First thought: Binged this audiobook on our drive home from vacay today and both I and the hubs loved it. It was a cute sweet romance that had us both laughing. So many great parts and just a wholesome read that makes you believe romance is still alive, it’s the little things.

Miles is one of the best professional golfers in the world and he’s looking for a new assistant he just has one request she can’t fall in love with him. As Miles does not do relationships and does not believe in marriage, thanks to his parents disaster of one. So when sassy Ellie interviews for the position and she hates all things golf he knows he found the perfect candidate.

Ellie moved to the small beach town to help her sister care for her nephew when she was left a widow. That meant grabbing any job she could and trying to save every penny she could so one day she can open her flower shop. But a new opportunity just came up to be a personal assistant to a golfer making a lot more money than her barista job which means she could be closer to her dream. Only issue is she hates golf and she kind of speaks her mind. But to her surprise Miles hired her.

So now these two will embark on a new adventure as Miles prepares for the upcoming golf tournament. Miles and Ellie have a teasing relationship and can’t be more opposite of each other. Ellie is slowly learning maybe this golfer isn’t so bad after all. Miles is discovering Ellie is a lot more than an assistant to him and he wants to be her friend, he wants to know more about her. What could possibly go wrong with that…

Literally Themes you’ll find:

* Professional Golfer MMC x Hates Golf FMC
* Reverse Grumpy Sunshine
* He’s Her Boss
* Opposites Attract
* He Doesn’t Believe in Marriage
* Slow Burn
* Small Beach Town
* Dual POV
* Just Kissing 💋

☀️⛳️🏌️‍♂️💐☀️🏌️‍♂️⛳️💐☀️⛳️🏌️‍♂️💐☀️

This wasn't the most amazing book I've ever read, but it wasn't the worse. It was cute, it was short and I just wasn't overwhelmed by it. It was okay.

I got an alc of this book on NetGalley. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

The Perfect Putt
Overall: 4
Spice: 1
Narration: 4 (dual)

A fun, clean sports romance with great banter.

Ellie Hart is saving to open her dream business, so when a personal assistant job opens up she jumps at the chance. Even if her boss is a professional golfer - a sport only rich, pretentious people play.

Sports romances are my favorites, so I was thrilled for the chance to read this golf focused one. A very enjoyable story with very likeable characters. I greatly appreciated how the FMC & MMC appreciated each other's drive and goal focus and supported one another. As I don't know much about golf, this provided good basic education so that I understood what was going on. This is part of the More Than a Game multi-sport series, so recommend you start with The Golden Goal so you can enjoy the appearance of those main characters in this book. I highly recommend this if you liked Fangirl Down, but don't want the spice.

Miles has one thing on his mind--win the Masters. The one thing he doesn't need is a sassy and beautiful new assistant that pulls his attention.

This was a cute golf romcom! I enjoyed the narration the most. Both Sybil Johnson and Dillon Sickels do an amazing job with the characters. I really liked Ellie's support system in her friend and sister. They were both great characters that really helped Ellie figure out what she wanted when it came to Miles. The small town was also a great setting. As for Ellie and Miles, I appreciated their interactions. Her sass and his coldness worked well.

Overall this was a cute sports, closed door romcom!

Thank you to the author and Dreamscape Media for the gifted audiobook!

The Perfect Putt is an absolute delight—a perfect blend of familiarity with a fresh twist that keeps you hooked from start to finish.

As someone who appreciates a good romance, I found this book to be super cute and thoroughly enjoyable. I loved the fact that he was a golfer!

The romance itself is sweet and charming, It’s a quick read, but the characters and their relationships are well-developed,

I was very excited for a golf romance since there aren't too many out there in the sports subgenre. While this book was enjoyable, everything just happened too fast for my liking.

The female main character irrationally despised golf but ended up taking the position of a personal assistant for a famous player. Even after she made a whole public scene about how golf is not a real sport, he still wanted her around? This just goes to show how insta-lovey their romance was because the guy was smitten from the get-go.

The moments where they grew close together - Miles teaching her golf, him caring for her and her well being, her putting him in his place when he messed up - I wanted more of those moments and character development to really dive into the romance. Miles has a lot of issues with relationships and commitment and I thought that his flip switch from not wanting a girlfriend to going all in with Ellie was way too quick. The man needed some therapy before jumping in.

