This book had a lot of potential but, unfortunately, I feel like it missed in a lot of areas.

Pros:
- Ava is really likable as a character
- Chronic illness (migraines) is portrayed with care and thoughtfulness
- The little league team that Mick coaches is crazy and wacky - just like a real group of kids playing little league

Cons:
- The way women are routinely talked about in this book is unnerving and unsettling. I realize that some men actually speak like this, but for our hero to engage in it and let it slide at other times was really uncomfortable.
- Ava is labeled as an ice queen throughout the book by Mick, but she's not one at all. I recognize it's supposed to be because she looks like Elsa from Frozen, but the term ice queen means something completely different from Ava's personality.
- The plot was unclear at times. Other than Mick's biases against women, there wasn't anything for the couple to overcome or deal with in the book.

Overall - I really liked Ava and I wanted to like Mick. However, because of the aggressive message against women and no repercussions (or even call out) of the men who spoke so lowly of women, I can't recommend this book.

The ending was better than most of the book but I still wasn’t a fan overall.
The 2 main characters are late 20s/ early 30s but behave so much younger- it’s insta love apparently but then miscommunication after miscommunication. I liked Ava but found Mick a bit pathetic for most of the book.

I received an arc from Netgalley in exchange for my honest review.

"Moonshot" by LM Fox takes readers on an unforgettable journey filled with romance and intrigue. With well-drawn characters and a plot brimming with tension and passion, Fox's novel is a compelling blend of love and mystery that keeps you eagerly turning the pages.

This is a good book. The two main characters are Ava and Mick. Ava is pa and Mick medical equipment. Ava works in or orthopedic office and Mick sells them the newest equipment, that’s how they meet. There was an instant attraction. They had some misunderstandings when they first started dating but after they worked them out and fell in love.

Mick had been waiting in the doctor's office forever, but finally, the last patient was leaving and he can get his form signed. Mick was an ex-ballplayer turned medical device salesman. Of all the offices that he dealt with training on how to properly use their partial knee replacement hardware, this was the one he both dreaded and looked forward to.

I was expecting a bit more angst and heartache but this was a sweet romance. I liked the characters but felt considering their age they seemed to act younger than they were. I didn't like the miscommunication as i feel it always makes reading books like this annoying.

I got this book as an ARC from Net Galley and literally read it in one sitting.
That being said I thought the story line was cute, but I was getting kind of annoyed with Michael throughout this book. I get he had his heart broken before but how he handled certain situations made me want to slap him and tell him to knock it off.
The spicy scenes were somewhat spicy but not as spicy as I would have liked.
This book was ok but not one of my favorite reads.

I loved this it was amazing and well written. I loved the main characters and honestly had such a fun time reading this

Initially, I was excited to read this book, I liked the concept and the blurb sounded promising. About 15% of my way into it, I was seriously considering DNFing it. There were so many miscommunication tropes from the beginning which is always such a big turn off for me and every single one of them wasn’t handled in a way that would be realistic for two people that were meant to be functioning adults.

The continual references to the movie Frozen also just didn’t do it for me, I didn’t see the point in them being a part of the story over and over again if the female main character doesn’t even act like an “ice queen”. The only part of her that is actually attributed to that person from the male MC is her hair? In addition to that, I also disliked most of the dialogue in the book. Mick continually makes suggestive comments but then will retract them immediately after saying them. While I appreciate the effort to not make Ava feel uncomfortable, what’s the point in saying these things if you know that they’re going to not be received well? I also thought that their general communication, even when they were meant to be together and not mad at each other, lacked a sense of reality and seemed stilted.

I also thought that the way that more and more characters were implemented into the story was odd because they didn’t seem to necessarily add anything to the plot and it just left me more confused than before.

I also thought that both of the characters were slightly depressing in their lives. I mean seriously, we get it, you have migraines, but I didn’t have enough of a connection with Ava when these were first introduced to feel anything other than annoyed at the 4 pages that went into detail about how painful they were. Mick’s job and life also just didn’t make me love him as a person, I get that his job was integral for how they meet but he could have been written to at least seem to enjoy his job.

The two never seemed to really interact enough throughout the book and yet somehow I was supposed to believe they were in love? No. If anything, the two are in lust and that’s about it. All in all, the characters felt flat and by the end of their story I honestly wanted them to break up more than to be together.

Moonshot is a quick read centering on Ava and Mick, their almost insta-attraction, and the odds each must overcome to create a life together.

Overall, the book was cute, though I found the characters to continually experience the same issues again and again- even after talking with each other to clear up miscommunications. It was refreshing to read about a scorned ex-baseball player who actually found success outside of a sports career, but Mick's incessant need to make Frozen references was just a *tad* too much.

Seriously, Mick, let it go.

There were some cute references to the movie, so if you're a Disney/Frozen fan, you'll get a kick out of them, I just felt like it was too forced throughout the plot of the book.

As a new-to-me author, I'll definitely give LM Fox another shot with some of her other work and look forward to giving them another shot.

3.5/5

Thank you author LM Fox and Netgalley for providing me an ARC in exchange of my honest opinion.