Carol [Goodreads Addict]'s Reviews > Icing On The Date

Icing On The Date is book one in The Bannister Brothers series by Jennie Marts. I loved this book so much. The sweet baker and the sexy bad boy hockey player are a couple that you probably think would never work. But they do. And I can’t wait to introduce you to these two.



Gabby Davis owns her own cupcake shop, Simply Sweet. Her cupcakes are amazing but she needs to work on her advertising to try to gain new customers. She’s been saving the money for more advertising for a long time. Until she needed it for something else.



Owen Bannister is a professional hockey player, a defenseman for The Colorado Summit hockey team. He and his brother, Bane, are both on the team and are known as the Brawling Bannisters. Owen is known for his hot tempter both on the ice and off.



Due to a terrible childhood, Gabby pretty much raised her younger brother. But now, as an adult, her brother is heading down the wrong path and Gabby is the one always ending up picking up the pieces, both emotionally and financially. She should walk away but they are all each other has. She won’t abandon him.



After the way they met, Gabby is concerned that Owen is also on that same destructive path. But he shows her a different side of himself. The sweet, caring, generous, sexy man that she just can’t say no to. And it seems her being in his life is helping him with a more positive image. Not to mention all the publicity it is bringing to the bakery.

“Something in this kitchen was already burning. Burning hot. And it wasn’t the cupcakes.”

These two were just so adorable together. That toy store scene! That’s all I’m saying about that. I loved the confidence they brought each other. That they both saw the other as they really were, not the side they showed the public. But both of them are battling their own demons. Both Gabby’s past and Owen’s own lack of self confidence. This story was sweet and sexy and swoony and wonderful. I love the way Jennie tells her stories. I get pulled in every single time and then I don’t want to let it go. Book two will be Owen’s brother, Bane’s book in Worth The Shot. I can’t wait to read it.

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