I asked for his criteria for bed buddies–that’s the PG version.He swore at me and said he didn’t do groupies. And just like that, our friendship was off to a great start.Reese Forster was the starting point guard for the Seattle Thunder.Gorgeous. Cocky. Loved by the nation.He’s also attending preseason basketball training camp where I used to work.Correction: where I work again, because I was … work.
Correction: where I work again, because I was fired from my last job.
And dumped.
And I might have a tiny bit of baggage, but that’s normal. Right?
Reese and I shouldn’t have become friends. We shouldn’t have become roommates.
And we really shouldn’t have started sleeping together … (Except we did.)
I’m adorably psychotic. He’s in the NBA.
This is not a disaster waiting to happen, at all.
Teardrop Shot is a 107k standalone with brand new characters.
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Emotive, Funny & Full Of Friendships!! 4.5 Star Read
A thoroughly enjoyable reading experience!
Charlie is a chaotic hilarious mess, trying to drag herself back to living. Her group of friends she ghosted on 8 years ago drag/welcome her back with open arms & hearts. Their Hearts are bruised but they can see she’s not ready to talk! They’re a wonderful & eclectic bunch – Ride of Die friends! They’re working at a Camp & offer Charlie her old job for 3 weeks – She takes the offer & has no idea what’s in store for her!!
Reese is an NBA Star. His team summer training camp is being held in seclusion because of complications in his life. He’s boiling with hurt & anger. He makes a friend while he’s there that pushes his darkness away but then camp is over!
This book is full of light hearted moments but also has deep & painful ones for both main characters too. I didn’t cry – I’m sure many did while reading it though. It’s much longer than I thought it would be, thankfully. It had a couple of natural ‘ending’ places but this Author had a story to tell & she told it properly! So the relationship is messy and clumsy and painful until it isn’t, in its own time! I loved Reese so much, his heart made me swoon! Charlie is a wonderful mess throughout but she’s trying – beautiful!!
This is a fabulous read, I’m so glad I took the plunge
Debbie, 1970, UK
Teardrop Shot is another slam dunk for TiJan! This book had it all, laugh out loud moments, heartbreaking, ugly cry moments, and enough sexual tension to start a fire! I was hooked from the start and couldn’t get enough. I hoped it would never end. Teardrop Shot is unlike any book I have ever read by Tijan and I loved every second.
Charlie is an awkward, complex character you really can’t help but love. I mean her nervous habit of asking the most random, out of the world questions is both charming and hilarious.
“What’s your criteria for determining who you choose to be a fuck buddy?”
I laughed so hard when this was the first thing she said to Reese. Then he went on and answered all her random, weird questions and I just melted. No one even paid attention to her questions until him.
I love that both Reese and Charlie are more than meets the eyes. They have depth, and layers. They also both grow just a little during the book, and I loved their development apart and together. You see their growth several times throughout the book.
Everything about Teardrop Shot is a hit from the characters to the story. Tijan hooks you and keeps you needing more.
5 Stars all the way for this brilliant book from Tijan!
Okay, I’m a little ashamed to admit that this is my 1st book to read in 2019. But, what a book to be my first of 2019! It was amazeballs. It had me cracking up, tearing up, wtf-ing…all the feels. I so needed it all.
Charlie…was a little bit psycho… ha! Okay, really she was trying to find herself again. I was going nuts trying to figure out what the heck happened to her. She was weird…but good weird. And funny, and the questions, okay that kind of threw me off at first, but I found them hilarious once I understood her a bit more. I also loved that Reese answered her crazy questions, that he liked her weird and that they formed a friendship that was unexpected but much needed.
I’ve only read two books by this author, and I loved both of them soo hard! This one was a little more emotional, but I loved the story and the emotions it gave me while reading it. I forgot how much I enjoyed sport romance books! I didn’t realize she wrote others, so I’ll for sure be reading those! This book was quite the eye-opener, and I learned a few things about something I wasn’t familiar with. If your a fan of romance, sexy athletes, and a lil crazy, this book is for you! Can’t wait to read some more of her books!
