The Athlete and the Aristocrat by Louisa Masters; Blog Tour w/ Synopsis, Excerpt, Review, and, Giveaway!

Posted on January 14, 2019 by LauraAdmin
Sometimes love takes balls.
Genre: M/M Romance
Subgenres: Sports Romance, Office Romance, Billionaire Romance
Stand-alone novel
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Release Date: January 1st 2019

Newly retired championship footballer Simon Wood is taking on his next challenge. His plan for a charity to provide funding for underprivileged children to pursue football as a career has passed its first hurdle: he has backers and an executive consultant. Now it’s time to get the ball rolling.

Lucien Morel, heir to the multibillion-euro Morel Corporation, is shocked—and thrilled—to learn his father has volunteered him as consultant to a fledgling football charity. Better yet, the brains behind it all is heartthrob Simon Wood, his teenage idol and crush.Although Simon and Lucien get off on the wrong foot, it’s not long before they’re getting along like a house on fire—sparks included. But with the charity under public scrutiny, can their romance thrive?

Review

The Athlete and the AristocratThe Athlete and the Aristocrat by Louisa Masters
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

The Athlete and the Aristocrat (ARC) was graciously provided to me by Hot Tree Promotions for an honest review. I have voluntarily read this book and have provided my honest opinion.

“An Amazing Story Filled With Love, Hope, and, Strength…”

An emotionally surprising, heart-warming, wonderful read with gripping and hopeful moments, rounded with absolutely amazing, gush-worthy characters, all set within gorgeously diverse settings has left this reader craving for more from this addicting series.

Ever come across a story that takes you by surprise with a force similar to that of a powerful bolt of lightening? Yeah, I just had one of those..

Having the opportunity to read through a series that has quickly become a must-read for me, I welcomed the chance at reading the next book from this series.  As the giddiness from reading The Bunny and the Billionaire, by Louisa Masters still had been roaming thorough my mind, I was clearly very eager to read the next story.  Needlessly to say, The Athlete and the Aristocrat did not disappoint.  I loved it! I had a feeling I would, but, it all-of-a-sudden came at me like that lightening bolt, and it had shocked and quite frankly stunned me at how the plot actually came together by the end.  It’s lengthy and detailed plot, the admirable, dedicated, and sexy main characters, the truly amazing secondary characters, and the gorgeous settings all took me for quite the ride.

Man-oh-man.. did this story take me by surprise, like a slowly moving strike of a snake, I was ensnared by its intriguing and emotional plot.  With an interest in sports, I was extremely interested in the plight of the main characters and was able to hold my emotions in check, barely, as I read through their journey with its heart-breaking purpose.  I was glued to the pages of my kindle as the twists and turns came at me with their own purpose and destination.  I loved the incorporation of the multiple sub-plots which seemed to each have a beautiful mind of their own.  And then the ending..through crocodile-tears and unfounded giddiness, I found myself cheering, and, jumping for joy for such an incredible feat that had that tint-of-surprise that had me re-reading it immediately..

Even though the storyline was such an emotionally full-filling one, there were some parts of the plot that despite either being hidden or completely glanced over, and even though this reader completely recommends The Athlete and the Aristocrat, by Louisa Masters, I had wished for further development in these particular areas.

As a whole, even though it had also contained a seemingly lengthy plot with a somewhat slow pace, it’s characters had brought this amazing sort of transformation that had brought the storyline to a whole new level that hadn’t originally been evident.  For this reason, I absolutely loved how it all developed into quite the heart-warmingly beautiful and fulfilling story.. I absolutely loved it..:)

*star rating: 4.10 ‘I really liked it’ stars*

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Check out Louisa’s The Bunny and the Billionaire also in the Dreamspun Desires collection.

All links: books2read.com/u/4Aw7kJ 

Exclusive Excerpt: The Athlete and The Aristocrat
Billionaire businessman Lucien has just discovered he’s going to be working with retired championship soccer player Simon Wood to set up a charity sponsoring underprivileged kids.
Lucien thanked Paul and ended the call, reading through the provided information again and making notes for himself. He pushed down the thrill of excitement that crept through him. This program was the kind of thing he’d always wanted to get started but hadn’t because of time constraints and parental expectations. He’d always been a huge football fan, went to as many matches as he could and watched the rest on TV, but aside from casual matches with friends as a teenager or school sports, he’d never played. His father hadn’t approved, insisting he had other responsibilities.
The last page of Paul’s notes was a profile of Simon Wood, and this time Lucien couldn’t stop the zing that shot through him. Simon Wood, age thirty-four, retired championship footballer. There was a list of his charitable endeavors, and a paragraph about his schooling—apparently the man had found time somewhere in his career to get an MBA—but nowhere had Paul included one very important fact: Simon Wood was hot.
Ridiculously hot.
So hot that he’d consistently made hottest bachelor lists around the world over the last decade.
He was also rumored to be bisexual. There had never been any confirmation, not even a tell-all tabloid story, but the gossip mill murmured that while Simon publicly only had girlfriends, his bed was not restricted to a single gender. When Lucien had been a horny fourteen-year-old struggling to understand his own sexuality, the rumors about then-nineteen-year-old football sensation Simon Wood had grounded him and helped him get his head around exactly why he could be turned on by both Jennifer Lopez and Hugh Jackman.
Not to mention, the man himself had played a starring role in many of Lucien’s teenage fantasies.
Just the sound of his name was sexy… Sigh-mon. And he was so utterly sigh-worthy. 

Louisa Masters started reading romance much earlier than her mother thought she should. While other teenagers were sneaking out of the house, Louisa was sneaking romance novels in and working out how to read them without being discovered. She’s spent most of her life feeling sorry for people who don’t read, convinced that books are the solution to every problem. As an adult, she feeds her addiction in every spare second, only occasionally tearing herself away to do things like answer the phone and pay bills. She spent years trying to build a “sensible” career, working in bookstores, recruitment, resource management, administration, and as a travel agent, before finally conceding defeat and devoting herself to the world of romance novels.
Louisa has a long list of places first discovered in books that she wants to visit, and every so often she overcomes her loathing of jet lag and takes a trip that charges her imagination. She lives in Melbourne, Australia, where she whines about the weather for most of the year while secretly admitting she’ll probably never move.

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