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I'm crying I love Dante and Cade so much-
I was a bit bummed that we didn't immediately get Bren and Vi after Vadim and Iz, but I didn't mind it as much when I started reading because I immediately fell in love with Dante and Cade. I love that both of them were crushing on each other (Cade a little longer because he has been hero-worshipping Dante since Dante's days of playing in the NHL), and I love the whole seduction game they played with each other. I'm weak for characters who seduced each other with good food. As much as I love the sexytimes, I adored the scenes we got of Dante and Cade being domestic even more. I just love the intimacy between them.
The story also gave us the BTS of Cade trying to come out (he came out at the end of Book 2) and it was super emotional. I love seeing everyone rally around and support him.
Overall, there is so much more I want to say about this book but I'm not emotionally stable to express them. So, so much excited for Bren and Vi's book now!
E-ARC is received thanks to the publisher via Netgalley.
I was a bit bummed that we didn't immediately get Bren and Vi after Vadim and Iz, but I didn't mind it as much when I started reading because I immediately fell in love with Dante and Cade. I love that both of them were crushing on each other (Cade a little longer because he has been hero-worshipping Dante since Dante's days of playing in the NHL), and I love the whole seduction game they played with each other. I'm weak for characters who seduced each other with good food. As much as I love the sexytimes, I adored the scenes we got of Dante and Cade being domestic even more. I just love the intimacy between them.
The story also gave us the BTS of Cade trying to come out (he came out at the end of Book 2) and it was super emotional. I love seeing everyone rally around and support him.
Overall, there is so much more I want to say about this book but I'm not emotionally stable to express them. So, so much excited for Bren and Vi's book now!
E-ARC is received thanks to the publisher via Netgalley.
This review was originally posted on Addicted To RomanceI received this book for free from Pocket Star in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.
In Undone By You we have a story that is sensual and mind provoking in this tale of forbidden love between a hockey player and his boss, the manager of the team. Their relationship holds all sort of complex issues that neither of them may be ready for.
In this sizzling tale of sexy lovin' between these two diverse key players:
It has been quite a while since I have picked up a MM romance and man I fell for this one so hard. Kate Meader has always been the author that just pulls me into a story and can make a MM romance sexy as all get out. I love the way she writes these pairings and Undone By You was so well written here. I really liked the whole "forbidden love" element. Now it is a bit different. Because we see some complex issues rise up in their relationship. We have two great heroes that both on their own are beyond SEX ON A STICK, and man they just curled my toes. From our a bit older Italian raised hero who can cook homemade pasta??!!! YEP YEP sign me up for that one. Then we have the charming hockey player who is talented and sure of himself but still suffers from some vulnerabilities and fear from letting his father know that he perfers men over women. I really enjoyed seeing Cade come into himself more, and realize that he doesn't want to hide who he is anymore and to fight for the man he loves.
This was a shorter story but not too short that we feel a lack of character growth, there is actually quite a bit of strong focus of the element in this book. The chemistry is sizzling and the emotional aspects just pulls you into further with this couple and leaves you wanting more.
In Undone By You we have a story that is sensual and mind provoking in this tale of forbidden love between a hockey player and his boss, the manager of the team. Their relationship holds all sort of complex issues that neither of them may be ready for.
In this sizzling tale of sexy lovin' between these two diverse key players:
- Dante Moretti, an italian, with an talent as a chef, just landed his dream job and came "out of the closet" to the public years ago.
- Cade Burnett, is the star defenseman on the hockey team, is texan and still hides who he is from the public.
It has been quite a while since I have picked up a MM romance and man I fell for this one so hard. Kate Meader has always been the author that just pulls me into a story and can make a MM romance sexy as all get out. I love the way she writes these pairings and Undone By You was so well written here. I really liked the whole "forbidden love" element. Now it is a bit different. Because we see some complex issues rise up in their relationship. We have two great heroes that both on their own are beyond SEX ON A STICK, and man they just curled my toes. From our a bit older Italian raised hero who can cook homemade pasta??!!! YEP YEP sign me up for that one. Then we have the charming hockey player who is talented and sure of himself but still suffers from some vulnerabilities and fear from letting his father know that he perfers men over women. I really enjoyed seeing Cade come into himself more, and realize that he doesn't want to hide who he is anymore and to fight for the man he loves.
This was a shorter story but not too short that we feel a lack of character growth, there is actually quite a bit of strong focus of the element in this book. The chemistry is sizzling and the emotional aspects just pulls you into further with this couple and leaves you wanting more.
4.5 Stars - Another amazing installment of the Chicago Rebels series! Full review to come.
Undone by You is book 3 in the Chicago Rebels series. I'm loving this series so I grabbed it as fast as I could. I'm not usually a fan of M/M romances, but I've tried one of Meader's books in that genre before and really enjoyed it. I am happy to say this one was a great read for me! If you like hockey and a seriously sexy read, grab this series.
