This is a beautiful hockey romance that’s a second chance trope. We start of with the main characters in a relationship but stuff happens and they separate. Then we jump to 10 years later. They meet again under circumstances with a secret being kept hidden. Thank you to NetGalley and the publishers for allowing me to read and share my review.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the digital ARC!

Okay...I love a hockey romance. I know nothing about hockey, but I love reading about it and hockey players being goofy and silly and buff. So, of course, I thought this would be a great little romance to read!

Unfortunately, I ended up DNFing about a quarter of the way through. I had so many issues with this book, that I eventually decided to just stop.

Firstly, and this sounds pedantic, but I didn't entirely get the feeling the author understood American universities or the immigration process? I may be wrong, and I'm happy to be corrected, but nothing matched up and it annoyed me enough that it took me out of the book. It's heavily implied that Liam and Ellis both graduated at the age of 20...which isn't unheard of in the US, but it's also just...not common? Silly, but it just kept annoying me. Another thing is that, apparently, Ellis managed to go to the US for university from England and somehow managed to stay afterwards. Again, not unheard of. But by the time we see her at 30 again, she's running her own florist and is a single mum.

She's not a US citizen (as far as I'm aware, again, I didn't finish it), she isn't employed by anyone and she isn't married to anyone. So...how exactly did she (presumably) get a green card so fast? This sounds really stupid and petty, but I couldn't stop thinking about it. If someone can explain it to me, then I'd be happy to hear an answer!

I know the whole plot is accidentally pregnancy, but I almost DNF'd within 10%, as there's an extensive sex scene after they somehow come across each other in a club after 10 years. I wasn't interested in this, and it set the wrong tone for me.

My final issue is that I just didn't care for Ellis. I believe the author has fibromyalgia, so it was great to see an own voices representation of a chronic illness but it got to the point I was tired of reading about Ellis. I know people with chronic illness have to live this every day, but it felt like Ellis was just such a negative, boring personality. Even ten years ago, so her personality didn't even grow.

Now she's just 10 years older and complaining about being a mum or being pregnant alongside always mentioning her illness. Before anyone thinks I'm hating on this, I'm not. I enjoy seeing characters that show underrepresented communities, but Ellis' main personality trait was 'I Have Fibromyalgia, Woe Is My Life'. Seriously, I think she can't go more than two pages without mentioning it in some form which makes her feel like just a very negative character that isn't enjoyable to read. I feel bad saying this, as I don't have fibromyalgia, but this was one of the main reasons I just wasn't interested anymore.

Another random thing is that Jack kept making me feel like either I don't know how 5 year old speak, or the author doesn't. I can't comment on this too much, as I don't have a kid and don't interact with them, but it was bizarre that he was speaking grammatically correct sentences and he's barely in school. One moment in particular that threw me was when Jack reads the word 'foetus' on a poster...I'm reasonably sure a 5 year old wouldn't be able to read that, but what do I know?

Diez años después de una dolorosa separación, Ellis, ahora madre soltera y dueña de una florería, se reencuentra inesperadamente con Liam, su exnovio y actual estrella de la NHL. Una noche de pasión revive sentimientos del pasado, pero un test de embarazo positivo lo cambia todo. Mientras Ellis lucha con su salud y sus inseguridades, Liam está decidido a demostrarle que su amor por ella nunca desapareció. Con obstáculos personales, ambos deberán decidir si vale la pena arriesgarlo todo por una segunda oportunidad en el amor.


Me gustó el capítulo 36, cuando Liam le dice que ya no le importa el hockey, que le da igual, y que lo único que quiere es pasar tiempo con ella y sus hijos. Que no quiere perderse nada. No se retira, pero deja claro que lo más importante para él es su familia


Tengo curiosidad por la historia de Lindsey y Anders.

Thanks to NetGalley, the publisher and the author for the ARC in exchange for an honest