Hunter Lacey has always been Bryce’s biggest fan. Since he was a teenager, all he wanted to do was be like him, play like him, play with him. And now,Hunter Lacey has always been Bryce’s biggest fan. Since he was a teenager, all he wanted to do was be like him, play like him, play with him. And now, his dream is about to come true.
Bryce’s hockey team is the favorite to win the Stanley Cup. None was supposed to stop them, but meeting Hunter in the All-Star weekend may turn everything upside down.
“C’est bon de te rencontrer enfin.” Bryce is still smiling. ()I could faint. I could also puke, right onto the ice, right between his skates. “Hi,” I squeak. “I wear your number.” “Enchanté.” Bryce’s grin grows. “I wear your number, too.”
Even though Hunter is barely able to connect his thoughts to put together a coherent sentence, Bryce seems interested in getting to know him. Not only that, they also connect on the ice like they had been playing together for all their lives, like they could read each other’s thoughts. Like they were meant to be all along.
Everything he’s ever dreamt, everything he never dared to hope for, is real. It’s perfect.
Until it isn’t.
I LOVED this book. It was so close to being a 5 star that I wanted to scream at the slow pace in the second half. Bryce is the first one you meet. You know he’s the captain of a team that’s more like a big family, where everyone is giving their best to win. You can see the happiness of being part of something as powerful, but also the loneliness that lives in Bryce. Until he meets Hunter, and the loneliness will turn into something more dangerous…
I was enjoying Bryce’s POV, but when I arrived in Hunter’s POV I knew I was a goner. Hunter is a humble hockey player of an unexceptional team that can’t believe his luck when he’s invited to All Stars. Can you imagine, finally being able to not only see your hero for afar, but actually being able to play with them? My heart was racing with excitement when Hunter finally saw Bryce, galloping when Bryce started to walk towards him. It was impossible not to feel the importance of the moment, the nerves and the feeling that everything was just too good to be true. It has been so long since the last time I felt the emotions of a character as deeply as I did with Hunter. I couldn’t help the internal scream, the external smile and the silly laugh that escaped when Bryce was finally there, telling Hunter he had been seeing him play. Hunter and I would have died happily in that moment, but there was so much more yet to come…
“Why do you play?” () “Honestly?” “Mais oui. I think we’re past the brutal honesty stage with each other, non?” “I play because of you.”
There is unrequited love trope-I’m not telling you who is who, even if it’s in the blurb-, and I adore that trope soooo much. I loved how the author developed Hunter and Bryce’s story, how real the characters’ struggles felt. You could see how good they were together, but they didn’t want the same and it broke each other’s hearts.
I don’t know how to stop this fall. I don’t know how to stop dreaming of who I can never have. I don’t know how to stop this pain. () It’s a cruelty, to have something-someone-who fits so perfectly within you, and yet, they will never be a part of your life. To taste wonder and lose it, and then to dream of what-ifs and maybes and wish your life were different.
The first half was pure perfection, but the progression of the romance kinda got stuck there. Something happens around the middle that will steal the focus of the story when the love story is almost closed and it drags out a bit too much. I think the last half could have easily been the last quarter. We did get to see Bryce’s teammates, who were amazingly great secondary characters, so it wasn’t a complete miss. Just not as good as the first part.
Also, I absolutely loved all the French that was used. The author was a bit bold about the amount of it present in the book-I know a lot of people had problems with that-, but I’m a languages geek so I wouldn’t have changed a thing. I loved it even when I didn’t have a clue of what Bryce was saying; I knew they were love words, and nothing is going to translate the same, so I just admired how sexy French was with a huge smile on my face.
Overall, I loved the first part with all my heart and was okay with the second. The characters completely stole my heart so, even if objectively the structure may not be as good as in The Jock, I ended up loving Gravity more. Tal Bauer always manages to add his own twist, making his books stand out from the rest, so I’d recommend Gravity if you want a sport romance that hits different and beautiful writing.
I never knew I was chasing something Until I couldn’t catch you in my dreams Oh, I see you at midnight And I wish I could reach you I wish I could tell you I wish I was enough for you ...more
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