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3.72 AVERAGE
3.72 AVERAGE
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
I read this while waiting for hockey season to start again. It was an interesting hockey romance, and I love “tough boy turned madly in love” but it was too long.
There’s quite a lot of this book where nothing really happens. It’s cute to see them interact and have fluff moments, but there was so much of that. It became unnecessary and annoying instead of cute, and it made getting through the book difficult. So many of the events in the middle don’t develop the characters or progress the story.
Bailey as a character was a little frustrating. Her family is in crisis but she never tried to get a job, and scholarships and other things like that were an afterthought. A lot of things seemed like an afterthought, actually (her mysterious past with her family, her family’s house, the school publication, basically everything she does), which is particularly egregious considering the length of the book. We had time to cover these things in more depth!
I read the edition with the bonus chapters of their life. Honestly, I thought they were unnecessary. I don’t need to see every update to their lives they have.
Overall, it was a kind of fun, potato chip kind of book without any nutrition but might scratch a junk food itch.
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I’m truly not the target audience for this book, I don’t think. Everything about this book screams immature from the breakup to the relationship ship to how she handled her “friends” to every “issue” or plot point that came up. The FMC is insufferable, very pick me, and naive in a way that isn’t believable. The fact that her ex is brought up every single time she hangs out with the MMC, either by him or by her is lazy. The spicy scenes felt weird, like cringy in a way that I honestly have never felt before? BUT, the visit to the sex store was where I drew the line and had to DNF.
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
It was an okay hockey romance. Chase and Bailey’s relationship was instant from the start. They clicked at the beginning and hit every green flag for a couple. While Bailey struggles with some side friendships, there’s no conflict until closer to the end. The biggest problem was that it just didn’t feel like it matched the characters and how they would resolve their problems in other parts of the book - so the conflict felt out of place.
Quick recap: after Bailey’s captain of the hockey team boyfriend breaks up with her on her birthday, she loses all her other friendships. When she meets Chase, a rival hockey player, out one night he’s instantly attracted to her. They have an instalove relationship and have to learn how to navigate going to rival colleges. When a mistake from Chase’s past (a sex tape he didn’t consent to) comes back up and Bailey’s ex uses it against him to break them up Chase handles it so stupid. But they figure it out and have a HEA.
Quick recap: after Bailey’s captain of the hockey team boyfriend breaks up with her on her birthday, she loses all her other friendships. When she meets Chase, a rival hockey player, out one night he’s instantly attracted to her. They have an instalove relationship and have to learn how to navigate going to rival colleges. When a mistake from Chase’s past (a sex tape he didn’t consent to) comes back up and Bailey’s ex uses it against him to break them up Chase handles it so stupid. But they figure it out and have a HEA.
hopeful
fast-paced
3/5 ☆
i feel like i def need a break from the hockey romances because the last two back to back were so similar that i do see myself mixing them up.
this was just your typical hockey romance with like 8 different tropes into one drama filled 64 chapter book. i will say this was wayyyy spicier than i thought it would be
i feel like i def need a break from the hockey romances because the last two back to back were so similar that i do see myself mixing them up.
this was just your typical hockey romance with like 8 different tropes into one drama filled 64 chapter book. i will say this was wayyyy spicier than i thought it would be
emotional
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
As if getting dumped on her birthday wasn’t bad enough, now Bailey has to watch her ex move on while all her ‘friends’ disappear from her life. That’s why when Chase Carter, known instigator on the ice and her ex’s biggest rival, hits on her at the bar she decides to take a chance on him.
Chase Carter has been coasting through school hopping from girl to girl without a care besides his hockey career when a pretty but hostile girl at the bar changes everything. His coach has read him the riot to get his shit together or get suspended. His relationship with Bailey only makes the tension between his team and their rivals that much worse but for some reason he can’t stay away. Even if it means he could lose the one thing that ever meant anything to him.
I’m not sure how Avery designed the perfect book boyfriend but congrats girl you did it. Chase Carter is everything you guys. He’s dirty, honest, loyal and stubborn as hell. The way he gently opens Bailey up and helps teach her about a healthy relationship is absolutely beautiful to watch. Bonus points because it’s hockey and hockey romance is the best. I don’t make the rules that’s just the way it is.
If you haven’t read this one and you love sports romance, ex’s rival, enemies to lovers, guy falls first, and swoon worthy book boyfriends then you’ll devour this one!
Thanks so much to Avery Keelan and Wildfire Marketing Solutions for providing me with a copy to review!
Chase Carter has been coasting through school hopping from girl to girl without a care besides his hockey career when a pretty but hostile girl at the bar changes everything. His coach has read him the riot to get his shit together or get suspended. His relationship with Bailey only makes the tension between his team and their rivals that much worse but for some reason he can’t stay away. Even if it means he could lose the one thing that ever meant anything to him.
I’m not sure how Avery designed the perfect book boyfriend but congrats girl you did it. Chase Carter is everything you guys. He’s dirty, honest, loyal and stubborn as hell. The way he gently opens Bailey up and helps teach her about a healthy relationship is absolutely beautiful to watch. Bonus points because it’s hockey and hockey romance is the best. I don’t make the rules that’s just the way it is.
If you haven’t read this one and you love sports romance, ex’s rival, enemies to lovers, guy falls first, and swoon worthy book boyfriends then you’ll devour this one!
Thanks so much to Avery Keelan and Wildfire Marketing Solutions for providing me with a copy to review!