Both Danny and Kate are very competitive. Either not willing to give an inch. They just have to find a way for them to each get what they want and need. When they finally do, it's very steamy.

Overall a quick and fun read. A few of the snags for Danny and Kate didn't stand out much, for example the journalist that was causing trouble. Why was she dating him? didn't make sense. Why was the Chancellor of the University so quick to throw him out? Also didn't see the reason, or at least more reason, for the quick love and marriage. More build up to transition the emotions would have helped to make a stronger story. Overall, I did enjoy it though, and highly recommend it if you are looking for a quick read about two coaches at a small southern University.

I really liked Love Game. It was cute yet sexy. If you love sports romance this is one for you. I love how Danny and Kate come off as complete enemies. The bickering banner was such an amazing tool for foreplay. Danny and Kate just fit perfectly. I love the competitiveness between them. With both being athletes and coaches everything just flowed with ease. Kate and Danny are so cute in this one. Love Game is a perfect kick back on couch kind of read for any day of the week.

This was a really enjoyable story with a really great and original theme. I really suggest it it if you love sports romances.

Kate is a WBNA star, she is a winner with many awards and accolades but her salary does not reflect that, though her contract is up. Danny is a new hire and he had everything as a coach, until he mucked it up with a college student romance. Now his friend has hired him to coach the college football team, where they have never won any awards. In football that is, because Kate's basketball team has won many awards.

For Danny it is lust at first sight. I loved Danny, no matter what he is totally into Kate and he pretty much gives it his all. Kate was harder to predict as she gets attracted to Danny. But I loved that she was this really strong woman and I could understand that made her one tough cookie.

The big issue in this book is that the college does not want its coaches to date. Danny especially, its actually written in his contract. So they hide from everyone, until Danny decides to take a huge risk for Kate. I am not spoiling anything else, but this story was well written, original and one I had a hard time putting down.

Maggie Wells is a new author to me and I did take to her her smooth writing, even though the technical and political details of sports and its management at collegiate and semi-professional level escaped me somewhat. The enemies-to-lovers vibe was strong—especially when it came to the (justifiably) issue of gender inequality exemplified in sports—that was played out in the pages as a running theme here.

Above all, I liked Well’s articulate ‘meta-speak’ on the problems with women and the blatant inequality that they face in the workplace, more so in male-dominated industries.

What I really appreciated was the portrayal of a no-nonsense, strong heroine who has made her way in the male-dominated world of sports first as a celebrated player, then as a legendary coach. Kate’s hard-earned position simply showed what women can do today—despite the fact that she’s probably one of the rare few earning that sort of accolade—and that much kept me going, even if it was to glow (by proxy) in what fictional women can achieve. I felt for Kate nonetheless—the price she kept paying for the position she’d reached was the constant hemming in and the harassment by other male voices whether intentionally or not and it’s a struggle that I think readers can relate to which Wells writes about excellently.

Yet I hadn’t expected her to cave so easily to Danny however, especially after her continued mantra about staying strong and resisting him.

On the other hand, Danny came across as sleazy because of his past—his affair with a student, the scandal that surrounded his previous job, his ready exploitation of willing women because he could, his blatant ignoring the non-fraternisation clause—and somewhat reckless as he fell in lust with Kate and then pursued it with as much vigour as he could, along with some dick-waving episodes with the other characters in the story. That said, I thought Kate/Danny’s connection was more lust than love, which made for a copious amount of scorching sex but apart from that, I couldn’t get their emotional connection. There were parts that I actually struggled through, unable to be convinced about Danny’s declaration of love when it felt like yet another mutinous thing in he’d done in his career.

I think it’s strange to be moved more by the issues here that Wells brought up through Kate than the actual romance itself, which I couldn’t quite take a shine to. Because that was what ‘Love Game’ felt more like to me: the struggle for an independent, successful woman to just be seen as equal despite her achievements, the constant fight to stay on top and the pain borne on the way, rather than a search for a man to add colour to her life.