Reviews for Personal Best

The average rating for Personal Best based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2009-10-27 00:00:00 Kumar Srinivas Wow... where to start.... Let's start with a basic plot summary. Jessy is a swim coach and is called by another coach about a possible job opportunity. That opportunity turns out to be Mike Gauliet. A natural swimmer whose parents were legends before they died. Jessy has Mike move in with him, and coaches Mike to reach his full potential. Next let's go over the names. It was really annoying to have Michael switching up names for Jessy. One minute he's called Jessy and the next minute he's being called Coach. It was also confusing during the scenes where there were more than one coach. I kept having to reread to figure out who was talking. Now let's talk about Michael's grammar. I really think this guy needs to go back to high school and learn the basics of writing. "Jessy didn't, hand working him, mouth stealing his breath." That is NOT a sentence! Neither is "He never had, but he wanted, he would let Jessy in." Okay, let's move on to the sex/plot ratio. Way out of proportion. Now, I know a lot of people like their romance novels crammed with sex, but I like to have some plot sprinkled in there. It started out decently, with a good strong plot, but then the M/Cs get together and the plot is pretty much forgotten. It just turns into sex, sex, sex with about two or three scenes of plot thrown in as an afterthought. Overall? I do not recommend this book unless you're looking for crappy smut. If you're like me and poor grammar and punctuation make you wanna get out a red pen, I'd stay far, far away from this novel. Ugh. Someone get this guy an editor. =[

Review # 2 was written on 2008-12-18 00:00:00 Shalon Collins Loved this story. Sean Michael writes my kind of romantic, sweet, yet angsty stories! Jessy is an amazing swim coach. He is known as a hard ass, but he gets results. When he sees Mike swimming one day at the University pool, the team coach offers Jessy the chance to train him full time. When Jessy and Mike meet, sparks fly. Mike is still fairly young, so Jessy wants to keep things professional, however the more time they spend together, the harder that becomes. A horrible misunderstanding threatens to tear apart their new friendship as well as Mike's swimming career. Can the two of them work it out so Mike and Jessy can be at the top of their game... in the pool and out? This story is really really hot. Sean Michael can write some sex! Whew!! Mike is young, so Jessy being more experienced did something for me. There was some "alternative" forms of sex play, but nothing scary or weird. I really enjoyed this sweet AND very steamy novel. I highly recommend it! xo