My first hockey romance (something I never thought I would pick up) but I know that the sports romance genre is getting more popular plus it was gay so I wanted to check it out. From the description, I was picturing something like the AFTG series minus the mafia ofc but it was definitely tamer and not nearly as intense. The characters were well written, the enemies to lovers romance was cute and I appreciated that important topics weren’t just glossed over but actually addressed and discussed. My biggest issue with this book was that it seemed a bit too short.

We go from winter break where the MC is still undecided about a lot of important choices straight to the summer. Also, I get that it “doesn’t matter” who got picked first for the draft at the end but I would still have liked to know (and it should’ve been Caulder let’s be real). Also, Mickey’s decision to leave school despite enjoying it so much just so that someone else could have the scholarship was a bit ridiculous and didn’t make sense. Would there be no way to turn down the scholarship money so that at least it could be used for someone else but he could still stay there and play on the team?

It felt like there was so much more of the story left to tell and I was hoping to see more of all of the side characters too. The ending being so abrupt knocked off a star for me, but I still enjoyed the story overall.