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Copper Valley Fireballs #4
Irresistible Trouble
I, Cooper Rock, baseball god, worshipper of women, hometown hero, beloved son and brother, and owner of a well-deserved ego, have always reached for the stars. Usually in baseball.
In love? Nah. When you've played the field as much as I have and haven't been bit by the bug, you're immune.
Or so I thought until she walked back into my life.
Waverly Sweet. Pop music sensation. Universally beloved for good reason. She's freaking awesome. Kind. Funny. Talented. Sexy as hell. Real. And still completely out of my league.
But I have been hit by the Waverly Sweet tour bus of love, tumbled head over heels, and come up in a field of Waverly-scented roses. This is it. She's my one and only, and this time, I won't screw it up.
I'm cleaning up my reputation. I'm ignoring the doubters. I'm channeling everything I have into proving to her that I can be the man she deserves.
No matter what else I have to sacrifice for love.
Including baseball.
Irresistible Trouble is a hilarious home run of a romcom about a baseball player whose ego is catching up to him, a pop star who's a bit of a hot mess when the cameras aren't looking (and sometimes when they are), and the kind of family and teammates that everyone deserves... in small doses. While this laugh-out-loud romance stands alone with a sweet-swoony HEA, you won't go wrong if you dive into the entire Fireballs series, starting with Jock Blocked, first. And for more Cooper Rock cameos, check out Master Baker (a standalone featuring Cooper's brother) and the Bro Code series.
In love? Nah. When you've played the field as much as I have and haven't been bit by the bug, you're immune.
Or so I thought until she walked back into my life.
Waverly Sweet. Pop music sensation. Universally beloved for good reason. She's freaking awesome. Kind. Funny. Talented. Sexy as hell. Real. And still completely out of my league.
But I have been hit by the Waverly Sweet tour bus of love, tumbled head over heels, and come up in a field of Waverly-scented roses. This is it. She's my one and only, and this time, I won't screw it up.
I'm cleaning up my reputation. I'm ignoring the doubters. I'm channeling everything I have into proving to her that I can be the man she deserves.
No matter what else I have to sacrifice for love.
Including baseball.
Irresistible Trouble is a hilarious home run of a romcom about a baseball player whose ego is catching up to him, a pop star who's a bit of a hot mess when the cameras aren't looking (and sometimes when they are), and the kind of family and teammates that everyone deserves... in small doses. While this laugh-out-loud romance stands alone with a sweet-swoony HEA, you won't go wrong if you dive into the entire Fireballs series, starting with Jock Blocked, first. And for more Cooper Rock cameos, check out Master Baker (a standalone featuring Cooper's brother) and the Bro Code series.
408 pages, Paperback
First published September 29, 2022
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Pippa Grant
66 books10.7k followersPippa Grant wanted to write books, so she did.
Before she became a USA Today and #1 Amazon bestselling romantic comedy author, she was a young military spouse who got into writing as self-therapy. That happened around the time she discovered reading romance novels, and the two eventually merged into a career. Today, she has more than 30 knee-slapping Pippa Grant titles and nine published under the name Jamie Farrell.
When she’s not writing romantic comedies, she’s fumbling through being a mom, wife, and mountain woman, and sometimes tries to find hobbies. Her crowning achievement? Having impeccable timing for telling stories that will make people snort beverages out of their noses. Consider yourself warned.
Before she became a USA Today and #1 Amazon bestselling romantic comedy author, she was a young military spouse who got into writing as self-therapy. That happened around the time she discovered reading romance novels, and the two eventually merged into a career. Today, she has more than 30 knee-slapping Pippa Grant titles and nine published under the name Jamie Farrell.
When she’s not writing romantic comedies, she’s fumbling through being a mom, wife, and mountain woman, and sometimes tries to find hobbies. Her crowning achievement? Having impeccable timing for telling stories that will make people snort beverages out of their noses. Consider yourself warned.
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July 8, 2022Author's note, about 3 months before release:
Aahhhh!! COOPER ROCK'S BOOK IS FINALLY COMING!!!!!
Aahhhh!! COOPER ROCK'S BOOK IS FINALLY COMING!!!!!
October 6, 2022
This is fourth in a romance series where past characters crop up a lot. Cooper, in particular, has been veeeery active in the books so far. And also in the Bro Code series. Grant actually puts a summary of his appearances in the front of this book just so people are clear where he's been and can read those if they like. I thought that was very thoughtful. You could start with this one, but you'd be robbing yourself of a rich history if you do.
I've enjoyed Cooper a lot as a side character in those other stories. He's playful and funny and doesn't take himself too seriously (except maybe in The Grumpy Player Next Door with his sister). But you just know that it's going to be hard to tame him to make him a leading man. Grant was fully up to this challenge, however, and I can't say how grateful I am for it.
Waverly has also been involved in the other books, but not nearly to the same extent. Cooper's teammate, Diego, has had a crush on her from the start, so there are some interesting waters to cross since Cooper cares about his teammates deeply. So disappointing the naïve and sensitive Diego matters to him. And that's only one of the fraught interactions involved with these two deciding to give a relationship a go.
And Grant starts us off with a buried background where they had been together eight years ago at the start of their respective careers. So there's some second-chance flavor ladled on, lightly. Fortunately, the reason for their break made sense and I was completely okay with both the past events and with them finding a way back together here.
I'm particularly glad that Grant isn't addicted to dark moments because there was room for a doozy in this story. I didn't feel like she'd take that low-hanging prize because it'd break some of what they were learning about each other. And I've never been so glad to be right. Plus, it turns out there was totally room for some really outstanding grand gestures even without that break.
Cooper totally deserves all five stars I'm giving this story, and Waverly underscores that by about a million. Plus, how can you not love that cover?!? I don't know what deal Grant made with what dark entity to get that sparkling charisma staring out at me with those blue-blue eyes, but I'm going out on a limb and saying it was totally worth it. To me.
A note about Steamy: There are some really great explicit sex scenes, but not as many as you'd think given how Cooper is motivated. So this is around the middle of my steam tolerance and I like how they fit into the story as a whole.
I've enjoyed Cooper a lot as a side character in those other stories. He's playful and funny and doesn't take himself too seriously (except maybe in The Grumpy Player Next Door with his sister). But you just know that it's going to be hard to tame him to make him a leading man. Grant was fully up to this challenge, however, and I can't say how grateful I am for it.
Waverly has also been involved in the other books, but not nearly to the same extent. Cooper's teammate, Diego, has had a crush on her from the start, so there are some interesting waters to cross since Cooper cares about his teammates deeply. So disappointing the naïve and sensitive Diego matters to him. And that's only one of the fraught interactions involved with these two deciding to give a relationship a go.
And Grant starts us off with a buried background where they had been together eight years ago at the start of their respective careers. So there's some second-chance flavor ladled on, lightly. Fortunately, the reason for their break made sense and I was completely okay with both the past events and with them finding a way back together here.
I'm particularly glad that Grant isn't addicted to dark moments because there was room for a doozy in this story. I didn't feel like she'd take that low-hanging prize because it'd break some of what they were learning about each other. And I've never been so glad to be right. Plus, it turns out there was totally room for some really outstanding grand gestures even without that break.
Cooper totally deserves all five stars I'm giving this story, and Waverly underscores that by about a million. Plus, how can you not love that cover?!? I don't know what deal Grant made with what dark entity to get that sparkling charisma staring out at me with those blue-blue eyes, but I'm going out on a limb and saying it was totally worth it. To me.
A note about Steamy: There are some really great explicit sex scenes, but not as many as you'd think given how Cooper is motivated. So this is around the middle of my steam tolerance and I like how they fit into the story as a whole.