Ellie was cute but there wasn't anything specific that made her stand out, besides being a cute redhead. Her dream of opening up a flower shop was not focused on enough, only being mentioned a couple times. I feel like there could have been a lot more to explore there and develop her character further.

Overall, this is cute and cliche, but not necessarily a memorable read.

⭐️ 4/5
🌶 0/5
🩷 3/5
🎧 4/5

📚 This was a glof sport romance that included anxiety, past trauma, and reluctant love. I love Annah Conwell's writing. It is always easy to visualise the characters and story. The romance it's swoony.

🎧 I say it every time - I LOVE AUDIOBOOKS. This was no different. Loved the book. Great choice of narrators and the quality of production is top tier.

🎙 Narrators - Both narrators killed it whoth their own MC as well as voicing other characters.
[Dual style - female does all her own chapters, and the male does his own. This is not a duet style, where they read all of their own respective genders' dialogue. If it was a duet, it would have been 5 stars for audio, for sure.]

Overall, this audiobook was an enjoyable listen, amd I would definitely listen again 😘👌

“I love you and I don’t want a life that you’re not in.”

“…not perfect, but perfect for each other.”

* Oh these two already hahaha
* His friends are all so fun!
* Ah yesss. Helping her golf hehe
* Oh no. The secondhand embarrassment in advance 😅

Aww! This one was fun and sweet! And apparently I’m becoming a fan of golf romances? Who knew!

Something I really appreciated about Ellie and Miles is the balance between miscommunication and actually communicating. They had a real and normal amount of misunderstanding each other but were always working on figuring it out.

They were fun and sweet and I really enjoyed it!

Thanks to NetGalley and the author for the copy. The narration was great! All opinions are my own.

This was such a cute and fast read. Book one was good but this book was so much more! I enjoyed that we saw characters from book one, but overall I loved the tropes and how they were carried out. Recently I’ve been reading a lot of books where the MMC doesn’t want a relationship but somehow falls super hard and super fast for the FMC. I’ve never read a golf romance and this was absolutely perfect! The romance was amazing and I actually loved the lack of spice. I was able to focus more of the characters falling for each other with sex being a main factor. The toxic parents was also a great touch. This gave us a reason why Miles is the way he is, and it’s something that felt so real!

I listened to the audiobook version of this title. The narration was very irritating because you could hear, swallowing, licking lips, etc. it became a bit distracting from the actual story.

The story itself was well thought out and entertaining. It is the typical boss/employee accidental love story. A few plot twists and you have read this story several dozen times. What is different is the golf. The athlete references are sprinkled throughout and is believable. I will be reading the others in this series.

This was a cute book. I am not a sports fan and I know next to nothing about golf, but I did have fun reading this book.
The main characters were likable even if some of their family members weren’t (mainly Miles’s parents)
I listened to this one on audio and loved it. They had both a male and female character narrate which is my favorite).
This book was fun and sweet, but also dealt with some abusive parents.
I really enjoyed it and finished listening to it in one day.

This is book 2 in the more than a Game series. Sight spoilers from book 1 if not read but can also be read as a stand alone. Ellie works at a coffee shop trying to her her sister and save up for her own flower shop. But she's not a people person and by that I mean the snobby customers and aka golfers.
Where her best friends recommends her a better paying job she's all over it except its for a pro golfer. Joy

Miles has had a hard time keeps to himself and wants to be the best golfer coming in 2nd wasn't good. But hes had a heck of a time with personal assistances and an even bigger problem with his parents.

He knows from the start she hates golf and kinda hates him. But the more time they spend together the more of a connection they have. But he doesn't want to date anyone so thats not a problem right.

This is the 3rd book by this author and by far my favorite and it was funny serious and round about story and makes me want to read other books by her.

If your looking for a clean cute romance with humor pick up this book.

Thank you NetGalley for this audio arc in exchange for my honest review.

I don’t know what it is about a workplace romance (especially athlete/assistant), but it just hits different. I like how Miles and Ellie stayed very true to their characters and who they were, while also growing together into who they needed to be for each other. It has been a bit since I started and finished a book on the same day, but once I started this book, I just couldn’t seem to stop. I have not read Sutton and Shaw’s book yet, but you better believe I will be now.

