![]() ![]() The story starts with two 18-year olds heading to the NHL as the 1st and 2nd draft picks of their year. It’s a romance, sure, but to me it felt like more of a character study. That will - understandably - be a dealbreaker for some readers.ģ. The POV character, David, is not likable. So the ending feels more like a convenient place to pause, rather than the wrap-up of a story arc.Ģ. It’s the first of a trilogy, from a story originally posted as a serial on AO3. So here’s some stuff I believe it would be useful to know about this book going in:ġ. Can’t keep sitting here with my mouth open like a landed fish. Maybe I’ll elaborate on why when the series is complete, but for now I stand by my original review, below. ![]() ![]() Let’s not call it an obsession, okay? “Intense attachment” is what I’m going with. I’d be very hard pressed to pick a favorite couple from the author’s huge interconnected YCMAL universe, but let’s face it, if you held a gun to my head - no, if you simply scowled menacingly in my general direction - I’d ’fess up to having an extremely intense attachment to David and Jake. 2022 reread: I wasn’t expecting to read this again before the publication of books 2 & 3, but they’ve been pushed back and I was hit with an irresistible urge. ![]()
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