Ineligible Receiver by Jerica MacMillan is about a virgin FMC that decides to have her first time be with her brother’s best friend that just so happens to be a popular football player - only she has no idea who he is at the time.
What could possibly go wrong?
I received a free ARC of this book in exchange for my honest review.
Book Info
Title: Ineligible Receiver
Author: Jerica MacMillan
Publication Date: January 25, 2024
Category: College Romance, Sports Romance, Brother’s Best Friend/Best Friend’s Little Sister, Football Romance
Relationship: Brother’s Best Friend/Best Friend’s Little Sister - Andrew and Sadie
POV: This book is told from the POV of the main male and female characters.
Series or Stand-Alone: This is a standalone book set in the universe of the Marycliff University Football series.
Length: Long - 335 pages
Ending: I’d classify this as a HFN as they are in college at the beginning and the epilogue is 14 months after the last chapter.
Overall Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
Open or Closed Door: Open door
Spice Level: 3 out of 5 peppers - There are multiple detailed spicy scenes. This book is plot-driven but a good chunk of that plot is sex related.
Book Boyfriend Material: Andrew is your typical college age jock. He knows he’s attractive and is well-known for being able to please women.
He doesn’t do relations or even hookup with most women more than once. He has parents that wish he’d focus less on sports and more on being like his older brother.
But our main female character isn’t like most women he hooks up with, quickly gets under his skin, and leaves Andrew wanting more than he ever thought he would.
Andrew is the book boyfriend for you if you like football players both on and off the field that just need the right woman to tame them.
And once they are, they’re super sweet even if it means going behind their best friend’s back.
Readability: Easy to read with minimal grammatical issues.
Themes: Virgin FMC, Going behind brother’s/best friend’s back, reformed player.
Possible Triggers: Note that all triggers may not be listed here and could potentially spoil parts of the book. I always suggest visiting the author’s site for more information if triggers are a concern for you.
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I didn’t really find any triggers in this book. A potential one could be that the FMC almost died as a baby and has been heavily sheltered her whole life by her parents.
Available On: Amazon including Kindle Unlimited
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Synopsis From Author
“My brother’s best friend is the life of the party. I’m the wilting wallflower. Until now …
Having grown up sheltered my entire life, I decide to take life by the horns and live a little when my brother invites me to a party at his house, which also happens to be party central for the Marycliff University football team.
A hot guy catches my eye. He’s shirtless and clowning with his friends. He’ll do for my first one-night stand. I just have one condition—no names.
Cue my surprise the next day when my brother introduces me to his roommates, and I discover that my anonymous one-night stand was with none other than my brother’s best friend Andrew—notorious player, both on and off the field.
No big deal, though, right? My brother never has to know.
Except Andrew decides that one night isn’t enough …
Despite my best intentions, he wins me over. And I know that telling my brother will be nothing short of disastrous.
But if I don’t, I worry keeping our relationship a secret will tear us apart anyway …”
My Review
I want to start off by saying I have read and enjoyed several of Jerica MacMillan’s books on Kindle Unlimited like Off Limits and A Very Grumpy Christmas.
With that said, Ineligble Receiver is probably my least favorite title that I’ve read by Jerica MacMillan.
It wasn’t bad as I still rated it a 3.5 but it wasn’t my cup of tea with how the book flowed and how the main characters were written.
I did, however, find it refreshing that the book dealt with an issue that is very common in real life but rarely seen in romance books.
Overall, while it wasn’t for me I can see those that enjoy college football romance with a good bit of drama and who don’t mind a character on the whinier side liking this book.
Likes
- Deals with realistic issues with women and intimacy
- Has a satisfying happy ending
Dislikes
- As much as the FMC seems to want to not be babied, she whines a lot
- I didn’t find the main characters to be that positively memorable or interesting
- Lots of internal dialogue over the same issues
This book starts off as your usual football college romance does, mostly on campus and at parties.
The FMC is a sophomore but it’s her first year living on campus. She’s led a pretty sheltered life living in the shadow of her older popular brother and overly protective parents.
Needless to say, she’s a virgin and is ready to move onto the next stage of her sexual life.
However, being young and inexperienced, she doesn’t really think things through (which even her roommate has to point out to her) and unknowingly loses her virginity to her brother’s best friend who just so happens to be a football player that’s quite popular with the ladies.
I really enjoyed that the FMC, Sadie, didn’t immediately get dickmatized by our MMC, Andrew, after hooking up with him at a party.
In fact, she’s actually rather disappointed in his performance in the bedroom.
This obviously doesn’t go over so well with Andrew and he’s determined to create a more memorable experience for her, especially after he learns she hadn’t told him she was a virgin their first time.
Andrew, of course, falls for Sadie more and more as time and experimentation goes on.
However, Sadie’s brother just so happens to be his best friend which creates a rather large obstacle in building a relationship.
Having led a sheltered life, Sadie doesn’t seem to handle conflict well. And honestly, the amount of whining she does turned me off of her character.
Things such as “his words make me want to flop around in a pouty tantrum” or “‘I don’t know’ I practically wail” just made me want to roll my eyes while reading because the FMC wants to be taken seriously and not be babied yet she acts very childlike and doesn’t want to face her own problems.
Jerica MacMillan usually includes a lot of internal dialogue in her books which I don’t mind when written well.
But this one was a bit over the top and monotonous to me since it was always over the same issues.
Overall, while I didn’t overly enjoy my time reading this book, I didn’t overly dislike it either.
As I said before, if you enjoy college football romance and don’t mind characters on the more immature and whiney side, give Ineligible Receiver a try.
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