Roman

I enjoyed this one. Not as much as MAX, but it was still an enjoyable read for the most part. That said because of the two different romances taking place at the same time I was left feeling disconnected from both of them.

Roman and Lexi were sweet together, but I didn't feel any overwhelming passion between them. Everything just seemed to be resolved easily or swept under the rug. Hell, the sex wasn't even that hot. Brian and Georgia although cute together, in my opinion, should have been a separate novella because their little romance took away from Roman and Lexi and made their story seem underdeveloped.



And do not even get me started on GRAY. WTF...how is this immature tw@t faced bitch a manager of a Stanley Cup winning hockey team? I haven't read her and Ryker's book and now I never plan to. I spent the entirety of this one wishing a truck would make her roadkill.

SIDE NOTE: I love that the author took an actual event that happened to Jaromír Jágr and turned it into romance book fodder.

DNF @ 41%

This will be my last book in this series. The recent books have been hit or miss and this one is such a miss I don't want to finish– I don't want this book to be my last full impression of the series, especially after loving Max's book.

My biggest complaint here is that every thing is told to us. We are told that Roman is a rebel- yet all we really see is him being late to practice, which if you're “balls to the wall” and give your all for job you aren't going to be consistently late to practice. Lexi is easy going, and this I do see coming through more, but mostly I feel like her ukelele playing is what was being used to really showcase this AND since she is supposed to be a bit quirky I thought she'd play something besides the TOP TWO songs everyone plays on the ukelele. Everyone and their dog plays Somewhere Over the Rainbow on the ukelele. We are also told she is eccentric though and I didn't see it at all.
See, these characters ended up feeling so bland. I didn't have a rebel, I didn't have a quirky eccentric– we had to people just going with the flow.

I also didn't like how Gray was being viewed as a bad person for being cautious about accepting a random sister out of nowhere. You know what was weird??? A 60 year old CEO immediately beliving and loving a random girl off the street. I feel like Gray was acting right at every turn, except for letting everyone get so close so fast. Why don't we just wait for the paternity test to come back before we do dinners and such...

These characters were boring me, we were constantly told again and again about Lexi's mother dying and how she learned Brian is her dad (seriously she told this told 5+ times), and the final straw was when I didn't think the characters were acting how we were told they would act.

As a whole this series has had some ups and downs for me – with more ups than downs, but with this book, Hawke (which almost had me stopping earlier), and the not so great reviews for Lucas and on, this will be the end of my run with Cold Fury. I loved Zack, Max, and Ryker, so I am revisit them later and would recommend them. I will even try other series by this author.