We met on a Tuesday. Became best friends, then lovers, on a Tuesday. And everything fell apart on a Tuesday… Charlotte Taylor has three automatic strikes in my book: 1) She hates me. She also claims that I’m a “domineering jerk with a huge, overbearing ego.” (I do have something huge. It’s not my ego, though.) 2) She takes our mandatory tutoring sessions way too seriously. 3) She’s sexy as … She’s sexy as hell…And a virgin.
At least, those were her strikes before our study sessions started lasting longer than they were supposed to. Until one innocent kiss became a hundred dirty ones, and until she became the first woman I ever fell hard for.
Our future together after graduation was supposed to be set:
Professional football for me. Law school for her.
But she left me at the end of the semester with no explanation, and then she completely disappeared from my life.
Until tonight.
We met on a Tuesday.
Became everything, then nothing, on a Tuesday.
And now it’s seven years later, on a Tuesday…
This is a full length second chance romance, inspired by Adele’s “When We Were Young”
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Sophomoric dialog in the first few chapters left me questioning whether to continue. Hoping it was due to the fact these chapters are from the earlier college years, I continued on and glad I did. A complicated second chance romance resulted in a HEA after a few tears
On a Tuesday, I started this book.
On a Tuesday, I fell for the arrogant jock.
On a Tuesday, I was hurt and angry but most of all confused.
On a Tuesday, despite all my conflicting emotions I couldn’t help loving him.
Everyday is a Tuesday when you are in love.
This book was so so good …
This review is for the audiobook version.
Rating: 4.5 Stars
We have two people who could not be more polar opposites than Charlotte Taylor and Grayson Connors. They first meet their senior year in college. One is an academic and one a jock. It’s hard to think that these two could in any way become friends let alone romantically involved. But our author shows that anything is possible and how tough it can be.
Ms. G has me thinking that now preseason has started for professional football that I might have to relisten to her book while a game plays in the background. But college football is also gearing up so that’s another option. Charlotte is an artist but I don’t think that an art gallery will let me sit and reconnect with her. Maybe I’ll have to go to a museum instead. I found it interesting on the author’s choice of centering her story on one particular day of the week. It has me wondering what the rest of the series will be about. And will any of the secondary characters make appearances.
Ms. Mallon and Mr. Discher did a great job in letting me get to know our main characters. Sometimes I can get lost going from past to present but our narrators got me to really listen to what they were saying. They also make it easier to picture the banter Charlotte and Grayson had during their time in college. This is one good thing about listening to a book as opposed to reading it. They are totally different experiences and when you want to revisit a story the audio version makes it easier. Some people change the speed of a story and I wouldn’t do that because it gives me an excuse to just relax and listen to the story being told to me.
I voluntarily reviewed an Audiobook copy of this book.
LOVE LOVE THIS STORY
First…. hello cover. Dang that’s a nice looking cover. I really enjoyed Charlotte and Grayson. I loved how Charlotte wasn’t giving into him that easily, she was making him work for it. Grayson is actually super sweet and I loved the clever gifts they gave each other. I think the reason for the 7 year gap was kinda underwhelming but other than that, it was nice short afternoon read!
On a Tuesday is a slow burn second chance story. Charlotte Taylor is a brilliant pre-law student in her senior year at University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) when she’s assigned to peer tutor the campus football god, Grayson Connor. He’s set to be drafted as the #1 pick in the NFL draft, he’s won the Heisman, all the girls on campus want him (and many have had him for a night), yada yada, yada. Yes, it’s a tried and true trope, one we’ve all read a hundred times before, but in Whitney’s deft hands, it’s entertaining and likable, especially Grayson. Things don’t start off too well for our soon to be couple, though, because Charlotte already dislikes Grayson, or at least the idea of him. She’s not a waffling, timid virgin type, though, who caves to his panty-melting charm as soon as he lays one of his charming grins on her. Yes, she’s a virgin, but she’s also smart, independent and has walls around her forged in steel. So, Grayson’s got his work cut out for him when he decides to pursue her.
It takes a LONG time for him to even convince her to give him her phone number, but once he does that, they soon dive into a sweet relationship. Their relationship up to that point is filled with funny, snarky banter mostly relayed through email, as she hadn’t given him her phone number so he couldn’t even text or call her before that. And they meet every Tuesday for tutoring and spend most of the sessions talking rather than learning or studying. This is what I mean when I said slow burn. They don’t even get together until around the 60% mark, and they’re not together for long before things fall apart in a big way.
It’s here where I kind of disconnected from the story a little. Charlotte went through something huge at the end of their relationship, and it’s rushed through with just a few sentences, a paragraph at most. Grayson’s left to process what she’s told him in their present (7 years after their year in college together), but we’re not given many details about what Charlotte and Grayson were thinking as he’s processing and she’s processing. I felt there was a disservice done to them here because it could have served as a huge turning point filled with all the emotions Charlotte felt back then, and all the emotions Grayson’s feeling now, but it all happens off page for some reason. Then, they’re back together and everything’s fine and then there’s the sweet epilogue.
I guess my main problem, well, only problem, and why I can’t give it 5 stars I almost gave it, is because of the latter part of the book, the present part of their story. Grayson and Charlotte’s relationship in the past is 5 stars for sure. It’s sweet, it’s sexy, it’s funny and snarky and we get a complete picture of what both of them are like and how they feel about each other. But then there’s the big breakup and it’s as if the details dry up and the emotions dry up. It’s as if the two of them are muted in the present, not given the vibrancy of their past relationship that I loved so much. The latter part of On a Tuesday is 3 stars max because it was missing the spark of their beginning, of their past. So I just combined 3 & 5 and came up with 4 .
Taken as a whole, though, I like On a Tuesday. It’s sweet, it’s sexy, and Grayson and Charlotte are engaging, entertaining, really likable characters with great chemistry.