A good story that opens with a skating coach waiting with her young student for the parent to pick her up. When the daughter says her father works in the building they go looking for him. He is a hockey player who is having a slump and when they open the door he misses the net and hits her in the head with a puck. So, now you have Logan Rivers hockey player with a daughter at the hospital waiting to see if skater, and coach Coco who also is an Olympic figure skater getting the results back on her concussion. He feels bad because she has to stay in the hospital longer and now she is worried about her career and life in general. There is more to this story that really makes this a good read, especially with all of the different characters and the turmoil between the two of them. This is a really good book.

In case you are new here, I LOVE hockey romances! This one was no different! Coco and Logan are so adorable together! I loved the added layer of Coco being an Olympic figure skater took this story to another layer because Logan wasn’t the only talented person in their relationship which so often happens in sports romances.

Actually 3,5.
This is my first romance book I read that takes place in a rink or in this case two rinks, one for hockey and one for figure skating, and I really enjoyed it.

I really liked the characters that seemed down to earth (despite one of them being a really famous hockey player) and that it felt a bit cheesy but not to cheesy sometimes.

The storyline was really good and easy to follow even though I'm not in to hockey (thank you Daily for including some descriptions while Coco asked her friend about some terms).

If you want a quick, cozy, a bit cheesy and not so spicy romance then this is a book for you. Now I am looking forward to read the next one when it comes out even though it isn't about Coco and Logan (what a shame since I want to know how it goes for them and their future).

This story was so cute. The main characters developments along the way and their chemistry and spice was worth reading.
There were a couple parts (not many) that felt like the paragraph was repeated almost exactly. Possible editing issues aswell as a couple formating things to fix. It did get a little tiring about how she was accepting all his gifts and not him though, little gold digger like (just bugged me a bit) but I loved the rest of the story.

Thank you Net Galley for providing me with this cute hockey romance arc.

This is my first hockey romance — but I totally understand the appeal. I found the relationship between Poppy and Coco to be incredibly sweet and though I hate the way Logan became Poppy's father, it did make it easier to find him likable without having a crazy ex-baby mama added into the mix of this storyline.

I'm not a huge fan that we had a fade-to-black hospital first-time intimacy scene and it felt like Coco did a complete 180 with her feelings about Logan after she found out her medical issues were more severe. I also find it really odd that no one pushed the issue to see a doctor more quickly than just letting her lay around in a hospital bed for days with zero answers about a head injury. I've seen Grey's Anatomy too many times and a head injury is nothing to just sit on and wait around for.

Overall, I like their chemistry and the father/daughter storyline with him falling for Coco but I don't understand her finding a moral issue with Logan paying her bills versus letting the coach talk her into being his lucky charm for money and misleading Logan.

I love a good romance, and this one was wonderful! It had witty banter, and lovable characters. I was rooting for them the whole way through!

I really wanted to love this one. The plot was fun, and the beginning was clever. But the writing was repetitive in places and it needed much better editing. The pacing was also off. There was a lot to love here (the characters, the plot) but it tried to do too much. The ex-boyfriend scene in the restaurant should have been left out and that plotline abandoned. It didn't add anything to the story and was too much.
I would still want to read what the author writes next, but I do hope it will be better edited.
Thank you to Netgalley for my complimentary digital copy. All opinions are my own.

This story is super adorable cozy hocky romcom. If I could give half stars its really more of a 3.5. I personally struggled with the pacing and while I truly loved the banter between Coco and Logan and their chemistry was on point- I had moments where I had a tough time stay invested when the stakes felt a little low.

This did change for me around the 60% mark- the stakes and the plot started to feel a lot more fleshed out and I flew through the second half pretty quickly. The spice was pretty clean with one foreplay into fade to black, but the flirtation and the tension between the two leading up to the is just as delicious. I do wish we were able to get a bit more of the side characters and I would have loved some Coco and Poppy moments but all in all this was a delightful read

𝚁𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚐: 2.75⭐️
𝙶𝚎𝚗𝚛𝚎: contemporary romance📚

𝙼𝚢 𝚃𝚑𝚘𝚞𝚐𝚑𝚝𝚜:
I enjoyed the romance in this book but there too many small things that I wasn’t a fan of.

