Lars has supported Dylon through the roughest period of his professional and personal life. As team mates and housemates they have become close because of their respective life journies and traumas. They are a little stuck as both have feelings for one another but don’t know how to progress that part of their relationship for fear of ruining their friendship.

Misconduct Zone tackles addiction and co-dependence amongst a range of hard hitting issues. The issues are managed sensitively and Lars particularly is as supportive and as understanding as can be. There’s a mix of hockey and relationships throughout. It’s a fairly male-centric book (one of the females is incredibly objectionable but there are a couple of other females depicted more positively, though their roles are pretty fleeting).

This became fairly intense once feelings were recognised (still waters run deep with Lars) and I was worried it was going to overwhelm the story but that didn’t end up happening. There were some loose ends throughout but I’m hopeful these will be addressed in future books.

This is the first work of the author I have read and appreciate being able to do so through Netgalley.

Great book!