This is a spoiler-free review! Secret Puck is currently available for free on iBooks and Kindle.
Ginny is a freshman at college where her brother is a senior and captain of the hockey team, and Heath, only one year older than Ginny and told explicitly to keep his hands off, just could not resist. From the title of the book alone, you can pretty much guess that Ginny and Heath are keeping their relationship a secret, especially from Ginny's brother, Adam.
With Ginny fresh out of a relationship weeks prior to starting college, it is only a matter of time before she found someone new to help her get out of the funk that her ex-boyfriend put her in. A decent amount of the book is Ginny just constantly being introduced to new people because her roommate has her long distance boyfriend visiting on the weekends, so she needs to get out of her dorm. As she meets new people and as her friendship with Heath grows, we get the chance to see him jealous almost every single time a guy talks to Ginny or asks her brother if they can ask her out on a date.
It was actually very refreshing to see the secret relationship trope where it did not involve the guy asking the girl to keep it a secret because he was embarrassed to have a girlfriend or because he wanted to keep seeing other girls. With Heath's past of having a revolving door of women, it was great to see him only focus on Ginny throughout the book. I do wish we were able to abandon the third-act betrayal/miscommunication trope, because I was finally hoping that Ginny and Heath would not fall victim to it.
I love a good hockey romance, and even though I may not understand the plays when they are included in the book, I wish there were more scenes of Heath, Adam, and the rest of the team actually playing hockey or at a game. There was a point where I actually forgot why Heath and Ginny were keeping their relationship low-key until I remembered that Adam was Heath's captain. The more spicy scenes definitely could have been longer, because it felt as though once they started, they were already over or they were getting interrupted.
The chemistry was great between Ginny and Heath, and I kind of wish the book was a little bit longer so that we could see them more after that little bit of miscommunication and see more of their relationship when it was out in the open. I loved how protective Heath was of Ginny, especially when she opens up to him about her insecurities and her fear of the dark. The same thing applies when Heath becomes more open with Ginny about his life and the struggles that he has been dealing with, especially with his mother.
This was a super easy to read romance in a series of interconnected stand alone books. I would definitely recommend it to fans of The Deal by Elle Kennedy, especially if you're looking for a book with a decent amount of spice that is not unrealistic.
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