August 12, 2022
Cooper, famous baseball player and down to earth pop performer Waverly hit a home run in the love dept. As usual, Pippa will have you in stitches laughing with her off the cuff humor that I’m still unsure how she comes up with so many funny phrases. I also think she always picks the perfect names and develops her characters on another level. Hashtag the cat? Yes. Here for all of it! Run! Right now, run to get this book.
September 29, 2022
I feel like a fraud. I've read a heap of Pippa Grant books, they are a go to laugh out loud read. And I thought I was up to this book when I went all grabby hands to see THE Cooper Rock fall in love. Then I realised I am so far from being up to date with the books because they aren't all in the same series. I read the Bro Code and a few others but now I have to go back and read more. 😏 What a shame.
Cooper is one of those guys that you shake your head at his antics while you can't keep the smile off his face. And even when he's sleeping his way through the United States and you kind of want to bathe him in sanitizer, you also want to hug him and poke at those adorable dimples. I didn't think there would be a woman brave enough to deal with his antics.
Then along came Waverly. I honestly don't remember being introduced to her previously but with my memory that doesn't mean much. From the first page I was a fan. I wanted to join the Braverlies fan club and search Spotify for all her music and then I remembered she wasn't real. I mean honestly Pippa writes such real characters.
I loved everything that these guys had to work through to get the happily ever after they both deserved. It was so well earned but it was also incredibly deserved by such awesome, selfless, caring people. And the epilogues were so sweet. I can't wipe the smile off my face. I think everyone needs a little Shipwreck Cove and their inhabitants in their lives.
Cooper is one of those guys that you shake your head at his antics while you can't keep the smile off his face. And even when he's sleeping his way through the United States and you kind of want to bathe him in sanitizer, you also want to hug him and poke at those adorable dimples. I didn't think there would be a woman brave enough to deal with his antics.
Then along came Waverly. I honestly don't remember being introduced to her previously but with my memory that doesn't mean much. From the first page I was a fan. I wanted to join the Braverlies fan club and search Spotify for all her music and then I remembered she wasn't real. I mean honestly Pippa writes such real characters.
I loved everything that these guys had to work through to get the happily ever after they both deserved. It was so well earned but it was also incredibly deserved by such awesome, selfless, caring people. And the epilogues were so sweet. I can't wipe the smile off my face. I think everyone needs a little Shipwreck Cove and their inhabitants in their lives.
April 27, 2024
Cooper and Waverly... the over talking was EXHAUSTING 😩😭😭😳
Mackenzie Cartwright and Connor Crais bring this hilarious story to life. Mackenzie does a great job showcasing the sweet and charitable personality Waverly has and also all of her insecurities. Connor does a great job showcasing Cooper caring and swoony personality to life. Together, they did amazing at telling Waverly and Cooper’s love story.
The reason for four stars instead of five is due to excessive wordiness and a new quirk of identifying characters by race, rather than trusting the reader to intuit a description. If the author is doing it for herself, then okay, I guess, but readers would rather you let us do our job without hand-holding. Despite that, I really loved this story. Sure, it’s a lot of fun and games with ridiculous laugh-out-loud moments, but Grant also takes us deep.
Chapter 20 😂😂😂😂😂 Family Chat
**Erratic storyline
**player crushes on the Singer Superstar
**He falls hard
**Second chance
**Chemistry
Audible purchase
Mackenzie Cartwright and Connor Crais bring this hilarious story to life. Mackenzie does a great job showcasing the sweet and charitable personality Waverly has and also all of her insecurities. Connor does a great job showcasing Cooper caring and swoony personality to life. Together, they did amazing at telling Waverly and Cooper’s love story.
The reason for four stars instead of five is due to excessive wordiness and a new quirk of identifying characters by race, rather than trusting the reader to intuit a description. If the author is doing it for herself, then okay, I guess, but readers would rather you let us do our job without hand-holding. Despite that, I really loved this story. Sure, it’s a lot of fun and games with ridiculous laugh-out-loud moments, but Grant also takes us deep.
Chapter 20 😂😂😂😂😂 Family Chat
**Erratic storyline
**player crushes on the Singer Superstar
**He falls hard
**Second chance
**Chemistry
Audible purchase
September 23, 2022
It seems like we’ve been waiting an eternity for Cooper Rock's story, and, holy home run, did he ever deliver! Aside from the fact that his love interest is pop sensation Waverly Sweet, because these two are never in the same place at the same time. How does one romance like this? Let these two be together already!
In between the dates they were able to arrange sporadically, we get a lot of behind the scenes of the pop-star lifestyle and the shenanigans and camaraderie of a sports team as they work towards making it to the World Series. We also get more of the delightfully quirky town of Shipwreck and the total awesome, constantly pranking Rock family.
The reason for four stars instead of five is due to excessive wordiness and a new quirk of identifying characters by race, rather than trusting the reader to intuit a description. If the author is doing it for herself, then okay, I guess, but readers would rather you let us do our job without hand-holding. Despite that, I really loved this story. Sure, it’s a lot of fun and games with ridiculous laugh-out-loud moments, but Grant also takes us deep.
We see layer after layer of both Cooper and Waverly peeled back, and it’s impossible not to empathize with them and fall a little harder for them as a result. Outrageously hilarious but also an epic workout for your romantic heart, this is one of my favorite fictional worlds. I have no doubt you'll adore Cooper and Waverly as much as I do, so run to the 1-Click and start your epic escape to Shipwreck today!
In between the dates they were able to arrange sporadically, we get a lot of behind the scenes of the pop-star lifestyle and the shenanigans and camaraderie of a sports team as they work towards making it to the World Series. We also get more of the delightfully quirky town of Shipwreck and the total awesome, constantly pranking Rock family.
The reason for four stars instead of five is due to excessive wordiness and a new quirk of identifying characters by race, rather than trusting the reader to intuit a description. If the author is doing it for herself, then okay, I guess, but readers would rather you let us do our job without hand-holding. Despite that, I really loved this story. Sure, it’s a lot of fun and games with ridiculous laugh-out-loud moments, but Grant also takes us deep.
We see layer after layer of both Cooper and Waverly peeled back, and it’s impossible not to empathize with them and fall a little harder for them as a result. Outrageously hilarious but also an epic workout for your romantic heart, this is one of my favorite fictional worlds. I have no doubt you'll adore Cooper and Waverly as much as I do, so run to the 1-Click and start your epic escape to Shipwreck today!
September 13, 2022
I can't even with how awesome this story is.
I've been reading Pippa for a loooooooong time. I love all of her work, like seriously LOVE. I don't have words for this story. Waverly and Cooper might be my new favorites and they had big shoes to fill to take that title on the Pippa Love Podium.
She seamlessly blends story elements together to not only suck you into an unputdownable story, but also gives you all the happy feels your heart will ever need, humor that makes you snort water in bed when you're trying not to wake your husband up and characters that will thrive in your mind forever.
Bravo Pippa, Cooper and Waverly, you three put forward one hell of a story that I didn't know I needed until I read it.
I've been reading Pippa for a loooooooong time. I love all of her work, like seriously LOVE. I don't have words for this story. Waverly and Cooper might be my new favorites and they had big shoes to fill to take that title on the Pippa Love Podium.
She seamlessly blends story elements together to not only suck you into an unputdownable story, but also gives you all the happy feels your heart will ever need, humor that makes you snort water in bed when you're trying not to wake your husband up and characters that will thrive in your mind forever.
Bravo Pippa, Cooper and Waverly, you three put forward one hell of a story that I didn't know I needed until I read it.
