Taking Shots by Toni AleoDate Released: October 5th 2011
Date Read: May 28, 2012
Format: Kindle Edition
Source: Book Lending.com
Summary:
Elli Fisher has never thought she was good enough. Let it be her job, her weight, her love life, nothing, she was convinced she couldn’t do anything right. She had walked through life for the past six years in a daze, never thinking that life could be good again after the abuse she endured from her ex boyfriend. She is lonely, sad, and depressed, that is until she meets Shea Adler. After doing a promotional shoot for the NHL team, the Nashville Assassins, she meets the hunky hockey player who shoots a puck, shattering her world.
Shea Adler was tired of the life he was living outside of the rink. The girls, the money blowing, the drinking, everything had to stop and it all did when he met Eleanor Fisher. He had never met anyone like her. She is feisty, witty, shy, and simply gorgeous. When he laid eyes on her, it was as if he was taking the hardest hit of his life into the boards, and he had to have her.
Elli is a little skeptical of Shea, but he knows that they were meant to be together, and he needed her in his life. But Elli just doesn’t understand what Shea could see in her. She is overweight, loud, and not even that pretty, so why would someone so gorgeous and so amazing want to be with her? It seemed that no matter how hard she tried to shake Shea off, he wasn’t going anywhere, and for the first time Elli didn’t feel alone.
But could Elli throw her insecurities out the window and love Shea with everything inside of her? Or will she let a past relationship, and her family ruin any chance of her being happy?
Would Elli miss her shot at love?
Elli Fisher has never thought she was good enough. Let it be her job, her weight, her love life, nothing, she was convinced she couldn’t do anything right. She had walked through life for the past six years in a daze, never thinking that life could be good again after the abuse she endured from her ex boyfriend. She is lonely, sad, and depressed, that is until she meets Shea Adler. After doing a promotional shoot for the NHL team, the Nashville Assassins, she meets the hunky hockey player who shoots a puck, shattering her world.
Shea Adler was tired of the life he was living outside of the rink. The girls, the money blowing, the drinking, everything had to stop and it all did when he met Eleanor Fisher. He had never met anyone like her. She is feisty, witty, shy, and simply gorgeous. When he laid eyes on her, it was as if he was taking the hardest hit of his life into the boards, and he had to have her.
Elli is a little skeptical of Shea, but he knows that they were meant to be together, and he needed her in his life. But Elli just doesn’t understand what Shea could see in her. She is overweight, loud, and not even that pretty, so why would someone so gorgeous and so amazing want to be with her? It seemed that no matter how hard she tried to shake Shea off, he wasn’t going anywhere, and for the first time Elli didn’t feel alone.
But could Elli throw her insecurities out the window and love Shea with everything inside of her? Or will she let a past relationship, and her family ruin any chance of her being happy?
Would Elli miss her shot at love?
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My Review:
After endless recommendations I finally got my hands on Taking Shots and I am really glad I did! Elli has had a tough life, I really felt bad for her, she went through so many things that were really not fair, such as problems with her health that caused her to gain a lot of weight and because of this she lost her job, her fiance and her self-esteem and ugh! What a crappy family she has! I Hate her Mother and I Hate her Sister! HATE!
A few year later Elli is in a healthy weight and it's doing good - her family is still crappy though. And in the middle of her new work as a photographer, she meets Shea Adler, famous hokey player and he has his eyes on her and it's determined to win her heart. Sadly, after years of reinforcement and bad situations, Elli cannot believe that someone like him would ever want to be with someone like her.
Elli had a lot of emotional issues, and it was really hard to watch her struggle through them, but it was understandable, when you've been broken to many times it's hard to accept that good things do come your way, and Shea was a good thing, luckily he can see this and he will prove to Elli that she is worth of so many things, including love.
Another thing I really loved about the book is that Elli is no model, she has no flawless body, she has curves and she is a HUMAN, she has insecurity like any woman has so it was really refreshing to read a book that has a real woman as the main character.
The only downside was near the ending, when Elli's family got on my nerves and all I wanted was to jump into the story and strangle her mother and sister, and I also wanted to strangle Elli for not strangling them herself x) Luckily I still got my Happy Ending :)
“I was trying to get over you! And it didn’t work. I was meant to walk on this earth with only you, I was meant to give only you every piece of me. I don’t want anyone but you. I love you.”
“That’s not what drew me to you, it was your eyes…and your ass.”
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