Bend and Snap Your Way to a Football RomCom

Tell me you know what movie I’m referencing. Dear heavens, tell me you know this.

Like a heat-seeking missile, I needed a football-ish book in anticipation of Superbowl Sunday! Alexa Martin’s Snapped was the perfect recipe of fun, saltiness, romance and legit current social issues. How anyone could stir together taking a knee AND romance so effortlessly, I’ll never know. But Snapped was a total score!

Playbook Series

Author Alexa Martin is married to a former NFL player. So this gal isn’t just making stuff up on a hopeful guess. She knows the ins and outs of the league, WAGS skinny and all. Martin has written the Playbook series, with Snapped being her fourth installment.

I read Intercepted a while back and knew Alexa’s writing had that perfect mix of spice and salt, romance and real life-ness (that sometimes gets written over in other romance books).

Each book reads as a stand-alone and you will be able to catch-up very quickly on characters if you read just one or happen to read out of order. I love when authors do that!

Go Deep

Snapped shares the story of Elliot, the newest PR guru at the Denver NFL team’s organization (love that for a female name!) and Quinton, the star quarterback of the Denver NFL team. Elliot has her dream job and a trusted circle of gals who are like family (framily). Quinton is undeniably amazing at his job and well-loved by the media and fans alike. And the women, too. Nobody would be cryin’ in their soup to be seated next to this gentleman on a flight. 😍

Elliot is black biracial and just lost her dad. She has always been proud of her ethnicity and hasn’t been too affected by racism to date. Or so she thinks. Quinton, however, feels very differently about racism – in society and from his team’s leadership. Additionally, he has had it up to HERE with the inequity within the league for players’ benefits. Especially when one of those impacted players is his all-star, retired player dad.

1st and Goal

Quinton decides to take a knee during the anthem to raise awareness to Black Lives Matter, police brutality, racism as a whole and players rites. Elliot is tasked by the team leadership to ‘handle’ him. Minimize the damage. Get him on track.

Elliot, the genius she is, doesn’t ‘handle’ him per her boy club boss’s request. She takes time to understand his why. By understanding why and why now, she stealthily introduces an incredible idea to help Quinton impact those in need at a meaningful level. What neither of them expect is to work so much and so closely together.

What starts as a relationship built on skepticism and annoyance might be something good (and helpful to the community) if they can chill the 🤬 out and get the job done!

Fave Quotes

• “It’s impossible to have a timid stride when you’re wearing four-inch, five-hundred-dollar shoes…and that’s science.”
• “But the real reason is that I’m so fucking tired of saying I’m fine when I’m not. I’m over being strong. I’m exhausted from the effort it takes to bury everything and walk around like nothing is bothering me. The smile I’ve been wearing is so heavy.” (TRUTH!)

Visit the Author

Visit the author at here! Such a gem and you’ll be glad you grabbed this book, along with her others! Bend and snap this book up!