"The heart, the raw authenticity, the original lens, this has become my favorite series of the year and I'm begging for more!" ~ Catherine Cowles, USA Today bestselling author
Bitter Sweet Heart, a steamy, reverse age gap, hockey romance from New York Times bestselling author Helena Hunting writing as H. Hunting, is now available!
From the outside looking in, I live a charmed life: hockey legend for a father, my own promising future in the league, a great family, awesome friends. It’s not untrue, but it’s not quite that simple either.
My dad’s advice has always been to make hockey my number-one priority—at least until I make it to the pros. So, going into my senior year of college, I have a plan. I’ll put in the effort required to pass my classes, play hockey like my life depends on it, and avoid relationships.
All I have to do is stay focused on the end game, and I’ll walk away with a degree and into a career in the NHL.It should be easy.
But when a woman literally floats into my dock, just before summer ends and my senior year begins, I can’t resist one last hookup. What harm could a one-night stand do? It’s not like we even exchanged numbers.
Everything is fine until I run into her on campus.
It’s a big school. I should be able to avoid her.
Except she happens to be in my class.
And she’s not a student.
She’s my professor.
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Review:
3.5 stars
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This was an enjoyable read. Bitter Sweet Heart is book two in the Lies, Hearts and Truths series and is Maverick Waters's book. Maverick is the brother of Lavender, from book one, and the son of Alex and Violet from Pucked. He is a senior in college and plays on the hockey team with plans to play in the NHL after he graduates. But on the inside, he is going through some emotional turmoil. He is dealing with his sister and his best friend finally becoming a couple, which finds him growing further away from them, and his own trauma surrounding their childhood and his sister's kidnapping. He is unsure about what he really wants to do with his career and to make matters more complicated, he finds that his new professor turns out to be his summer hookup. Clover is a visiting professor, teaching creative writing for a year, on hiatus from her job as a librarian to fill in for a professor on leave. She is also going through an emotional time, separated (and still being harrassed) from an abusive ex who refuses to grant her the divorce she has wanted for years. Clover and Maverick are both shook by their new circumstances but they can't stop their attraction to each other. They both have so much on the line but are they willing to risk it all for the chance to be together?
This was a pretty good story, although a little slow at times. I liked Maverick and Clover as characters. I think their age difference was a lot for me to overcome mentally. Mav was 21 and Clover was 30. It could just be a "me" thing, but I had a hard time feeling their connection and chemistry. I never felt them letting down their guard and having fun together. But I liked them overall and found the book entertaining still. I was glad they didn't have any big blow ups or misunderstandings late in the book as well.
Overall, Bitter Sweet Heart was an angsty, enjoyable read. I didn't quite like it as much as book one in the series. But I am liking this series in general and look forward to more from it and H. Hunting in the future!
About H. Hunting
NYT and USA Today bestselling author, Helena Hunting, writing as H. Hunting, lives on the outskirts of Toronto with her incredibly tolerant family and two moderately intolerant cats. She started her writing career with new adult angsty romance and branched out in sports romance and romantic comedies that will make you laugh and swoon. But sometimes she likes to serve up a little heartache on the way to the happily ever after.
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