Becoming a Legend is another book in the a series about the Kavanaughs who are associated with MMA fighting. The hero is Kane Kavanaugh who is preparing for a national title bout. But he’s distracted by his attraction to Nora, the best friend of his brother’s wife. Their romance was told in the second book in the series, Saving a Legend. The book starts out with Kane and Nora supposedly clashing with each other every time they meet. They get over that very quickly, so quickly that it was rather unbelievable that there had been that antagonistic sexual tension between them. They then start an affair, but Nora blows hot and cold since she has her own problems with her family.
She doesn’t feel loved and is bankrupting herself to give money to her selfish mother so she can go out gambling. Really? I just wanted to shake her and tell her to grow a spine instead of endangering her own education and career possibilities in order to feed her mother’s gambling problems.
There are also some shenanigans involved with the fight Kane is preparing for that are hinted at in the prologue. That intrigued me and kept me reading to find out how that was going to be resolved.
I didn’t read the first book in this series so I missed any explanation of how the Kavanaughs got so very wealthy and influential in their community. They own a gym, but there are hints that the father has mob connections but isn’t a member of the mob himself. There are also references to the plotline from the second book which I had read but didn’t remember very well. I don’t want authors to spend a lot of time rehashing previous books, but it would help to have a few clarifying sentences to help readers who hadn’t read the earlier books.
I received an ARC of this book, from the publisher, via NetGallery, in exchange for a fair and honest review
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