September 29, 2022
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Cooper's always known Waverly is far, far out of his league. Now she's even more so because she's the reigning pop princess, sweetheart, and still just a ray of goodness and sunshine. So why's he trying to get back into her world? He needs her. He, the playboy baseball god, pranking brother, leader of the most losers of all losers baseball teams, needs Waverly to help him out of his slump. And she just may help him when she finds out the real reason he ghosted her back in the day. But how can two people with rarely intersecting schedules, pressures of being in the public eye and at the top of their worlds, hope to make anything work?
Waverly had no idea it would be so lonely at the top. She should be happy - she's got the best job in the world, fans who love her, more money than she can spend, and she's the world's sweetheart. But when Cooper Rock swaggers his way back into her life again, she realizes what she's been missing. And now she just needs to grab it, if their schedules allow them time to actually see each other, to fall in love, to stay in love.
I knew when we got Cooper's story that it would be a doozy, and it is! He's such a goofball, a cocky, larger ego than the world good guy who fell so hard and it was glorious, every single page. Why? Well the object of all his fascination is the best partner Pippa could have dreamed up - Waverly's not just sweet, she's sunshiney, she's got the biggest heart, even for people who don't really deserve it, and only she could possibly deal with Cooper's crazy schedule because hers is just as bad if not worse. Their chemistry is hot, the laughs are out loud and zany, and there's a whole crew of friends and family surrounding them who make this world they all inhabit even better.
ARC provided by Give Me Books Promotions for an honest review.
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October 25, 2022
Quick read with match-up between a baseball player and a mega-singing pop queen. I liked both the main characters, along with the rest of the crazy secondary characters. The premise was entertaining, but there was an overindulgent amount of looney tune activity that took away from the developing relationship between the stars of the book. Don't get me wrong, I love some fun and games and hilarious banter, too -- but the real story got clogged down in all the silliness.
September 23, 2022
This book. THIS BOOK. I'm at a loss for words, but I'm going to try.
It's rare that a romcom makes me repeatedly laugh out loud and also makes me cry. In fact, I usually shy away from things that will make me cry, but these are happy tears. I feel like I just watched a dozen surprise-soldier-coming-home videos. This book was a perfect balance of funny and poignant and all of the best things.
After reading the other books in this series, I was a little hesitant about Cooper Rock. He's got so much ego, I wasn't sure I could handle a whole book about him. I didn't need to worry though, because Waverly Sweet does an excellent job of handling Cooper. Readers see everything that makes Cooper tick as he falls for the pop princess he thinks is out of his league. We learn what inspires Cooper to play for the Fireballs even when they were the losingest team in baseball. We learn where he gets his confidence and why and how he shares his joy.
Waverly is an excellent counterbalance for Cooper. It would be easy for Cooper's ego to overshadow any potential love interest, but he definitely doesn't outshine Waverly. She's a source of goodness and light all on her own. Cooper and Waverly together were perfect.
This is the fourth book in the Copper Valley Fireballs series (or the fifth if you start with Liar, Liar Hearts on Fire, which I absolutely recommend.) While it could be enjoyed as a standalone, I'd encourage readers to start from the beginning and fall in love with Copper Valley, the Fireballs, Shipwreck, and the entire Fireballs family. This series is Pippa Grant at her very best. Each book in the series is gold.
It's rare that a romcom makes me repeatedly laugh out loud and also makes me cry. In fact, I usually shy away from things that will make me cry, but these are happy tears. I feel like I just watched a dozen surprise-soldier-coming-home videos. This book was a perfect balance of funny and poignant and all of the best things.
After reading the other books in this series, I was a little hesitant about Cooper Rock. He's got so much ego, I wasn't sure I could handle a whole book about him. I didn't need to worry though, because Waverly Sweet does an excellent job of handling Cooper. Readers see everything that makes Cooper tick as he falls for the pop princess he thinks is out of his league. We learn what inspires Cooper to play for the Fireballs even when they were the losingest team in baseball. We learn where he gets his confidence and why and how he shares his joy.
Waverly is an excellent counterbalance for Cooper. It would be easy for Cooper's ego to overshadow any potential love interest, but he definitely doesn't outshine Waverly. She's a source of goodness and light all on her own. Cooper and Waverly together were perfect.
This is the fourth book in the Copper Valley Fireballs series (or the fifth if you start with Liar, Liar Hearts on Fire, which I absolutely recommend.) While it could be enjoyed as a standalone, I'd encourage readers to start from the beginning and fall in love with Copper Valley, the Fireballs, Shipwreck, and the entire Fireballs family. This series is Pippa Grant at her very best. Each book in the series is gold.
October 5, 2022
5 Wooperly Stars
Irresistible Trouble is the fourth book in the Copper Valley Fireballs series by Pippa Grant. Its Cooper's long awaited story. This is a second chance romance with low angst conflict that drives both Copper and Waverly closer together.
“It’s so clandestine—we totally need a code word. Like Team Wooperly. And clearly once we start talking, magic will happen. I’m awesome. You’re awesome. Together, we’re like, awesome quadruplified.”
Pippa has this way of drawing you in to her books and being hooked until the last page and of course leaving you wanting more. Her characters are so funny and even her secondary characters are addictive. I wanted more but sure that’s always the same with her books. I never want them to finish. If you’re a fan of rom-coms with LOL moments and entertainment throughout, this is the book for you.
Irresistible Trouble is the fourth book in the Copper Valley Fireballs series by Pippa Grant. Its Cooper's long awaited story. This is a second chance romance with low angst conflict that drives both Copper and Waverly closer together.
“It’s so clandestine—we totally need a code word. Like Team Wooperly. And clearly once we start talking, magic will happen. I’m awesome. You’re awesome. Together, we’re like, awesome quadruplified.”
Pippa has this way of drawing you in to her books and being hooked until the last page and of course leaving you wanting more. Her characters are so funny and even her secondary characters are addictive. I wanted more but sure that’s always the same with her books. I never want them to finish. If you’re a fan of rom-coms with LOL moments and entertainment throughout, this is the book for you.
September 19, 2022
Team Wooperly For The Win!!!
As a long time Pippa fan I've been wanting Cooper's book for what seems like forever.
Let me tell you.. he's worth the wait and so is his girl, Waverly!!
Cooper, aka The King of Baseball, Prankster Supreme, nervous talker and sister kisser (you need to read the book to get the scoop! Lol) has it bad for pop star, Waverly, who he had a brief fling with a while back.
Waverly is everything I wanted for Cooper, and more! She is at the top of the billboard charts, but it's pretty damn lonely at the top and always having to be 'on'....
Cooper is exactly the kind of guy care needs in her over scheduled life and possibly the only person who can totally get the pressures of being Waverly.
This book comes with a warning:
You will laugh non-stop, you will swoon, you will cheer these two on and you may even fist pump the air at finally getting Cooper's HEA.
It is undeniably the most anticipated book of Pippa Grant's and if you're still new to her books you should consider yourself lucky you haven't waited decades like the rest of us for #Wooperly.
Thank you Pippa for all the smiles this book brought me!!
As a long time Pippa fan I've been wanting Cooper's book for what seems like forever.
Let me tell you.. he's worth the wait and so is his girl, Waverly!!
Cooper, aka The King of Baseball, Prankster Supreme, nervous talker and sister kisser (you need to read the book to get the scoop! Lol) has it bad for pop star, Waverly, who he had a brief fling with a while back.
Waverly is everything I wanted for Cooper, and more! She is at the top of the billboard charts, but it's pretty damn lonely at the top and always having to be 'on'....
Cooper is exactly the kind of guy care needs in her over scheduled life and possibly the only person who can totally get the pressures of being Waverly.