#B2BKristina
I loved the slow burn of this book. The way the characters were both perfectly flawed and helped each other in ways no one else could. I loved the unfiltered weird personality of Charlie. She was such a breath of fresh air and so endearingly quirky.
Okay, I really really really loved this book. Like jump up and down on your bed, scream into your pillow, fall on your face, because you were reading kinda love. I’ve been really into sports romance lately, and I LOVE Tijan so it was obvious this was a must read, and like it rocked my world. There were some unpredictable elements. I’ve read a lot of romance stories where the characters are shook from a previous relationship, but the reasons for Charlie’s meltdown was so completely unexpected. Plus I love Reese. I want a Reese all for myself. Sorry Charlie. He’s mine.
Wow…I just found my new favourite female lead character in Charlie and definitely found my new book boyfriend in Reese! A completely unexpected story that is sure to be one of my all time faves. Everyone needs to read this book…I’ll never be able to recommend it enough!!
In Tijan’s Acknowledgements in this book, she said that she hoped this story gutted me in a good way…it did (it might’ve just plain gutted me at times too), she also hoped it made me laugh…it did, too many times to count, she hoped it made me cry…yup, still drying the tears (sad and happy), and lastly, she hoped it made me feel…truthfully, it made me feel way more than I had ever anticipated!
I started not liking the book but by the end I loved the story and loved the characters. Initially, I found the writing a little disjointed and hard to follow. Then the weird questions that Charlie makes when she’s nervous were crazy, not funny. There’s no way a person has that much trivia information in their heads to make up those questions. And yet, they grew on me and by the end of the book I was enjoying them.
Charlie starts as a sad character. She’s fresh off a relation with a jerk whose grandfather made a pass at her. Since his purpose was to make her forget the very important breakup she had a year ago, this breakup didn’t hurt but she was still carrying the baggage from her first relation. We learn that they were soulmates and she loved him deeply but had to leave him. She hasn’t dealt with the breakup and keeps everyone at a distance, not wanting anyone close and near to her. She lives within a shield and is not really living, just surviving.
When she comes back to her old summer camp to work on a project, she reunites with her old friends, the ones who were like her family and from whom she was estranged for six years. She has trouble relating and hence the crazy questions. There’s a basketball team, the Seattle Thunders, coming to the camp for a preseason training. Charlie has a long term crush for Reese Forster, the captain of the basketball team, so she’s super anxious and nervous to be near her idol.
She joins her friends at her old stomping grounds, taking on a job with awful pay, a fish-smelling cottage, but time with her friends and a chance to deal with her feelings. She’s so weird and crazy that Reese can’t help but notice her. He calls her Gnat initially, then pronounces she’s like an itch he can’t forget, but eventually this turns into a lovely love story.
We witness Reese’s personal problems with his family and watch as Charlie flounders around as she comes back to life after her disastrous and tragic life with Damian. We learn all the details and we cry for her. There’s a sad scene where she evaluated her life as compared to her friends, finds them with a purpose in life and she’s in limbo, not really living, and feels less worthy. It’s a profoundly sad moment for someone who’s almost thirty years old. It’s a road to redemption for both of them and at the end of the book I was rooting for the HEA. The incredible part was that Reese always understood and answered her crazy questions. A match made in heaven!
Love this book. I couldn’t put it down. I tore out my heart, ripped it up and stomped on it. But then it was all put back together. Intriguing, emotional and amazing
When Tijan releases a book, it’s an automatic one-click for me. Always. When I found out she was releasing a sports romance I was excited because I love them . Teardrop Shot was everything you would expect and so much more. The characters are all well developed and the plot is something I’ve never read before. Yes, I’ve read basketball romances, and friends to lovers, but it’s what Charlie and Reese live through that sets it apart from the others. It’s original and also heartbreaking. It’s having your whole world fall apart, and nothing you do can change the course you are on. It’s finding the courage to walk away, and learning to live with that decision.
I love Charlie’s quirkiness, I was able to relate to it. She’s been dealt a tough hand, and I love that Reese was able to see through her antics, and helped to draw her back to life, and back to living. A good friendship will do that. I think that is what shaped their whole relationship. He didn’t see her as the weird girl, he saw a broken girl just trying to get through life day by day. He is able to relate with her, maybe not on the same level, as he is dealing things gone wrong in his own life.
