Book safety, content warnings, and tropes down below.

Look away if you like this book.

Yeah I disliked pretty much everything about this. The hockey details were questionable at best, Maddox was an asshole masquerading as a grump, the ending was weak and no proper epilogue or HEA in sight, a college athlete who wants to go pro who smokes cigarettes on the reg, and the audio... For some unknown reason, the most upbeat, hyper, happy-go-lucky sounding narrator in the genre — Alexander Cendese — voiced the ‘grumpy’ character, and it ruined it.

I hurried outside and found Maddox reaching into his bag again. Pulling out another cigarette. “Not the night before a game,” I said to him. “You already had one. Your lung capacity will be fucked.” “Says who?” “Me.” “And you’re a doctor?”

I nearly dislocated my eyeballs after this scene from rolling my eyes so hard. Didn’t know you had to be a doctor to know smoking cigarettes is bad for your lungs.

⬇️ Blanket spoiler warning ⬇️

⚠️ Tropes & content tags ⚠️
College
Hockey
Sports romance
Grumpy/sunshine
Hockey goalie
Size difference
Tattooed and pierced
Double virgins
Neurodivergent rep
MC with ADHD
Freckles
Sexual awakening x2
Library blowie
Secret fuckbuddies
First times

⚠️ Content warning ⚠️
MC smoking cigarettes
Mentions of eating edibles
Mention of past bullying/ableism
Vomiting
Death of parent (past)
Alcohol consumption
On-page intoxication
Explicit sexual content
Panic attacks
Past physical abuse by parent (details)

⚠️Book safety ⚠️
Cheating: No
Other person drama: No
Breakup: Yes
POV: 1st person, dual
Genre: Contemporary romance
Pairing: M/M
Strict roles or versatile: Don’t remember
Main characters’ age: 20 and 20
Series: Interconnected standalone
Kindle Unlimited: Yes
Pages: 285
Happy ending: Yes