This book comes with a warning:
You will laugh non-stop, you will swoon, you will cheer these two on and you may even fist pump the air at finally getting Cooper's HEA.
It is undeniably the most anticipated book of Pippa Grant's and if you're still new to her books you should consider yourself lucky you haven't waited decades like the rest of us for #Wooperly.
Thank you Pippa for all the smiles this book brought me!!
September 30, 2022
Gah! We’ve all patiently waited for Cooper to tell Pippa his story, and this story is everything I could have wanted for him!
Waverley challenges Cooper in a lot of ways, she is a star even bigger than Cooper Rock. When they get a second chance, they need to hold on tight and they do!
I loved this story!
Waverley challenges Cooper in a lot of ways, she is a star even bigger than Cooper Rock. When they get a second chance, they need to hold on tight and they do!
I loved this story!
October 9, 2022
Liked, Ok - mixed feelings
I’ve said this before, just because I really enjoy certain authors does not mean every book I read will automatically be 5 ⭐️.
The previous book or two that I have read recently from Pippa, have been nothing short of 👎🏻 and dare I say, not written by her.
I was pretty pumped to finally get a book on Cooper, let’s face it the Rock family is awesome and who wouldn’t want to visit Shipwreck?
This story was cute, it touched on an all too real problem we have with media and tabloid perceptions.
I found some interesting new writing formats for Pippa that was out of character for her that makes me wonder about the editors. And not in a good way.
I wish the epilogue on just Cooper & Waverly from the downloaded Book Funnel was part of the actual book - it would have made more sense to me in my opinion.
I hope the original Pippa Grant writing style comes back because I’m starting to shy away from any of her new books these days 😞.
I’ve said this before, just because I really enjoy certain authors does not mean every book I read will automatically be 5 ⭐️.
The previous book or two that I have read recently from Pippa, have been nothing short of 👎🏻 and dare I say, not written by her.
I was pretty pumped to finally get a book on Cooper, let’s face it the Rock family is awesome and who wouldn’t want to visit Shipwreck?
This story was cute, it touched on an all too real problem we have with media and tabloid perceptions.
I found some interesting new writing formats for Pippa that was out of character for her that makes me wonder about the editors. And not in a good way.
I wish the epilogue on just Cooper & Waverly from the downloaded Book Funnel was part of the actual book - it would have made more sense to me in my opinion.
I hope the original Pippa Grant writing style comes back because I’m starting to shy away from any of her new books these days 😞.
September 30, 2022
Between the pages of a Pippa book is my happy place and this book had that feeling in spades. I love Team Wooperly as much as Cooper loves the Fireballs and that's saying something. I have never wished a fictional couple to be real more than these two because the world would be a better place with these two humans in it.
September 29, 2022
Book four in the Copper Valley Fireballs series can be read as a stand alone and ends with a HEA. That said, Cooper, our hero, does appear in several previous books by this author and I personally always love knowing all the backstory. It is written in first person from an alternating dual POV.
Cooper Rock. He gave this author fits, but she finally managed to drag his story out of him, and it was fantastic. I was a little irritated with him in the beginning of this book. I have always loved him. Getting to know his weaknesses was enlightening. Ultimately, he reconnects with pop star Waverly Sweet and gets knocked completely on his backside. It was completely enjoyable to read as he figures out how he can pursue someone so obviously out of his league.
Waverly was a real sweetheart. She has spent a long time in the music business and is at the top of her game. She has a little drama within her team, and she is utterly exhausted by her life. I really appreciated how real she was and how human. I loved her and she is certainly one of my favorite heroines now.
Their romance has plenty of heat. They support of each other emotionally and support each other’s dreams. Their emotional connection as they work their long-distance relationship was wonderful to read. Waverly is perfect for Cooper, and he grows enough to become perfect for her. This was a wonderful read, and I can’t recommend it enough.
I am voluntarily leaving this honest review after reading an advance reader copy of the book.
Cooper Rock. He gave this author fits, but she finally managed to drag his story out of him, and it was fantastic. I was a little irritated with him in the beginning of this book. I have always loved him. Getting to know his weaknesses was enlightening. Ultimately, he reconnects with pop star Waverly Sweet and gets knocked completely on his backside. It was completely enjoyable to read as he figures out how he can pursue someone so obviously out of his league.
Waverly was a real sweetheart. She has spent a long time in the music business and is at the top of her game. She has a little drama within her team, and she is utterly exhausted by her life. I really appreciated how real she was and how human. I loved her and she is certainly one of my favorite heroines now.
Their romance has plenty of heat. They support of each other emotionally and support each other’s dreams. Their emotional connection as they work their long-distance relationship was wonderful to read. Waverly is perfect for Cooper, and he grows enough to become perfect for her. This was a wonderful read, and I can’t recommend it enough.
I am voluntarily leaving this honest review after reading an advance reader copy of the book.
September 29, 2022
I am grinning like a fool because a whole book of Cooper Rock will do that too you!
I didn’t think I could LOVE Cooper more but omg I am full on obsessed! He is the best! Point blank, straight to it the BEST! His heart, his loyalty, his love! He’s funny but is there when you need him. Waverly is his other half though! Together they just make sense. She gets him in a way no one else does. Their connection is strong and I loved how real and open they were with each other!
I have enjoyed EVERY book in this serious. All of the stories are hilarious and full of heart but Cooper and Waverlys story is full of soul! It’s the perfect way to end a series!
I have fallen in love with Pippa’s writing and can not wait to read previous and future books by her!
I didn’t think I could LOVE Cooper more but omg I am full on obsessed! He is the best! Point blank, straight to it the BEST! His heart, his loyalty, his love! He’s funny but is there when you need him. Waverly is his other half though! Together they just make sense. She gets him in a way no one else does. Their connection is strong and I loved how real and open they were with each other!
I have enjoyed EVERY book in this serious. All of the stories are hilarious and full of heart but Cooper and Waverlys story is full of soul! It’s the perfect way to end a series!
I have fallen in love with Pippa’s writing and can not wait to read previous and future books by her!
September 22, 2022
Irresistible Trouble by Pippa Grant (Copper Valley Fireballs # 4)
ARC Review
5/5 stars if not more if I could give it. As many stars that are in the book, which are a lot. All of the stars
I’m sitting here in the aftermath of this book, trying to figure out how to write a review on a book that housed two big personalities while managing to balance two big personality worlds and wonderfully Pippa pulled it off. These two are both irresistible and trouble in the best ways.
The cameos in this book were off the chain and I’m still reeling in the best way possible. DAX AND WILLOW. Not once did the main characters fade into the background. They held their own and I’m sobbing. It is so bittersweet, but I want more. Miss Pippa, Goddess Pippa, more Wooperly, please. I need more of these two. I can’t say much more because of spoilers, but Pippa you are magic. I am sad that these two aren’t going to be mains anymore. I would love to see them in the background, but it will not be the same. Highly recommend this book to everyone and catch the first three to get all the jokes. Fantastic job, Pippa. X
#cooperandwaverly #teamwooperly #sportsromance #popstarromance
#thisisnotenoughandIneedmore #sobs #foundfamily #secondchance #coppervalleyfireballs #romcom #pippagrant #irrestibletrouble
ARC Review
5/5 stars if not more if I could give it. As many stars that are in the book, which are a lot. All of the stars
I’m sitting here in the aftermath of this book, trying to figure out how to write a review on a book that housed two big personalities while managing to balance two big personality worlds and wonderfully Pippa pulled it off. These two are both irresistible and trouble in the best ways.
