Sam is an ambitious career woman who is aiming to go even further up the chain - she is determined that the coveted corner office is going to be hers. She also suddenly has a ticking biological clock. She has gone from being a woman who had no interest in having children to being obsessed with the idea of meeting Mr Right and having babies...now.
The one person who she turns to to help her find the right guy is Nick. Nick is an injured NHL star who has been asked by his family to run his grandmother's beloved romance bookstore until he gets back to his hockey career. Sam is a big romance reader and she has long loved visiting Birdie's bookstore, so when Birdie passes away she is relieved that the store will still be operating, although she is concerned that Nick will make wholesale changes.
When Sam quits her job after her boss promotes his smarmy nephew, she finds herself working at the bookshop, alongside Nick. Sam is a bit curvy and Nick is a handsome professional athlete so she thinks that there's no way that he could possibly be interested in her. He also does not want kids, so he doesn't meet her brief. She therefore asks him to help set her up with blind dates to help find the man who does.
We follow Sam as she goes on date after date, with Nick watching on wondering why she doesn't see how attractive she is. And when Sam and Nick do give into their attraction, the chemistry leaps off the page.
I loved that Nick and Sam were able to share their reading with each other. Whilst Sam is a diehard romance reader with a penchant for pirate romance, Nick loves Westerns and they challenge each other to read each other's preferred authors.
My favourite of the secondary characters was definitely Sam's straight talking sister who often called Sam out on her shortsightedness when it comes to her life, and definitely when it comes to Nick.
Whilst I thought that this book was a lot of fun and I liked it a lot, there was one aspect that was overdone for me and that was Sam's eggs, as in her reproductive system. They were described as being mutinous, as cheeping, noisy, talking and recalcitrant, and that is just in the first chapter. Whilst it was fun at first, by the end of the book it was too much.
These spicier, sports romance are a little out of my current reading zones, but I will be happy to read more of these from Amy Andrews, not least of all because she is an Aussie author. This book was previously released under the title Risky Business. I will be interested to see if her next release is another re-release or if it will be something new.
.I am sharing this review with the New Release Challenge hosted by The Chocolate Lady's Book Reviews and the Bookish Books Reading Challenge hosted at Bloggin' Bout Books. Be sure to check out other stops on the tour shown below. Thanks to the publisher, Netgalley and Rachel's Random Resources for the review copy.
Rating 3.5/5
Breaking The Ice
A bookshop face off!
NHL hot shot, Nick Hawkeye Hawke has 4
months to recuperate from a potentially career ending injury. All he has to do
is take it easy and keep things low key. So, looking after his grandmother's
beloved second hand romance bookshop and working very closely with the
ruthlessly efficient Samantha Evans is just what he needs right? Wrong!
Career driven Sam has impulsively decided
to swap her highly stressful corporate job for a slower pace in her favourite
bookshop at the exact time her biological clock has started to tick. And she
wants absolutely none of that. But when your boss is a hot hockey superstar and
you can’t stop daydreaming of him being your baby daddy, forced proximity takes
on a whole new meaning.
With temptation around every book shelf,
Nick and Sam find themselves skating on thin ice until they put themselves
firmly in the friend zone. But the more they try to resist their slow burn, the
more they want each other. How long can they stay in the zone until one of them
breaks the ice?
Previously publishd as Risky Business
Purchase Link - https://mybook.to/breakingtheicebook
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author who has written eighty-nine contemporary romances in both the
traditional and digital markets. Her books bring all the feels from sass, quirk
and laughter to emotional grit and sizzling heat.
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