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A review by bookishlychar
If You Need Me by Helena Hunting
challenging
emotional
funny
hopeful
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Dallas has loved Hemi since third grade. They have been working for the Toronto Terror for years, him as a player and her as a PR manager. He volunteers for any task to spend a bit of time with her. Hemi gives him the worst tasks, as she feels he picked on her all through school and made her life miserable. With their high school reunion coming up, Hemi is on a quest to return to her hometown with a boyfriend and show her graduating class she has moved on and “made it”. Unfortunately, all her dates have been duds. One drunken night Dallas posts a photo of them together, leading everyone to believe they are dating. Hemi wants anything but that, however, she agrees to go along with it for the sake of her job and Dallas’ time with the Terror. They work at convincing everyone they are together, and Hemi starts to see Dallas in a different light.
This book gave me a lot of feelings. Hemi was such a relatable character. She feels like she is “too much” for this world and that like most people, Dallas will begin to find her too much. Her fears and insecurities were so real and heartbreaking. I loved how obsessed Dallas was with her. When we started to see the things Dallas had done to help and protect Hemi throughout their history it was so loving and endearing.
Helena is a master of writing tension and banter and this book was no exception. Dallas and Hemi’s chemistry and banter was amazing. Throughout the story, we saw that Dallas and Hemi were two different people and I thought they balanced each other was wonderful. This book had a lot of humour, but there was also a vein of seriousness. Watching Hemi and her pain with being too much hurt my heart, and I found myself having a good cry in the last part of the book. I think these two were some of my favourite Helena pairings ever!
This book was full of emotion and I loved both Hemi and Dallas. I can’t wait to read more in this series! If you love a hockey romance with tension and banter, this is the perfect book for you. It can be read as a stand-alone, but I recommend the other two books in this series! Thank you to Helena Hunting for a copy of this book. All opinions are 100% mine.
read if you like: enemies to lovers, fake dating, only one bed, golden retreiver MMC/black cat FMC, hockey romance, childhood crush
This book gave me a lot of feelings. Hemi was such a relatable character. She feels like she is “too much” for this world and that like most people, Dallas will begin to find her too much. Her fears and insecurities were so real and heartbreaking. I loved how obsessed Dallas was with her. When we started to see the things Dallas had done to help and protect Hemi throughout their history it was so loving and endearing.
Helena is a master of writing tension and banter and this book was no exception. Dallas and Hemi’s chemistry and banter was amazing. Throughout the story, we saw that Dallas and Hemi were two different people and I thought they balanced each other was wonderful. This book had a lot of humour, but there was also a vein of seriousness. Watching Hemi and her pain with being too much hurt my heart, and I found myself having a good cry in the last part of the book. I think these two were some of my favourite Helena pairings ever!
This book was full of emotion and I loved both Hemi and Dallas. I can’t wait to read more in this series! If you love a hockey romance with tension and banter, this is the perfect book for you. It can be read as a stand-alone, but I recommend the other two books in this series! Thank you to Helena Hunting for a copy of this book. All opinions are 100% mine.
read if you like: enemies to lovers, fake dating, only one bed, golden retreiver MMC/black cat FMC, hockey romance, childhood crush