The cameos in this book were off the chain and I’m still reeling in the best way possible. DAX AND WILLOW. Not once did the main characters fade into the background. They held their own and I’m sobbing. It is so bittersweet, but I want more. Miss Pippa, Goddess Pippa, more Wooperly, please. I need more of these two. I can’t say much more because of spoilers, but Pippa you are magic. I am sad that these two aren’t going to be mains anymore. I would love to see them in the background, but it will not be the same. Highly recommend this book to everyone and catch the first three to get all the jokes. Fantastic job, Pippa. X
#cooperandwaverly #teamwooperly #sportsromance #popstarromance
#thisisnotenoughandIneedmore #sobs #foundfamily #secondchance #coppervalleyfireballs #romcom #pippagrant #irrestibletrouble
September 29, 2022
⚾️ ARC REVIEW 🎤
Review: 3/5 ⭐️
Steam: 2/5 🔥
#irrisistabletrouble is book 4 in the #coppervalleybaseballseries by #pippagrant
Cooper is a hot and energetic baseball player which works for him on and off the field. The guy is known for having a good time while playing some pranks on people closest to him. Everything going according to plan till he sees a familiar face while at a concert. She was exactly what he wants in a woman but it’s never been for more than a night. Until Waverly. Can he prove that he wasn’t the man he was almost a decade ago or will his insecurities keep coming back to doom this relationship before it can really get going?
Waverly is a mega star. She’s following big footsteps from her late mother, but she’s also made a name for herself in the music industry. She’s quirky and kind and always tries to look at the best in people. But with Cooper it’s hard since he ghosted 8 years ago. Can she accept his reason for not reaching out or will it be too little too late especially seeing what a playboy he is?
I had mixed feelings about this book. I’ve loved all Pippa’s sports series so far. I’ve been dying for Cooper’s book so we can finally tame this animal. But it was hard to understand their relationship when they didn’t get to spend much time together. They came from very different worlds which I like but also it’s hard to see two major celebrities work so well. I’m glad we got cameos from previous characters, because I’ve missed them. I enjoyed parts of the book but some felt a little too forced for me.
Review: 3/5 ⭐️
Steam: 2/5 🔥
#irrisistabletrouble is book 4 in the #coppervalleybaseballseries by #pippagrant
Cooper is a hot and energetic baseball player which works for him on and off the field. The guy is known for having a good time while playing some pranks on people closest to him. Everything going according to plan till he sees a familiar face while at a concert. She was exactly what he wants in a woman but it’s never been for more than a night. Until Waverly. Can he prove that he wasn’t the man he was almost a decade ago or will his insecurities keep coming back to doom this relationship before it can really get going?
Waverly is a mega star. She’s following big footsteps from her late mother, but she’s also made a name for herself in the music industry. She’s quirky and kind and always tries to look at the best in people. But with Cooper it’s hard since he ghosted 8 years ago. Can she accept his reason for not reaching out or will it be too little too late especially seeing what a playboy he is?
I had mixed feelings about this book. I’ve loved all Pippa’s sports series so far. I’ve been dying for Cooper’s book so we can finally tame this animal. But it was hard to understand their relationship when they didn’t get to spend much time together. They came from very different worlds which I like but also it’s hard to see two major celebrities work so well. I’m glad we got cameos from previous characters, because I’ve missed them. I enjoyed parts of the book but some felt a little too forced for me.
October 16, 2022
This one started out slow for me, but picked up once Cooper and Waverly got on the same page and wanted to be with each other. Their careers kept them apart, but how the two communicated was funny. I also loved how Cooper's family would pipe in, often times at the worst times. It was good that Waverly could see how they were, because Cooper was a packaged deal with them. Much the same could be said for his team.
I loved how this one ended, loved that Waverly realized what was important and made a change I think she needed to for a long time. Now she can do things on her own terms.
I loved how this one ended, loved that Waverly realized what was important and made a change I think she needed to for a long time. Now she can do things on her own terms.
September 29, 2022
I love this book so much Waverly and Cooper are so cute together, I love the have for each other after all these years apart is so moving so passionate and Just fell in love with this couple so much . I love second chance romances so much and pippa nailed this one perfectly!
October 3, 2022
3.5 stars
i usually like pippa grant’s books but idk something just felt off with this one. the stories and chapters just feel so disconnected? like why do the characters keep telling us about the past events instead of actually showing? for example, cooper saying he’s going to hit a grand slam and we have no scene of that? like what happened to show not tell? suddenly it jumps to waverly going to cooper’s house. like I know he ended up not getting a grand slam but still. it’s a bit upsetting especially since i like cooper rock and i’ve been waiting for his book. idk maybe bc compared to the other Pippa grant releases this year which were great, this just felt like a letdown.
i usually like pippa grant’s books but idk something just felt off with this one. the stories and chapters just feel so disconnected? like why do the characters keep telling us about the past events instead of actually showing? for example, cooper saying he’s going to hit a grand slam and we have no scene of that? like what happened to show not tell? suddenly it jumps to waverly going to cooper’s house. like I know he ended up not getting a grand slam but still. it’s a bit upsetting especially since i like cooper rock and i’ve been waiting for his book. idk maybe bc compared to the other Pippa grant releases this year which were great, this just felt like a letdown.
June 3, 2024
Review pending
September 14, 2022
Worth. The. Wait. Holy crap. Pippa fans have been clamoring for Cooper's book FOR-EV-ER because he's a charming, incredibly FUN guy. Pairing him with Waverly Sweet, pop princess was GENIUS and I absofreakinglutely adored every second of this story. Even all the outrageous interruptions that delayed the kissing... One of Pippa's best. Absolutely irresistible.
September 14, 2022
I never wanted this story to end! It was absolutely hilarious, sweet, sexy, and full of big feelings. I read it in one sitting, completely engrossed in my favorite fictional baseball team and the wonderful world the author created. Cooper and Waverly’s story ended MUCH too quickly.
October 11, 2022
If Irresistible Trouble proves to be the final book in Pippa Grant’s Copper Valley Fireballs series (which it appears to be) Pippa did it up right! Of all the books Pippa has written and of all the characters in those stories its been pretty obvious to me through her weekly fan mails that our male protagonist Cooper Rock along with the Berger twins are her favorite characters. So it's not surprising she saved Cooper’s (who has been a very prominent secondary character in so many of her books in multiple series) happily ever after until last. As the final book in this series Pippa includes so many different characters from so many of her different series from her Girl Band series when Dax and Willow make appearances, to of course her Bro Code series which is pretty much intertwined with both the Copper Valley Fireballs and Thrusters series.
