Heather K (dentist in my spare time)'s Reviews > Game Changer
Game Changer (Game Changers, #1)
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bookshelves: sports, sex-sex-and-more-sex, romance, read-to-review-arc, m-m, hockey-players-f-yes, contemporary
Aug 05, 2018
bookshelves: sports, sex-sex-and-more-sex, romance, read-to-review-arc, m-m, hockey-players-f-yes, contemporary
*2.5 stars*
I almost rounded up with this one because the ending was 1000% better than the first half, but I remembered how much I didn't enjoy the first 50% of the story and I couldn't do it.
Look, I think a ton of people are going to love this one. It's a cute story about a closeted hockey player (automatic bonus points because HOCKEY) and his smoothie-making love interest. There is a lot of sex (more on that later), and I know the story will find its fan base. However, this wasn't the kind of story I typically enjoy.
I have certain requirements when it comes to my romances, and it's really important for me to have a slow burn. If the book is exceptionally good, I can do a quickie and insta-love at first meeting, but that's like a once-a-year exception for me.
Game Changer had such a rapid turn from meeting to love that my head was spinning. I really don't like when we get hook-ups and lovey dovey stuff in the first portion of the story, and it was just too fast for me to feel like any of it was real.
Plus, those non-stop sex scenes. I actually skimmed all of them after the first two because constant sex without that sexual tension build-up does nearly nothing for me. It was excessive for my tastes, and I just wasn't into it at all.
The first part of the story felt superficial, repetitive, and formulaic to me. However, after the 50% mark things started to turn around.
I honestly was happy at the sappy last 25% of the story. I'm a romance reader, so gestures of romance make my heart happy. Though I still don't believe that someone with as much on the line as Scott would move so fast after just a few months of dating, the last portion of the story was much better for me and nearly bumped my rating to 3-stars.
I'm sure this book will do really well, and I'm happy for the author for getting her first book out there (no small thing!), but I don't think I'm the audience for this kind of story, hockey MC aside. Though I'd tune back in if the author went with an enemies-to-lovers or slow-burn theme for her next book in the series...
*Copy provided in exchange for an honest review*
I almost rounded up with this one because the ending was 1000% better than the first half, but I remembered how much I didn't enjoy the first 50% of the story and I couldn't do it.
Look, I think a ton of people are going to love this one. It's a cute story about a closeted hockey player (automatic bonus points because HOCKEY) and his smoothie-making love interest. There is a lot of sex (more on that later), and I know the story will find its fan base. However, this wasn't the kind of story I typically enjoy.
I have certain requirements when it comes to my romances, and it's really important for me to have a slow burn. If the book is exceptionally good, I can do a quickie and insta-love at first meeting, but that's like a once-a-year exception for me.
Game Changer had such a rapid turn from meeting to love that my head was spinning. I really don't like when we get hook-ups and lovey dovey stuff in the first portion of the story, and it was just too fast for me to feel like any of it was real.
Plus, those non-stop sex scenes. I actually skimmed all of them after the first two because constant sex without that sexual tension build-up does nearly nothing for me. It was excessive for my tastes, and I just wasn't into it at all.
The first part of the story felt superficial, repetitive, and formulaic to me. However, after the 50% mark things started to turn around.
I honestly was happy at the sappy last 25% of the story. I'm a romance reader, so gestures of romance make my heart happy. Though I still don't believe that someone with as much on the line as Scott would move so fast after just a few months of dating, the last portion of the story was much better for me and nearly bumped my rating to 3-stars.
I'm sure this book will do really well, and I'm happy for the author for getting her first book out there (no small thing!), but I don't think I'm the audience for this kind of story, hockey MC aside. Though I'd tune back in if the author went with an enemies-to-lovers or slow-burn theme for her next book in the series...
*Copy provided in exchange for an honest review*
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Reading Progress
August 1, 2018
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Started Reading
August 1, 2018
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August 1, 2018
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17.0%
August 2, 2018
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22.0%
August 5, 2018
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65.0%
August 5, 2018
– Shelved as:
sports
August 5, 2018
– Shelved as:
sex-sex-and-more-sex
August 5, 2018
– Shelved as:
romance
August 5, 2018
– Shelved as:
read-to-review-arc
August 5, 2018
– Shelved as:
m-m
August 5, 2018
– Shelved as:
hockey-players-f-yes
August 5, 2018
– Shelved as:
contemporary
August 5, 2018
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Finished Reading
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Great minds, baby! And it's really just me rambling! ;)
I think you are okay giving up... just saying...
Mind meld!! ;)
Mind meld!! ;)"
HAHAHAHAHA!
I already read and LOVED the second!
It's one of my favorites of the year so far!!
Do it! The second is SO MUCH BETTER!
I know! I had it!
I think that's the way to do it!
I'm due for a re-read of it! But I'm not expecting much improvement. Though I loved them in the show!
The show does the instalove better!!