Little Thoughts About... Issue #24
ARC review of "The Shots You Take."
I got an email promoting this book and just knew I had to read it:
a sweet yet steam hockey romance between two former best friends and teammates. This standalone, small-town second chance contemporary romance…The story also touches on self-acceptance, grief, and coming out, creating an emotional and heartfelt read that’s impossible to put down.
I read a good bit of hockey romance and it was refreshing to read about two guys at the end of their careers and not some young guys just starting out. Riley’s career ended about 10 years before the start of the book and he’s done his self-acceptance and is now the one dealing with grief which isn’t easy to begin with and then Adam shows up and it’s just all the emotions. Adam is dealing with a level of grief himself as his career is ending and he’s at this point of trying to figure out where his place is anymore.
Ried does such a good job of giving us the complicated feelings of both men and flushing them out into full bodied characters. It was so easy to root for them and get fully invested in their story.
The promo was correct, it was hard for me to put this book down.
I received this book from NetGalley. Publication date March 2025.
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