The Sweetest Game (The Game #3)
J. Sterling
December 25, 2013
It’s one hell of a sledgehammer to the chest when your baseball career comes to an end. It’s like you finally realize that baseball never loved you back. All the sleepless nights, the hours spent at the gym trying to stay fit, the conditioning, the training, the mental preparation, the holiday’s missed, the birthday’s passed, the memories you didn’t get to make with your family…all for what? It’s not like baseball lost any sleep over you. She didn’t stay awake for nights on end trying to figure out how to make you a better player. She didn’t care. Baseball’s a business. A sport. A game. And as much as my entire life has been wrapped up in it, it’s time to let it go.
– Jack Carter
*This is the third (and final) installment in Jack & Cassie’s story!*
As you can tell by the synopsis, this is the third and final installment in Jack and Cassie’s story, but don’t worry because there is a big huge bow at the end. We do have Dean’s version of TPG, everything in his point of view in the fourth and final book surrounding Jack, Cassie and the whole gang in The Other Game.
Jack has a problem, it is every athletes worst fear, getting hurt to the point where you think your career may be over. I know some people say “it’s just a game”, but to be honest, that’s probably one of the worst things you can say. When you’re in Jack’s shoes and baseball is the only thing that made you happy as a kid, the one thing you have truly worked hard for, finding out you may be done for is absolutely heart breaking, especially if you aren’t ready to be done.
Cassie is a prime example of how a spouse should react to their partner getting injured, whether their career is a sport or they have a desk job, any type of injury is cause for concern. When you fall in love and marry someone as dedicated to a sport like Jack has been, you marry the sport too, an their worries are yours too. You worry when they get hurt, could this be a career ending injury? What will Jack be like with out baseball? It’s hard to imagine someone not doing what they’re passionate about. It’s even worse when you realize you never thought about it before. I think with any relationship, being positive for your partner is the best thing.
I was really pleased with the entirety of The Sweetest Game, I think this might be my favorite of the series, though I have yet to read The Other Game. Stay tuned for that review, coming…eventually.
J. (Jenn) Sterling is a New York Times and USA Today best selling author of multiple contemporary romances. She lives in California with her only son, Blake. If you can’t find her sitting behind a computer screen writing new stories, then there’s a good chance she’s sitting in the bleachers of a baseball stadium watching him play.
Jenn enjoys traveling to new places, meeting her readers and spending time with the love of her life, the one & only, Jack F’n Carter! Oh yeah, it’s true. ❤
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