I liked this better than the first in the series but I can see the similarities. Found family, very sweet MMCs who are unfailingly loyal, disabled characters & some level of dealing with grief. The hockey part of this hockey romance was just a backdrop, with the FMC’s autism taking a much larger stage. 

However, the references to Harry Potter were totally unnecessary especially with the characters themselves talking about how she is transphobic. How do you include that and then have 30% of a character’s personality be HP? Also, that angle got completely dropped in the last 50% of the book or so. Just unnecessary.