Book Review: Faceoff

I was looking forward to this spinoff sports series and I thought this was a cute story. It was written with believable characters and a lot of cameos from characters in previous books of the Belltown Six Pack series. (There were several cameos from most of them.) Clint is starting his pro hockey career and comes across Bree, another Six Pack Sib. They've known each other for years since their siblings were part of that elite group, but Clint now notices that Bree has grown up. They hang out, decide to date, then fall in love and that's sort of the whole book in a nutshell.

First of all, let me say I liked the characters of Clint and Bree well enough, and the book does have a happy ending. But the thing for me is, that there was no romantic tension. They get together fairly early in the book and stay together. They're supportive of each other and happy. There are no obstacles for them to overcome as a couple and we just go along with them for a straightforward, simple, and somewhat predictable, romance. Unfortunately, that made it easy for me to set down the book because I was never wondering what was going to happen next, never needed to root for the main couple, and I never stayed up late reading it because the happy ending was a given. 

That said, it was still a nice afternoon read if you just want a dose of a happy, young couple.

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Here's the back copy:

She isn’t supposed to want him. He isn’t supposed to want her. But wanting each other is inevitable.

Clint McCarthy has finally achieved his dream of playing for a professional hockey program, and is eager to make his mark with his new team. While getting settled in his new city, he happens across Bree Stone, whom he has known for years, with their respective brothers both being in the famed Belltown Six Pack. But for the life of him, he can’t remember Bree ever looking so attractive. Or being so captivating. Or taking over his every waking thought.

In the middle of her graduate degree, Bree has no time or desire for working on her dating life, or lack thereof, but the impossibly handsome Clint McCarthy coming back into her life makes everything complicated. She shouldn’t be focusing on him, or on them, not when her professional future hangs in the balance. But once she hears about Clint’s past with the Northbrook Hockey Elite program, and where that program stands now, Bree just might find a way to make her career, and a future with Clint, come to life.