We're changing things up this time around and instead of one of the three sisters as the lead we have the GM of the Chicago Rebels hockey team as the main character. Dante Moretti recently became the GM for the team and he's the first openly gay man in that role. He's out at a gay bar/club one night when he spots one of his team members, Cade “Alamo” Burnett, a bit shocked he goes to talk to him and realizes that Cade wants him and not just as his GM. Dante tries to keep it professional while still being there for support and to help guide Cade if he wants to come out. Of course keeping it professional doesn't last long since they have some serious chemistry.
Undone by You is a steamy M/M read you won't want to put down. I can't get enough of Meader's books, her writing style is so addictive for me. The romance aspect always makes the characters work for it, while being scorching hot. This does show a bit of a different prospective since the timing coincides a bit with book two. If you're a fan of sports related contemporary romances grab this series as fast as you can, you won't regret it.
We're changing things up this time around and instead of one of the three sisters as the lead we have the GM of the Chicago Rebels hockey team as the main character. Dante Moretti recently became the GM for the team and he's the first openly gay man in that role. He's out at a gay bar/club one night when he spots one of his team members, Cade “Alamo” Burnett, a bit shocked he goes to talk to him and realizes that Cade wants him and not just as his GM. Dante tries to keep it professional while still being there for support and to help guide Cade if he wants to come out. Of course keeping it professional doesn't last long since they have some serious chemistry.
Undone by You is a steamy M/M read you won't want to put down. I can't get enough of Meader's books, her writing style is so addictive for me. The romance aspect always makes the characters work for it, while being scorching hot. This does show a bit of a different prospective since the timing coincides a bit with book two. If you're a fan of sports related contemporary romances grab this series as fast as you can, you won't regret it.
I read 15% of it and I can tell it won't get any better. The characters have no real personality. Also, one of the MCs refers to women as "female arm candy" and "some chick." Yeah, no thanks.
I've been trying to be less critical of things that really aren't that bad, but ugh. By the end of this book I couldn't not talk about what bothered me.
First off the not-bad stuff: this is a totally run-of-the-mill, paint-by-numbers sports romance, and that's fine! That's great, that's exactly what I wanted. (I say sports romance - hockey is barely a window dressing on this thing. If it weren't for a few references to checks this could be baseball, soccer, or really any team sport. That it's hockey is not relevant at all) I described it halfway through as the oreo cookie of literature and I stand by that - familiar, expected, comforting, maybe makes you a little nauseous in large quantities, probably not great for you but sometimes you want one anyway.
So the outline of this book, the general gist, is fine, if predictable. But. Guys. This book is so straight. For something published this year it felt very 2005 when it turned into a didacticism on you can't live your real life until you come out of the closet. The fact that coming out was the big plot point it was (basically the only plot point, even more than the romance) just felt dated and flat out wrong to me, as a queer person. And it's not that coming out isn't a big deal for many people, even today. It's that coming out is not the be all, end all, of being queer, and I thought we'd finally gotten past that in our fiction sometime in the late 2000s. Queer fiction certainly has. But, well, this book has two men kissing but it is not particularly queer.
Then, the method of Chase coming out to his father. The insistence from the narrative and from Dante as the Mentoring Gay that the MC should have come out to his (homophobic) father in person, instead of the way he choose to do so (over the phone), just felt dead and wrong. It feels really, really naive to put that in the mouth of a gay character, as if his real-life counterpart wouldn't be understanding of the numerous reasons for wanting to have that conversation at a distance.
Finally, Chase coming out to the public. In the book it's done as a press conference. The thing is, there are real athletes who have come out as gay, so we know how this happens. And it's not in a press conference. Most people drop it into an interview, or make a frickin Instagram post. That this "coming out" didn't reflect the reality of queerness in sports that I know just made it feel that much more of a fake. The whole story was make believe, but this really hammered home to me that this was a straight person playing pretend, who wasn't involved in the queer community even enough to know that what they were constructing was so unrealistic.
I don't think it was done with any malice or ill intent. The book isn't bad or even "problematic" on most levels*. But it was really straight, and that made me sad.
*actually that this romance was between a player and his GM, who is very much his boss, and that that was never even taken seriously as an issue (although it was lampshaded? ish?), was weirder the more it got mentioned, but whatever. I didn't really care, but it was A Choice considering it really didn't impact the plot or characters at all.
First off the not-bad stuff: this is a totally run-of-the-mill, paint-by-numbers sports romance, and that's fine! That's great, that's exactly what I wanted. (I say sports romance - hockey is barely a window dressing on this thing. If it weren't for a few references to checks this could be baseball, soccer, or really any team sport. That it's hockey is not relevant at all) I described it halfway through as the oreo cookie of literature and I stand by that - familiar, expected, comforting, maybe makes you a little nauseous in large quantities, probably not great for you but sometimes you want one anyway.
