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Offside Pass (2011)

by Stephani Hecht(Favorite Author)

3.56 of 5 Votes: 1

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

eXtasy Books

series

Blue Line Hockey

review 1: Like everyone else, I think the book should have been longer--I could go for double the size. The plot was great, the brothers were a mess but in a good way--a hot-headed, uber talented mess. Their secret was protected a little thin, to say the least. I mean, if I had been involved in a murder, I would put that secret in a vault with a bomb taped to it, and post two dobermans outside to patrol that vault. You mean anytime Trey gets tipsy, he starts spilling the secret? Saul wasn't even trying particularly hard and he uncovered their secret. So did his hard-nosed reporter friend. So why couldn't anyone else for all the years the brothers had been in the league? Hecht tried to address this briefly--that the interest in their lives had died down, so everyone forgot abo... moreut them, but I don't buy it. Do you see the public forgetting about 3 professional hockey playing brothers (2 of whom were openly gay) destroying their careers and fighting on the ice? This is America! We follow the train wrecks more so than the successes. :-DA few things that bothered me:1. When Devon and Saul finally acknowledged their "like" for one another, it was quickly followed up (within a few pages) with love. It happened so quickly I was dumbfounded. Devon portrayed Saul as spoiled with a charmed life, and never described what else he liked about him other than physical attraction. 2. His hard-nosed reporter friend would have had that story sent to print from her iPhone if she had to. She would not have agreed to sit on the story. Besides the fact that as long as Brock is out there, the story is only a scant $100 bucks away.3. Saul would never have gotten the job at a newspaper (any newspaper) as a sports writer if he knew NOTHING about the game. Nor am I convinced he could write a good enough article that a player (for whom hockey is his life) would compliment it.4. This is a small gripe, but it also bothered me that the brothers' last name was Canton, which is a city in Michigan where the story takes place. It was like reading a book about the Long Island family from New York, you know?All gripes aside, this could have been a great story. But it would need at least another 100 pages to do so.
review 2: This book was a nice introduction to the series. The series features hockey players (I know nothing about hockey but that doesn't matter). This book introduces the Canton brothers, the bad boys of hockey, who are relegated to playing low grade due to their bad behaviour.The romance in this story is between Devon and Saul. Saul is a local sports reporter who starts to investigate the background of the brothers and the mystery surrounding their upbringing and what ultimately lead to their downfall from the NHL. Devon, tries to avoid Saul for fear of family secrets being revealed.Not too heavy with nice characters. 3.5 stars less

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