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She’s an honors student with ambitious graduate school plans and he’s a jock with only hockey on his mind, but once their worlds collide, their connection is hot enough to melt an ice rink.
An ultimatum from Summer Preston’s thesis advisor thrusts her into an unexpected collision with the hockey team’s captain, Aiden Crawford. She’s caught between conflicting desires of fulfilling her lifelong dream of becoming a sport psychologist and staying as far away as possible from the god-awful sport. And once she meets Aiden—well, let’s just say he confirms all her worst assumptions about hockey players.
Being the captain of the college hockey team has its perks, except when a reckless mistake by Aiden’s team threatens to jeopardize their entire season. As punishment, Aiden’s coach nominates him as the subject of a student research project. Participating is the last thing he wants to do, especially since the girl leading the project looks like she could wield his skates as a weapon.
Summer can’t stand Aiden’s blasé approach to life, and Aiden doesn’t understand why she’s twenty years old with a twenty-five-year plan. But their bickering soon turns to bantering—and once they let their guards down, there’s nothing to check their feelings.
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Khabra debuts with an adorable if slightly overlong new adult romance. Dalton University senior Summer Preston feels her dream of working as a sports psychologist with the U.S. Olympic program is within her reach. Only one last hurdle stands in the way of being accepted into Dalton's competitive graduate program: an ultimatum from the adviser she idolizes that she work with the one sport she hates, hockey. (She had a bad experience with a hockey player in the past and has written the rest of them off as well.) After a reckless party lands Dalton's team in trouble, captain Aiden Crawford takes the fall. As punishment, his coach forces Aiden to work with Summer or face NCAA probation. Aiden's seemingly nonchalant attitude toward everything except hockey peeves Summer, confirming her worst opinions of hockey players—but she can't deny her attraction to him. The novel is light on plot, chronicling how these two slowly go from enemies to lovers without much friction, but the characters are endearing and their connection makes sense. It's a welcome addition to the booming subgenre of hockey romance.
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wow
The pacing, the characters, the setting… everything about this book is written beautifully. There was not a moment where I wanted to stop reading! genuinely I love this book, it’s worth all your pennies!
Meh
Summer was kind of annoying. Aiden’s ‘perfect boyfriend’ persona was very forced and felt unrealistic. It was too obvious that a woman was writing her fantasy of a perfect man. The story easily could’ve been shorter, it felt like it was dragging on. At some points it was funny and cute but felt too much like I was living in some girls fantasy land with forced daddy issues. I’m usually very empathetic towards protagonists, this time around I just didn’t care much.
Too long but decent first half
The first half was solid, but it just went on way too long. I lost interest and couldn’t finish.