Thank you to NetGalley and Annan Conwell for the opportunity to read and review this book.

Absolutely not.
That's all I kept thinking from about 60% to the very end of the epilogue.
You can not tell me that a guy who is one million percent against relationships and love and marriage will do a complete 180 and be one million percent committed in a relationship and in love and proposing in less than three months. That is just not realistic in the slightest. Yes, this is fiction, but it's based in the real world, unless I somehow missed the fantasy tag.
The insta-love was done horribly. I am not a fan of this trope in the slightest, but I was less of a fan of how it was portrayed in this book. I get instant attraction, but their reactions to each other were way overboard.
Our FMC, Ellie, is down right awful. She is rude, condescending, and rather annoying. She talks about how awful golf is and how golfers are rich, pretentious jerks... but there's zero reasoning behind her opinion. She just HATES golf to hate golf. Which is not a good enough reason for her to continuously put down her BOSS.
Our MMC, Miles, has no personality outside of being a golfer and not believing in love and such due to having awful parents.
There was no chemistry between the pair. I was more interested in the caddy's relationship than Miles and Ellie.
Honestly, it seems as if most of their relationship happened in Ellie's head. She built up all of their interactions to be more than they really were. I guess that's why she was so heartbroken during the third act breakup? Because they hadn't even known each other a month at this point, but she was apparently head over heels in love and completely went off the handle as if they'd been together for years and he cheated or something. Honestly, after her interview for the position of his assistant, homegirl did absolutely NOTHING professional. All of her interactions and conversations with him were more friendly than they should've been. It was weird to see.
The writing in this book seems to be on the juvenile side. I felt the first book was great! So I'm not sure what happened here. Maybe the writing was rushed? I'm not sure. But there was a lot of repetitiveness throughout the entire book. There's also a problem with telling and not showing, which may have also contributed to me not feeling the couple's connection.
Both The Golden Goal and The Perfect Putt had main characters that seemed better suited to high school, with the dramatics and crazy emotions, than in their 20s and being professionals. Hopefully the next book will have better written main characters.

SPOILERS AHEAD.
There's a part of the book where Miles's friends come in to town and stay at his house. They, naturally, hang out a lot, and Ellie gets SUPER upset because they do. To the point where she thinks he's "retreating" and "ignoring" her. Because he's spending time with his friends. Then, while he's hanging out with said friends, he runs in to her at a bar. When he goes to talk to her, she gives him the cold shoulder because she's sooooo hurt. Then she storms off! That was an over the top, dramatic, immature reaction to a guy hanging out with HIS friends, especially when she admits "I thought we were becoming friends". Is he supposed to drop his friends, who flew in to town to see him, just to hang out with someone who works for him that he sees every day and is just now becoming friends with? Like, get a freaking grip, girl. You're acting like a spoiled brat who didn't get her way. Then later she gets hurt, and he's suuuuuuuuuuper over the top taking care of her - even though there's a professional physical therapist RIGHT THERE. It was all too much.

The narrators did a fantastic job bringing the characters to life! Ellie was every bit as whiny sounding as I imagined.

I was very disappointed in this book after liking The Golden Goal.
2.5/5 stars rounded up.

Thank you to NetGalley and Dreamscape Media for an audio ARC of this title!

The Perfect Putt audiobook was super cute, cheesy, and sappy, and I enjoyed every minute of it. Ellie didn’t know anything about golf which was weird for me because who doesn’t know what a tee time is? Other than Ellie’s lack of intelligence the book was fine. If you like cheesy romance books, The Perfect Putt is the book for you!

*♡Thank you to NetGalley and Annah Conwell for the ARC of this audiobook in exchange for my honest opinion♡*

Cute and cosy golf romance that will warm your heart ♡

Although this book follows the romance equation to a tee (see what I did there ;)), this clean and wholesome story still left me kicking my legs and giggling!
The dynamic between Ellie and Miles is so well written, their relationship feels so natural and believably progresses from boss/assistant to friends to lovers beautifully.

Sybil Johnson and Dillon Sickels do an amazing job at narrating, would definitely listen to an audiobook again if they are involved.

