Off first impressions of reading the synopsis, I thought the premise was cute. One of my fav parts was Alison’s (the bsf) comedic relief. I loved it. This was my first hockey romance to ever reading also, so it was different. I’m not huge into sport romances but I think I want to get into more. I didn’t not feel extremely connected to the characters which isn’t particularly the books fault I think. I didn’t like how mid page we would switch POVs. That would really throw me off tbh.

Besides all that I thought this books cover was incredible and actually was the thing that drew me to request this book. So congrats on an amazing cover design!!

Overall, this book has some amazing qualities and aspects as well as the heart of a truly great tale. My only complaint would be that the story can feel a little overwhelmed with the varying POVs (I realise it's 3rd person but it seemed to jump at random as to who that was biased towards). Other than having a tiny bit too much going on, I thought it was a really promising story.

Cover deeply misleading- also blurb doesn't really convey the tone of the book. This isn't even at the level of a Bromance Book Club, which is still a bit lowbrow for my tastes. The writing felt like middle school level prose, dry and vacuous and boring. The characters are stock, the premise is dull, and I was bored by 5% of the way through. Couldn't tolerate it and had to give up at a certain point.

First of all I wanna thank netgalley and lost lust for the arc in exchange for a honest review!!!! So thankyou!!!

Okay starting off with the 3rd person pov, it annoyed me so much and I feel like I can never connect to characters, when it is.
I should have seen that as the first red flag.
I did like our MFC but because of the 3rd person pic, I COULDNT CONNECT!!!!!!

Our MMC where annoying and stubborn mfs and ONCE again I couldn’t connect

I didn’t read the blurb before asking for the ARC sue me.
I thought it was gunna be an RH romance not a love triangle and if you know me I HATE love triangles!!!!
With my only exception being twilight.

The fatal flaw of this book was that it set up tropes and expectations, and then failed to deliver. And the book description is just horribly misleading.

There's no major conflict when it comes to boosting ticket sales, there's no real love triangle with tension. And the description made it seem like maybe this was going to be a three-way relationship type thing- but it's not that. All the conflicts felt forced and manufactured for the sake of trying to introduce a plot. But there were really no stakes when this story was primed for high stakes.

And then there's Blake. My biggest issue with the book.

At first he's charming. A bit stupid, but charming. But then he does a lot of really, really shitty things and then he never really makes up for them. By the end of the book, I found him to be just horrible.

I liked Anna, but her character lacked depth, and so did Charlies. And every other character in the book.

And for a book where it's plots failed, you'd think the author would have tried to step it up when it came to the hockey/pr related things in the book, but no. Hockey felt like a backdrop, not an integral piece of the story.

This was just a generally bad reading experience.

I did love the green juices though! The Juice is Loose!

Would I recommend this read? No. If you want to read a great hockey romance, go read one of Rachel Reids romances. Heated Rivalry hits so hard on every read.

Thanks to netgalley for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

So…..I’m not really a fan of this book. It’s very cute and usually I love why choose hockey romance. This book didn’t do that for me at this time. I’ll give it another go around when it is released.