Blurb:
She closed her heart long ago. He just wants to open her mind. For fans of Toni Aleo and Sawyer Bennett, the debut of Sophia Henry’s red-hot Detroit Pilots series introduces a hockey team full of complicated men who fight for love.
Auden Berezin is used to losing people: her father, her mother, her first love. Now, just when she believes those childhood wounds are finally healing, she loses something else: the soccer scholarship that was her ticket to college. Scrambling to earn tuition money, she’s relieved to find a gig translating for a Russian minor-league hockey player—until she realizes that he’s the same dangerously sexy jerk who propositioned her at the bar the night before.
Equal parts muscle and scar tissue, Aleksandr Varenkov knows about trauma. Maybe that’s what draws him to Auden. He also lost his family too young, and he channeled the pain into his passions: first hockey, then vodka and women. But all that seems to just melt away the instant he kisses Auden and feels a jolt of desire as sudden and surprising as a hard check on the ice.
After everything she’s been through, Auden can’t bring herself to trust any man, let alone a hot-headed puck jockey with a bad reputation. Aleksandr just hopes she’ll give him a chance—long enough to prove he’s finally met the one who makes him want to change.
My Review: 3 1/2 Stars
Hmmm... I struggled with this book a little bit. At times I loved it and other times I felt kinda meh about it. I absolutely adored Sasha, he started out as a bit of a douche in the beginning but once you got to know the real Aleksandr he was freaking amazing! In fact, because of him, hockey is becoming my new favorite sport. :D I just love me some sexy Russians! *rawr* Auden was a great heroine, she was awesomely snarky and I loved watching her character grow.
My biggest and only real complaint with the book was that there wasn't a lot of chemistry between the two which was really disappointing because Aleksandr was one hell of a sexy beast. So much potential and it just fell kinda flat in my opinion. Maybe it was because the characters spent most of the book apart or maybe it was because this read more like a YA instead of a NA. Whatever the reason, I had to drop the book down one star because of it. However, I still believe that the series has great potential and will definitely be picking up the next one.
*I received a copy from the publisher through Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.
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