One True Thing by Lynne Jaymes

Synopsis

“That was all before…” Jenna waves her hand in the air, but we both know what she means. Before I touched her in the most intimate places. Before I felt her shudder under my tongue. Before she tasted the salt on my skin. Before I promised a lot more than I could deliver.

Ty Branch has wanted one thing his entire life—to play professional baseball. When he gets a chance to move from San Francisco to play at Texas powerhouse Garvin State University, he's willing to do whatever it takes to make his dream come true, even if that means hiding his past. But when he meets dance major Jenna Taylor, the chemistry is so strong his single-minded quest begins to weaken. As he gets to know her quirky, small-town family, he falls more deeply
in love, but becomes even more sure he can never tell her the truth about his family.

When a surprise visitor blows his past wide-open, Ty is forced to come to terms with his secrets. But is the damage already done with Jolene or can he find a way to sacrifice everything he's worked for in order to win back the heart of a once-in-a-lifetime love.

Review

Okay so I was expecting a lot more of this book due to the thing above. It sounds so intriguing because there is a "lie" and hidden secret, and so fort the "visitor blows his past wide-open" you sort of expect this to be something huge, not what it actually is.
Probably I live in a state that discrimination is not a huge thing although it is because it's Nebraska and all that but I have never encounter someone that says because you are black or Latino you cannot be in this sport. I think that the secret was overblown to an extend that tricks the reader. I was very disappointed by this, I was just disappointed. The story was sort of good, it was all too fast for me, they don't even play the interesting part of getting to be on a date. They just happen to be friends with the right people so they meet at some random place and then they go home and almost have sex. I was screaming COME ON, seriously?
This was probably not my kind of book though I was very excited to read it and it was disappointing.
But it might be the book for you, you just have to check it out, it's short and you can do it within a day.
So yeah I was so expecting more of this book but probably was not in the mood to read it and that is what cause me to not like it.

I would give it a 2.5 stars just because the excerpt kind of fools you and I didn't get what I was expecting. It had potential but it didn't do it for me.

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