Amy AwardRomance · Fiction
C*ck down the Block
Synopsis
An adorkable librarian recruits her neighbor — the star quarterback of the best team in the league — as her fake date to an all-girls school reunion, eager to finally show up the mean girls who made her life miserable. He's more than happy to play the part, but things get complicated once her gossipy former classmates let slip that she's still a virgin, sending their fake-dating arrangement somewhere neither of them planned.
Amy Award delivers a funny, curvy-girl-and-quarterback friends-to-lovers romance that tackles bullying, body image, and self-worth with plenty of heart alongside the laughs.
How it reads
Prose complexity 1/10
- <div>I don’t have much to say—I enjoyed it, and it was fun, but I also felt that the “unique and funny” parts were overly forced, as if the author had thought of the chicken and the liberal ex-porn-star mom before the plot itself. Without those elements, it’s a pretty bland book. </div><div>What really made me uncomfortable, though, was how often Chris had an erection or thought about Trixie in a sexual way, even though they were supposedly just friends. Just imagining having a friend like that gives me chills. Sure, Chris was very respectful, but I still feel it wasn’t necessary to narrate those moments so many times. Just one instance like that would have been enough to show he was also physically attracted to her. </div><div>The ending was the least romantic thing possible. <spoiler>How is a proposal tied directly to such an intimate scandal? I can’t imagine explaining that proposal to their grandkids—so awkward. </spoiler></div><div>On the plus side, I appreciated that the author described Chris as big and solidly built due to his sport and highlighted how he’s treated differently compared to Trixie. Often, NFL athletes are portrayed as lean, when in reality, these guys are huge. </div><div>It might sound like I didn’t enjoy it, but really, it was just very basic—a light read that I’ll probably forget soon. </div>
- Un’ abbraccio con un’amica. Ecco, lo definirei proprio così. Ho amato Chris e Trixie, dolcissimi entrambi. Ho adorato la lotta di lei sugli stereotipi e quanto sia difficile a volte, anche se si è superato un trauma, non ricadere nelle vecchie abitudini. Ho ADORATO i nomi dei suoi animali. Cioè parliamone: Luke Skycocker, Laya, Chew-bock-bock e Kylo Hen. Semplicemente geniale. È un po’ spicy, ma in realtà nulla di esagerato. Non quella tipologia di spicy che si nota che è stata messa per fare numero. Te lo consiglio vivamente se sei (come me) una ragazza che non si è mai sentita giusta nel proprio corpo, e se stai cercando un romance con una storia davvero, davvero dolce.