𝚁𝚎𝚊𝚍 𝚒𝚏 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚕𝚒𝚔𝚎:
Hockey romance
Single dad
He falls first
Insta love
Cute and cheesy reads

𝚃𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚜 𝙸 𝚕𝚒𝚔𝚎𝚍:
Poppy
Puppy therapy

𝚃𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚜 𝙸 𝚍𝚒𝚍𝚗’𝚝 𝚌𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚏𝚘𝚛:
Slow at first
Alot of the story took place in the hospital
The third act conflict was annoying
Felt repetitive
All the gifts felt like too much
The whole lucky charm thing felt too cringy

I was desperate to love this book - the plot itself is wonderful & I really connected with Coco and Logan! I really liked their relationship with Poppy too. There were a lot of typos and holes in the story (and an entire scene was repeated 2 pages later) which I assume were fixed before publication but also:
- I didn't love that 60% of the book was when Coco was in hospital - the rest felt rushed and lacking emotion behind the narrative/ secondary character development as a result
- Coco's ex wasn't mentioned until around the same amount of time, until that point there was no reference of her reservations about dating and it felt staged to deliver the scene where she sees him at the restaurant. It should have been a more consistent plot element as it would develop Coco's character much better.
- The blurb references being steamy - but the one and only steamy scene (which was brilliant!!!) wasn't until 80%, where as the opportunity for one in the hospital was totally glazed over.

This was cute and I liked all the characters, including of course the kid. The conflict at the end was sort of weak but it was enjouyable!

Thanks for the chance to review “The Cutting Edge” by Lisa Daly. This was super cute, with pro hockey player Logan as the adorable dad to Coco’s figure skater client. Logan was struggling with scoring on the ice, but accidentally hit Coco on the head with a puck. He helps her to heal, and to prepare for the upcoming Olympic tryouts.

The banter was fun, and the book was sweet and a bit spicy. There were numerous editing errors, to the point of distraction.

I received an ARC copy of The Cutting Edge by Lisa Daily and I am absolutely obsessed!!
I read this book on one day, and I literally could not put it down.
Coco is a figure skater dreaming of winning gold medal and going to the Olympics.
Logan is a single dad to an adorable little girl named Poppy and also a hockey star for the St. Pete Slashers.
A freak accident sets off a cute/funny chain of events between Coco and Logan.
I loved the instant chemistry and back and forth banter between the two and how their story unfolded.
I look forward to reading more books from Lisa!!

-Figure skater
-Single dad
-Hockey
-Romance
-Witty banter

I found the overall story very cute and I found myself smiling a lot throughout the book. Sometimes the story was a little over the top and cheesy but I didn't mind it that much.

Overall, I really enjoyed this book. I did feel like it was a little rushed and would have benefited from a slow-burn plot line. However, that was just not the way it was written and it did end up being pretty cute. I was kind of bothered by the amount of punctuation mistakes during the first half, mainly with quotation marks, but I don't know if that was a part of the writing or just a formatting error from when I downloaded it. I would have liked more scenes with the daughter because I feel like she was a great character. Again, this book was really adorable and that classic hockey romance that I feel a lot of people would like.

While I was initially enjoying this book, eventually the issues with the plot really soured the experience for me. The main sources of conflict in this book felt very manufactured and honestly ridiculous at times. I also felt like there was a lot of “not like other girls” sentiment throughout the story that wasn’t really addressed or resolved. Overall, it can be a fun read if you don’t mind issues with sexism and miscommunication/lying, with very surface level conflict and commentary.

If you give me anything hockey I’m in! This book made me want more of the St. Pete’s team, Cam and Lana’s story might be more up my alley. I think there were just a few too many tropes in one book for me and not enough spice. I am not an insta-love person and I do like to somewhat relate to my characters. Why didn’t we see more of Mrs. Markham? The note of steamy novel had me a little confused but I understand now. I am rooting for Logan and Coco and would love an Olympic epilogue.

really good book and kept me on my on my toes of what would happen. really enjoyed the characters and their journey and would read this author again.

I really wanted to like this fluffy little romance novel about a figure skater and a hockey player. I mean, who didn’t love “The Cutting Edge”? (Toepick!). As a figure skating fan, I enjoyed the inclusion of real Team USA skaters. I even loved that this took place in the Tampa area and featured places I knew from my brief time there. But. And this is a huge “but”. The editing in this ARC from @NetGalley was atrocious. There were so many misspelled words, at one point an entire paragraph was repeated, and the venue for the next Winter Olympics changed from Milan to Madrid. Finally, the plot was predictable. There’s time to clean up the typos. Make it happen, please.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book, more than I expected to. Coco was the sweetest and most relatable character. Logan was swoonworthy and such a gentleman. I think the chemistry was great and I enjoyed the plotline. I would've liked to see more of Coco's figure skating. I think that the timing for the book is a bit off, cause let's be for real, no one is dating after only two weeks of knowing each other in this day and age. I also liked the single dad trope, Poppy is just adorable. I would have liked to dive more into each of their backstorys more. Like what did Cocos father do? More scenes of her ex, Brent? We also spent 140 pages in a hospital which after awhile was just boring.