Line Brawl
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5.0 • 6 Ratings
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- $10.99
Publisher Description
Not all fights are one on one. In a team, no man should stand alone.
‘You can’t keep me.’
Shawn ‘Easy’ Pischlar has given his speech so often, it should be written on the white board in the Dartmouth Cobra’s locker room. Too many of his own teammates have heard the words.
And the games he’s played are finally catching up to him.
To hang on to his freedom, Shawn gave up on ever having someone to call his own. A young woman who expects nothing from him slips into his life and has him ready to toss the rulebook. While the man he loves tempts him to burn it.
Keeping them both would be easy, only…caring about them isn’t.
Because when he lets himself care, he remembers why he wrote the rules in the first place. Every lover, from the casual, to those who steal a piece of his heart, shouldn’t expect more than pleasure. More than passion.
Playing the game, on and off the ice, is his whole world. One he isn’t ready to change.
Except, life doesn’t stop for the game. And when old scars are ripped open, and he’s left bloody and beaten, the rules won’t help him put the pieces of his life back together.
To win this fight, he’ll have to break each and every one.
Customer Reviews
I don’t think I could recommend this book or series more highly.
Line Brawl is book 8 in Bianca Sommerland’s Dartmouth Cobra series and is one of my all-time favourites.
Although a stand-alone novel, I highly recommend you start at the beginning and read them in order. Many of the characters appear in each book and their stories evolve throughout the series and this book is no exception.
Have you ever anticipated a book so much that you were afraid to start reading it? That’s what happened to me with Line Brawl, I knew if I started I wouldn’t stop and then where would I be? When Ms. Sommerland advised whose story was up next in the series, I just knew that this was going to be an awesome read. I wasn’t disappointed!!!
Shawn "Easy" Pischlar is a man who has earned his nickname, up for anything except emotional attachments or relationships. Ian White is his best friend and fellow team member. They have a complicated relationship. When you add Justina into the mix, they push Easy to his limits, to the point that he wants to throw out all the rules to have them both.
There were instances where I couldn’t believe what I was reading. I laughed, I smiled, I was concerned, I was scared and above all I cried. All in all this booked evoked so many different emotions in me that I wasn’t sure whether I was up or down; it was like riding a rollercoaster without a seat belt.
As always it was great to catch up with some of my other favourites from the series and I am anxiously awaiting the next instalment to the series. To me reading a Dartmouth Cobra book is like catching up with loved ones, coming home.
I have always loved the layers that Bianca Sommerland ensures her characters have, but I think Line Brawl has taken it to an even deeper level. This is a brilliantly well written book and one that I loved from start to finish.
I don’t think I could recommend this book or series more highly. Bianca Sommerland, congratulations you have a winner on your hands.
Loved it
5 Star Review
Book 8 in The Dartmouth Cobra Series and this is Pischlar story. I loved how each of these characters have such different personalities yet they gel and connect so well but that doesn't mean that they don't have drama and ups and downs within the developing relationship. Friends who cross lines is never easy.
I don't want to give too much of the story away but I will say this book is a big book and I had to read it in one sitting as I could not put it down. I think you could read this as a standalone but as the characters from past books do come into this story I feel you would enjoy it so much more if you have read the previous books.
Just when you think it can't get any better another Dartmouth Cobra story is released.
Loved it
God, I love this series
This series is one of my all-time favorites, and this book lives up to the series' reputation. It is so good that I had trouble putting it down.
The author has written a story that will have you going 'Ah...,''Aww...,''Hahaha...,''Oh my God...''Oh no!' In other words, she has you experiencing a whole range of emotions as you discover more about the players in the team. Every time I finish reading one of these books, I feel like I am leaving my friends until the next book comes out.
I love how even though the book is about one particular relationship, you hear about and see all the previous books' relationships still developing. You really get the feeling that the members of this hockey team are not only friends, but they also consider each other as family and enjoy spending time with each other outside of the game.
I know the author has only just finished this book, but I hope she gets started on the next one in the series fairly soon. I miss my Cobras already!