
Kendall sees Nero at a party or whatever and kisses him but then finds out he’s a football player and runs for the hills.
Turns out Kendall was bullied incessantly through high school by football players.
Nero has an angry streak and can’t handle his emotions so when Kendall rejects him he beats on a car and gets in trouble with campus police. His punishment is to be hooked up with a psych counseling student to talk about his feelings and the student is Kendall. Kendall drew a football player having from a noose on his paper so his professor thinks he should’ve subjected to a football player to get over his shit.
Nero basically feels like no one wants him. He brings Kendall to meet his family and Kendall ends up getting Nero’s mother to confess that she drugged Nero’s father and raped him to get pregnant with Nero after cage had been stolen and she thought the dad had something to do with cages disappearance. She wouldn’t confess who the dad was but Nero overheard and became distraught because he was never wanted.
Kendall and Nero get busy but after the confessing by his mom, Nero shuts everyone out. He goes to an away game and ends up getting dragged to a strip club. Someone posts a video of Nero getting a lap dance. The school gets mad. He has to go on tv and say it didn’t mean anything and that he’s single and can do what he wants. Kendall is heartbroken. It’s a whole thing.
Then Nero goes and trashes his dorm room and punches his best friend and knocks him out. He goes back to this lake where he used to hide and sits there all night in his car, basically deciding how to end it all.
Cages boyfriend calls Kendall to see if he knows where Nero is and Kendall tells him about the lake. They gather tons of people to go have an intervention with Nero so he knows he’s loved. But then Nero finds out that Kendall set everything up but didn’t come because it would’ve better if their relationship was professional and not personal.
Nero realizes he’s been a shit to Kendall and he’s gonna get his guy so he plays this wicked good football game but tells Kendall not to watch it. Then his brother invites Kendall to game night where they will watch the game the next day.
So he goes and they watch the game and Nero breaks a bunch of records and after the game he says he was inspired by his love for Kendall and that Kendall is a guy. Then he shows up at his brothers house and gets back together with Kendall.
Later, on draft day, Nero is chosen in the second round. HEA.
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18 reviews
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May 2, 2025
worse than the first, but still read it like it was Pulitzer-worthy. Stockholm syndrome but make it YA.
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2,009 reviews10 followers
March 9, 2024
Great read.

I had been looking forward to reading Nero's story and it didn't disappoint, he was still the sweet but confused young man that we saw in Cage's book. He had been through so much at a young age it was great that he found Kendall and could talk to him. I felt for Kendall too, he'd had a difficult time too but got some closure in the end.
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118 reviews
March 24, 2024
This book was so good!!! I loved the plot between Nero and Kendall and the storytelling of their pasts and trauma was really interesting and reflected who they were in the book. The side characters were also great too.
1 review
November 28, 2023
Excellent

Well written and intriguing...great character development for erotic literature. I enjoyed seeing genuine emotional health in male characters.
Worth the read!
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444 reviews1 follower
November 1, 2023
Nero es el hermano de Cage del primer libro, ha vivido una infancia y una adolescencia muy duras debido a que su madre tenía problemas mentales ya que le robaron a uno de sus hijos en el parto. Nero nunca conoció a su padre y tuvo que ganarse la vida desde muy pequeño con negocios turbios y peleas de lucha libre ya que su madre no trabajaba. Todo esto le ha hecho normalizar el uso de la violencia para defenderse y canalizar su ira.
Ahora que Cage está en sus vidas, va a ir a la universidad con una beca para jugar a fútbol americano. Una noche en una fiesta conoce a Kendall y se besan pero cuando al día siguiente Kendall se entera de que es jugador de fútbol americano se aleja de él.
Kendall tiene un trauma del pasado cuando los jugadores de fútbol de su instituto le hicieron bullying por ser gay. Al ser rechazado por Kendall, Nero tiene un estallido de ira y rompe un coche en el campus. Le pillan y para no ser expulsado del equipo de fútbol tiene que reunirse con un consejero que resulta ser Kendall, un trabajo que está haciendo para una de sus clases ya que en el futuro quiere ser psicólogo. Al pasar más tiempo con Nero, Kendall empieza a aceptar que no todos los jugadores de fútbol americano son iguales y que tal vez debe darle una oportunidad a Nero ya que se gustan mucho.

