Release Tour & Review for Delayed by You by Jessica Buss

Title: Delayed By You

Series: Chicago Steel Series

Author: Jessica Buss

Genre: Sports Romance

Tropes: Best Friends to Lovers, Long Distance, Protector, Alpha Male, Childhood Best Friends, Hockey Romance

Release Date: May 15, 2024

Cover Design: Karen Hulseman @ Feed Your Dreams Designs

She’s always been his. He’s always been hers. Best friends since they were kids, everyone always assumed they’d end up together. But Rocco and Jasmine forge their own life paths. Despite remaining close, she discovers she needs a break from the life she’s been living in Chicago. When she moves to New York, things change for him. And he panics, thinking he’s lost her forever.

Rocco

Since the day she moved in across the street when we were kids, Jasmine has held my attention with her sparkling green eyes and spunky spirit. She’s independent and headstrong, and I’ve always admired that about her. Hiding behind my bachelor status, no one is the wiser about the secret feelings I harbor for her.

Jasmine

Rocco has always been by my side. Whether it’s making me laugh, teaching me something new, or sharing confidences, he’s been steadfast. When he morphs into a man seemingly overnight, I find it tough to temper my attraction to him. But he doesn’t see me as anything more than a friend.

Rocco & Jasmine

We loved the characters in this one and the special connection Rocco & Jasmine had and how they always had each other back for all those special moments they shared.

The story had its emotional ups & downs and as the author took us through the stages we saw the characters grow life plans change, dreams change and they may have drifted apart but, always found their way back to one another again. It was clear from the moment these two met they were destined to be one another soulmate.

Although we loved Jasmine and Rocco's characters we became frustrated with them for the lack of communication with one another and things just got boring and seemed to drag on for a while. They had such an open and honest friendship but, took so long to be honest with their feelings.

There were many parts we loved about this story Rocco & Nonna's special relationship the amazing friendships that Jasmine had with Nicole and Rocco all those memories that Jasmine & Rocco shared. We even understood sometimes you need to kiss some frogs before you find your prince and we even understood Jasmine's decision to spread her wings but, at some point, we just felt that Rocco was putting all the work into their newly developed feelings nurturing what could be it just felt onesided

Overall we did enjoy this tale even if we had mixed feelings about the story we love a good slow-burn story but, things took too long to take off for us and we were starting to lose interest but, once things did for this couple we were rooting for Rocco to win his girl and make his dreams become a reality. We love the characters in this series as Rocco's teammates keep things real. One of our favorite parts of the story is the jokes this couple played with one another which had us laughing out loud.

4 stars from us

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