Review: Great hockey romance
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 13, 2011
I love romances with sports hotties, but for some reason I've never read one with a hockey hunk. I had a friend give me this book as a gift, as it's one of her favorite themes, and I'm very glad she did. Not only does this story have the hockey sports theme, it also has the brother's best friend theme, as well as older woman/younger man. I also liked that the story was set in Canada.Shayne is Lacey's brother's best friend. Lacey has known Shayne since he was very young, hanging out with her little brother, always around her parents' house. Lacey's family was like a surrogate family for Shayne, who had a really bad homelife. He was dirt poor and his father was the town drunk. So Shayne has always been very close to Lacey's family.As for the older woman/younger man theme, Lacey is 39 and Shayne is 29. It's only until recently that Lacey noticed Shayne as a man and not the boy who is her brother Todd's best friend. Shayne grabbed me right from the start. The story begins with him staring at Lacey, seeing her in a whole new light, as a sexy, gorgeous woman he wants very badly. All the scenes with Shayne and Lacey are sexy, sweet, tender, hot, and just delicious.I loved Shayne. So big and tough, but caring and sensitive, rough but gentle, scared but brave. The author really developed him, and Lacey and the other characters also, just really good and thought out characters and story. Each character was completely sketched out, and I felt as if I knew them.If you love a hero who is torn up with wanting the heroine but then is thinking he's not good enough for her because of his past, that hero who is big and tough yet also afraid to risk being hurt, give Shayne a try. He'll win your heart.