A
coming-of-age love story with high school, hockey rivalry, friendship, family,
and coming out.
Soren’s life changes in an instant when he and his younger brother are adopted
by hockey royalty. Making sense of his new life is hard enough, but when he’s
enrolled in a private school it means facing a whole new set of problems.
Navigating friendship, family, and hockey is one thing, but being attracted to
the boy who vexes him is a whole new thing.
Felix has a reputation to protect. He's the kid who seems to have everything
but looks can be deceiving. Spinning lies about his perfect life, he’s created
a fantasy world that even he has started to believe. Only, it’s not long before
everything crumbles, all of his pretty lies are revealed, and only his closest
rival sees through his pain and stands by him.
Fighting is easy, friendship is hard, but love is everything.
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Just as I was thinking of Felix’s face meeting a fist, he shot to his feet, gave Tyler a shove, and jumped on the smaller guy when Tyler fell off the bench to the floor. I reacted instantly, and was into the fray in a second, rolling Felix off Tyler with a body check that would have cleared any of the Railers off their skates. Not really, but it sounded boss. Tyler was smaller than most, a speed demon on ice, but we protected him—I protected him.
“Get the fuck off me!” Felix snarled, swinging at me as we grappled for control. He was strong, about my height and weight, but I had the advantage. Or I thought I did. He swung back in a flash, clocking me in the mouth. My front teeth dug into my lower lip, and I tasted blood, which kind of pissed me off. We wrestled around amid shouts from our teammates until I managed to get him under control. Mostly.
He was splayed out on the floor, his face pressed into a pair of wet sneakers lying in front of a locker. I put my knee into his back while the other guys scrambled to get Tyler on his feet.
“What the hell, Sinclair?” I barked down at Felix. We never used our full last names, not since he’d decided that having gay dads meant I didn’t deserve to inherit both last names. Whatever. He hated that I responded in kind and that was just one more point against the freaking idiot.
“Get off my back, Rowe!” he snarled, adding something else to the comment, which was hard to make out since his face was jammed into a skanky, soggy grey and black Nike belonging to one of the guys who had run here across the sodden field hockey field. Caleb had kicked them off to wring out his socks but had yet to dress his smelly feet yet. Caleb liked to hear us complain about his foot stink for some reason. Dude was weird.
It sounded like Felix might have used a queer slur, but I couldn’t be sure it was the F-word although I’d heard him use it before. He’d should think twice about using that in front of me. My new family was all kinds of queer, as was I and a few other players. Coach also did not put up with any racist, sexist, or queer slurs. I’d already hit him once, way back, when he started shit about my dads, but that had ended up with me in an office with my new dads and wondering if they were going to send me back in the system.
Of course they hadn’t—they loved me and Milo and wanted us as their sons, along side their daughter. We were family and it was all official and everything. Still the thought that I’d disappoint my dads meant I genuinely tried not to rise to Felix and hit him again.
But he’d jumped Tyler, and that wasn’t right.
Shannan
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Off the Ice is the first book in the Chesterford Coyotes series. It is a
coming of age, young adult, enemies-to-boyfriends, hockey read full of teen
drama and I'm here for it!
Soren hasn't had the easiest childhood. He was adopted with his brother by two
hockey gods. He's extremely protective of his family and his friends. Felix, on
the other hand, plays the part of the snobby rich kid with a chip on his
shoulder. As you learn about his family dynamic you understand why he's so
angry all the time.
Felix is just figuring out who he is, and Soren is bringing up feelings in him
he's not used to. Soren takes the time to actually get to know the real Felix
instead of the bully he pretends to be. I was so invested in this quick read. I
loved seeing the way Felix gave his dad a chance and his dad finally put him
first. Not a huge young adult reader but I can't wait to see where this series
goes!
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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
chocolates she couldn’t defeat.
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V.L. LOCEY loves worn jeans, yoga,
belly laughs, walking, reading and writing lusty tales, Greek mythology, the
New York Rangers, comic books, and coffee. (Not necessarily in that order.)
She shares her life with her husband, her daughter, one dog, two cats, a flock
of assorted fowl, and two Jersey steers.
When not writing spicy romances, she enjoys spending her day with her menagerie
in the rolling hills of Pennsylvania with a cup of fresh java in hand.
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Locey to read and review.
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