Harlequin Body Check: A Spicy Hockey Rom-Com

This was a quick sports romance palette cleanser with it’s trademark Elle Kennedy spice and drama. If she writes it I’m going to read it. I think if you were a fan of Icebreaker then this might be the kind of book you’d enjoy.

I love me a hockey romance & we know Elle Kennedy is the queen of hockey romance.This book a fun, easy, spicy read, but it wasn’t anything super amazing. I did love the story line and their chemistry but I felt it needed more conflict.Everything came out and was resolved like 3 pages later.This book was *very* spicy, a little more than I prefer so keep that in mind.

The quality of the book was a little cheap feeling for what I paid.The story was good.

I didn’t like this book or the way it was written. I get that it’s her first book written, just republished but I just couldn’t finish it and ended up DNF’ing it from Chapter 10. I just didn’t like the author/narrator POV and it just seemed really slow as well.

Hayden Housten is determined to stop being a good girl - but only for one night. After growing up being dragged from rink to rink with her hockey-coach father, all Hayden is looking for is stability, security and a man with a future. And she plans to get it - after she has one night of passion with a deliciously sexy stranger.Hockey player Brody Croft is stunned when gorgeous Hayden approaches him for a no-strings night. He's finally decided to leave his playboy days behind him and settle down and is sure that Hayden is the girl for him. Now he just needs to convince her.This was a readable and easy-to-read romance that definitely had the sizzle you would expect from a Blaze. I really got into the story but about a third of the way through the secondary plot of the hockey match-fixing overtook the romance and it became more about the hockey team and the ongoing 'mystery' than Hayden and Brody.At first I really identified with Hayden. And what's not to like about a sexy, rugged hockey player like Brody? The sex was passionate and plentiful but by the end the conflict was so dragged out that I wanted to shake the couple and tell them to stop being so stupid!Overall, this isn't the best Blaze book I have ever read but it was very readable, fairly enjoyable and a good choice for an afternoon in the sunshine. 3 stars.