Eight years ago when Waverly Sweet was a 19 year old budding pop star and 21 year old Cooper Rock was a budding baseball star they had a 3 day fling. Their attraction ran deeper than the orgasmic sex they enjoyed. So when at the end of the 3 days Cooper had to report to spring training and promised he’d call Waverly she was thrilled. But then he ghosted her. In doing so he filled the young woman with self-doubt as to whether there was something wrong with her and a seriously broken heart. While part of Waverly wanted to hate Cooper he was such a good guy she really couldn’t. Which made his ghosting of her even more confusing. He became the gold standard she used to measure all the men that came after him. For eight years Waverly has sought to avoid any chance of seeing Cooper again. Now Waverly is the world’s biggest female pop superstar. She regularly sells out every stadium and arena she appears in. Her songs rocket to the top of the chart and go platinum the moment they are released. Confident that Cooper is in Florida for spring training, she’s in Copper Valley for a concert. In a meet and greet with her young fans for the first time in 8 years she sees Cooper who has brought a little league team he’d been helping coach to her concert using his connections with their mutually close friend and music superstar Levi Wilson to get the kids tickets to the concert and meet and greet. Of course he’s great with the kids, she’s great with the kids and old feelings between them that never really died resurface. Cooper feels terrible for the way he ghosted Waverly. He intimates to her that there is more of a reason to why he ghosted her than she realizes. From the little he says Waverly suspects her Aunt Zinnia who raised her after her mother died of cancer and who has been her over controlling manager from the start may have had something to do with why Cooper never called her. Waverly needs closure. She needs to know why the guy she thought was so great and so into her would dump her without a word. Believing based upon his history that Cooper is not a relationship kind of guy, after a long dry spell, she also wouldn’t mind one more night with the first man to give her an orgasm. What she doesn’t realize, what Cooper is just beginning to realize himself is that he's no longer interested in having meaningless sex with random women. After seeing Waverly again Cooper can’t get Waverly off of his mind. He can't muster any desire to hook up with all the women he would normally have sex with. Put bluntly when Waverly’s aunt convinced him that he wasn’t good for her career he tried to fuck her out of his mind. The timing coincided with his exploding career. Being a typically superstitious ballplayer this led to him convincing himself that he needed to get laid in order to play well which is how he became such a player never having a serious relationship. Months after the meet and greet when Waverly reaches out to Cooper saying she “wants to talk,” Cooper already knows he wants more. He suspects Waverly might be more than just the solution to his current professional slump. She might be his everything.
This is the second chance at love story of how love conquers all. After one night together Waverly and Cooper agree that they want to try and be a couple. But there is so much standing in the way. Waverly, who thanks to her Aunt constantly whispering in her ear is extremely image conscious. Just being seen publicly with the well known playboy could do serious damage to her well honed good girl reputation. There’s a lot here about how society has a double standard for women. Where no one thinks anything about Cooper going through women like people change their socks, while Waverly would be tarred and feathered by a mean-spirited paparazzi who is constantly looking for ways to knock her from her squeaky clean, good person pedestal for dating him. When she broke up with Geoffey her cheating ex-fiancé last year the media somehow spun it to make her look bad. Despite the fact Waverly has already reached the pinnacle of her career having earned more money than she could ever spend, her Aunt Zinnia constantly pushes her to do more. More concerts, more public appearances, more endorsement deals. Zinnia doubles down on filling Waverly’s calendar with time commitments in an attempt to keep her niece and Cooper apart. This keeps Waverly busy and often on the road, 24/7. While Cooper isn’t as busy as Waverly his career does consume most of his time for nine months a year. Their demanding schedules makes it nearly impossible for the two lovers to find time to share together. Both committed to their careers there is no end in sight. Still our determined couple shoulders on finding stolen minutes to be together whenever they can, constantly texting and Facetiming each other. Cooper is haunted by the idea planted nearly a decade ago by Zinnia that he’s not good enough for Waverly and can only hold her back. Waverly makes everyone she meets feel special and does even more charity work than he does. She’s also such a big star whose celebrity and wealth dwarfs his own, combined with the geographic distance between them he feels incapable of being able to do anything to make her life better. And beneath is goofball personae Cooper lives to make the lives of those around him better. Months and months pass where these two struggle to find any time in their busy schedules to be together. Something has to give or they must accept that they just don’t have time at this point in their careers for a relationship. While Waverly enjoys much about her career and rightly feels much of what she does is important, she really isn’t happy with her life. It’s obvious she needs to take control of her life away from her overbearing Aunt Zinnia and find time to do things just for herself which includes living her life without worrying so much about what others think and say about her. Ironically, it’s Aspen, a young up and coming artist she has taken under her wing to mentor that becomes a trusted friend and advisor who pushes her to do just that.
Cooper loves baseball. He’s been a fan of his hometown team since he was a little boy. It’s been his life’s mission since he became a professional ball player to turn the lovable losers into World Series champions often rejecting offers to play for better teams. He’s conflicted between his love for the game and his team and his need to be with and support Waverly.
It's definitely not all angst in this story. It is a Pippa Grant book after all. It couldn’t be with the lovable goofball Cooper Rock as the male lead. Just about everything that comes out of his mouth is funny. Add in the rest of the slightly crazy definitely irreverent Rock family, his teammates, Waverly and her sensitive stomach, her cat Hashtag and there are plenty of laughs to lighten the angsty struggles Waverly and Cooper go through to be together. I won’t say this is the best Pippa Grant story I’ve ever read because there have just been too many great stories from one of my favorite authors. But I will say it’s as good as any I’ve read by her. If this is the end, I’m going to miss the city of Copper Valley, the town of Shipwrecked and all the folks who live there.
Eight years ago when Waverly Sweet was a 19 year old budding pop star and 21 year old Cooper Rock was a budding baseball star they had a 3 day fling. Their attraction ran deeper than the orgasmic sex they enjoyed. So when at the end of the 3 days Cooper had to report to spring training and promised he’d call Waverly she was thrilled. But then he ghosted her. In doing so he filled the young woman with self-doubt as to whether there was something wrong with her and a seriously broken heart. While part of Waverly wanted to hate Cooper he was such a good guy she really couldn’t. Which made his ghosting of her even more confusing. He became the gold standard she used to measure all the men that came after him. For eight years Waverly has sought to avoid any chance of seeing Cooper again. Now Waverly is the world’s biggest female pop superstar. She regularly sells out every stadium and arena she appears in. Her songs rocket to the top of the chart and go platinum the moment they are released. Confident that Cooper is in Florida for spring training, she’s in Copper Valley for a concert. In a meet and greet with her young fans for the first time in 8 years she sees Cooper who has brought a little league team he’d been helping coach to her concert using his connections with their mutually close friend and music superstar Levi Wilson to get the kids tickets to the concert and meet and greet. Of course he’s great with the kids, she’s great with the kids and old feelings between them that never really died resurface. Cooper feels terrible for the way he ghosted Waverly. He intimates to her that there is more of a reason to why he ghosted her than she realizes. From the little he says Waverly suspects her Aunt Zinnia who raised her after her mother died of cancer and who has been her over controlling manager from the start may have had something to do with why Cooper never called her. Waverly needs closure. She needs to know why the guy she thought was so great and so into her would dump her without a word. Believing based upon his history that Cooper is not a relationship kind of guy, after a long dry spell, she also wouldn’t mind one more night with the first man to give her an orgasm. What she doesn’t realize, what Cooper is just beginning to realize himself is that he's no longer interested in having meaningless sex with random women. After seeing Waverly again Cooper can’t get Waverly off of his mind. He can't muster any desire to hook up with all the women he would normally have sex with. Put bluntly when Waverly’s aunt convinced him that he wasn’t good for her career he tried to fuck her out of his mind. The timing coincided with his exploding career. Being a typically superstitious ballplayer this led to him convincing himself that he needed to get laid in order to play well which is how he became such a player never having a serious relationship. Months after the meet and greet when Waverly reaches out to Cooper saying she “wants to talk,” Cooper already knows he wants more. He suspects Waverly might be more than just the solution to his current professional slump. She might be his everything.