So the outline of this book, the general gist, is fine, if predictable. But. Guys. This book is so straight. For something published this year it felt very 2005 when it turned into a didacticism on you can't live your real life until you come out of the closet. The fact that coming out was the big plot point it was (basically the only plot point, even more than the romance) just felt dated and flat out wrong to me, as a queer person. And it's not that coming out isn't a big deal for many people, even today. It's that coming out is not the be all, end all, of being queer, and I thought we'd finally gotten past that in our fiction sometime in the late 2000s. Queer fiction certainly has. But, well, this book has two men kissing but it is not particularly queer.
Then, the method of Chase coming out to his father. The insistence from the narrative and from Dante as the Mentoring Gay that the MC should have come out to his (homophobic) father in person, instead of the way he choose to do so (over the phone), just felt dead and wrong. It feels really, really naive to put that in the mouth of a gay character, as if his real-life counterpart wouldn't be understanding of the numerous reasons for wanting to have that conversation at a distance.
Finally, Chase coming out to the public. In the book it's done as a press conference. The thing is, there are real athletes who have come out as gay, so we know how this happens. And it's not in a press conference. Most people drop it into an interview, or make a frickin Instagram post. That this "coming out" didn't reflect the reality of queerness in sports that I know just made it feel that much more of a fake. The whole story was make believe, but this really hammered home to me that this was a straight person playing pretend, who wasn't involved in the queer community even enough to know that what they were constructing was so unrealistic.
I don't think it was done with any malice or ill intent. The book isn't bad or even "problematic" on most levels*. But it was really straight, and that made me sad.
*actually that this romance was between a player and his GM, who is very much his boss, and that that was never even taken seriously as an issue (although it was lampshaded? ish?), was weirder the more it got mentioned, but whatever. I didn't really care, but it was A Choice considering it really didn't impact the plot or characters at all.
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I was actually pleasantly surprised by this story. My chief complaint about it was that it was on the short side, which meant that things got rather glossed over. I loved the push and pull of the relationship between Cade and Dante, and especially loved how they complemented each other. I felt that Dante had his head up his arse for a lot of the story, but absolutely loved how he pulled things out in the end! I thought it was good to see what was going on with Cade and Violet as it was the perfect set up for the next book in the series, which I can't wait to read!
I was actually pleasantly surprised by this story. My chief complaint about it was that it was on the short side, which meant that things got rather glossed over. I loved the push and pull of the relationship between Cade and Dante, and especially loved how they complemented each other. I felt that Dante had his head up his arse for a lot of the story, but absolutely loved how he pulled things out in the end! I thought it was good to see what was going on with Cade and Violet as it was the perfect set up for the next book in the series, which I can't wait to read!
ARC received via Netgalley for an honest review
Hockey hotties? Check!
M/M? Check!
May to December romance? Check!
I have read all of the Chicago Rebels books so far, but Undone By You was my favourite by far (to date anyway!)
Dante and Cade's story was everything I could have wanted for Dante after meeting him in the earlier books.
It was fun, flirty and sexy, with plenty of banter between Dante and Cade, and also a lot of heartbreak and hurt.
I loved being taken along Cade's journey, as both a hockey star and as a gay man in a manly-man sport, still full of homophobia and bigotry.
I read this book in one sitting as I just couldn't put it down.
Can't wait to see what Ms Meader brings us next.
Hockey hotties? Check!
M/M? Check!
May to December romance? Check!
I have read all of the Chicago Rebels books so far, but Undone By You was my favourite by far (to date anyway!)
Dante and Cade's story was everything I could have wanted for Dante after meeting him in the earlier books.
It was fun, flirty and sexy, with plenty of banter between Dante and Cade, and also a lot of heartbreak and hurt.
I loved being taken along Cade's journey, as both a hockey star and as a gay man in a manly-man sport, still full of homophobia and bigotry.
I read this book in one sitting as I just couldn't put it down.
Can't wait to see what Ms Meader brings us next.
Wowee! What a hot book. This book is a little different than I'm used to reading. But I have it a try because I love everything else the author writes. I'm so glad I did. It was hot, sexy, and charming. Much like the guys in this book ;) I loved it.
Gah! This series!
And this lovely little delight of Cade and Dante. Gah! All the feels! Little snippets in the previous books just made me desperate to know exactly what was going on between the player and the boss. And Kate Meader delivered and then some in this wonderful story of a man finding the courage to be himself and another man finally taking what he wants. Damn the consequences. Gah! Just yes, yes, yes.
I'm in love. I want a Dante for myself. I want a Cade for myself. But alas...they don't swing my way :( I still offer myself as tribute!
Can't wait for the final installment in this series that has been an emotional roller coaster ride.
And this lovely little delight of Cade and Dante. Gah! All the feels! Little snippets in the previous books just made me desperate to know exactly what was going on between the player and the boss. And Kate Meader delivered and then some in this wonderful story of a man finding the courage to be himself and another man finally taking what he wants. Damn the consequences. Gah! Just yes, yes, yes.
I'm in love. I want a Dante for myself. I want a Cade for myself. But alas...they don't swing my way :( I still offer myself as tribute!
Can't wait for the final installment in this series that has been an emotional roller coaster ride.