Hard Luck

Trophy Boyfriends, Book 4

By: Sara Ney

Narrated by: Alexander Cendese, Elizabeth Hart

Some girls have all the luck.

Unfortunately, I am not one of those girls. Not when I lost my apartment because my roommate let the lease lapse while I travel for work. Not when my brothers keep finding love and my mother keeps reminding me I'm still single. Not after a one-night stand during my older brother's wedding has me waking up pregnant.

I have to keep it a secret - from him and my family. I sure can't tell my brother his teammate, Mateo Espinoza, is the man with whom I slept. Confident, funny Mateo....

A guy can't catch a break.

Just when I thought I'd found the girl of my dreams, she ghosts me. Worse? Her brother refuses to give me her number, and my calls to her office go straight to voicemail. I thought I was a catch; professional athlete, charming, raised with six sisters - I'm a guy who knows his way to a woman's heart! What reason could she possibly have for avoiding me?

When I finally catch up to True Wallace, I'm going to get the answer.

Contains mature themes.

©2021 Sarah Ney (P)2021 Tantor

Fantastic story!!

I didn't want it to end! I blew through all 4 books in this series so quickly! I couldn't stop listening. I absolute loved True and Mateo's story. These narrators were incredible!!

Brother’s Teammate Accidental Pregnancy

Mateo and True hook up at her brother’s wedding. Weeks later, she finds out she’s pregnant. After ghosting Mateo and he can’t stop thinking of her, he finally gets her number. After weeks of knowing she’s pregnant, she finally tells Mateo.

Mateo is such a cinnamon roll guy. He seems like a playboy but really he’s a huge family guy.

True, she’s the baby of the family. Having two older brothers as athletes, they’ve been overly protective of her.

Loved this serious. The hilarious banter between siblings and the couples. So good!

Tropes:
Athlete- baseball
Close Family
Accidental pregnancy
One Night Stand

Insta-bought this ❤❤❤ because duh!

Alexander does a Mexican accent 😳🤤
Omg this is too funny! Matteo's sisters kill me! 🤣🤣 This is about the younger sister of books 2 and 3, and omg the brothaers are so adorkable!

Entertaining story

This was a fun and entertaining read. I enjoyed getting True's story as we have met her in previous books in the series, though this can be read as a complete standalone. True essentially had a one night stand with Mateo, one of her brother's teammates, a few months ago and then ghosted him afterwards. Mateo is still interested in her and has been trying to get her number from her brother since he has been blocked on social media without letting on that something has already happened between them. True has now figured out that she is pregnant from that night and is trying to figure out what to do since she has just gotten evicted and is now staying with her other brother in his house. It takes True awhile to tell her brother and even longer to tell Mateo since she doesn't started interacted with him again for half the book. We get to see her trying to figure things out as well as Mateo doing the same. I enjoyed watching Mateo with his sisters. Very entertaining and funny. I love how they both have close relationships with their siblings and while that usually scares off other people since both sets are a little intense and crazy, they are both used to it and it doesn't really phase them at all. This story was entertaining and fun to read. Maybe not my favorite in the series but still good. Wish that there had been a little more interaction between Mateo and True in present time.
The narrators did a good job with the characters and what was going on in the story.

👍

This story was so funny like it’s was everything romance, accidental pregnancy, sports and older brother drama . Utterly perfect

LOVE, LOVE LOVE

Very funny book. I enjoyed it. I think they are a perfect match. I also love her brothers.

One of my faves!

Such a hilarious book, and I love that they bring back the siblings, because I absolutely adore Trace! I will be listening to this entire series again!!!

meh ... typical one night stand sex to baby

-sports theme without any sports
-one night stand of hot sex without any hot sex ... in fact there is no lust, no build up and no steamy sex at all
- weird start with her hiding from the baby daddy
-weird ending with announcing the gender at a game without even discussing with her first and then Buzz declaration as an afterthought didn't fit at all

”Twenty-something, single, and preggo!”

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 🖤💙❤️💜
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📘📙
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌍
Character development: 🙂🥰☺️😎
Narrator(s): 🎙🎙
Narration type: Dual Narration

The heroine: True Wallace - she works for a sports recruiter helping high school athletes to get seen by colleges and get scholarships. Her two brothers Tripp and Buzz are professional athletes. Tripp is a professional football player and Buzz is a professional baseball player. While attending Buzz’s wedding a few months ago, she got to know his teammate Mateo and ended up spending the night with him and ghosting him in the morning.

The Hero: Mateo José Espinoza - he plays second base for the Chicago Steam pro baseball team. He is one of the stars on the team and in his early days he was quite a playboy, but that lifestyle got old a while ago. Lately he has liked forming a connection with a person before sleeping with them and despite the fact that he slept with True on the same day he met her, he already felt a bond with her.

The Story: when True finds out she is pregnant, at the same time as she was evicted from her apartment because her roommate kept forgetting to pay the rent, she is at a loose end. She moves in with her brother Tripp, but is a bit too freaked out to contact Mateo. Before she knows it, she is more than 11 weeks pregnant and still hasn’t told anyone except Tripp and his 15-year-old neighbor, who helps him out by walking his dog Chewy among other things.

This book had a good story, though I tend to like linear storytelling, I wish it would have started out the night of the wedding reception and gone from there. Instead, it starts on the day True moved into her brother's place and as it went on there were frequent flashbacks to the night of the wedding and what went on between Mateo and True. I really dislike flashbacks, though I do see the fact that they can be a good plot device. I just didn’t see the need here.

I liked the characters and there were a ton of supporting characters. Trip and Buzz, and their significant others, were characters from previous books in this same series, so it was nice to see them again. Mateo has six sisters and I just loved them, they were all up in his business and quite hilarious about it. Though it was a bit hard to see Mateo as a big heartthrob type after seeing him as one of the younger siblings in a big boisterous family, and a bit of a mama’s boy to boot.

This book was a hard one, because the first half was pretty boring, but it did get better and better as it went along, especially as True finally tells Mateo and then they start to tell their families. The last hour had me laughing out loud. Tripp and Buzz were hilarious, especially Buzz who is way too involved in his sister’s life.

This audiobook was told in dual points of view via dual narration and was narrated by Alexander Cendese and Elizabeth Hart. I do really like Alexander Cendese, he has a great voice and puts a ton of emotion into his narration. Though, he does have a terrible female voice. So would really be better in duet narration. Elizabeth Hart is the opposite. Her male voice isn’t too bad, but her regular voice is so very annoying. I almost quit listening to this book because I had to turn the sound down each time she was narrating and turn it back up when Alexander was.

Such a fun series!!

Love how this family is in each book, just with a new love couple to follow. The brothers are hilarious and so over the top!! You know it’s out of love but oh my, I’d kill them! Haha! True and Mateo are perfect for each other. They both come from over the top families that nothing can scare them away!!! I must admit I was not ready for this book to be over. I wanted more!!!! Not sure if there’s another book in the series but I wanna know more!!!!!