A city and a sport with something to prove—Meet the men who take that challenge.
The Black Jack Gentlemen—Detroit’s expansion soccer team.
They play hard. And live harder.
The Black Jack Gentlemen
The newest series by Liz Crowe
I was invited to be part of the Blog Tour for Red Card (The Black Jack Gentlemen #2) a part of a new series by Liz Crowe which I am very happy I agreed to! This book is an emotional roller coaster that takes you through the highs & lows of life! The story revolves around Metin (a famous soccer player) & Alicia (a woman who just wants to play soccer professionally).
The books in the The Black Jack Gentlemen series are standalone focusing on people associated with a new expansion football (soccer) team in Detroit, USA. If the other books in the series are anything like this one then they are sexy, intense reads that can have you crying, laughing & yelling at your book all within a short time!
The blurb is:
Red Card (Black Gentlemen: Book Two)
Free will makes us human.
Choice makes us individuals.
Love makes us unique.
Metin Sevim has it all. At the pinnacle of international soccer playing success, he has managed to craft a perfect world for himself along the way.
When fate strips him of free will and the ability to choose his own path, he retreats from everyone and everything, destroying his hard-won career in the process.
Dragged back from the brink by his desperate family, Metin reluctantly agrees to coach the Black Jack Gentlemen Detroit soccer team but remains debilitated by memories and loss. When a surprising friendship emerges, it renews his passion for life, providing much needed solace… and extreme complications.
A saga of family dynamics and gender politics that cuts across cultures and circumstance, Red Card illustrates the human capacity for forgiveness through the life of one man as he attempts to rebuild his shattered existence.
This is definitely not a book you will forget anytime soon! The book is divided into 2 parts and there is a major plot twist at the end of part 1. I loved that there was a whole new change of direction for the second half of the book since I have found that books recently have been a bit too predictable!
The whole time I was reading this book I was picturing Cristiano Ronaldo as Metin the male lead character. I know Cristiano is Portuguese and Metin is Turkish, but that small detail doesn’t matter! They are both super hot soccer players!
I am giving this book 4.5 stars since it kept me hooked enough to read it in one sitting of 6 hours! (I know, when do you get 6 hours to sit down? For me it was 2am – 8am!!!! I was jetlagged this week from flying back from NYC to Melbourne). I had been to bed around 7pm the night before & just couldn’t sleep! I had 4 days off before going back to work, so it just seemed right to read! After I picked up this book there was no way I was going back to bed anytime soon either!
The characters are well developed with life-like sometimes irritating characteristics that make it all the more believable! I highly recommend you pick up and read this book if you like intense romances with a lot of angst! Don’t expect it to be an easy read but it’s worthwhile in the end!
As for the rest of the series, I haven’t read book #1 yet and I know book #3 is coming soon and there are also plans for #4 & #5. The reading order is:
Book 1: Man On (August 2013)
Book 2: Red Card (August 2013)
Book 3: Shut Out (September 2013)
And Coming Soon…
Book 4: Set Piece
Book 5: Hat Trick
The blurb for Book #1 is:
Man On (Black Jack Gentlemen: Book One)
Bad boy of European football, Nicolas Garza is about to hit American shores with a vengeance. Signed by the Detroit Black Jack Gentlemen as lynch pin for their expansion club, Nicco only half believes he’s making the right move. But with a past full of ghosts and rotten behavior chasing him from his homeland, he has no real choice.
Parker Rollings is a college soccer superstar, but his parents’ plans for their only son do not include professional athletics. When the Black Jacks approach him to finalize their roster, Parker leaps at the chance to keep playing, leaving behind medical school, stability and his first and only college sweetheart.
Nicco and Parker face off as bitter rivals for a coveted starting spot at midfield and are forced to channel their negative energy into something positive for the sake of the group—and themselves.
All eyes are on the fledgling team in its debut season. It’s crucial that the Black Jacks prove all the doubters wrong. They must make a good showing in the league and with new fans. But player drama, club dynamics, and misplaced priorities may tear it apart before it even begins.
The blurb for Book #3 is:
Shut Out (The Black Gentlemen: Book Three)
A submissive once, a submissive forever?
A man on the run from the only life he’s ever known, Brody Vaughn is poised to accept the Black Jack Gentleman’s newly vacant goalkeeper’s position. It’s a desperate move, but one he must take to regain his emotional equilibrium. Reeling from his Mistress’s rejection and on the ragged edge of a total breakdown, he arrives in Detroit. Numb with thinly veiled grief, he walks into the club’s front office completely unaware that an encounter with true destiny awaits him.
Sophie Harrison has seen it all–as Domme, sub, and victim. Now that her complicated circumstances have landed her as legal counsel for the expansion Black Jacks team, she holds herself aloof in body and spirit. Nothing and no one gets past her fiercely guarded walls. Until the day she looks up to greet the new goalie standing in her doorway, his raw combination of vulnerability and strength making her breathless.
Two people, horribly scarred by the excesses of the BDSM lifestyle and hiding from their true selves, meet across a desk over a simple contract. All bets are off.
These other 2 books look amazing and I can’t wait to read them! I will update this entry when I do!
Genre: Adult Romance
Author: Liz Crowe / http://www.lizcrowe.com / FB: http://www.facebook.com/lizcroweauthor / T: @beerwencha2
Rating: 4.5 stars
Add on Goodreads: Man On / Red Card / Shut Out
One-click Buy from Amazon: Man On / Red Card / Shut Out
Enter the tour wide giveaway below where you can win signed paperbacks of all 3 of the first books!!
Are there any other books you can think of that stick out in your mind with major plot twists halfway through?
