3.5/5

This is my first racing romance and ai really enjoyed it! Between all the female fans throwing themselves at the racers and the danger of the sport, it is hard to imagine one of the top playboys will want to settle down. Noah meets his rival’s sister and it’s all over for him. I just love the found family and support they give each other in the end. 

After reading Final Offer last year, I knew I wanted to read Lauren Asher’s backlist and this book was pretty good for her debut.

This book follows Maya and Noah. Noah is an F1 racer and Maya has just graduated from university. After her brother, who is also an F1 racer and enemies with Noah, transfers to Noah’s team, Maya decides to tag along and go on tour with him. While her brother warns her to stay away, she can’t help by being drawn in by him.

This was okay. Let’s start with the positives first.

I really like Lauren Asher’s writing. I was drawn in by the beginning of this book and liked the characters from the start. For her debut, this book is pretty good.

I also really enjoyed the setting of this book. I loved watching them jet set around the world for F1 racing. Honestly that’s probably my favourite part. I’m excited to read the other books in this series.

What lacked for me was the development of the relationship. Overall, I did like Maya and Noah, and while pace wise, they did take a while to actually get together, the scenes to get you there just didn’t make me care for them that much. The development of their relationship felt lacking.

It’s also unfortunate that the big part in Noah’s character development takes place off page during a time jump. I wish we were able to see that and actually see him grow as a character rather than just feeling like the author flipped the switch to get her characters where she wanted.

Overall, this was just okay for me. I will be continuing on with the series but I just found this book a bit underwhelming.

Horrible book was actively routing for the MMC and FMC not getting together. It was toxic an horrible written. 

Ok so this was the book that got me into F1 in the first place so it has a special place in my heart. The story is a bit slow at the beginning because Lauren had to kinda introduce the F1 world which I appreciated it but it does back the story up a bit. 
I loved Maya, I think the fact that she just wanted to explore and see what was next for her helped her story line so much. Her relationship with Santi was also so cute to read and I throughly enjoyed her character. I did want a little bit more backstory conflict to maybe make sure a stronger FMC but it didn’t make me not enjoy her if it makes sense. Noah! He was great. He was a bit broken (understandable from his family backstory) but he fell so fast and so hard for Maya. I think that the secret dating trope (I usually don’t like that trope) was deserved because of the characters’ story specially Noah’s. I think that Noah fell FAST but he just couldn’t accept it and it took him a while which made it a bit frustrating because as readers it was so clear. Their relationship was so sweet, the banter, the chemistry, the utter need to be around each other, the fact that they were not able to resist each other even when they were trying, and the sneaking around (which I think made it so fun to read) made the relationship so fun to read. I think this is the best book of the series and I thoroughly enjoyed the whole series. Would definitely read again 

This was such a fun audiobook to listen to, time flew while listening. Even if sports romance is a new subgenre to me, it felt familiar in the romance elements and the sports parts fit in very well. I know close to nothing of Formula 1, so I can't say how accurate the depictions are, but the stakes come through and create nice tension in the plot both in the actual races and between the characters. Smut seems to play a big part in Asher's books, and Throttled is no exception. Throttled offers a somewhat slow burn romance; there is instalust, but the MCs Maya and Noah

don't jump on each other immediately, and that slows their actions enough to actually get to know each other. What a wholesome move!

I'll just have to say that Maya'd brother Santi seems like a great guy and I hope we'll get to see more of him later, maybe even stepping up from the sidelines of a supporting sibling character and into the shoes of a main character in a sequel of his own. I'll definitely continue to the sequel to find out.

Lauren Asher seems to be a writer that surprises me by making me like books in subgenres I didn't even think I'd like: first billionaire romance, now a sports romance. Maybe I've been missing out.