Me ha parecido una pareja bastante tóxica. Los problemas de control de ira que tiene Nero, aunque se entienden por su pasado, se romantizan. La trama se vuelve aburrida a partir de la mitad del libro. Me ha costado acabarlo. Además, diría que no es un final HEA, sino un HFN ya que Nero se va fuera del estado a jugar en la NFL y Kendall se queda a terminar la universidad y el libro no da ninguna pista de cómo les está yendo la relación a distancia. Quizás en libros próximos consigamos más detalles.

#M-M-romance #Sports-romance
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395 reviews
August 2, 2024
A student mental health therapist falls in love with his subject

There's a lot to consider in this book; it's a continuing circle of characters from book #1 and the pairing here has a college student studying psychiatry and assigned to an anger charged football player when he's been bullied by football players in high school.

The story is good, but there are some things that just don't seem to flow. There's a continuing story about figuring out the parents of the first main character in the first book, and there's the angst of this football star with all his anger issues.

Alex McAnders does a good job of juggling all these characters, but the third act angst does not seem to be beneficial to the story. It's a very quick read, but a good one. I'm off to book #3 now.
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390 reviews9 followers
January 22, 2024
Format: Audio
New author: No
Narrator(s): Zach Hoffman
Rep: Gay, bi, mental health - depression, near catatonia, anger management
Keywords: sports (football), college, new adult, drunk hook up, coming out, virgin, grand gesture on national tv, wannabe therapist, cw: mention of pregnancy from rape w/ date rape drug
Audiobook challenge: Tortured Hero

Zach and Ryan are narrators who are severely underutilized. Let’s get these men in more books! The narration was great; the book was fine. A bit pedestrian. A bit simplistic. All the right building blocks were there, and it’s a good story, especially if you read book one, and I would recommend for a simple story that is a building block in some nice found family/world building around two brothers who had been estranged most of their lives.
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2,132 reviews6 followers
July 3, 2024
Confusing?

This was described as book 2 of the Snow Tip Falls series, which is the first book in the volume. Followed by a chapter from book 3, and that is followed by book 1. (?) Definitely confusing, and add in to that mess the asides from the author to the reader about visiting the website and joining some online community where you can participate in a fantasy with other characters and it just all gets really strange. The actually storyline for book 2 feels forced at times, and the emotional conflict doesn’t feel organic, rather it feels constructed and mechanical. Had this been my first exposure to the series, I doubt I would have read any further.
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597 reviews1 follower
April 7, 2025
Too Short

Even though this book was a great one, it was too short. Kendall and Nero go from counsel to patient, to friends, then to partners. Emotions get carried away from there. I was not happy with how it ended because the story felt unfinished. But the relationship between Kendall and Nero was strained at first but then sweet. I gave this book a 4 star ⭐️ rating because it felt incomplete. What happened with Kendall’s counseling job? How was Nero handling the NFL? Also at the end, the first story was added. So yeah I’m not sure how that makes sense when Book 1 is a book of its own. 💜




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79 reviews
October 8, 2024
Darker themes, hefty plot

This book dealt with more darker themes then the first book. Yes we got the typical “finding yourself” theme with one of the MC’s but this time the baggage was real. Both MC deal with mental and physical trama from their childhoods and their trama response is the driving force in the plot.

This book had me in tears. The emotions were raw and the struggle both internally and externally for both characters left the reader feeling it.
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461 reviews3 followers
September 4, 2024
3.5 if I'm honest.

This book was slightly better than the first or maybe I am just a bit more used to the writing style. I liked that the couple from the first book weren't erased and still played a big role in the book (given that Nero is Cages brother that's a plus) and it's set up nicely for the next book and the love interests there too.
334 reviews
August 24, 2023
Enjoyed it

Book 2 explained more of the issues in the first book. Thought it was weird when book 1 was at the end of book 2, for some reason I zoomed to the end of the book and I'm glad I did, there's an epilogue that wasn't added to the original book.
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447 reviews1 follower
June 19, 2024
Ok. Why do i enjoy this style of writing so much, i shouldn't as I see all the faults. If because i love a character more than the story. And i enjoy these characters a lot! Nero and kendall were great
5 reviews
January 23, 2025
Honestly I think this book had a lot of issues with pacing. The characters were not believable and though the story had some really interesting turns, it really didn't lean into them enough to push the plot the right way.
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69 reviews2 followers
February 5, 2024
Second book in the series. I’m seeing a theme…and I’m here for it! I don’t agree with having the same readers as book 1…those are supposed to be the voices for THOSE characters, not these characters!
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102 reviews
February 16, 2024
3.5 ⭐️

