Take Her On

When I started this website, I wanted to get away from star ratings and trying to prove the quality of the site through sheer mass of books. I strove to be more personalized, with my actual recommendations coming through. I thought this would lead to a smaller, more curated set of books that tended toward the high end of my rating scale. What I failed to realize is that there are lots of perfectly cromulent books out there, they're just not the best at their given niche or subject.

Take Her On is a perfectly fine sapphic romance about two soccer (we're going with soccer for clarity's sake) rivals in their last year of university who are suddenly teamed up against their will. It's even got the most milquetoast exoticness possible (Briish accents just not having the same effect on the page as they do on screen).

But ultimately, I think the better version of this book is You Don't Have A Shot. Again, not that this book is bad, but if you came to me asking for a book about soccer (or even sports in general), I would first push you there – with one exception. 

If you're someone looking for (I believe the euphemism we use now is) spice, I would recommend this mostly because the other is explicitly YA and thus far more tame. The sex spicy scenes get pleasingly graphic, and help up the intensity. But overall, the book doesn't hold together quite as well as an entire work as YDHAS, and thus falls to the "maybe" recommendation.