Hockey and hot sex - could you really ask for more?

I love Sloan - I think Oriana is a bit annoying - woe is me until further toward the end where she gets more into herself - guess that's growth as a character which I like anyway.

I love Vanek too - he's my bae - I can't believe I haven't read his book yet and that makes me sad, just a taste of it at the end, wahhh!!!

Max and Dominick are just background noise to me in this book - neither stood out and neither were special to me in any way.

I love hockey books and the story and the end were pretty sweet too. Random thoughts - I adore this series though perhaps I'll go to Vaneks book next!

One sentence review
Barely there plot with lots of sex in between mini-plots.

Oriana is a princess with a problem. She is heavily influenced by her father but after finding out that he knew her boyfriend was cheating on her she decides enough is enough. She finds help and the solution is to sleep with the men in the team.

My problem is that there are 5 men she starts to get to know. So it was hard to form an attachment to any of them because we barely get to know any of them because she doesn't because she is having sex every ten pages instead spending time to know them.

Did I mention that it was hard to follow a character because one minute they are using the first name and the next his nick name and the next his last name. Pick one and stick with it.

Also the whole rigged games...i don't get where any of that came from.because iit was barely mentioned in the beginning so seeing it in the last quarter of the book as a plot left me feeling like

This book was rather difficult to follow due to the large number of characters and different places.

New series that I started. The characters are hard to keep track of because they are referred to by their first names in some places and their last names in other places.

This took a bit of time for me to get into, partially because the author chose to refer to characters with three different names in most cases (first, last, and a name during sub/Dom play.). It was a bit confusing to follow as the large cast was introduced. I found the website for the Dartmouth cobras exponentially helpful to keep track of the multiple players starring in the plot.

There are a few hops in the plot line too which left me wanting to hear more about what happened during the time between chapters that was left unwritten and it wrapped up VERY quickly.

Overall, the writing was a little lacking but I liked the story and just purchased book #2. I originally downloaded the sample of book 2 and chose to give up and start at book one because book two alluded too much of the previous book's back story to follow. Some series work when read out of order but this isn't one of them!

DNF.....No clue what was going on, who was who. Luckily this was a free ebook.

3 stars

Although the steamy scenes are quite hot, the writing just was not for me. I didn’t not connect to any of the characters or feel any relationship building. Everything just kind of..was? I won’t be continuing the series.

For those of you who like hockey smut, seriously, you have to keep an open mind and really enjoy sex scenes. I was confused about all the names as the author uses either the last name or the first name interchangeably.

Well. I don't know what to say really. So let me make this as simple as I can.

Here's what I liked:

--it's about hockey and the hockey scenes are well done. I love hockey and have since I was able to understand that it's the best sport ever. Go NY Rangers! :)
--the characters, or at least, the heroes. They were hot, protective and just awesome. And they're hockey players so yeah, instant love for me!
--The bad guy, Paul...was a jerk and he was well written and developed. I'm glad he was caught in the end but was sad to see who was involved with that whole mess. Speaking of jerks, Oriana's dad was one. Why did he have to be so mean to her and not have her back? This made me sad. :(
--the sexy scenes: these were great, well written and seriously freaking hot. But see below cause all was not good with this...
--the writing was top notch, the story line well laid out and no strings were left hanging. Also, the editing was excellent. I look forward to reading more from this author and even delving into the second in this series since the hero of book 2, Dean Richter, has me intrigued.

What I didn't like:

--the sex. I know, I put that above too. But there were some aspects I liked and some I didn't. What I didn't like was how it was all they did. I mean seriously, Oriana should have been unable to walk after all they did to her, not begging for more. how could anyone edure that much pleasure and be able to move?
--the heroine bothered me at times. She didn't seem to be really submissive and I say this because she constantly acted out in order to be punished and her doms gave in to her almost every time.
--Why did Oriana have to keep trying to call her dad like a million times and then get all whiny and weepy about it? This bugged me. A lot.

Last, I liked the ending, but yet, I have my reservations. To be married, collared and branded, each of those with a different man and none of them have an issue with jealousy? In a pretend world, this is a great HEA and hence me liking it a lot. But in the real world where I live, I don't see it as realistic. So the ending is great, but for me it's only in a "this would only happen in a fantasy world" kind of way.

*This book was a self purchase and all opinions are my own.*