Michael
I had finished The Covenant of Water the day before going home to Philadelphia from Florida, where I was visiting family. This meant I had nothing to read, but I thought I could survive the 2.5-hour flight without a book. I got to the airport 2 hours before the flight (I am a rule-follower) when I got a message about a flight delay, and those messages kept coming. I knew I had to get something to read. This airport didn’t have much in the way of books from what I could tell, when I finally saw an airport shop with a selection of books. And there it was—Heated Rivalry. I never planned to read this, but it was there, so why not?
I guess the story is well-known from the TV series, although I have never watched it. Simply put, Heated Rivalry is great fun, sweet, sexy, and wonderful.
Shane and Ilya are star hockey players, rivals from the time they first met. They started their relationship by hating each other, but that soon changed. Their relationship went from dislike to dislike mixed with sex, to love (mixed with sex). There is a lot of sex. The book also shows how vulnerable they both are and how scared they are to show that vulnerability. I liked that we had both Shane’s and Ilya’s POV presented to us, so we saw that vulnerability, even if they didn’t see each other’s at first. I liked that we had the promise of a life together for the two of them.
I couldn’t stop reading it, so after waiting for the plane, sitting out the delays, and sitting on the plane, I finished the last page just as we were landing in Philadelphia.
I had finished The Covenant of Water the day before going home to Philadelphia from Florida, where I was visiting family. This meant I had nothing to read, but I thought I could survive the 2.5-hour flight without a book. I got to the airport 2 hours before the flight (I am a rule-follower) when I got a message about a flight delay, and those messages kept coming. I knew I had to get something to read. This airport didn’t have much in the way of books from what I could tell, when I finally saw an airport shop with a selection of books. And there it was—Heated Rivalry. I never planned to read this, but it was there, so why not?
I guess the story is well-known from the TV series, although I have never watched it. Simply put, Heated Rivalry is great fun, sweet, sexy, and wonderful.
Shane and Ilya are star hockey players, rivals from the time they first met. They started their relationship by hating each other, but that soon changed. Their relationship went from dislike to dislike mixed with sex, to love (mixed with sex). There is a lot of sex. The book also shows how vulnerable they both are and how scared they are to show that vulnerability. I liked that we had both Shane’s and Ilya’s POV presented to us, so we saw that vulnerability, even if they didn’t see each other’s at first. I liked that we had the promise of a life together for the two of them.
I couldn’t stop reading it, so after waiting for the plane, sitting out the delays, and sitting on the plane, I finished the last page just as we were landing in Philadelphia.