Review of Love Game

*I definitely struggled with some aspects of this book. Elle is hired by a tennis pro to be his personal chef. The first thing I felt is off is that she has to prepare a full meal for Nicky in the middle of the night. He wakes up, eats, and goes back to sleep. His coach is never happy with this, but they can’t get him to break this routine. I can’t imagine this would be conducive to great training for a professional athlete of Nicky’s calibre, so I found this very odd. During Nicky’s middle-of-the-night eating, Elle and Nicky connect, and he seems to want them to have some sort of romantic relationship. This is problematic because he is engaged, and his fiancée is usually travelling with him while he’s on tour. He alludes that things aren’t necessarily what they seem, but never really comes clean with Elle while leading her on. I found this very off-putting. What I did like about the book is the tennis. I follow tennis and really enjoyed the tennis aspects of the book. So while some aspects of the book definitely didn’t work for me, I did enjoy other parts.