Hats off to Tijan for another great book! I can’t wait for the audiobook to released! Then I can take Charlie & Reese to work with me
This book was just…extraordinary! Charlie may seem like some ordinary woman who happens to have certain quirks to her, but she’s genuinely unlike any other female main character that I’ve come across in a long time, and I’ve been reading for four decades, so that says something. The more I got to know her back story, the more my heart broke for her. She was someone who had a habit of putting those who meant most to her first, and in the process, it seemed as if she lost bits and pieces of herself. I loved her circle of friends, but they tended to ignore or roll their eyes when her questions popped about, and it took someone like Reese–someone who went with the flow and actually answered her questions–for her to see that what others saw as weird, he saw adorably out of the ordinary and endearingly entertaining. They were part of what made Charlie Charlie, and could have Tijan paired two more deserving people to have a happily-ever-after?! Just like the actual teardrop shot made in basketball, this book may appear deceptively like a rom-com, but it’s so much more than that. Five-plus stars go to Teardrop Shot.
OMGOODNESS!! I was shedding some tears over this bad boy. Reese and Charlie were so finely tuned to each others needs it gave me goosies. The difficulty of discussing a subject that is not normally discussed can be overwhelming. The tsct and grace that Tijan used in her words to tell this story of true heartache and loss is truly stunning. I couldn’t get enough of this story. I hope to see this couple and characters in a future sequel???
10 Amazing STARS
I’m a huge sports romance junkie, and a big fan of Tijan’s writing and storytelling, so I couldn’t wait to read Teardrop Shot and immerse myself in the writer’s new world and characters, and by the time I finished Charlie and Reese’s story, my appreciation for how Tijan crafts and creates grew tenfold because this book was so much more than I thought it would be and it took readers on one hell of an emotional journey – one where Charlie struggles to live again…where she hides behind her techniques of deflection and where she gets a second chance to share who she truly is with someone who accepts her, her baggage, and her lack of a filter in stressful or overwhelming situations.
Before I go further in my review, I have to be honest about my initial reaction to Charlie’s story. I struggled in the beginning to truly understand all the things that Charlie was dealing with, and I’m not sure if it was because the things that happened to her were only vaguely introduced or if it dealt more with the way she cut off her lifeline, her friends, in what seemed to be a rather easy decision. But as I continued to read and learn more about Charlie’s struggles and the reasons behind her vanishing act for the past 8 years, a much clearer picture formed, and I was able to see what coping mechanisms she used so that she could continue surviving, continue existing and hopefully, some day, be able to move on an move forward without her broken pieces keeping her plagued by the past.
I adored Charlie’s group of friends; they were so understanding and had her back regardless of how much her ghosting them hurt. There was just something so special about their friendship – it was more like they were family and family stayed together even when one of their own went off course a bit and needed to be reminded that she always had a safe place with them.
The progression of Charlie and Reese’s friendship/relationship was most definitely not a linear path, which given what both of them had already endured due to other people’s decisions and actions, made complete sense. There were going to be highs and lows, breakthroughs and setbacks, complications and simple acts, but the fact that from the very beginning Reese answered every last one of Charlie’s less than appropriate questions spoke to exactly what these two could become.
Reese is instrumental in Charlie’s recovery, in her ability to show him just how tormented her heart is, but this story is more so about Charlie’s re-awakening, and while Reese is tantamount to her progression, Charlie has to be the one to begin her healing, to take her pain, her heartache, and her grief and maybe not let them go but find a way through them, to release them enough that she can reclaim her life and be somewhat at peace with the past in order to live in the present and have a future that is as rare and beautiful as a teardrop shot.
4.5 Poison Apples
3,7 stars
I love the way Tijan writes. It’s an easy and compeling text, you just flow through the pages. I was really missing some sports romance book, so when I read the blurb of TEARDROP SHOP that was it!!! I had to read it. But, I thought the begining of the book was kinda confuse and it actually only got me hooked after 35%. That’s when I saw more of Reese and Charlie connection.
