A
young adult hockey romance filled with making amends, family, friends, and
discovering the real person inside while juggling the crazy, upside-down world
of high school.
Jonah Robinson has really messed up. He’s spent the last year hanging out with
someone who wasn’t leading him in a good direction. Now that Felix has seen the
light, perhaps it’s time for Jonah to do the same. Making amends is not going
to be easy when he’s not exactly been the nicest guy at Chesterford. With the
help of his family and a special friend at the school, Jonah is ready to try to
make things right with those he wronged. The first person on that long
redemption list is Tyler, the brightest player on the Coyotes, at least in
Jonah’s eyes. He’s taken a thousand pictures of Tyler for the school paper, but
he’s going to have to learn how to develop more than just negatives if he wants
to grow close to Tyler.
Tyler Corrigan’s dad has left, his mom is terrified he’ll come back, and it’s
Tyler who’s left to keep his little family in one piece. The only respite from
real life is playing hockey, and he’s an important part of the Chesterford
Coyotes. Despite not being the biggest person on the ice, speed is his
superpower, and the team has his back during the worst of the bullying he’s had
to endure. His friends make him feel safe when his real world is full of fear,
but no one can protect his heart when an awkward and messed up Jonah—one of the
worst of his bullies—is suddenly around every corner, wanting to make things
right.
Sorry can be a difficult word to believe, but trusting your heart is
everything.
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A shadow fell across my books, and I sighed, hoping to hell it wasn’t someone who wanted to talk to me because this essay on evolutionary principles wouldn’t write itself. I waited for the shadow to leave, or move, or something, but it seemed like I was waiting in vain, and finally, when I couldn’t ignore it any more, I glanced up.
Jonah.
My flight instinct kicked in, but eased almost immediately when I realized it was just Jonah and there was no sign of Miles. Talk about a Pavlov’s dog-type reaction.
Jonah was mostly okay when it was just him, a bit of a dick for watching things go down, but okay when he was solo. Not that we talked, because if we were on our own, he would move away to avoid me, and then scurry off in any direction he could find. Only, here he was standing in the light and staring down at me, and I could see his mouth moving.
All I could hear was the chorus of Defying Gravity, and I gestured to my ears to indicate the buds under my layered pink hair.
He nodded and indicated I take them out. Fuck. If I removed them, I’d have to talk to him, and I didn’t have it in me to have a heated chat about whatever made Jonah look so determined.
He stared at me.
I stared back.
Then, with a sigh, I pulled out the buds and the song stopped.
“Hi,” he said after a pause. I glanced past him, making sure Miles hadn’t in fact made his way into the study room and was waiting to pounce on me. He’d already threatened me with payback for turning him in and said that in the less than thirty seconds he’d had before his father pushed him out of the main door.
I’ll get you for doing this. That was what Miles had snarled at me. It didn’t help that Miles’ dad had sneered, snorted in disgust, and then, shoved his son in the back. The parting words from his dad were just as nasty as Miles were—the apple didn’t fall far from the tree.
You couldn’t take that kid out? Didn’t raise you to be a freaking loser.
I knew all about shitty fathers, and for a moment, I recognized the hate in his father that meant maybe Miles never stood a chance. I knew how hard it was to fight out from under all the hate, but I’d had Mom, and she’d been my guiding light every single day of my life.
Maybe Miles’ mom was as much of a loser as his dad?
He couldn’t be more wrong about me making the complaint—nothing good came from involving outside parties after threats of intimidation—just ask my mom. I had no idea who’d accused the two boys of bullying, given it was anonymous, but it definitely hadn’t been me. If I thought it was worth bothering with, I would have reported things long ago, but I had knowledge of bigger bullies than Miles, and had terrifying firsthand experience of what happened when an aggressor was backed into a corner.
“And?” I prompted Jonah, who was bouncing on his toes a little, as if he couldn’t stay still. I waited patiently, and when he opened his mouth a couple of times, just to shut it again, I was about done with waiting for him to talk and picked up the buds to continue my research.
“I’m sorry,” he blurted, his dark eyes shining with emotion.
I could feel the gaze of all the students in the study room focused on whatever was going on here. I should have gone to the library—no one goes there to study except the kids who actually had to try really hard to do well in subjects. Now was the perfect time for me to make a big thing of him standing there; humiliate him, shout at him, rail at him for all the times he could have done more than just watch.
Instead, because I was so torn between understanding and the hateful need for revenge, I deliberately replaced my earbuds and bent my head to the book open on the desk. He was still there. Still bouncing.
Then, he placed something on the corner of the desk and walked away. I refused to watch him leave.
He’d left me a candy bar, my favorite—Snickers—right there with a Post-it note stuck to the front. It held one word. Sorry.
Only then did I glance the way he’d gone, to find him watching me through the glass of the door, a hopeful expression demanding I acknowledge the weird-ass gift.
I nodded.
Then immediately pretended to go back to studying.
It was safer not to engage.
Shannan – ☆☆☆☆
On Thin Ice is the second book in the Chesterford Coyotes series. It can be read as a standalone, but I think it would read better if you read in the order the authors intended. On Thin Ice is a young adult, high school hockey, teen-angst, enemies-to-friends-to-boyfriends read.
Jonah is newer to Chesterford and is there on a scholarship. He was shy and somehow got in with Felix and Miles. He hated the bullying Miles did but stood by while he did it. So he was as much to blame as Miles was. Jonah wants to be a better, kinder human and the best way to do that is to distance himself from Miles and make amends to those he hurt, starting with Tyler. Tyler happens to be best friends with Soren, who is now dating Felix, and Felix and Jonah have a lot to work out between them.
On Thin Ice is a super cute at moments very heavy read. I loved how Tyler made Jonah work for his forgiveness. I can't wait to see what's next for this series! I am not a usual young adult reader but I am so invested in these characters!
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Today bestselling author RJ SCOTT has written over one hundred and fifty
romance books. Emotional stories of complicated characters, cowboys, single
dads, hockey players, millionaires, princes, bodyguards, Navy SEALs, soldiers,
doctors, paramedics, firefighters, cops, and the men who get mixed up in their
lives, always with a happy ever after.
She lives just outside London and spends every waking minute she isn’t with
family either reading or writing. The last time she had a week’s break from
writing, she didn’t like it one little bit, and she has yet to meet a box of
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