Baseball shouldn’t be a game of life and death…
The summer that Chase Stern entered my life, I was seventeen. The daughter of a legend, the Yankees were my family, their stadium my home, their dugout my workplace. My focus was on the game. Chase…he started out a distraction. A distraction with sex appeal poured into every inch of his six foot frame. A distraction who played like a God yet … God yet partied like a Devil.
I tried to stay away. I couldn’t.
Then, the team started losing.
Women started dying.
And everything in my perfect world broke apart.
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“I could wait a hundred years for you because the thought of doing anything that brings you pain makes my heart break.”
From the blurb I didn’t really get a clear idea what to expect from this book but I had a couple of plots in mind. However this book did not go those directions. I was blown away by this story, and I fell in love with this book from the beginning. Alessandra is a master in storytelling, and like her other books she hit this one out of the park. I wanted to read as slow as possible because I didn’t want it to end. It had something magical to it that really had me addicted to the story. Alessandra has a way with words that hooks you and doesn’t let you go. There is nothing I would change about this book. It was just PERFECT!
“You ever think you could love someone too much?”
This book is about Tyler, who goes to live with her dad when she is seven years old. Her dad plays for the New York Yankees and brings his daughter with him to every game. The relationship Ty had with the team was incredible. I loved it so much! She is part of the family and knows everything about the game. Her interaction with the players and her dad was just amazing to read about. Tyler crawled her way into my heart!
When she is 17, Chase Stern makes an appearance in the team and her life. Chase has a certain reputation that wasn’t really a good one. I had no idea if I would like him. But he was so much more and he exceeded every expectation I had of him. I won’t go into any details beyond this because it is just best to experience everything first hand. I do want to mention that this book had a bit of a suspense part to it that fit perfectly into the book, and in my opinion added something extra to the story.
“I have a hundred more ways to make you scream my name and all of them are filthy.”
Moonshot is one of my favorites this year and it shows that Alessandra is amazing in writing different types of stories. She is one of my favorite authors and I blindly one-click her books because she just doesn’t disappoint. Of course not all of her books are for everyone but she does have very diverse books, I think everyone will find a book they will enjoy reading by her. Ty and Chase are still in my mind and I think they will stay there for a long time. I recommend this book to everyone who loves a Second chance/forbidden romance with phenomenal writing and amazing characters. I hope you’ll fall in love with this book as much as I did.
I went into this one completely cold. Once the preorder went up, I clicked it because… it’s Alessandra. I can honestly say I liked it, but didn’t loooooove it. I thought it was going to blow me away but it kinda fell short for me. I thought Tyler and Chase were fantastic characters, the writing was phenomenal, but towards the end had me scratching my head a little. There were a couple of chapters that I wasn’t sure which voice it was. The whole “who done it” was super quick and then it was over. Other than that, I’m still sticking with Black Lies as my ultimate fav by her. Dude, that book…Mind. Blown.
Yankee Princess Tyler Rolling had pinstripes etched into her skin, was born with a proverbial Baseball in her hands. The smell of grass, dirt , balmy New York summer air and sounds of packed stadium her oxygen that she breathed in to exist.
And she crushed hard on Chase Stern. The Ace batter , a magician on the field and bad boy off it . And he was coming to be a Yankee !! Could it BE anymore perfect ……..yes …NO!. It was a disaster waiting to happen. He was bringing with him the CurseOfChaseStern with him !
The Yankees starting to lose , the girls starting to die. Are they linked ??…read the book !!
Ty falls in love with Chase, Despite her Dad’s attempts to protect her. But fate plays a cruel joke and he ends up being traded to Blairmore Orioles and she ends up married to Tobey .
Grant name is slapped on her and she flies from the Dugout to the Sky box. She’s cutoff from the players to be owner and management, living secluded ,posh , elite life . But the Ball girl in her still itches to get on the ground, her heart pulling her towards Chase.
Meanwhile a serial killer is on the loose , killing single blonde girls gruesomely in New York City with Yankee momentos on them .
April in the dumpster.
Julie at the stadium.
Tiffany at our home.
RachelAprilJulieTiffany.
Chase and Ty’s path collide again and it impacts everything !
First loves were supposed to be flimsy and temperamental. They were supposed to burn bright and fade fast. They weren’t supposed to stick. They weren’t supposed to eat away at a man’s heart, his capacity for life. Certain loves can’t be fought. The harder you tried, the harder you would be knocked back, over and over again, until it beat you into submission, until your heart caved and body surrendered. Love like that didn’t know the rules of society; it didn’t care about life mistakes. It only knew what must be, and what would happen— no matter what. I love him. Still. More. Impossible, yet true.
The story is spellbinding, the narration, fast pulsating , throbbing.
the chemistry between Chase and Ty off the thermometer !!!
