Thin Ice
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4.3 • 15 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Celebrating a successful season, Peter's gone and bought himself the motorcycle of his dreams. Cruising through a small town outside of Savannah, he stops at a local grocery store for lunch, and meets a woman with the power to bring him to his Russian knees!
Harmony is young, beautiful, and successful, she also doesn't know when to shut up. And yet, the Russian Adonis leaves her tongue-tied.
In what seems an easy romance, as Peter courts the outspoken goddess, and passion begins to flare, an innocent encounter with a fan turns into a dastardly accusation.
Old memories surface, clouding Harmony's ability to trust that what Peter says is true. While he fights to maintain his innocence in the eyes of public opinion, Peter looks for a way to hold on to the woman he loves.
His cup is tainted, his celebration over, and with his career on the line, will he lose the girl as well?
Customer Reviews
Good potential.
The premise of the story was a lovely one, with a professional hockey player seeking out a woman in a dog park following a chance meeting. My interest was piqued over the close-to-5 star rating and I wanted to discover what warranted such a high approval from others. In my estimation, it is likely that it was related to the sensitivity of the topic being covered, being rape and false accusations, rather than the writing style itself. I found the ramp up of the story to be overly romanticized. It would be unlikely for a professional hockey player to feel faint at the sight of a woman, as one small instance, especially given the lack of background of her being anything other than ordinary. The presence of frequent inaccurate and incomplete editing was distracting and likely contributed to my criticalness of the content, including both fragmented and run-on sentences, mis-spellings as well as misplaced and absent commas and apostrophes. I tried to set that initial opinion aside, and embrace what others must have seen, but was disappointed again with stock, flat characters, contrived scenarios, repeated demonstrations of lack of character and judgment and over-simplifications. The storyline and writing did improve as the book progressed. Though the style of writing wasn’t to my liking for the reasons mentioned, I commend the author for trying to tackle the topic. A professional editor would likely help her develop her craft as it was a good effort for one of her first writings. She definitely has potential and, no doubt, did a better job than I could have.