4.5/5 ⭐️’s
James is trying to make his way thru college to ultimately be a professional rower. His father wants him to study finance so he can work for the family business. When James decides to follow his dream and not his fathers plan, his father denies him money, making it difficult for James to fund his education and hobby.
Ezzie is a freshman at Castoria U and an art major. She dreams of working at an art museum and landing the internship of a lifetime. She’s also pledging for Phi O sorority. Her mother was a Phi O at the same sorority house, but since she had passed, Ezzie has been trying to find her father and hopes the Phi O house may have some clues.
Rowing Steady is a can’t-put-down story of James and Ezzie falling for each other while trying not to fall for each other. Both focused heavily in their rowing careers, Ezzie brings out the best in James. This book is filled to the brim with funny, laugh out loud moments of cheesy beaver jokes and so much more! (I still picture a beaver mascot doing the Macarena in my mind!!) I crushed this story in one day, not being able to put it down. The twists and turns this story took made me fall in love with it more and more, chapter after chapter. While it’s classified as a romance, there is a second story of Ezzie finding her father that stole my heart. It brought tears to my eyes at all the right moments. This is a brilliant story of love, friendship and family that I highly recommend!
Read this book if you love the tropes of: Grumpy Sunshine, Alternating POVs, friends to lovers, slow burn romance, college sports romance
The only reason this did not get a full 5⭐️ from me is because I felt like there’s were some wording/run-on sentence issues along with a lot of repetition in the first 1/3 of the book. Once I hit the 40% mark -ish, it all went away for me and turned around brilliantly!! When you pick this book up, push thru the first bit, it’s soooo worth it!!!!!