Grace's Reviews > Name From a Hat Trick

This was all right but not my favorite.

First off, I'm a bit confused why this is a standalone/new series featuring hockey players when the author has been publishing a completely different hockey-related romance series... I enjoy sports/hockey MM as much as the next girl, but it does feel a bit strange to be publishing multiple hockey romances within months of each other that are apparently unrelated...

I liked the MCs and the portrayal of intense anxiety, as well as the inclusion of a child with chronic pain and everything that entails for the family. I thought both things were well and respectfully represented, though it did feel at times that the narrative lapsed into sermonizing/exposition on the trials etc. instead of weaving it more fluidly into the narrative.

I also, personally, just found the smut to be... boring? Uninspired? I felt like I was reading the same scene over and over again and ended up skimming. TBH, I skimmed a lot of the last half of the book. The whole thing was honestly much longer than it needed to be and there were quite a few extraneous scenes that didn't serve a purpose of moving the plot forward and could have been cut. I almost DNF'd a few times not because it was bad, but because I just didn't really care all that much. This one felt a bit phoned-in.