I Bet You by Ilsa Madden-Mills…Blog Tour & Review

Title: I BET You

Author: Ilsa Madden-Mills

Genre: New Adult Romance (Standalone)

Release Date: October 29, 2018

Wall Street Journal bestselling author Ilsa Madden-Mills returns with an all-new swoon-fest of a novel about what happens when you look beyond labels and take a chance on love.

Sexy Athlete: I bet you…

Penelope Graham: Burn in hell, quarterback.

The late night text is random but Penelope knows exactly who “Sexy Athlete” is. And why she shouldn’t take his wager.

Ryker Voss.

Football star.

Walks on water and God’s gift to women.

Just ask him.

His bet? He promises Penelope he’ll win her the heart of the nerdy guy she’s been crushing on. His plan—good old-fashioned jealousy. Once her crush sees her kissing Ryker, he’ll realize what he’s missing. Sounds legit, right? The only question is…why is Ryker being so nice to her?

Penelope Graham.

Virgin.

Lover of sparkly vampires and calculus.

His mortal enemy.

Penelope knows she shouldn’t trust a jock, but what’s a girl to do when she needs a date to Homecoming? And Ryker’s keeping a secret, another bet, one that could destroy Penelope’s heart forever.

Will the quarterback score the good girl or will his secret mean everyone loses at this game of love?

Find out in this all-new standalone novel…

I love when I sit down to write reviews, sometimes I have all the words itching to be typed out onto my keyboard and other times, I just sit here, staying at my screen figuring out how to start the damn review. And that can either be a good thing or bad thing. In this case, it’s good.

I Bet You is a college sports romance – second in a series but can be read out of order. I hadn’t realized this was in a series til I added it to my goodreads shelf and saw that there was another book before this. Ilsa does a great job of keeping this story a true inter-connected standalone.

I am not going to surmise the book – the blurb does that for you. I enjoyed this book for its simplicity and practicality of the plot. There isn’t a lot of over the top, unnecessary drama or any of the nasty cattiness between the women either. Ilsa stays focused on the main plot and focuses on the budding of Penelope and Ryker’s friendship.

Ilsa stays true to her characters are and never has them acting out of character or changing their ways to be more what the other person wants. The flow of the story is perfect and the added witty commentary is a perfect blend to the story.

I really enjoyed the story and characters. There wasn’t anything that makes this book stand out from others, but I found myself really enjoying the normalcy vibe it gave off and how easily relatable and real the story felt. I will definitely be checking out the first book in this series as I am intrigued to how Maverick’s story came to be.

“I Bet You is a charming, sexy, funny and downright swoony romance set amongst all of the delicious fun of college football in the South. It’s damn good.” Mary at USA Today HEA⁣

“You find me someone better that writes football players… I’ll be waiting because you’ll never find better than Ilsa.” We Like Them Dark, Goodreads⁣

“I Bet You is enemies-to-lovers GOLD. I devoured this funny, feel-good perfection in ONE DAY!” Dylan Allen, Bestselling Author⁣

Wall Street Journal best-selling author Ilsa Madden-Mills writes about strong heroines and sexy alpha males that sometimes you just want to slap. She’s best known for her angsty and funny New Adult college romances.

A former high school English teacher, she adores all things Pride and Prejudice; Mr. Darcy is her ultimate hero.

She’s also addicted to frothy coffee beverages, Vampire Dairies, and any book featuring unicorns and sword-wielding females.