3.75 stars**
This book was so funny and cute that I could not get over it!! I'm a huge sucker for sports romances and single dad romances so when you put them together It's something that I can not resist. one of my favorite things in books with single parents is funny kids who don't have a filter or any type of awareness and just blurt things out and that was poppy for you. This was such a quick and fun read and I can't wait to read more from this author.

The Cutting Edge follows Logan who is a professional hockey player who has not scored a goal in three days. Coco is a professional figure skater and teaches others how to skate. Coco and Logan meet due to some strange circumstances. Soon they start up a friendship that starts to develop into something more. The more time he spends with Coco the better his hockey game gets. Soon Coco agrees to be his good luck charm for the playoffs. After the playoffs are over will they still like each other? 

I am such a fan of hockey romances. I really liked this one. The only problem that I had was that this book was marketed as a steamy romantic comedy. Which was just not the case. They kissed like once and when it did get to the steamy parts it was closed door for the most part. So I do not think the book should have been marketed that way. Other than that I really liked this book. I loved Logan and Coco's relationship. I thought this was a really cute read. I know this is the first book in a series and I can not wait to read the other books. If you like hockey romance books I would give this one a read.

The first 65% of the book the FMC is in the hospital, for less than two weeks. 65%….

While the MMC who has a daughter almost seems to forget he needs to be a parent, between the hospital visits and hockey.

The figure skater and the NHL captain, match made in heaven. I love hockey romances. But this was just a miss. It turned cheesy fast and not cuter cheesy.
The ex boyfriend scene was really out of left field.
And the whole money/lucky charm thing was just weird. “Betrayed” shortest grovel
I felt the writing was sub par, it wasn’t anything exciting or captivating.
It’s also labeled as steamy, I don’t mind clean romances from time to time, but this was false advertising as there was one steamy scene near the end, which was slightly cringey.

An amazing story . Coco is a figure ice skater and she gives lessons to young kids . One of them is Poppy the daughter of the hockey player Logan Rivers the captain of the St. Pete Slashers . When he is late ti pick up his daugther from her lesson she goes to find him in the stadium and she ends up getting hit by the puck in the head . Logan feels awful for the accident and he spents the next days keeping company to Coco at the hospital . His feelings for her makes him have one of his best games of his careeer so he thinks she is his lucky charm . Coco now that she is injured she can't work or practice for the Nationals and there is a chance she won't be able to go to the Olympics . When one of Logan coaches asks her to be Logan lucky charm until the team wins the Cup and to pay her so she can afford all the expenses she accepts . What happens when she realises she is in love with him and she is lying to him ?
I received this book from net galley and the publisher as an ARC. Thank you! All thoughts and opinions are my own .

So many romance tropes all at once.
Single Dad ✔️
He falls first ✔️
Sports Romance✔️

This book was simply swoon-worthy. It warmed my heart and made
Me feel like I was tuning into my favorite romantic comedy. Can’t wait for book 2 in the series to see what happens next. If you’re a fan of Christina Lauren, Tessa Bailey or Meghan Quinn I think this is a book for you!

The Cutting Edge follows Olympic figure skater Coco, and NFL hockey star, Logan, who are thrown together after Logan gives Coco a concussion after accidentally hitting Coco with his puck. Logan beings to court Coco from her hospital bed and the two find themselves drawn closer together. Especially when Logan begins to believe that Coco is his good luck charm and his shot at winning the NFL.

I really wanted to like this more than I did because I am a complete sucker for a hockey romance but I think there were several things that just were not doing it for me.

First and foremost, I do not enjoy insta-romances (romances that happen almost instantly). That's not to say that I love a painfully slow burning relationship either, but this book just happened far too quickly for me to feel much connection at all to the characters. They were immediately besotted with each other, so much so that Logan said he had fallen in love within two weeks - I didn't find this romantic so as much as unrealistic.
This meant that everything kind of went from 0 to 100 very quickly and didn't give much time at all for character development in my opinion.

I also felt like some aspects were quite rushed or just a way to fit certain known and well-loved 'tropes' in. For instance, at the mark 80% we are met with Coco's horrible ex who has never been mentioned previously and who calls her the C word rather abruptly and therefore faces Logan's rather - the classic over-protective boyfriend trope. This just felt slightly off to me and didn't have me kicking my feet like I usually would.

Finally, I felt like the whole miscommunication aspect of the book surrounding her being a lucky-charm and being paid for it was odd. They both were lying to each other and doing stuff behind each others back, which is just never a great start to a relationship and therefore made me connect less with them as a couple.

That being said, there were absolutely moments in this book that had me smiling and it's a fun flirtatious kind of story. I wouldn't not recommend this book to people it just would not be super high up on my list of contemporary romances to recommend!

A lovely book with a great cast of characters. Beautifully written and I got really invested in the story. I would highly recommend reading this one. A clever, engrossing story with fabulous characters.

Give me a good hockey romance any day. Logan was perfect, and such a sweetie. Love a good kid sidekick too. Coco was great, but the third act break up seemed contrived. She was upset that he deceived her in the same way she deceived him and that was hard to swallow. Otherwise it was cute and I love a story where he falls first. Could have used more heat.

