Michael Graham and John Rikker were best friends growing up, spending all their time together, playing hockey either on the ice or on a gaming console in Graham’s den. Until the summer when it was quite clear that their friendship was turning into something else and they couldn’t keep their hands off each other anymore. Taking every chance they got to be together in secret, their developing relationship came to a violent end when they were caught by a gang of homophobic bullies. Graham managed […]
A college romance with truly monumental amounts of angst
Having spent the previous year pretty much focused on hockey and dating as many different women as possible, Bridger Macaulley’s life drastically changes when he realises that his dead-beat mother isn’t just doing drugs anymore, but that she’s now part of a gang that actually cooks meths at home. He takes his seven-year-old little sister Lucy out of there and hides her in his dorm room, while spending every available moment while she’s at school taking a double course load so he can graduate faster […]
I finally read it too
4.5 stars Corey Callahan was expecting to go to prestigious Harkness College as a varsity hockey player, but instead arrives there in a wheelchair, after ending up partly paralysed from the wait down after an accident on the ice. Her cheerful new roommate doesn’t seem to mind that they have to stay in a handicap-accessible room away from all the other Harkness freshmen. If having to re-assess all her hopes and dreams about college wasn’t difficult enough, Corey also falls head over heels for the […]
Hot Hockey Hickies?
Really 3.75 stars. (That’s right! I’m really splitting hairs now!) I can thank Sarina Bowen for the “yes, more hockey romances please!” kick I have been on. (FYI: this is not as good as Bowen’s books, but it will have to do for now). I know nothing about this sport, and yet I am totally willing to pick up a book by a new author if it involves hockey. I don’t know why, but it’s working for me right now. What really drew me to […]
How I didn’t quite learn to stop worrying and love collegiate sexual politics
Let me start off by saying that, with The Ivy Years series, Sarina Bowen became #1 with a bullet on my list of favorite contemporary authors. Her blend of humor, sensitivity, romantic instinct, steam, and generally good writing really came together in a fantastic series. The Fifteenth Minute is no exception in technical merit. But, to me, it had issues that weren’t so in its predecessors. A lot of them have to do with the underlying premise, which I’ll get to more in a minute. […]
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