RJ Scott and V.L. Locey have been entertaining me with their hockey romance books for several years now and they never feel repetitive; the stories are always fresh. I think writing a YA story is a bit of a departure for them but I’ll read books with any heat level. I’ve read several YA books that I’ve loved and now I can add this one to that list.

While this story is primarily about Soren and Felix, fans of the Harrisburg Railers series will be happy to get more exposure to Jared and Ten, the couple who adopted Soren and his younger brother Milo. You definitely don’t need to have read the Railers books to enjoy this one though because it stands alone just fine.

Soren and Felix start out as adversaries – Felix is pretty much a bully in the beginning – but Soren soon sees through him and they become friends. Felix’s home life isn’t great even though he lets everyone think it is. He comes off as an entitled rich kid but his parents are divorcing and that is causing a big change in his life.

I loved reading about all of the fluttery feelings that young love invokes. Even though I am way, way past the age of Soren and Felix I can still remember those feelings so reading about Soren and Felix brought back fond memories.

This story definitely doesn’t have a cliffhanger but there were a couple of things not fully resolved and I hope there will be another book coming soon. Tyler, an openly gay teen, is someone that I want to read more about.

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Just as I was thinking of Felix’s face meeting a fist, he shot to his feet, gave Tyler a shove, and jumped on the smaller guy when Tyler fell off the bench to the floor. I reacted instantly, and was into the fray in a second, rolling Felix off Tyler with a body check that would have cleared any of the Railers off their skates. Not really, but it sounded boss. Tyler was smaller than most, a speed demon on ice, but we protected him—I protected him.

“Get the fuck off me!” Felix snarled, swinging at me as we grappled for control. He was strong, about my height and weight, but I had the advantage. Or I thought I did. He swung back in a flash, clocking me in the mouth. My front teeth dug into my lower lip, and I tasted blood, which kind of pissed me off. We wrestled around amid shouts from our teammates until I managed to get him under control. Mostly.

He was splayed out on the floor, his face pressed into a pair of wet sneakers lying in front of a locker. I put my knee into his back while the other guys scrambled to get Tyler on his feet.

“What the hell, Sinclair?” I barked down at Felix. We never used our full last names, not since he’d decided that having gay days meant I didn’t deserve to inherit both last names. Whatever. He hated that I responded in kind and that was just one more point against the freaking idiot.

“Get off my back, Rowe!” he snarled, adding something else to the comment, which was hard to make out since his face was jammed into a skanky, soggy grey and black Nike belonging to one of the guys who had run here across the sodden field hockey field. Caleb had kicked them off to wring out his socks but had yet to dress his smelly feet yet. Caleb liked to hear us complain about his foot stink for some reason. Dude was weird.

It sounded like Felix might have used a queer slur, but I couldn’t be sure it was the F-word although I’d heard him use it before. He’d should think twice about using that in front of me. My new family was all kinds of queer, as was I and a few other players. Coach also did not put up with any racist, sexist, or queer slurs. I’d already hit him once, way back, when he started shit about my dads, but that had ended up with me in an office with my new dads and wondering if they were going to send me back in the system.

Of course they hadn’t—they loved me and Milo and wanted us as their sons, along side their daughter. We were family and it was all official and everything. Still the thought that I’d disappoint my dads meant I genuinely tried not to rise to Felix and hit him again.

But he’d jumped Tyler, and that wasn’t right.

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