Hooks In (No Holds Barred Book 1)

This was a great enemies/rivals to lovers story. My first time reading this author and I am looking forward to book 2 of this duet. The story focuses on a pair of rival MMA fighters who find themselves on the same team when both fighters pick up and move from their respective small towns to the big city. It’s a huge opportunity for both of them so they must learn to work with one another for the sake of their careers. Ty and Luca feel like complete opposites from one another with Ty being quiet, hyper-focused and rarely expressing emotion. This contrasts greatly to Luca who is outgoing, friendly, and seemingly carefree. Ty believes that everything comes easily for Luca and that he doesn’t seem to take much seriously where Ty feels the need to keep everything under tight control in order to keep his life on the path he has set for himself. Even their fighting styles contrast and Max, the team owner, hopes that by putting these two together they can learn from one another and improve on their respective weaknesses. It feels like everything with these two is so intense from their fight scenes to their sharp and heated back and forth dialogue and eventually their steamy scenes. This attraction has been brewing under the surface until both characters realize there’s a reason that the other gets under the skin so quickly. I cannot wait to see what happens in book 2 for this couple. There are issues that I’m guessing both characters need to deal with along with the fate of their…

This was a new to me author and I really enjoyed this book. The spice was spicyyyy and the tension was off the charts. Ty is extremely introverted and doesn’t socialize in any way, MMA is his life. He has one goal in mind and that’s UFC. He won’t let anything stop him, especially the one person who he’s always neck and neck with Luca. The hatred between Ty and Luca is strong, they demolish each other in every fight and when out of the cage nothing changes. Until they both end up in a gym together and have to figure out how they can work together. The tension in this book was off the charts. The hatred ran deep for these two, and once they start turning that hatred sexual it’s explosive. Ty is extremely broken. He lived a tough life before he found MMA and he allowed his goals to consume him to keep himself on track. MMA is all he had left, no friends or family just the ring. Then Luca bull doses into Ty’s life and shows him what he’s been missing. Luca is a ray of sunshine. He looks at the bright side of things, always has a smile on his face and has a joke to crack. He knows how to annoy Ty and takes the opportunity at every turn. He used the tension between him and Ty to his advantage and reaped the benefits. They fought hard for their relationship. Luca had to figure out how to get under Ty’s seemingly impenetrable walls. Ty had to learn to navigate dealing with people and feelings and how to actually let people in. Luca and their other gym mates slowly broke him…