Charlie was funny but I hated it when she did comparisons. It felt wrong and I don’t know how Resse accepted all of that. He was a nice, caring and loving guy but even so he shouldn’t accept that. This was the only thing that I didn’t like. So I tried to ignore that and just enjoy the book. Charlie story dealing with her past was good and real. It showed how we sometimes let others take our forces and when we get preoccupied more with other person than ourselves. We forget who we are and just focus on being what we think other person need.
I read a few books by Tijan and love it and TEARDROP SHOT is one more good read in this list. I recomend for all of thoses that enjoy a weird friendship to lovers (looove friends to lovers stories), with some drama but also mixed with funny and romantic scenes.
Tijan absolutely slayed me with Teardrop Shot. Teardrop Shot is just a phenomenal story. A phenomenal look into such a devastating disease and the turmoil the loved ones go through. Tijan, wrote this story so beautifully, so thoughtfully, and so perfect.
My heart was aching for Charlie in the beginning, not knowing why she was the way she was. And, when it came out, I literally had to set the book down. I cried for Charlie for a good hour before I was able to dive back in. I also love every aspect of Charlie. She is a little neurotic, a little broken, and a whole lotta strong. Her strength is just an amazing thing to witness. And then, Reese. Ahhhhh what can I say about my new book boyfriend. The basketball hotshot, seemingly having it all. But his baggage is just as deep as Charlie’s. The way they are with each other, the way they open up to each other, the way they crave each other, is just soul consuming.
Tijan just has this amazing way of taking stories, like Teardrop Shot, Ryan’s Bed and Bad Boy Brody, with such heavy topics and making me fall in love. I’m just amazed with this one.
This was an amazing read. It was a great love story and it was simply wonderful.
I recommend this book, and this author.
Another amazing read by Tijan! Such amazing story!
I was a girl crushing on a guy, not a fangirl gawking over a celebrity, and it hit me hard in the chest. Right there, making that thing pumping skipping a beat. That was what I’d been afraid of.
This story hit me in the feels when I least expected it. Charlie, at first, almost got a little on my nerves. She was quirky, I’ll admit, but there was something that seemed off. As I kept reading, though, I noticed that it was much more than what I was thinking. She faced some challenges that I couldn’t have imagined and they changed her in ways that no person could truly understand unless they faced the same. Learning this, a lot came into perspective and I knew that Charlie was more than I first assessed.
Reese was kind of great. It took some time to get to know him, but from the very start he seemed … decent. That is a little odd in male characters, and I’m liking this concept. Now, that’s not to say that all male characters are scoundrels or awful, but there seems to always been this jerk edge to them that inevitably looks attractive by the end. Reese was a pretty good guy and he was attuned to Charlie in a strange way. “You’re being weird… I can tell. You’re off from your usual weird shit.” He scowled. “I don’t like it.”
This is my first read from Tijan, and it definitely won’t be my last. This story was a combination of some real life issues, love, and some great characters. The relationship between Charlie and Reese evolved in a way that I completely loved reading and gave me all the feelings I was looking for. Definitely a recommendation for sports romance readers.
Tijan has done it again! delivered pure brilliance cementing her place as one of my top 1-click must read authors.
With this book she brought all the feels, laughter, hope, friendship, pain, healing, love and passion. The characters are compelling and addictive. You will laugh at Charlie’s hot neurotic mess (god I love this girls random questions) and you will want to hug her with all her pain. Reese……..OMG ………Swoon!!!! this guy! seriously brings all the swoons. The chemistry between them is phenomenal but I loved the slow build of the relationship. It made it feel so much more real.
Once I started this book I was hooked an unable to put it down until I had finished, this is what lazy Sundays are for! This book really showcases Tijan’s spectacular writing ability. It was deep and emotional, connecting with you on a higher level as you feel everything.
LOVED!!! This book is everything! I really thought it was going to just be a sports romance, but it was so much more! Tijan is an amazing author, and this just might be my newest favorite!! FIVE STARS!!
Shut the front door because Tijan just slayed it!!!!
OMFG!!! Just take my heart I don’t need it!!!! Nope!
Teardrop Shot is sheer storytelling at it’s very best, jaw-dropping perfection that you need in your life!