Tomboys Don't Crush on the Captain

More Spinning! This series has been a spinoff from another series where Benjamin worked with a couple of other authors and each wrote one book in the trilogy. Here, Benjamin prepares to spinoff yet again and opens up the world in a bit of an interesting new direction while having at least one direct callback to another book in this world. Discussed the actual sport in question a bit more than is typical within these books, without sacrificing the focus on the couple in question, and also has a few “extra perspective” chapters that Benjamin has seemingly taken as part of her style here. Very much recommended.

Even though we met Nicole in Tomboys Don't Kiss The Quarterback as the soccer star who took Marissa under her wing, this book can absolutely be read as a standalone story.
Even before starting this book, I knew Nicole was a force to be reckoned with, and I was curious about the guy who could capture her heart. Ian fits perfectly in with the rest of Christina Benjamin's league of good-guy heroes, no big surprise there.
But one of my favorite aspects of this book is probably Nicole's family, how close she and her brother Chris are, and how their parents support them even when - and especially when - things go pear-shaped.