Game Misconduct

I really liked this book. It gets to a point where you feel like you've read every variation of hockey romance: teammates, rivals, rivals that become teammates, teammates that become rivals - and this is a very fresh take on that which doesn't follow the norm.

Also, I like the gravitas with which it handled the addiction storyline - it's serious, but at no point is it implied that people battling addiction issues have to first have that element of their lives done and dusted before they can be in healthy relationships. I feel like a lot of books fumble with that and this one didn't.

The only thing I didn't like, and, yes, this is me nitpicking - was the way they spoke. I get that it was meant to convey hesitancy, especially when dealing with the conversations about feelings, and that it made sense, given Mike's age(to use ‘like' a lot as filler) but godDAMNit was it a pill to read.