Moonshot

4½ Star Review

Alessandra never fails to amaze me with her stories and storytelling. Never. I have yet to want to put her books down. Once I start, I want them to last forever, meanwhile wanting to get to the end at the same time.

I thought this book was going to be a love story with a baseball player in it. And it was, and it was also a little bit of a mystery that I hadn't expected. At first, I was confused about some pieces. I couldn't figure out where they fit with the story. Then, the pieces started to fall into place and all I could think was, "You little sneaky devil Alessandra. Sneaky, sneaky, sneaky".

Like I said, I have liked/loved every book of Alessandra's that I have read. And like I said, when I started this book I thought show more it was just a romance... So... if you know my tastes in genres, I am not one to usually like romance. Not nice romance. This is a little nice, a little raw and a lot of intrigue. I know that isn't really a genre. But still, it wasn't what I thought it would be. I am happy about that.

This story unfolds at such a pace I found myself wanting to get to the end but wanting more too. Between the lies, secrets, angst and twisted love story, I didn't want to put this book down. show less

After the death of her mother, Tyler Rollins goes to live with her dad who is a pitcher for the New York Yankees. On the road and at home, Ty serves as ball girl to the team that she loves until she is 18 and gets involved with Chase Stern, hard partying player for the Yankees. One night when she catches Chase taking drugs with other women, she impulsively sleeps with Tobey, son of the Yankees owner. When she gets pregnant and Chase is traded, Ty begins a life as Tobey's wife and an executive in the Yankees organization, but her feelings for Chase still haunt her even as women begin dying and their connection seems to be the Yankees organization.

Moonshot did not have as much romantic suspense as I expected. Most of the story is about show more Ty's relationship to baseball and Chase. The short paragraphs written by a New York Times reporter that appear throughout the book, outline the murders of the women, but that is really the only suspense that appears until nearly the end of the book. The characters aren't very well developed, so when they make poor decisions, which they frequently do in this story, it is difficult to feel any empathy when things turn out badly for them. In addition, there is cheating in this book that I was unaware of prior to reading. Overall, Moonshot is a romantic suspense story without much suspense and a romance between unlikable characters. show less

Young love torn apart by misunderstandings and unfortunate circumstances.

Ty is the daughter of Yankee's reliever Frank Rollins. She's had a crush on Chase Stern since, well forever it seems.
Chase finally gets his shot to play for the Yankees after being caught with a teammate's wife.

Sparks fly on both sides even though Ty is 17 and Chase is 22. (Nothing happens between them while she is underage!) But one night changes everything. And Chase losing his temper seals their fate... he's traded to another team. Ty finds two girls in Chase's room. She runs into Tobey, son of the Yankees owner, and though they have shared nothing more than a kiss or two she goes to his room, gets drunk and gives him the virginity she had been hoping to give show more Chase. She's young and doesn't think things through sometimes. Yes, she ends up pregnant.....another obstacle that keeps Ty and Chase apart.

Four years later Ty is married to Tobey and now helps run the Yankees. Chase has been traded back to NY to help end "the curse". It seems the deaths of 4 women have been connected to one another and the end of the Yankees baseball season. But the two of them together just proves one thing, they still love one another and want to be together. How does Ty leave the only family she's ever known and the team she loves? Will Tobey let her go? What happens if another woman is murdered?

I liked this book because I didn't guess who the murderer was until it was revealed. I hate it when I can guess it early on. Good characters, quick moving plot. show less

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Baseball shouldn't be life or death. Baseball shouldn't determine fates.

Ty Rollins was born into baseball; she lived, breathed, slept baseball. As ballgirl for the Yankees and daughter of the infamous closer, her life revolved around the love of the game. When Chase Stern stepped up to the plate that love changed, changed its orbit to include him. She was young, he was fresh from public past, together they were so much more. Until they weren't. When girls started dying Ty's focus changed, there was more to the game now, more than a fleeting, forbidden romance could be worth.

Officially together. Officially committed. show more Officially screwed.

I am a baseball loving girl; I wear my team's colors often, I watch almost every game, and follow their stats more frequently than I read my own text messages. I am talking every social media platform available to subscribe to I do. Moonshot is the perfect book for a girl like me, it has all the things I like about a sports romance and then some. Told from the dual POV's of Ty Rollins and Chase Stern, the reader gets an inside look at the world of baseball, the secret romances and flings, and the insidious nature of living in the public eye at all times. Ty is an awesome character in my opinion, she's at times a total tomboy and at the next moment ultra-feminine. Her character development and growth over the course of the book was incredibly well written. Chase Stern, in my mind, is a hot combination of all my favorite ball players. In the book, he's a well-spoken, past-driven, changed-by-love man. He's the best of the best, but that's not why I liked him. He's the kind of character you can't deny, he owns his problems, he strives for better, and he goes after his heart's desires. I really enjoyed both characters, through out the entire novel, because of their dialogue, their thought processes, and how the interacted with one another. Thought other characters are all minor, Alessandra successfully focuses Moonshot around each main character individually before bringing them together, it makes the world they live in seem much larger. I didn't feel like I read two characters moments together, but rather watched their lives play out in crisp detail, from the scent of the dirt at the stadium to the hushed whispers of private meetings.

This close he could see her eyes. This close, he could almost smell her. This close, if she wanted to, she could crush him.

While focused on Ty and Chase, Alessandra Torre tells a story mixed with sports, suspense, and romance. Told over a lengthy period of time, we meet the characters during major turning points in their lives. We feel the emotions both have for the game and Alessandra wrote so well that any reader, sports fan or not, can picture the stadium, the sounds, the feelings surrounding the game. The suspense plot, told to the reader in very short spurts, changes the book, but in a way that doesn't overwhelm. Moonshot read like a traditional sports romance, but the twists snuck up on you, and like other Alessandra novels, I never could have predicted the outcome of those snippets. There's hopes and dreams, fears and turmoil, and forbidden romance and undeniable chemistry, all combined together, making this sports romance stand out in a crowd.

The truth that I'd run from every day of my new life smashed into me like a fastball into a mitt, stinging in its impact, radiating through my bones.


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Moonshot is a story of two baseball diehards finding their way to one another time and again, even in the midst of adversity. I absolutely recommend this new release from Alessandra Torre and will be counting it as one of my books I like to re-read time and time again.

I have to touch you, baby. I have to fucking drinking you in. And there isn't a thing that you can say to change that fact. show less

Holy shit. I am not even sure how to describe this book. Seriously, you just have to experience it. My full review will be up on release day at The Book Disciple