It’s in Iris’ POV and her feelings when the evil deeds are happening to her. But I would like to point out that there is no glorifying of the abuse in this book. It goes into descriptions of the abuse in detail and while there are only a few scenes like this, they are really graphic enough and in Iris’ POV that it is disturbing. Long Shot focusses on the abuses done to Iris, which is over half of the book. I’m not going to lie this book was a hard book to read. In Iris’ case, it’s a series of unfortunate events that had her end up at the mercy and manipulation of her sick boyfriend. Iris was in a relationship with August’s basketball rival and Iris also ended up pregnant. They met and really bonded one night at a bar only to find out that they were not meant to be. What if you chose differently, what would your life be like? This happened to Iris and August.

Long Shot does remind me of the movie Sliding Doors, which is actually mentioned in this book. Heck, the book is super huge, so I decided to borrow the audiobook instead.

I won a signed copy of this book from Malia ( and it took me a while to get into. I think that is what makes this book a riveting read and ultimately what made the HEA very, very satisfying. Yes, this book has trigger warnings for anyone who has experienced abuse because this book deals with it point blank. I actually read book 2 Block Shot first and was very hesitant to read Long Shot because of the subject. I don’t exactly know how to start this review because Long Shot is a hard book to review.

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