Overall: 4.5 rounded to ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Readability: 📖📖📖📖
Feels: 🦋🦋🦋
Emotional Depth: 💔💔💔💔 (I thought there was some pretty great character depth in this one!)
Sexual Tension: ⚡⚡⚡⚡
Romance: 💞💞💞💞💞 (I found this book soooo romantic)
Sensuality: 💋💋💋💋 (I think the scenes were a bit light, but some were really great – a mix of emotions and explicitness but overall I wanted a bit more from the steam)
Sex Scene Length: 🍑🍑🍑🍑
Steam Scale (Number of Sex Scenes): 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Humor: Yes, a bit
Perspective: First person from both hero and heroine
More character focused or plot focused? character
How did the speed of the story feel? medium
When mains are first on page together: I didn’t note it but very soon in
Cliffhanger: No, this ends with a happily ever after
Epilogue: No (?)
Format: listened to audiobook from the library (Hoopla)

Should I read in order?
This is the second book in the series but I read it alone fine! There is some character overlap and Willa is mentioned (and pregnant?) in this book – she’s the heroine from book 1.

Basic plot:
Frankie and Ren spend plenty of time together at hockey rinks but when Ren finds out she’s leaving the team, he decides to make his feelings known.

Give this a try if you want:
- contemporary romance
- hockey player hero (LA Kings)
- social media manager heroine
- work place romance – they work together
- close proximity
- sunshine and grump and she’s the grump
- disability rep – heroine uses a cane and suffers from rheumatoid arthritis
- protective and sweet hero!
- bit of size difference (tall hero)
- autistic heroine rep
- unrequited love (from hero)
- virgin hero
- hero cooks for the heroine
- Shakespearean insults
- medium to higher steam – 5 scenes – maybe it’s the slower burn feel here (nothing until almost 70%) but I felt like this one was lower steam until I counted it out!

Ages:
- didn’t catch them!

First line:
Ren Bergan is too damn happy.

My thoughts:
Listened to this one after being recommended by a friend for a ‘chronic pain’ rep and just adored so much about this romance.

I really loved the mains in this one. Ren is so sweet and his unrequited love for Frankie was just delightful to me. I fell just as much in love with Frankie in this one.

There was so much sweetness here – so much romance! I just thought so many things were so swoony. So many romantic lines and romantic things. I really fell in love with this whole novel. I haven’t loved a contemporary this much in a long time, maybe ever??? I also very much appreciated the bit of angst at the end. Very emotional.

The side characters are also bright and engaging – and with a large family like Ren’s it makes me want to read the whole series!

Endearments

So much endearment play! I think they go through them all! 

Content warnings: These should be taken as a minimum of what to expect. It’s very possible I have missed some.

- scenes of pain and ableism experienced by the heroine
- weed usage
- parental death

Locations of kisses/intimate scenes:

 
Safe sex: 

  There is some mention of safe sex explored – maybe mention of heroine on birth control/STD tested, hero is a virgin 

 
Hows the consent? 

  It’s good 

 
40% - kiss
63% - kiss
68% - 🔥 mutual touches and o’s
73% - 🔥 bath scene, fingering for her
83% - 🔥 oral for her, missionary
86% - 🔥 bj fingering for her
100% - 🔥 sex