Review: Better than the first...
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 18, 2014
On the Fly was another great hockey romance by Catherine Gayle.  This is the second book in the Portland Storm series.  I liked it even better than Breakaway though I enjoyed Breakaway as well.  On the Fly was about Brenden, a hockey player(and Dana' s brother from Breakaway) and Rachel, a single mom just hired as the general manager's new assistant.  She doesn't date,  has trust issues and is super over-protective of her kids due to past trauma.  He wants to date her, feels a need to take care of her and won't take no for an answer.  Much like Breakaway, there is some fairly heavy content but it doesn't make the book feel overly heavy itself.  In fact, it gives the book a "quality drama" feel rather than "cheap drama".  I don't know why I put those in quotes...but it feels right.  What I liked better about this book than Breakaway were the characters.  They were good in Breakaway too but I felt a greater connection to them this time around.  The book was not at all easy to put down.  The end was a bit brief for my liking but not unforgivably so, especially since  I know there will be more books in the series.  I didn't plan to read  the novella about Katie and Babs that comes after this but the end of this book has the very beginning of the novella and it drew me in so I guess I will be reading it after all.  I highly recommend the series to anyone who enjoys a good sports romance.