The Wrong Quarterback by C.R. Jane

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

You can’t steal something that belongs to you.
Casey 
I’ve spent the last two years trying to keep the pieces together after my family fell apart. College was supposed to be my chance to start fresh—new beginnings, new dreams, and one thing I thought I could always count on.
Him.
Gray was my anchor, my constant, my everything.
Until he wasn’t.
Then Parker Davis crashed into my life and crumbled my reality. The first time I met the Tennessee star quarterback, something like obsession sparked in his eyes. He’s relentless, charming, and absolutely sure of what he wants.
And what he wants…is me.
He tells me I’m his endgame, and he’s determined to prove it.
But what’s the line between obsession and love?
And what does it mean for me when that line begins to blur?
At first I think Parker Davis is all wrong. But what if…he’s exactly right?
*Note: Parker Davis is a morally grey antihero who is obsessed with his girl and will do anything to keep her. This is a darker football romance.

The Wrong Quarterback

“There’s no me, without you.”

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💜🩷💙💚❤️
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📘📙
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌏🌍
Character development: ☹️😄😍😮
Narration: 🎙🎙🎙🎙🎙
Narration Type: Duet Narration

The heroine: Casey – her and her older brother Ben were best friends. He was the popular and outspoken one while she was quiet, reserved and liked to read and played piano for fun. She always had a crush on her brothers’ best friend Gray. One night while Gray and her brother were driving her home, they got in an accident and her brother died. Casey’s wrist was broken, and she could no longer play the piano. Two years later she enrolled in the University of Tennessee where Gray was enrolled. She looked forward to seeing him again.

The Hero: Parker – it was his third year as the star quarterback on the University of Tennessee Tigers football team. He was the guy that other guys wanted to be, and all the girls just wanted. The most eligible bachelor on campus on one of the winningest teams in college football. He had an older brother that was a rockstar and another that was a superstar NHL goaltender. His mother wasn’t well and had a private nurse and he often drove home to take care of her. She had given up on life after losing the love of her life and was the reason he chose the University of Tennessee which was close to home.

The story: At her brother’s funeral, Gray had kissed Casey and at the time, he knew she wasn’t ready. He told her he was willing to wait for her to get older. So, when she arrived at the University of Tennessee, he was there for her. He was now in a fraternity and had a lot going on, though he made time for Casey. Though things were a bit strange between them without Ben. Gray seemed like he wanted to be with Casey, but he was acting strange. He cancelled dates on her and seemed touchy feely when they were together but seemed to care more about what his group of guys thought than her.

When Parker goes to the history of the roman empire class where he works as the teacher’s assistant, he sees Casey when she comes in late and knocks down her desk. He is immediately obsessed with her. He had heard tales of his family curse where members of his family immediately know when they meet the love of their life and are destined to love them obsessively forever. He sees this curse in his mother who lost all interest in life after his dad died. Casey was attracted to Parker from the start as well, though she had first seen him on a football poster. She couldn’t believe that he was interested in her.

I liked that each character had their own traumatic backstory. Casey started dating Gray right away after getting to school, though she found that he was a stranger, a frat boy who liked to party a bit too much and she didn’t have much of a connection to him despite the fact that she had always had a crush on him and they had the crash and her brother in common. Her attraction to Parker was hard to deny as well. Parker does things that aren’t normal, though he freely admits to his psychotic tendencies. I think he went too far though to make Casey his and keep her. I wouldn’t have forgiven him, but she did and even admitted to herself that she kind of liked how far he went. I have to admit I liked the way he supported her, and he did adore and cherish her, and isn’t that what we all really want?

This audiobook was told in multiple points of view via duet narration and was narrated by Lucas Wesley and Alexis Paige. I love that this one was done in duet narration, because not enough romance books are done that way and these two have the perfect voices for the characters. Alexis has a great voice that sounds age appropriate for Casey and Lucas has a deep, yet soft voice that I really enjoyed.

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