Untying the Knot
By Meghan Quinn
KU eligible
5/5
Read: 12.1.2022 to 12.4.2022
Ryot Bisley is a retired major league baseball player who now runs a popular sports app called The Jock Report with his brother, Banner, and some friends, Penn, Huxley, and JP. Myla is his wife whom he met eleven years ago and who slowly stole his heart. Now, focused on life after baseball, Ryot doesn't pay Myla any attention anymore so she serves him divorce papers not willing to not be his number one. He'll do anything to win her back.
The story is a dual point of view and tethers back and forth from eleven years ago and the present day so the reader is taken on the journey of how Ryot and Myla met and came to start dating as well as what is going on presently in their marriage. This is 501 pages of pure emotion. The past parts have you dying laughing, mad at times for Myla's childhood and swooning at the courtship. The present parts have you bawling, angry for Ryot AND Myla and confused about whose side to be on because both make points. Chapter 13 had me sobbing! Meghan Quinn tears you down but then builds you back up so beautifully.
I feel a little silly saying that a steamy rom-com might just be my book of the year, but this book y'all! It's so much emotion packed into 501 pages. It resonated so much with me! Not to mention, Ryot is beyond caring, so selfless, and even a little bit possessive in a good way. New book boyfriend, anyone?
My husband is a former collegiate baseball player so I totally got what Ryot was going through after being forced to retire. It's not easy giving up something you've done for the vast majority of your life and really takes a toll on the men who go through it. Then, there's Myla's mother. Mine was never physically abusive but the emotional abuse...man! And not to mention, my marriage has had its share of problems too (who hasn't?!).
Let me say I have 28 highlights for this book which is more than I ever have.
"In the world of baseball, we don’t get much time to breathe, but you, you’re my breath of fresh air.”
I had read 4 books by Meghan Quinn so far before this one and love her writing style. Her books are hilarious, meaningful, and spicy. This has to be her best one yet and I'm pretty positive this will be my book of the year unless something else knocks my socks off in the next few weeks which is doubtful.
Nothing I can say about this book will do it justice, however. Just go read it!
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