This is the second chance at love story of how love conquers all. After one night together Waverly and Cooper agree that they want to try and be a couple. But there is so much standing in the way. Waverly, who thanks to her Aunt constantly whispering in her ear is extremely image conscious. Just being seen publicly with the well known playboy could do serious damage to her well honed good girl reputation. There’s a lot here about how society has a double standard for women. Where no one thinks anything about Cooper going through women like people change their socks, while Waverly would be tarred and feathered by a mean-spirited paparazzi who is constantly looking for ways to knock her from her squeaky clean, good person pedestal for dating him. When she broke up with Geoffey her cheating ex-fiancé last year the media somehow spun it to make her look bad. Despite the fact Waverly has already reached the pinnacle of her career having earned more money than she could ever spend, her Aunt Zinnia constantly pushes her to do more. More concerts, more public appearances, more endorsement deals. Zinnia doubles down on filling Waverly’s calendar with time commitments in an attempt to keep her niece and Cooper apart. This keeps Waverly busy and often on the road, 24/7. While Cooper isn’t as busy as Waverly his career does consume most of his time for nine months a year. Their demanding schedules makes it nearly impossible for the two lovers to find time to share together. Both committed to their careers there is no end in sight. Still our determined couple shoulders on finding stolen minutes to be together whenever they can, constantly texting and Facetiming each other. Cooper is haunted by the idea planted nearly a decade ago by Zinnia that he’s not good enough for Waverly and can only hold her back. Waverly makes everyone she meets feel special and does even more charity work than he does. She’s also such a big star whose celebrity and wealth dwarfs his own, combined with the geographic distance between them he feels incapable of being able to do anything to make her life better. And beneath is goofball personae Cooper lives to make the lives of those around him better. Months and months pass where these two struggle to find any time in their busy schedules to be together. Something has to give or they must accept that they just don’t have time at this point in their careers for a relationship. While Waverly enjoys much about her career and rightly feels much of what she does is important, she really isn’t happy with her life. It’s obvious she needs to take control of her life away from her overbearing Aunt Zinnia and find time to do things just for herself which includes living her life without worrying so much about what others think and say about her. Ironically, it’s Aspen, a young up and coming artist she has taken under her wing to mentor that becomes a trusted friend and advisor who pushes her to do just that.
Cooper loves baseball. He’s been a fan of his hometown team since he was a little boy. It’s been his life’s mission since he became a professional ball player to turn the lovable losers into World Series champions often rejecting offers to play for better teams. He’s conflicted between his love for the game and his team and his need to be with and support Waverly.
It's definitely not all angst in this story. It is a Pippa Grant book after all. It couldn’t be with the lovable goofball Cooper Rock as the male lead. Just about everything that comes out of his mouth is funny. Add in the rest of the slightly crazy definitely irreverent Rock family, his teammates, Waverly and her sensitive stomach, her cat Hashtag and there are plenty of laughs to lighten the angsty struggles Waverly and Cooper go through to be together. I won’t say this is the best Pippa Grant story I’ve ever read because there have just been too many great stories from one of my favorite authors. But I will say it’s as good as any I’ve read by her. If this is the end, I’m going to miss the city of Copper Valley, the town of Shipwrecked and all the folks who live there.
September 28, 2022
Own What You Love
I debated back and forth on the title for my review of Irresistible Trouble by Pippa Grant. Ultimately I went with “Own What You Love” rather than “Resistance is Futile, And Way Less Fun” because it was shorter. Because, ultimately, resisting reading this book is futile, and everyone needs the kind of fun this book brings in their lives, and there is no better way to own what you love than to dive into a book that makes you feel amazing about everything you read.
Readers familiar with Pippa Grant and her interconnected series that include the Copper Valley Fireballs are all too familiar with the struggles Pippa had getting Cooper’s story from him, but holy fireballs, was it worth the wait. The Golden Retriever energy in this book, from both Cooper and Waverly is incredible. It not only carries the humor and heart in the book, it carries the chaos and challenges as well. From the hijinks and pranks to the emotion and introspection, Irresistible Trouble brings connections and expectations to glorious heights, and a really spectacular HEA.
I love the themes of self worth and fulfillment woven throughout the storyline. The ways Waverly and Cooper find each other, find themselves, and ultimately find what they want by giving themselves, and each other, permission to take it, is a lesson most of us can take to heart. Building in much loved characters from prior books establishes a foundation of family and support that rings authentic even through the outlandishness Pippa surrounds her characters with.
Even though this is a second chance romance, I love the low angst element enhanced by the external conflict that brings Cooper and Waverly closer together while their separate lives try to keep them apart. And the visuals Pippa creates to build their characters and lead them through their relations are really phenomenal. From fake eyelashes and glitter eye shadow, to baby diaper explosions, to ice sculptures, Pippa’s language will put you smack dab in the middle of the scene, etching them into your permanent memory in some cases. Let’s just say I will never look at a double swan ice sculpture the same way- and it has very little to do with the sculpture itself and everything to do with the events and interactions around it.
If you are a fan of rom-coms with high energy, larger-than-life characters, unbelievable situations that seem all-to-real, and HEAs that defy all the odds, you are going to love Irresistible Trouble.
I debated back and forth on the title for my review of Irresistible Trouble by Pippa Grant. Ultimately I went with “Own What You Love” rather than “Resistance is Futile, And Way Less Fun” because it was shorter. Because, ultimately, resisting reading this book is futile, and everyone needs the kind of fun this book brings in their lives, and there is no better way to own what you love than to dive into a book that makes you feel amazing about everything you read.
Readers familiar with Pippa Grant and her interconnected series that include the Copper Valley Fireballs are all too familiar with the struggles Pippa had getting Cooper’s story from him, but holy fireballs, was it worth the wait. The Golden Retriever energy in this book, from both Cooper and Waverly is incredible. It not only carries the humor and heart in the book, it carries the chaos and challenges as well. From the hijinks and pranks to the emotion and introspection, Irresistible Trouble brings connections and expectations to glorious heights, and a really spectacular HEA.
I love the themes of self worth and fulfillment woven throughout the storyline. The ways Waverly and Cooper find each other, find themselves, and ultimately find what they want by giving themselves, and each other, permission to take it, is a lesson most of us can take to heart. Building in much loved characters from prior books establishes a foundation of family and support that rings authentic even through the outlandishness Pippa surrounds her characters with.
Even though this is a second chance romance, I love the low angst element enhanced by the external conflict that brings Cooper and Waverly closer together while their separate lives try to keep them apart. And the visuals Pippa creates to build their characters and lead them through their relations are really phenomenal. From fake eyelashes and glitter eye shadow, to baby diaper explosions, to ice sculptures, Pippa’s language will put you smack dab in the middle of the scene, etching them into your permanent memory in some cases. Let’s just say I will never look at a double swan ice sculpture the same way- and it has very little to do with the sculpture itself and everything to do with the events and interactions around it.
If you are a fan of rom-coms with high energy, larger-than-life characters, unbelievable situations that seem all-to-real, and HEAs that defy all the odds, you are going to love Irresistible Trouble.
July 15, 2025
This is the final installment in Pippa Grant's Copper Valley Fireballs series, and it was just as good as the others (in my opinion, the only one that matters).
This one is about Cooper Rock, the long standing player for the Fireballs and resident happy-go-lucky prankster. Positive, generous and a ladies man...his reputation proceeds him. But getting laid is part of his "good luck and superstition" to playing well on the ball field, until one-night stands no longer appeal to him. He then enters into a dry spell both in the bedroom and on the ball diamond. He knows he needs to fix this slump, but how? When a chance encounter with Waverly Sweet occurs one day, everything comes to a forefront for him in that moment. Waverly, it was always her.
Waverly goes bug-eyed when he shows up at her latest concert with a team of wily preteen boys in tow, it had been eight years since she had seen him last...since he left after three days together and then never contacted her again. Leaving her heartbroken and every relationship she has after lacks the same connection and passion. But she is a famous popstar that never has a moment to herself, every minute of the day being carefully planned by her manager and aunt...Aunt Zinnia (do not get me started on that woman, my dislike for that gaslighting monstrosity was strong from the get-go).
