Pursuing her could change his family dynamic. Zac knows that he should stay away from Reagan.

When she sees him at a party, she knows that he wants her just as much. He has always just been part of her family - a brother to her brothers and a crush for her.

She is good at her job and knows how to do it, loyal to her family and friends and wants to find the all consuming type of love. I was given this book for an honest review by Wicked Reads. *Copy provided in exchange for an honest review* It wasn't my taste, but I'm sure she'll still find her readership. I love hockey romances for a reason!ĭebut books are hard, but I hope this author keeps writing. I liked the female MC's family and the strong bonds with her brothers, and I liked all of the sporty men, but I wished we had more technical sports content so it didn't just feel like a random profession. I know I'm focusing on the negatives, but I think the author did some things right. I also didn't like how we were just thrown into these two mid-dynamic, and we didn't get to really discover how these two evolved organically. I'm big into consent and checking in with people, and it just felt really random and almost old-school romance in a bad way. Right out the gate, the male MC spanks her and goes BDSM-y in a closet without any sort of discussion beforehand when they aren't even dating or in a relationship. I also struggled with some of the sex scenes. There was also lot of characters talking to themselves in their heads, which just is another way to tell instead of show me feelings. I wasn't able to feel what these characters were feeling because it was just all spelled out for me. I also really, really struggled with the constant telling instead of showing that the author did with the characters' emotions. I didn't like it here, and I found it to be disruptive and oddly inserted in random spots. I don't love when books have lots of flashbacks interspersed in the storyline as I find it to be distracting and I don't often find that it adds anything to the story. And, to be honest, this book pushed a number of my buttons and not in good ways. Look, I've read almost 2,000 romance books, so I'm picky and I have my pet peeves. the plot seemed really interesting from the summary, so I decided to take a chance on a new author (something I rarely do). I'm usually a total sucker for a hockey book, so I was excited to try this one. I really, really wanted to like Dirty Tactics, the debut book from Emma Salah, but I found it a struggle to get through.

Dirty Tactics by Emma Salah