**3.5 Stars**

This review is kind of tricky to write because overall I did really enjoy the book if you take into account the main characters Callan and Josie. I enjoyed them as characters and felt like they had great chemisty and as a couple they made sense and I enjoyed the parts of the book that focused on the building of their relationship.

I think my struggle with this book at times was that it was really fast paced and it seemed to sometimes be a little all over the place and in doing so, parts of the story were not as well developed as they could have been. Some of the parts of the story related to Josie's brother and family were kind of frustrating in that they seemed to have a somewhat superficial role in her life. I also struggled with the parts of the story line related to Callan and Michelle in that I didn't think this really contributed to the story line in any meaningful way at all.

Overall, I think the general premise of the story was interesting, but the execution didn't quite work for me. I did like Callan and Josie, I just wish some of the meaningless drama aspects were kept out.

Received this book as an ARC for my honest opinion and review from netgalley. Callan and Josie meet outside a bar when Josie is dealing with a stranger that is not taking no for an answer. He offers to drive her home and instead she asks to go home with him. The next day she finds out that he is her brothers opponent for an MMA championship fight and things get even more complicated from there.

This arc was provided by the publisher via Netgalley.

This book was so promising with the idea of “falling for the enemy’s sister.” It’s a popular trope and one I’m a fan of, but it only lasted for the first half of the book. By the middle of the book, we had already jumped a full year, picking up with Cal dating a new woman. I get that Cal and Josie went their separate ways, but the author could have thrown in a second chance aspect and it would have worked. Instead, we have the man confessing his absolute love for the girl, with promises of marriage, and then an illegitimate child clouds his vision and he up and leaves her! What the heck?!
On top of that, while Josie is “off finding her own way, and doing what she wants” with going to culinary school, her brother confesses to blacklisting her in Vegas. She tried for so long to get a job and her brother ruined her career. And yet, she still forgave him when he came to her graduation. What he did is crazy and selfish and shouldn’t have been forgiven.
By the end of the novel, we have the original couple having their own baby, while the man shares split custody with his rebound summer fling/ baby mama and his original love being friendly with the fling.
This book lacked so much. It was all over the place and moved too quickly. I was really hoping to like this book, but unfortunately it fell flat for me.
Rating: 2.5/5

I came into Misadventures in the Cage stoked to read an adventurous scrape between rivaling professional fighters and the one fighter’s sister who comes between them, but all I felt during the journey was appalled disdain. Callan and Josie’s introduction to each other was over the top and decidedly off-putting for the reader.
Without giving away all of the details to their meeting for the first time, Josie was drunk, making all of the wrong kind of bad decisions (not to mention implausible circumstances!), but the reader is told that she sobered up automatically after downing 5-6 shots of tequila? And Callan is a-okay with taking a strange, intoxicated woman home and having sexual intercourse with her because she says she’s not drunk? Uhhhh, methinks this story has some dire issues in regards to judgment, blatant impairment and the meaning of romance.
Bear in mind I was looking forward to an adventuresome story with some kickass rivals and a hidden romance between the illicit pair, but the synopsis did not match the unfolded story, to my detriment.

I received an ARC from the author and publisher in exchange for an honest review.

Callan and Josie have such a hillarious and unexpected first night together. Sure things get hot and then romantic and all that, but what they do when they first meet is what stands out in my mind. So funny.

This was definitely a misadventure. Whenever I started to think, oh hey, they overcame the problem and it's on to the hea, something else popped up. I was definitely entertained. I love the way it all turns out in the end and I was surprised along the way.