I feel for the way Xander 'had' to come out but we can almost feel the relief he feels at being free to love whomever he wants, and he wants his best friends little brother Mason.

This is a heartwarming story of the love between Mason and Xander thats hmm been brewing for years, with Xander scared and Mason resigned to never getting his man.

I enjoyed this sports based romance that wasnt full on sports, we saw the lives and trust between team mates and friends.

Excited to see where this series takes us next.
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I have no idea what this was trying to be, but I guess at least I now know that I don’t need to read any more books by these authors. Mason and Xander are oddly barely on the page with each other, yet they’ve declared their love before the halfway point; there’s truly no character development happening here. Apparently there’s some backstory on Mason that was in a previous book in another series which is so random and doesn’t really get brought up or addressed until over three quarters in. Even after getting together, these two still are barely on the same page; it’s just other stuff happening in their lives, and I didn’t feel anything for them since I didn’t really get a chance to know them. The writing itself wasn’t bad, but the plot structure and lack of character development definitely wasn’t good; oh well I guess duds exist everywhere, and I’m usually pretty positive about books but this pissed me off. ( )

I wanted to like it more than I did. The pacing was off and the narrative was clunky. The hockey aspect was practically non-existent. The characters were bland and the romance was very abrupt. Yes they had history but without it being shown it was just abrupt.

I also didn't realise this was a spin off series and prior series are suggested reading. To some degree it does stand up on it's own but mostly I was just lost in between who these people were and why they mattered and what had happened.

2 stars. ( )

The start of a new series set in Boston, but featuring some characters from previous ones. OK as a mindless bedtime reading. ( )