This book is a quick read, it flows easily and is really interesting and enjoyable, the couple has their ups and downs but they also had their family support system and friends I loved that.
1,581 reviews11 followers
May 18, 2024
Well done
Check b out my more on this series from book n one.
181 reviews
September 2, 2024
4.5 ⭐️. I loved them and I cried a little but at the one scene where Kendall broke up with Nero through Quinn and when Nero told the whole world he was dating a guy.
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15 reviews
October 13, 2024
University Romance Alert!

This is book two of the Snow Tip Falls series by Alex McAnders.
I read Book 1 Serious Trouble which followed Cage and Quinn. I decided to read this one in hopes of the writer finding their flow and continuing on the sweet romance they created in the first book.

This time we are dealing with Nero and Kendall who we met in Book 1. Kendall is a therapy major and does the one thing he's learning he shouldn't.....he's falling for his "patient"!

The writer's style stayed the same. The flow got confusing again. There was a good story here between the main couple but then just as this story was developing well it switched to the Cage and Quinn from the first book. I feel the author basically tried to fix parts from the first book in this story which made no sense to me. We were left hanging on this book's main couple.

I was at a loss really. Even my review here is kinda broken and stale.
I think I will pass on the remainder of the series.
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393 reviews11 followers
February 3, 2024
Voy a iniciar por lo poco que me gusto y la razon de que almenos alcanzara las 2 estrellas y esto es que la historia se lee rapido y dentro de todo es entretenido .

Ahora pasemos a todo lo negativo.

- La relacion entre los protagonistas es bastante toxica.
- Aborda muy mal los temas de salud mental (Por ejemplo el prota en un momento pasa de intentar suicidarse a estar bien magicamente o literalmente por el poder del amor despues de haber vivido muchos traumas y descubrir ciertas cosas que nos llevan al siguiente punto)
- Sucede cierto acontesimiento con la mama de uno de los protagonistas que se aborda pesimo (la mujer cuenta que drogo a su ex marido para que la dejara embarazada) y que ademas esta mal en muchos sentidos y lo pasan muy a la ligera . Literalmente queda en nada.
- Super instalove . Apenas se conocen y ya piensan que el otro es el amor de su vida.
- Todo pasa muy rapido se conocen, se enamoran al instante , sexo , conflicto y resolucion en tiempo record .
- Un final muy abrupto y apresurado.

Con el primer libro habia tenido conflictos por lo bizarro de los acontesimientos y el como se dan ciertas situaciones pero dentro de todo la relacion entre los protas safaba y decidi darle una oportunidad porque el personaje principal de este libro me llamo la atencion en el anterior pero no se si continuare con los demas
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1,031 reviews15 followers
February 11, 2022
All’inizio avevo letto il primo volume “Guai Seri”, poi col secondo “In cerca di guai”, mi sono accorta che erano entrambi in un unico libro come antologia.
Cosa dire di questi due volumi? La storia dei protagonisti, nel primo Cage e Quin, nel secondo Nero e Kendall, è coinvolgente, emoziona e a tratti ti stringe forte il cuore.
Sono 4 giovani che cercano di guardare al futuro con le loro aspettative, cercando di non deludere nessuno e di farcela con le proprie forze.
Se vogliamo guardare solo a come si articolano le due trame allora sono concorde nel dire che tutto sommato ha del potenziale, per chi ama il genere new adult senza troppi scossoni questo è un libro da leggere, però difetta molto nella traduzione ed è un peccato per l’autore, spero che chi leggerà di Alex non se la prenda con lui denigrandone i testi a priori, diciamocelo chiaro e senza censure, spesso le traduzioni non sono corrette e chi ne fa le spese è sempre chi scrive.
Per cui voglio dare un suggerimento ad Alex e dirgli di affidarsi a un traduttore più competente.
Tenendo conto di questo il mio voto è 4 stelle.
Alla prossima
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