I usually love a hockey romance, but I was not able to finish this book. The idea is super cute I theory, and I usually love a single dad trope, but the amount of errors in the book was so off-putting, I may try to read this once it’s published and edited better.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publishers for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.

The Cutting Edge was an easy read not to be taken too seriously. It started off strong, but then other parts felt rushed,

I had never tried a sports romance book and I have realized it’s not for me. No fault of the book! I just need my romance to have sword fighting or magic or dragons 😅

The Cutting Edge was a very enjoyable rom com. NHL player and single dad Logan met his daughter's skating coach Coco after accidentally hitting her in the head with one of his slap shots. After spending time with her in the hospital, they both start having feelings for one another. Now, we know that it can never be that simple. After some miscommunications, they do have their HEA.

It was a very solid read. I wish it could have been a bit more in-depth and longer, but I was happy to spend my time reading the latest from Ms. Daily.

Thank you to NetGalley, Siesta Key and Lisa Daily for the ARC in exchange for my honest review.

I’m sorry but I could not get into this one. I read about 30% and had to DNF. The story and characters were cute, but I just didn’t click with the writing style. None of the dialogue felt genuine to me.

Big pros to the story though. I could tell it was sweet.

This story started off a little slow-paced and a little ridiculous but the minute Logan showed his true colors, I was sucked in completely. Who doesn’t love a big gruff honey player with a golden retriever personality? SIGN ME UP!

Logan and his daughter Poppy are who really hit got me! Poppy is so funny and intelligent, and Logan treats her the way she should be treated after all she has been through.

The two scenes that really made my heart sing were "I made that goal just for you" and "get your hands off of her!". You might as well have picked me up off the floor.

This great rom-com comes out on 6/22/2023 and it definitely deserves the attention.

Thank you so much Netgalley and the author for allowing me to be a part of your publishing!

*I was provided with this book as an ARC via NetGalley*

*POTENTIAL SPOILERS*

So I didn’t overly enjoy this book, but I would summarise this as a cutesy, heartwarming, and easy-to-read romance.

One major issue (for me personally) is that some decent proof-reading and correction of punctuation and grammar was needed - not sure if this was done for Amazon’s kindle version but the ARC I received was littered with errors. For example, mis-use of speech marks, a character’s title switched between Ms and Mrs very frequently, and there was also a whole paragraph that was repeated, word for word, within the same chapter.

Aside from that, the plot was okay - nothing special but I guess still heartwarming. There were not any huge hand-to-heart “OH MY GOD” moments, and I felt like it was quite slow to get to the point. I think I was still reading about Coco being in the hospital at 50% of the way through the book which was just getting tedious for me. The most interesting part by that point had been when Coco popped off at Logan for being the cause of her potential downfall in life.

One major issue I had with this book - the front page describes this as a ‘steamy’ romance yet there is no ‘steam’ at over 50% in - literally only two kisses between Logan and Coco by that point. We do eventually get one slightly steamy scene at about 80% or so but it didn’t make up for the slow action to that point. Probably 1.5 chilli spices at most, and I would not have put “steamy romance” on the front cover.

To the good points, I really liked Poppy and Logan’s characters. Poppy is a sassy and funny five-year-old, and Logan is a super sweet man. I particularly enjoyed Logan’s possessive/Alpha male type vibes towards the end of the book during the encounter with Brent. I did also enjoy Coco’s sarcasm, but I wish we’d had more focus on her figure skating career.

A lovely sports romance, light hearted and super sweet Coco and Logan are a match made in heaven.

It was a little bit predictable as all romcoms are, but there was plenty to keep you sucked in and sticking with the story. I was rooting for them from the beginning.

This was fine, nothing unique or super interesting. It was cute enough but it wasn't what I was hoping for.

This book started out so well. I really enjoyed the banter between the H and h in the beginning, especially in the hospital. I laughed several times.
I received an advanced copy, so editing may be done before it releases, but there was some repetition, and I felt parts needed fleshed out a bit more. Also, NHL players don't have their phones on the benches. They have tablets to review game footage.
This is the story of Coco, who is an Olympic figure skater who teaches children figure skating to pay for another trip to the Olympics. The father of her student Poppy is late picking her up. Coco needs to get to the hospital to help her neighbor, so she takes Poppy to the other rink to find her NHL playing father, Logan. When she walks in the rink, she blacks out. When she comes to, she's in the hospital because she took a slapshot to the head. What ensues is funny and cute. I liked it overall.

3.5 rounded up because it was adorable.

This book is utterly ridiculous, totally unrealistic, tooth rotting sweet, and filled with the tropiest of tropes. But it's also just plain fun and fluffy and all of the above just adds to its charm..

Logan. Oof. There's something about a six foot plus giant of a man who's an absolute squishy cinnamon roll that really gets to me.

If you like hockey fairytale like rom-coms with a hint of spice, this is the book for you.

First, thank you so much NetGalley for the ARC read!
This is such a sweet sports romance featuring a single dad hockey player and figure skater. The daughter Poppy was written so well into the story that it made interactions with Coco and Logan. It's such a cute story I just wish we got more of the development of their relationship and communicating through conflicts.
There were some moments where the dialogue and conflict had me a little confused - like how she got mad at him over the position but overall it was a cute story. Who doesn't love a hockey x figure skating romance?!