Ball Peen Hammer by Lauren Rowe
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Released July 25, 2016
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Keane Morgan wouldn’t return any of my calls or texts, and I was pissed as hell about it. I didn’t want to drive from Seattle to L.A. with the guy any more than he wanted to drive with me, but I had no frickin’ choice in the matter–at least, not if I wanted to use his brother Dax’s coveted parking spot at UCLA.
Okay, so it turned out Keane was objectively gorgeous, and, fine, pretty funny, too. But did he have to be so damned in love with himself? I mean, jeez, the cocky way he flashed those dimples was just so orchestrated. And, honestly, what kind of guy uses the phrase “baby doll” with a straight face? Oh, that’s right: the kind of guy who’s a male stripper.
Yup, the cocky jerk turned out to be Seattle’s answer to Magic Mike, a stripper known as “Ball Peen Hammer”–which meant Keane Morgan was emphatically not the kind of guy I’d ever fall for.
Not. At. All.
No freakin’ way.
Well, until Keane convinced me to fall for him, that is.
Which I did.
Hard.
I received this book for free in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.
Ball Peen Hammer has been on my TBR for a year now and it was more than worth the wait! I couldn’t put it down! It was hilarious and hot (fan your face hot)! I couldn’t get enough of Keane and Maddy were the perfect piece to each other’s puzzles and gah! How I freaking loved them!
“He’s Daffy Duck trapped inside of Prince Charming’s body.”
I think that may just be the perfect description of Keane, although his relationship with his best friend, Zander, reminded me of a grown and more perverted version of Beast Boy and Cyborg from Teen Titan’s Go! Kean had a devastating blow to his childhood dream of becoming a pitcher in the MLB, but when that didn’t work out for him, he became Ball Peen Hammer and he took on that personality, of a wild male stripper and ran with it. In the beginning of Ball Peen Hammer, Keane was really selfish and I didn’t much care for him, but as the road trip continued, I began to fall slowly into his trance.
Maddy, our female lead in Ball Peen Hammer, claimed to be an introvert that had trouble talking to me, but as soon as she actually met Keane she had no problems and it’s was difficult to mesh her with what she claimed to be, but Keane just brought out that side in her. She was a film student and she began to help Keane market himself and the videos they created were brilliant!
“Life is rarely about what you think it’s almost always about what you feel.”
Ball Peen Hammer straight up gave me ALL the feels, I ran the gamut, from laughing to crying to swooning to hate, I could go on and on, but trust me when I tell you that this is a must-read book.
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