Shoot Your Shot
Lexi LaFleur Brown
Don’t miss NHL insider and #BookTok influencer Lexi LaFleur Brown’s steamy and superstitious hockey rom-com debut! When Jaylen Jones doesn’t secure an NHL contract at the end of training camp, he worries his hockey career is over. But after an anonymous one-night stand on his last night in town, his luck turns around and a last-minute roster spot opens up on the Seattle Rainiers. Connecting his fortune to the girl he spent the night with, superstitious Jaylen is suddenly desperate to keep her around. Aspiring tattoo artist Lucy isn’t so sure about the proposition to remain Jaylen’s lucky charm—she’s been called a lot of things in her life, but good luck has never been one of them. But stuck in a career slump, Lucy has everything to gain. Hoping for an apprenticeship at a tattoo parlor hasn’t offered her much stability, and Jaylen is willing to pay any price to get Lucy to agree…so maybe sending him a routine text message before each game won’t be too hard. What starts as an agreement to trade favors—a good luck text for an appearance at a charity event, or well wishes in exchange for prime game tickets—quickly turns into sizzling chemistry that’s too delicious not to give in to. But Lucy’s been in too many situationships to even think about getting attached again, and Jaylen is clearly only with Lucy as long as it’s helping his career…neither of them expecting getting lucky could be so complicated.
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3.5/5
i follow the author on tiktok and as soon as i found out she was writing a hockey romance i had to have it.
jaylen and lucy are a cute, funny and supportive couple who i could root for the entire time.
lucy being jaylen’s good luck charm was the cherry on top of their dynamic before they start really falling for each other. nothing about their relationship or plot felt unrealistic and really enjoyed their individual plotlines that brought them together.
i wish we had gotten more intimate moments between the characters especially as their relationship was developing at certain points it felt more like we were just told about it rather than seeing these moments.
thank you to netgalley and the publisher for access to this arc. all opinions are my own.
0i thought this was a solid debut novel. the hockey is accurate (much appreciated as a hockey fan that likes to read hockey romance) but i found the characters hard to root for. the good parts of this book were phenomenal but the bad parts were truly terrible. overall i had a solidly enjoyable reading experience and i hope to see lexi wrote more books and improve as an author.
0ARC REVIEW
This book was a solid 3 star read for me. It felt very slow for some reason and that made it difficult for me to actually get into and stay interested in the book. I think the book overall was cute though and a fairly decent hockey romance.
Thank you to the author and NetGalley for the chance to read and review this ARC :)
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