Shoot Your Shot: A Hockey Rom-Com
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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0Thank you to NetGalley, Lexi LaFleur Brown, and the publishers for this ARC ebook for me to read! I found this author on TikTok where she mentioned this book was a hockey romance with mental health, LGBTQIA+, and POC rep and I ran to NetGalley as fast as I could to request it. I really enjoyed this book! It reminded me a lot of the Hannah Grace and Tessa Bailey books I’ve read in the past. I enjoy hockey a lot and liked the way that Lexi integrated not only the fact that JJ is a hockey player, but also included scenes during the games and terms/lingo from hockey. It really made it feel like she knew what she was writing about and wasn’t just writing about hockey players just to write about hockey players. I really loved the queer representation in the book and that in addition to the queer best friend tropes that Lucy is bisexual. I cracked up so many times at the queer coded jokes and the scenes with Cooper and Maya were some of my favorite in the books. I found myself actually laughing at loud at their sarcastic conversations.
0This looks like a hockey rom-com but there is so much more here! Jaylen was a star hockey player, but once things started not going his way, it was a downward spiral. He literally runs into a girl in a club after the end of a tryout for a new team. He's down and just wants to forget and this girl lets herself be sucked into his orbit. What was supposed to be a one-night stand turns into her being his good luck charm for the season. It seems like whenever she wishes him luck in some way, good things happen for him. The story is sweet, but you also sense that these are two people with a lot going on under the surface. The mental health aspects of this story were so well-handled (even though the therapist was "interesting") and I loved seeing how even people who seem to have it all can also have mental health issues.
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