Like Alessandra-
With Moonshot , I wasn’t quite ready to let go. I finished this book and didn’t want to leave its world. I didn’t want to step out of Ty’s head and back into my life. I loved so many parts of this book and wanted, for just a few more hours, to savor it.
Couldn’t have said it better myself. The hairpin twists and turns all throughout the book will give you a neck whiplash !!
What a book …what a ride…what a game…what a win !!!
#GoYankees !!!!!
First time impressions and Chase’s non-bashful attitude makes for entertainment, “his p****. I was staring at Chase Stern’s p****. I couldn’t breathe, couldn’t move; I just stared. It was darker than his legs, thicker than I had imagined that organ would be, and it swung slightly when he chuckled. Chuckled. My brain registered the sound right before he spoke. “Like what you see?” This book was different from what I thought it would be, and I loved it. I loved Chase. You see Ty as a teenager and then you see her grown and confident in her skin.
“Love has its own timeline, Tyler. Remember that.” –Frank Rollins (Tyler’s father)
Let the game of love begin! Baseball has come to the writing world and it’s never been better. “Look to the moon when you swing,” he instructed. “That’s what you want. A ball that disappears into it. One that goes to the moon and past. A moonshot.” –Frank Rollins. That’s exactly what Alessandra Torre did with this novel…she went BEYOND the moon. This book was so much more than baseball. It was about forbidden love, forbidden love, first loves, and was packed full of “keep you up all night angst.” Much like the description of a moonshot described above, my anticipation soared while reading it.
“First loves were supposed to be flimsy and temperamental. They were supposed to burn bright and fade fast. They weren’t supposed to eat away a man’s heart, his capacity for life.” –Chase.
Description:
Tyler Rollins “Ty”, is the daughter of Frank Rollins (New York Yankee pitcher) and is the Yankee’s “Equipment Staff Assistant Manager”. Since her mother died, Ty has lived and traveled with her father and the team. She’s lived and breathed everything baseball from a very young age. Now 17, she finds herself drawn to another aspect of the game. She finds herself mesmerized and falling hard and fast for the Yankees new trade, Chase Stern.
Chase Stern has a reputation and because of that has been coined by the media as your typical “bad boy”. His only goal is to one day be a Yankee. Well now, he has achieved that goal and has been picked up by the Yankee’s and is there new shortstop. But on his first day there, temptation in the form of an underage ball girl, curves his focus.
Chase and Ty begin to form a secret relationship and bond over stolen moments, but just as Chase and Ty begin to develop deeper feelings and affections for each other, things take a turn for the worse and they go their separate ways. Now almost 5 years later, they find themselves back in the same stadium, with their same beloved team and those same feelings come rushing to the surface. But the game has changed, not only for them, but for everyone. There are mysterious murders happening and these murders have been dubbed as the “Curse of Chase Stern”. They’re also being said to be linked to the Yankee’s losing. For the past 4 seasons, at the end of the each season, when the Yankee’s loose, another woman dies. #RachelAprilJulieTiffany Coincidently, all four woman have a certain link to Ty. What is that link? And will Chase and Ty be able find their HEA through all of this or is there too many obstacles at play to keep them apart?
I didn’t expect to fall so hard and so fast for these two characters, but much like a line drive to shortstop *wink*, I couldn’t have anticipated it and ducked if I wanted to (which I didn’t). I contribute it to Alessandra’s phenomenal writing. Her choice of wording and writing style was done to perfection and was just elusive enough to keep me intrigued. I found myself so caught up in the love aspect of the story that I completely forgot about the other elements at play…the murders. Just BRILLIANT story telling! I couldn’t put this book down! I loved EVERY minute of this book! Alessandra Torre hit it out of the park with MOONSHOT and I am hoping she plans to write more to Chase and Ty’s story because I simply NEED more!
“Before, I fell for him with a teenager’s love, bold and passionate, no real obstacles to overcome, no real consequences to consider. Now, the wind tickling past my legs, I could see the full path of destruction this world would cause. I saw it, and in that moment, I didn’t care. I couldn’t care. There was right, there was wrong, and there was love. And love trumped all.” –Ty.
#rightwrongLOVE
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5++ “shooting for the moon” stars
“As a teenager, he had corrupted me. As a woman, he had ruined me.” –Ty.
I’d say Moonshot was definitely a one-of-a-kind novel. While I greatly appreciated all of the twists and turns, I thought the book was over when I reached 47% and then I found out I wasn’t even half way there. I did stick through with it until the end and was glad I did. I found Ty (the female protagonist) to be too emotionally placid while Chase was too easily infatuated with Ty. I do have a special place in my heart for baseball, though. However, I wasn’t expecting Moonshot to be believable in the sense that Ty is a ball girl–I was hoping she was more involved in the actual playing of the sport which was lacking throughout Moonshot. It was more about her relationship with a baseball player rather than a baseball novel, unfortunately for me.