This instalove story was just what I needed after reading so many thrillers/horrors.

For a short book, it was very well written and was such a lovely believable funny story.

I would highly recommend this book and this author.

Thank you to Netgalley and BooksGoSocial for allowing me to read this.

In this short, super sweet story, Tabitha, a shy librarian, falls for Brodie, a boxer with captivating muscles and tattoos.

While I always appreciate a good romance, I was really expecting fireworks with this classic trope of polar opposites falling for each other. Of course, Brodie made me swoon and I related to Tabitha's insecurities, I found their characters lacking depth. For the most part, Brodie and Tabitha's personalities were static, completely reliant on who they were outside—as a tough boxer and a timid librarian. Their love story would have been more powerful and solid if, as a reader, we could see more of who they were individually and how they balanced each other out.

A wonderful erotic happy ending story with hot scenes. Though short I really enjoyed it. A quick pleasant reading I would recommend.

This was a super short insta-love story. Somewhat cliché (shy librarian with a cat meets bad boy boxer/construction worker) but it was fun and quick and sweet.

Kindly received an ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

In 'Knock Out', Brodie needs to focus on training for his upcoming match. Interfering with his regimen is working with Tabitha. He can't get her off his mind, and zeroes in on getting a date with her. Tabitha has self esteem issues due to a jerk from her past. She's very interested in Brodie, but needs help coming out of her shell.

I really loved this story. Its short, but nothing is missing from the plot. I liked both of the main characters, and adored little max. I look forward to reading the sequel.

This was a super sweet and quick romance that just lifts your mood. Definitely 18+ in some places but it's tasteful and balances out the adorableness of the budding relationship. The book's description describes it as insta-love and while it has elements of that I am much more inclined to describe it as insta-lust. For such a short novel (Only 55 pages) the characters were very likeable and relatively well developed. Max was my favourite character - I mean who doesn't love a kitten, but a kitten who actively tries to get you the hot guy... where can I get myself a Max! I would have liked to have a bit more of Colin and seen more of Brodie's jealousy. I also would have really liked it if Greg had been at the Boxing to cause some more tension and drama for the conclusion of the story. Other than that it was a really nice lighthearted romance to cheer you up when you need a quick pick-me-up.

So while this story is fast paced and constantly moving along, which is awesome however there were a few parts that were blah.
Every time he gets close to her in the first three chapters it’s the smell of him over and over and over again. It’s so redundant and I just skip over it. There is also a spelling error in chapter one, the small of fresh, salt air and something masculine, it should be smell not small. But here we are again with the smell thing.
Another part where I was just like what? They are sitting in the diner and the waitress asks her: “You work at the library, don’t you?” Katie asked. Tabitha nodded. “I moved to town about a month ago and started there.” This response makes no sense at all. It makes her seem flighty and air-headed that she can’t answer a simple question. When we know she must be educated and well read since she works in a library.
There is a bunch of redundancy with her being so timid and shy it really gets boring to read. I just started skimming because I wanted more conversations between these two.
The kitten is a cute addition and makes for a nice way that they get to taking and interacting with each other.