Release Blitz & Review | Quit Your Pitchin’ by Lani Lynn Vale

Title: Quit Your Pitchin’

Series: There’s No Crying in Baseball

Author: Lani Lynn Vale

Genre: Sports Romance

Release Date: July 20, 2018
Cover Model: Chase Ketron
Photographer: FuriousFotog

What’s wrong with my butt?

She means those words to be directed toward the woman beside her, not him. But he can’t stop himself

from answering. Not when her ass is the most magnificent thing he’s seen in his life.

Apparently, answering her with ‘not a damn thing’ wasn’t what she was expecting.

She likely wasn’t expecting the baseball she took to the face at his next at bat, either.

All it takes is one ill-fated foul ball, and George Hoffman, Lumberjacks center fielder, falls head over

heels in love with Wrigley Field—and yes, that is her real name.

From that point forward, George and Wrigley fall into a fast whirlwind love that ends with them eloping

to Vegas. And he has his potty mouth, titty bar owning, pain in the ass grandmother to thank for it.

Not that he’s complaining or anything.

Who wouldn’t want to be married to a woman that made his heart race like he was in the final game of

the World Series?

The only problem is trying to convince her of that.

I’m a married mother of three. My kids are all under 8, so I can assure you that they are a handful. I’ve been with my paramedic husband now for ten years, and we’ve produced three offspring that are nothing like us. I live in the greatest state in the world, Texas.

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Arc received to review honestly

Quit Your Pitchin’ is the second book in the ‘There’s No Crying In Baseball’ series by Lani Lynn Vale. Having read the first book in the series and several other novels written by Lani Lynn Vale, I was thrilled to start this novel. I’m a huge fan of baseball and having baseball incorporated in romance novels is a huge attraction to me! Let’s face the cold hard truth, I’m a 1-click whore when it comes to baseball romances.

Quit Your Pitchin’ is Furious George and Wrigley’s story. First off I want to state that I loved Lani Lynn Vale’s play with names throughout this book. Wrigley, Dodger, and Diamond how freaking cute is that for sisters and a brother! I loved it. Epic and pure genius.

George and Wrigley’s story is a whirlwind romance. I feel for George and Wrigley’s romance all throughout part one of this novel. There were moments that made me smile and moments that made me laugh so incredibly hard. I couldn’t get enough of Wrigley and George’s ‘mishaps’ during games. And George’s Grandma was freaking epic. Everything about part one is a must read in my opinion.

And then part two happened and the darkness set in. due to the fact that I didn’t read the blurb and went into this novel completely blind, I had no idea what I was getting into. I feel like a whole part of this story is missing. Part two is a complete 180 with emotional whiplash attached. To be honest, I didn’t really care for the second part of this story, I felt Wrigley was too wishy-washy when dealing with her feelings for George. Maybe if a chunk of the story wasn’t missing I would have more clarity on a more emotional perspective.

When a novel states it’s a standalone in a series, I base my review solely on the book I’m reading and not the series as a whole and with that being said, I felt like there were a few holes in this novel. A few key points that may have been missing. For example, and without giving away spoilers, I would have loved to see the Diamond ‘issue’ involving Micha and George in detail. That would have been a great opener for Part two.

Now thinking about it, I’m wondering if maybe Lani Lynn Vale has other plans for that story line…. hmm.

Overall, I loved part one of Quit Your Pitchin’ but sadly part two was just okay in my opinion. I however do plan on reading the rest of this series as she releases more books.