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If You Love Me
by Helena Hunting
I've been excited for this one ever since it was set up at the end of the last one, and then the author did an amazing job promoting it in the weeks before its release by giving us a prequel story about how the MCs in this one met originally, three years ago. She released if bit by bit for newsletter subscribers and then finally as a whole at the end and I appreciated going into this book knowing their background (you'll be fine if you don't read it first, though).
This was a really lovely story. It had a bit of a different vibe to some of the previous ones in the series because the characters are both further along in some areas of life. Lexi is the new assistant coach to the Toronto Terror, where Roman is in his final year as goalie before retirement. He's shocked when she comes on as a coach, since she's the one that got away after a weekend together in New York 3 years earlier, and now they can't be together because of anti-fraternization rules. They try their best to stay away but if course fail and keep ending up together secretly. But she's the first female coach in the league and they don't want to ruin her career, plus she's one year into being legal guardian for her two younger half sisters after their mother died. She's got a lot to handle, and she's great at doing it brilliantly, but there are just times where she wants and needs help and Roman is always there for her.
I thought the forbidden workplace romance aspect was recently done. It's not always my favorite trope because power imbalances can be an issue, and it might be controversial to say, but it feels different when the woman is in the place of power and has all the other societal pressures as it is, plus she isn't his boss and (for the most part) he really cares about her future and success, so it didn't bug me.
Lexi's relationship with her sisters was both wonderful and heartbreaking, but one of her sisters is a character that was briefly introduced in Chase Lovett Wants me, and I'm sure we'll see more of her in that series as it goes on and she attends university. Lexi herself is an excellent mix of "eff off, I've got this myself" and "but also can you hold me for a lil cuddle?" Roman's situation was flipped now as he's the one hiding things from his daughter and friends and dating a woman ten years younger than him, like they did to him in book 2. He's the same mix of grumpy, smooth, and thoughtful Team Dad that we got to know in previous books. I'm definitely looking forward to the two other books being released this year about people from this universe (one standalone and the next in this series) because they feature two couples I've been guessing would end up together for a bit now. Overall, this was another enjoyable installment in this series, with the sometimes off the wall humor I expect from this author, mixed with the great found family vibes.
This was a really lovely story. It had a bit of a different vibe to some of the previous ones in the series because the characters are both further along in some areas of life. Lexi is the new assistant coach to the Toronto Terror, where Roman is in his final year as goalie before retirement. He's shocked when she comes on as a coach, since she's the one that got away after a weekend together in New York 3 years earlier, and now they can't be together because of anti-fraternization rules. They try their best to stay away but if course fail and keep ending up together secretly. But she's the first female coach in the league and they don't want to ruin her career, plus she's one year into being legal guardian for her two younger half sisters after their mother died. She's got a lot to handle, and she's great at doing it brilliantly, but there are just times where she wants and needs help and Roman is always there for her.
I thought the forbidden workplace romance aspect was recently done. It's not always my favorite trope because power imbalances can be an issue, and it might be controversial to say, but it feels different when the woman is in the place of power and has all the other societal pressures as it is, plus she isn't his boss and (for the most part) he really cares about her future and success, so it didn't bug me.
Lexi's relationship with her sisters was both wonderful and heartbreaking, but one of her sisters is a character that was briefly introduced in Chase Lovett Wants me, and I'm sure we'll see more of her in that series as it goes on and she attends university. Lexi herself is an excellent mix of "eff off, I've got this myself" and "but also can you hold me for a lil cuddle?" Roman's situation was flipped now as he's the one hiding things from his daughter and friends and dating a woman ten years younger than him, like they did to him in book 2. He's the same mix of grumpy, smooth, and thoughtful Team Dad that we got to know in previous books. I'm definitely looking forward to the two other books being released this year about people from this universe (one standalone and the next in this series) because they feature two couples I've been guessing would end up together for a bit now. Overall, this was another enjoyable installment in this series, with the sometimes off the wall humor I expect from this author, mixed with the great found family vibes.