Preorder a SPICY sports romance from USA Today Bestseller Amy Andrews A bookshop face off! NHL hot shot, Nick Hawkeye Hawke has 4 months to recuperate from a potentially career ending injury. All he has to do is take it easy and keep things low key. So, looking after his grandmother's beloved second hand romance bookshop and working very closely with the ruthlessly efficient Samantha Evans is just what he needs right? Wrong! Career driven Sam has impulsively decided to swap her highly stressful corporate job for a slower pace in her favourite bookshop at the exact time her biological clock has started to tick. And she wants absolutely none of that. But when your boss is a hot hockey superstar and you can’t stop daydreaming of him being your baby daddy, forced proximity takes on a whole new meaning. With temptation around every book shelf, Nick and Sam find themselves skating on thin ice until they put themselves firmly in the friend zone. But the more they try to resist their slow burn, the more they want each other. How long can they stay in the zone until one of them breaks the ice? Previously published as Risky Business
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[1.5] this feels like the author saw popular tropes that were trending and tried to make them fit her writing style, and unfortunately, it didn't work at all for me. our fmc was just weird (only wanting to date people so she could have children, her 'eggs' telling her this?) and i thought the mmc was really unlikeable and inappropriate at times (not wanting to date a girl because her boobs were too small (despite the book preaching body positivity) and offering to be a sperm donor for a potential lesbian couple, but only if he could watch??). i found they would often act without any reason and as a result, it really made them feel very 2-dimensional, and as though they were only having certain thoughts to move the plot along. also, not something that contributed to my rating, but the book is marketed as a sports romance and there is no hockey in it, as the mmc is out on an injury - he steps foot on the ice once and decides he's had enough
This book was an easy and enjoyable read. The whole egg thing was a bit odd but at times funny but all round it was a good book that I was able to finish in a day.
Thank you to the author and NetGalley for providing me this ARC copy