They reconnect, initially for a one-nighter as a farewell that they never had years prior...however both quickly realize that what they feel for each other is far deeper and real then the tie-off of a past fling. So they agree to take it one day at a time, see where it goes. But they both have very busy schedules and time together is fleeting albeit precious.
Can they overcome their busy lives? Will they be able to make each other the priority over their careers? Can the controlling harpy that is Waverly's aunt, the one that tore them apart the first time, be beaten at her own game so that they can have their happily ever after? More importantly, can Cooper win over Hashtag...Waverly's cat and best friend?
How will you find out? By reading this book, after the three before it. Obviously. Get to it peoples! I am waiting.
This one is about Cooper Rock, the long standing player for the Fireballs and resident happy-go-lucky prankster. Positive, generous and a ladies man...his reputation proceeds him. But getting laid is part of his "good luck and superstition" to playing well on the ball field, until one-night stands no longer appeal to him. He then enters into a dry spell both in the bedroom and on the ball diamond. He knows he needs to fix this slump, but how? When a chance encounter with Waverly Sweet occurs one day, everything comes to a forefront for him in that moment. Waverly, it was always her.
Waverly goes bug-eyed when he shows up at her latest concert with a team of wily preteen boys in tow, it had been eight years since she had seen him last...since he left after three days together and then never contacted her again. Leaving her heartbroken and every relationship she has after lacks the same connection and passion. But she is a famous popstar that never has a moment to herself, every minute of the day being carefully planned by her manager and aunt...Aunt Zinnia (do not get me started on that woman, my dislike for that gaslighting monstrosity was strong from the get-go).
They reconnect, initially for a one-nighter as a farewell that they never had years prior...however both quickly realize that what they feel for each other is far deeper and real then the tie-off of a past fling. So they agree to take it one day at a time, see where it goes. But they both have very busy schedules and time together is fleeting albeit precious.
Can they overcome their busy lives? Will they be able to make each other the priority over their careers? Can the controlling harpy that is Waverly's aunt, the one that tore them apart the first time, be beaten at her own game so that they can have their happily ever after? More importantly, can Cooper win over Hashtag...Waverly's cat and best friend?
How will you find out? By reading this book, after the three before it. Obviously. Get to it peoples! I am waiting.
September 29, 2022
Cooper Rock has finally fallen and oh how amazing it was to read about in this book! The laughs, pranks, smiles and good times were absolute perfection. Watching the playboy baseball player get a second chance with the pop star he met years ago was so much fun. I fell in love with Cooper and Waverly while reading this novel. Cooper is never serious, he is so fun loving and he spreads the laughter like grass growing on the outfield. Waverly is so beautiful inside and out that you can't help but love her. The perfect couple to fill out the Fireballs ranks.
Waverly Sweet was the one Cooper walked away from when her manager, convinced him he would hold her back. Eight long years they have both secretly thought of each other, wishing for what could have been. Now they are thrust back into each other's lives through Cooper's one love, baseball. This time around, he's not about to let some fire-breathing dragon of an manager keep him away from Waverly. He pulls up his lucky socks and goes after his girl, believing that she is the only one able to help him beat his superstitions. Cooper finds out that he needs Waverly in his life just as much as she needs him. Waverly is slowly becoming disenchanted with the music world thanks to butting heads with her aunt. When she sees Cooper, clarity hits with the force of a stray pitch. She's no longer happy living under her aunt's thumb and she longs for Cooper and his outrageous outlook on life. She needs the silliness that is Cooper. His family is another thing that she craves. The two reconnect and even though their schedules don't always align, they find a way to be together or chat every day. With her concerts and his team's run for the World Series, time is precious when they can steal it for themselves.
Will Cooper's love of baseball be stronger than his want of Waverly? Will Waverly finally decide if life under the bright lights is what she wants or is Cooper more important? To find out the answers to these questions, you have to read this hilarious, but absolutely stunning love story. I hope you laugh as much as I did!
Waverly Sweet was the one Cooper walked away from when her manager, convinced him he would hold her back. Eight long years they have both secretly thought of each other, wishing for what could have been. Now they are thrust back into each other's lives through Cooper's one love, baseball. This time around, he's not about to let some fire-breathing dragon of an manager keep him away from Waverly. He pulls up his lucky socks and goes after his girl, believing that she is the only one able to help him beat his superstitions. Cooper finds out that he needs Waverly in his life just as much as she needs him. Waverly is slowly becoming disenchanted with the music world thanks to butting heads with her aunt. When she sees Cooper, clarity hits with the force of a stray pitch. She's no longer happy living under her aunt's thumb and she longs for Cooper and his outrageous outlook on life. She needs the silliness that is Cooper. His family is another thing that she craves. The two reconnect and even though their schedules don't always align, they find a way to be together or chat every day. With her concerts and his team's run for the World Series, time is precious when they can steal it for themselves.
Will Cooper's love of baseball be stronger than his want of Waverly? Will Waverly finally decide if life under the bright lights is what she wants or is Cooper more important? To find out the answers to these questions, you have to read this hilarious, but absolutely stunning love story. I hope you laugh as much as I did!
October 9, 2022
We couldn’t have gotten a more perfect HEA for Cooper Rock
I LOVE Cooper! I’ve been all about Cooper since Jock Blocked. I’ve read every single Cooper book I could get my hands on. And seeing him just completely give himself over to love? It’s perfection.
I wanted a bit more steam in the story - cause I always want more steam. But the fact is, this story is all Cooper. It’s not the steam that makes my heart pound and my eyes get teary for this character…it’s him. In all of his silliness, his optimism, his unwavering love for his family and his team.
His relationship with Waverly isn’t easy. They spend so much more time apart than together in this book due to their professions. But there’s no doubt that these two love each other. They make each other the best they could be and I love it. Again, I wanted a bit more steam, and I feel like it could’ve happened if the book were longer. But that doesn’t make the story less perfect. It just means that I will never get enough of Cooper Rock.
I honestly could’ve read and 200k word Fireball fanfic about Cooper Rock and it wouldn’t have been enough.
Overall, five stars, just under 2 chili peppers…but I’m rounding up to two, and HIGHLY RECOMMEND!
This book CAN be read as a standalone, and I will always recommend the interconnected standalone you’re most excited about first (especially for a new to you author) but you’ll want all the Cooper Rock you can get. I loved Jock Blocked so if I could do it again, I’d start at Jock Blocked. It will truly enhance your experience to read about the fireballs from the real start of their story.
I LOVE Cooper! I’ve been all about Cooper since Jock Blocked. I’ve read every single Cooper book I could get my hands on. And seeing him just completely give himself over to love? It’s perfection.
I wanted a bit more steam in the story - cause I always want more steam. But the fact is, this story is all Cooper. It’s not the steam that makes my heart pound and my eyes get teary for this character…it’s him. In all of his silliness, his optimism, his unwavering love for his family and his team.
His relationship with Waverly isn’t easy. They spend so much more time apart than together in this book due to their professions. But there’s no doubt that these two love each other. They make each other the best they could be and I love it. Again, I wanted a bit more steam, and I feel like it could’ve happened if the book were longer. But that doesn’t make the story less perfect. It just means that I will never get enough of Cooper Rock.
I honestly could’ve read and 200k word Fireball fanfic about Cooper Rock and it wouldn’t have been enough.
Overall, five stars, just under 2 chili peppers…but I’m rounding up to two, and HIGHLY RECOMMEND!
This book CAN be read as a standalone, and I will always recommend the interconnected standalone you’re most excited about first (especially for a new to you author) but you’ll want all the Cooper Rock you can get. I loved Jock Blocked so if I could do it again, I’d start at Jock Blocked. It will truly enhance your experience to read about the fireballs from the real start of their story.
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