All in all, quick and easy read that is perfect when you need a little romance :)

⛳️ Book Review ⛳️
|| The Perfect Putt ||
|| Author: Annah Conwell ||
Format: NetGalley audiobook
Read from: August 22, 2024 to August 22, 2024
2024 RG: 105/100

MCs: Ellie and Miles

🏌️ sports romance
🏌️ kisses only
🏌️ strangers to lovers
🏌️ slow burn
🏌️ banter
🏌️ boss x assistant

Ellie has just been presented with a new job opportunity. One that pays double what she’s earning at the coffee shop. She’s trying to save money to open her own floral shop and it will certainly be easier to do with the new job. But there’s one problem, it’s being a golfer’s assistant. And Ellie has never had a good experience with any golfer. But this one seems to be different than the other ones?

Miles is trying to get back to the top of the gold world ever since his second place to his golf rival. But his last assistant ended up being crazy and obsessed with him so now he needs to find a new one. The one he is recommended to by a friend could be the perfect match for an assistant (maybe more?). But he can’t be distracted and that’s what she’s doing to him. Not to mention he can’t get married because he saw what happened to his parents. But he just can’t get her out of his mind.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 4/5

“Not perfect, but perfect for each other.”

The Perfect Putt is the second sports romance in the More Than a Game series. Miles Day is the youngest golfer ever to win the Master’s and he’s on the top of his game, the only problem is his luck with personal assistants is terrible. Enter Ellie who is in search of a good paying job while she saves up to open her own flower shop. She’s used to being an assistant, but she hates golf. That works out perfectly for Miles who has had one too many assistants obsessed with him and his only rule for Ellie is to not fall in love with him. Ellie has no interest in falling for Miles, but as the pair start spending time together that irresistible chemistry between them speaks. Will they be able to stay strictly professional or will their feelings become too much to resist?

I am always in the mood for a good sports romance and I’ve read many, but this is the first golf romance I’ve read. Having played golf growing up I found that little extra connection to this book that helped keep me interested. I’ve read the first book in this series where we first met Miles and get a little insight into who he is, but that quick glimpse definitely made me want to meet him in this story. I loved both Miles and Ellie and thought they were great lead characters for this book, the sass and banter were great. Ellie’s spicy attitude mixed with Miles willingness to tease her made the chemistry strong between them. This is a slow burning romance and I wish there had been a little more spice, not tons, but a little. I found this to be a fun sports romance that was the perfect lighthearted summer read. If you’re a sports romance fan and are looking for something slow burning with strong chemistry and great banter this book is a good one to pick up.

•𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐟𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐜•

These narrators did a fantastic job with this story! Both did amazing with their characters and appropriately voicing different emotions and such like. The story flowed very well coming from them!

This book started off really well and I was immediately hooked! Ellie’s strong dislike of golf and everything golf related was hilarious and provided such a great plot line. Of course she then had to get a job for a pro golfer, which led to some really great moments between the two of them. I wish Ellie’s aversion towards Miles would have maybe lasted a touch longer because I feel like it was a bit rushed with how fast things progressed. There were definitely a few cliché cheesy moments, but apart from those I loved the story! It was highly entertaining and enjoyable! The kiss was pure fire!! ❤️‍🔥

“𝙸 𝚙𝚕𝚊𝚢𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚘 𝚠𝚒𝚗 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝙸 𝚙𝚕𝚊𝚗 𝚘𝚗 𝚠𝚒𝚗𝚗𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚛.”

I loved that Ellie was such a SASS! She made such a great FMC constantly teasing her boss and having it handed right back to her. The banter between our pro golfer, Miles and his assistant, Ellie was so spot on! I loved the relationship Ellie had with her sister and nephew. Everything came together to create such a charming story ♥️

Thank you to NetGalley for the opportunity to listen to this audiobook! All opinions listed above are my own.

Ellie is working toward opening a floral shop in her coastal hometown, so she takes a job as a personal assistant for Miles, a professional golfer. Ellie hates golf, and Miles has had bad experiences with female assistants in the past, and has troubled relationships with his divorced parents, which makes dating difficult for him. Second in a series, but works as a standalone. Sweet closed-door romance that will appeal to fans of grumpy/sunshine, he falls first, and workplace romance. Thank you to NetGalley and Dreamscape Media for a digital review copy.