This workplace romance focuses on Devon and Mila, both of
whom are starting over professionally and personally with Mila’s hometown
hockey team. He’s the rather disgruntled player that’s tasked with leading the
team, but he’s come to the franchise with a chip on his shoulder and promising
himself that he’ll get back on a big-city team’s roster after he rehabs his
shoulder in Tennessee. What he doesn’t anticipate is a woman like Mila coming
in and blowing all that away and making him want something more meaningful than
the fast life he was used to in New York. She, on the other hand, is still
reeling from the devastating loss of her parents just a couple years ago and
then the scandal that her ex leaves her to deal with while he comes out looking
just fine. Despite all their cumulative baggage, these two find an easy friendship
and then much more with one another.
I absolutely love Devon and Mila! They’re both so
realistically written with each of them having their own pasts and desires for
the future coloring their presents and with how vulnerable those pasts and hopes
make them. Something Azzi does with all her characters is make them as genuine
and realistic as possible, and I love that about these characters especially.
The way these two play off each other is fun and sweet but sometimes emotional,
too, and it works for them. I adored the amount of growth both characters experienced,
and I think that’s why I found this book to be so satisfying.
Another aspect to this book that I enjoyed was all the
secondary characters. They added an additional level of depth to the storytelling
and helped to propel the narrative forward when needed. My favorite of the
secondary characters is probably Devon’s grandfather. He’s able to offer Devon
the sage advice and guidance he so terribly needs in a completely adorable and
grandfatherly way. Then there’s Mila’s best friend Maisy, and she’s about as
cute and unwittingly funny as can be. Both them and the others complete the
storyline and make it that much more entertaining.
This book has all the sweet, steamy, and perfectly placed
dramatic moments you could want, and it’s definitely a must read. I’m so
excited to read Axel and Maisy’s story now because of how much I loved Devon
and Mila’s characters and can’t wait for their book to come out.
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