4.5⭐️/ 4🌶️

This might be a first for me, reading a sports romance that was centered on a professional golfer and his number one fan. I don’t know much about golf, but with Tessa Bailey at the helm of this book, she made it enjoyable and entertaining. This story centered on, Josephine Doyle and Wells Whitaker. Wells was the bad boy in the professional world of golf, and Josephine was his biggest cheerleader! This story also had, grumpy/sunshine, boss/ employee, spice, humor, golf being the main sporting event, and an unexpected romance that was entertaining. 

Josephine had no doubt that Wells would find his way back to the top of winning gold tournaments, but for Wells he didn’t have that same hopeful feeling he was to use when playing golf. When Wells had enough of Josephine constantly cheering him on and being the biggest fan girl to him, Wells suddenly lost his biggest supporter and for some reason, he grew to miss the red headed woman. As much as Josephine loved to support Wells, once he truly told her to basically get lost, she turned away from him, and started to focus on bigger and important things in her life. In a turn of events, after strangely missing Josephine’s Fangirl antics, Wells found himself going after Josephine, and due to certain circumstances in Josephine’s life, Wells offered her the opportunity to be his caddie. Josephine suddenly found herself working for Wells, and with her vast knowledge of golf, she was focused on helping Wells regain his mojo in golf. 

I love me a grumpy/ sunshine trope, and that was exactly what Josephine and Wells were. Josephine was all about making the best out of any situation even when at times she felt scared, whereas Wells was kind of a jerk majority of the time, not caring about his golf career anymore, and basically known to all as the bad boy. Seeing Wells go from initially being annoyed by Josephine’s presence to actually seeking her out was a big change that I throughly enjoying seeing over the course of the story. Wells was so use to people giving up on him that it revealed a lot about the way he behaved, how he approached others, and essentially why he was so guarded about himself. With Josephine’s help, she not only helped Wells with golf, but also helped him open up in ways that he truly hadn’t before. The best part of the grumpy/ sunshine trope is seeing how the grump or even the sunshine change when being around the other person. Wells and Josephine each helped each other in ways that probably catches them off guard, but it was satisfying to see them become romantically involved and even occasionally forming a sense of unexpected friendship together. Even better was seeing Josephine become Wells caddie, and believe it or not help Wells get back into his former status of being a great golf player. Plus, with some added incentives from Josephine, Wells was motivated into accomplishing those goals. 

I love Tessa Bailey’s book, and this was a fun, entertaining romance to read. I had initially heard some mixed reviews about this book, but I’m glad I went into this book with an open mind. This story had an interesting take combining golf into a romance book. Wells and Josephine were opposites in the way that Wells was the bad boy, and Josephine was the good girl sunshine. I really thought Josephine and Wells were a great match together and not only was the chemistry and tension equally great, but seeing the connection grow deeper between them was good too. I loved getting to see Wells switch from not wanting anything to do with Josephine to literally becoming so worried about her when he got notifications about her glucose levels and speeding all the way to her apartment in fear something bad happened to her. Definitely loved seeing Wells be such a possessive, protective, and obsessive man over Josephine. I wanted a spicy, fun, lighthearted romance and that’s exactly what I got, but with the added tiny bit of vulnerability from both Wells and Josephine. The book was good and I have no complaints about it. I’m interested to see how the next book will be especially since it has one of my favorite tropes! Highly recommend if you want a spicy, sports romance with grumpy/ sunshine.