In It to Win It

I voluntarily read and reviewed an ARC of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

DNF @ 35%

I'm a sucker for hockey books. I don't know what it is, but I see that one of the leads plays hockey and I can't help but want to read it.
Now, I should admit, I haven't read the first book in this series, but even though I was a third of the way into this book I wasn't confused at all. There are a few scenes that reference to prior events I can only assume happened in book 1, but I didn't feel like I was missing anything.

Unfortunately, I just couldn't get into it. Perhaps the writing style just isn't for me because I didn't believe in the couple and wasn't caring about the couple. Their chemistry wasn't working for me– and I was a third of the way into the book. If I don't understand how a couple could be together or grow to like one another when I'm that far into a book, I generally know I'm not going to like it. Also, while JP is being painted as this bad person, really I liked him so much more than Taylor. His chapters felt more dynamic to me. Taylor felt more bland and judgey to me.

And yet, I did make it over a third of the way through, so that has to mean something. It isn't terrible. There are some good characters here and good scenes. I like how the author wrote about the sport. It is an easy book to read and something I wouldn't be adverse to telling someone to read while hanging out at the beach. It isn't a bad book, it just wasn't for me.