Atraído por problemas: Edición de antología (Snow Tip Falls nº 2)

Snow Tip Falls #2

by Alex McAnders

NERO La mayor parte de la gente no pensaría que la Universidad de East Tennessee es una metrópoli. Pero cuando vienes de un pueblo pequeño como Snow Tip Falls, es más de lo que puedes manejar. Y cuando has vivido toda tu vida guardando secretos y el universo del fútbol te ilumina con su gran luz, es suficiente para llevarte al límite. Al menos, es lo que me pasó a mí.
Ha sido bueno que Kendall estuviera allí para atraparme. Él no recuerda el día en que nos conocimos, pero yo sí. Fue cuando confirmé lo que siempre había que me gustan los chicos.
Pero, ¿qué hago ahora que el entrenador y la ley han ordenado que vea a Kendall tres días a la semana? ¿Qué significa eso para mis planes en la NFL? ¿Qué significa para mi corazón roto demasiadas veces?
KENDALL No me gustan los jugadores de fútbol. Hicieron de mi vida un infierno cuando iba a la escuela secundaria. Resulta que gay y raro no son una buena combinación.
Ahora, en la Universidad, mi sueño es ayudar a otros como terapeuta. Comenzaré convirtiéndome en consejero estudiantil. Entonces, tal vez no debería haber dibujado a un jugador de fútbol colgado de una soga en el Test de empatía de mi profesor.
De todas maneras, me dijo que tengo que enfrentarme a mi obsesión para conseguir lo que quiero. Así que ahora estoy aconsejando al peor de los peores, Nero Roman, un jugador de fútbol... que también es el chico más sexy, digno de babearse y pueblerino que he conocido.
Resulta que hay más de lo que esperaba bajo su apariencia ruda. ¿Y ahora tengo que descubrir cómo dejar de sentir algo por mi guapísimo cliente?
Este libro forma parte de la colección "Amor es Amor", del mismo autor, y está disponible como un romance picante en "Mi debilidad", un romance clásico y tierno en "Enamorándome de mi debilidad", un romance tórrido de hombres lobo en "Lobo atormentado" y un romance entre hombres en "Atraído por problemas".

Genres: M M Romance, Romance, LGBT, Sports, Sports Romance, College, Audiobook

534 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 24, 2022

About the author

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.

Reviews

[BookDragon]

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.

[Celia]

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

[Thera]

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.

[Chrissy Smith]

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.

[swag.car0ta]

worse than the first, but still read it like it was Pulitzer-worthy. Stockholm syndrome but make it YA.

[Suzanne McNeill Taviner]

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.

[Dylan Miller]

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.

[Douglas Shepler]

Excellent

Well written and intriguing...great character development for erotic literature. I enjoyed seeing genuine emotional health in male characters.
Worth the read!

[LGO]

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

[Glenn]

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.

[REKH]

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.

[Keith]

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.

[Malissa Hilton]

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. 💜

[Nicole]

2.25⭐️

The love was fast-moving, pretty much immediate, very little build up so it was hard to connect with their relationship since it was super rushed. There were some entertaining side characters though and that helped to add some personality to the story.

Nero has moments where he completely flies off the handle and becomes destructive, and it felt a bit over the top. I hoped for more accountability and emotional development afterward. Kendall was too much of a cry baby. It seemed like he cried more often than he didn't.

There were some moments I enjoyed, especially whenever the side characters were on the page, but overall the story just didn't hit the way I'd hoped.

[Josh W.]

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.

[Anna Beck]

🎧 3.75⭐️ there was a lot in this book.
•Internalized homophobia
•fear
•figuring out authentic self
•acceptance of past
And so much more.
The story followed Nero, the new-found brother from book one. His story had so many good things in it, but the writing was a mix of YA and conversation. It was good, but could have been better IMO. Nero did get his HEA, and after the story of his life, his character deserved it.

[Toni]

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.

[Ryan Moore]

This story is a warm, engaging M/M sports romance that pairs football with emotional character growth. The relationship between Nero and Kendall develops naturally as they confront past assumptions and learn to trust one another. Their journey feels authentic, balancing humor, romance, and meaningful personal growth.

[Lindy Bateman]

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.

[Dee Smith]

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

[Sarah Nasson]

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.

[Hayley]

steamy

This was a great book. The chemistry between Nero & Kendall was 🤌 But it ended kinda suddenly, and the first book was also included at the end of this one. I thought I was only 43% into the story when it was suddenly over.

[Hmmm]

Nero & Kendall

[Jay Vieyra]

It was okay.

[Benjamin Thies]

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!

[Jaki_]

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.

[Jimbo]

Well done
Check b out my more on this series from book n one.

[Lilly Marie]

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.

[Jamie Rice]

Asking for Trouble By Alex mcAnders. This was just a rip off of so many other books just pasted together.

[Kathryn Foti-Crawford]

Exciting and touching.

This book never had a quiet moment. It touches your heart and soul. You can dream and fantasize while reading it.