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A review by aprillivings
Something So Unscripted by Natasha Madison
5.0
I read a lot of sports romance. Like, a lot of it. Baseball, Football, Basketball, you name it and I'm all over it. But I have to say, hockey playing heroes are finding a special place in my heart. Zack is a little bit of yummy goodness in a hockey jersey. He's a newly single father who moves his entire life after finding out that his wife is sleeping with a teammate. Not that the wife-poaching teammate is the reason he moves, his son is battling cancer and the best doctor for his son's case lives in New York.
Denise is an oncologist who specializes in children's cases and has a high success rate because she pushes further than most doctors are willing to. Not that you couldn't get emotionally invested in children battling cancer, but she seems to live and die with each case she takes. Once she meets Zack and Jack, she's in from the second they ambush her at her brother's home (coincidentally, her brother is a player on Zack's new team.)
Zack and Denise both admit to being attracted to each other, but neither one is really keen on giving into the attraction. Denise for obvious doctor/patient's family member reasons and Zack because he's still married. (My one big objection to this book: no time passes between leaving his marriage and meeting Denise. Yes, some time passes before they become involved but there's not even a separation filing. But it's not enough to make me stop reading or doesn't even really effect my rating. It makes me mad because it seems like he was wasting away in that marriage for no reason.)
But dear Lord, once they actually stop fighting their attraction and become involved, their love is so palpable. I loved reading their story and watching their lives start to intertwine before my eyes. The part that made me love Denise the most? Watching her go all mama bear on the one person she should never have had to.
I've never read Natasha Madison before and now I'm kicking myself while I download the first three books in this series. This book is a standalone, but characters obviously show up from the first three books and it's obvious there's some underlying subtext I'll understand once I read them. This book absolutely deserves 5 stars, I couldn't put my kindle down the second I started reading it!!!
Denise is an oncologist who specializes in children's cases and has a high success rate because she pushes further than most doctors are willing to. Not that you couldn't get emotionally invested in children battling cancer, but she seems to live and die with each case she takes. Once she meets Zack and Jack, she's in from the second they ambush her at her brother's home (coincidentally, her brother is a player on Zack's new team.)
Zack and Denise both admit to being attracted to each other, but neither one is really keen on giving into the attraction. Denise for obvious doctor/patient's family member reasons and Zack because he's still married. (My one big objection to this book: no time passes between leaving his marriage and meeting Denise. Yes, some time passes before they become involved but there's not even a separation filing. But it's not enough to make me stop reading or doesn't even really effect my rating. It makes me mad because it seems like he was wasting away in that marriage for no reason.)
But dear Lord, once they actually stop fighting their attraction and become involved, their love is so palpable. I loved reading their story and watching their lives start to intertwine before my eyes. The part that made me love Denise the most? Watching her go all mama bear on the one person she should never have had to.
I've never read Natasha Madison before and now I'm kicking myself while I download the first three books in this series. This book is a standalone, but characters obviously show up from the first three books and it's obvious there's some underlying subtext I'll understand once I read them. This book absolutely deserves 5 stars, I couldn't put my kindle down the second I started reading it!!!