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Book Review: Heated Rivalry by Rachel Reid

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Heated Rivalry - Rachel Reid I stumbled across this book as I do so many of my books these days, our fellow tank mate Elley told me about it. A m/m hockey romance with an enemies to lovers subplot? Yes please! Literally all I did this morning was read this book and make an enormous pot of soup, which I then ate while continuing to read this book. It was deeeelightful. Him  by Sarina Bowen & Elle Kennedy is always going to be the quintessential hockey boys falling in love novel for me, because it's so damn perfect, but Heated  Rivalry comes in a very close second now. It's book 2 in the Game Changers  series. Book one (aptly called  Game Changer ) seems to be about a hockey player (Scott Hunter - he makes very brief appearances in this book) who falls in love with a barista, but they have to keep it on the DL because of "hockey-is-homophobic' reasons. This one doesn't appeal to me much because it sounds like the MCs are in love right away and the only th...

Book Review: Mister Hockey by Lila Riley

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Mister Hockey Author: Lia Riley Genre: Contemporary romance Publisher: Avon Impulse Publication Date: July 11, 2017 Rating: 4 stars Summary:  Her biggest fantasy is about to become a reality. . . Jed West is Mr. Hockey. The captain of the NHL’s latest winning team, the Denver Hellions–and the hottest player on the ice—at least according to every magazine. . .and Breezy Angel. Breezy has been drooling over Jed at games for years, and he plays a starring role in her most toe-curling fantasies. But dirty dreams don’t come true, right? Then Jed saunters through the doors of her library, a last minute special guest for a summer reading event, and not only is he drop dead gorgeous up close, his personality is straight up swoon-worthy. He even comes to the rescue when she has an R-rated “Super Book Worm” costume malfunction. But when he mistakenly assumes she’s more into books than pucks, she’s too flustered to correct his mistake. And then comes a big kiss, followed by a teen...