Spontaneous reads are my specialty. Just like friends-to-lovers and hockey romances are some of my weaknesses. Hence, Loren Leigh's "Let's Do This," part of her brand-new IFU Hockey series
["Shaw
Ever since we met two years ago, Eden Burkehammer has made everything better.
The big defenseman sets me at ease. He’s a beast on the ice—brutal and physical—but when it’s the two of us, he turns to me with these unexpectedly soft brown eyes. This gravelly laugh that makes my whole body smile. And yeah, I might have thrown a glance his way a time or two in the steamed-up locker room showers—you know, just curious.
But he’s my best friend. My teammate. Roommate.
I don’t want to mess with that. Just the thought of losing him sends a cold zap the full length of my spine. Besides, I’ve never gone there with a guy, and he’s never given a single hint he has either.
Until one morning when I sign for his delivery. An envelope that contains something I never—in my life—would have guessed.
And, suddenly, I’m thinking about him in a whole new way.
I can’t look at Shaw Keenan for too long. When he leans across my truck console, with that whip-quick smile, I get this catch in my throat and focus on the road. Or when he tips his goalie mask up onto his head, hair askew and a flush of adrenaline on his cheeks, I skate back toward the blue line.
I don’t know why. My head’s confused about a lot of stuff. Always has been. But what I do know is that I’ve never thought about anyone the way I think about him.
Especially when he steps through my doorway—in nothing but a pair of thin running shorts and that backwards pink ballcap he always wears—holding a package I ordered on a whim.
And he’s looking at me in a way he never has before.
It’s game over after that."]
I somehow missed that this book was low-angst, because around every corner, I excepted some series angst, but there was barely any. Which I'm grateful for. Then again, my anxiety made the angst that was there a little higher than necessary (thank you, brain).
These two were so cute and so fun and so...connected. Like, they were already so close, but fooling around just broke down all of the other walls (in a tide wave of fluff and spice), and they were inseparable. I mean, everyone assumed they were already dating (spoiler alert--also, sub-trope to the best-friends-to-lovers trope that I also have a weakness for).
It wasn't all rainbows and pride flags, but the hardships they did face, the homophobia and bullshit, made them stronger, made the team stronger. I can't wait to read the other books in this series (whenever they debut--hopefully soon?). I cried happy tears. It was perfect.
And apparently, this is a spin-off series so...here's to going back and reading the Indigo Falls College series next.
Trigger Warnings: homophobia, emotional abuse/manipulation, and more
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