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by Liz Tomforde

I liked the first book (Mile High) in this series but didn’t love it. The Right Move is a reminder that just because you didn’t love the first book in a series doesn’t mean you won’t love the second. This fake dating, forced proximity romance was fun, and I was immediately pulled into the story of Ryan and Indy.

Ryan is not just the biggest thing in Chicago sports. He is the best player in the NBA and an internationally known athlete. That may sound great, but the pressure to be the perfect athlete, always smile for the camera, and be constantly mobbed by crowds has taken its toll on Ryan. Over the last few years, he has kept more and more to himself. He lives a life of quiet simplicity off the court. When his sister Stevie’s best friend Indy finds her boyfriend of six years in bed with another woman, Indy is somehow the “bad guy” of the relationship. She finds herself broke, without a place to live or belongings beyond her clothes and beloved romance novels. Ryan gets more than he bargains for when he agrees to let Indy temporarily stay in his guest room. Where he is black & white, order & structure, Indy is a chaos of color and disorder. As these two profoundly opposite people try to co-exist as roommates, they go from confrontation to mutual understanding to magnetic attraction.

There is so much more to this book than a surface-level romance. I loved that the author juxtaposed their fears of family, setting them up to face their deep-set fears and insecurities about themselves to find each other. I’m still having trouble with naming a series after a city and then ignoring the city, but that may be a me problem.

The audiobook is addictive. It also is a couple of hours shorter than Mile High, which addresses one of my primary concerns with the first book (the print version is also ~70 pages more efficient).