Home Game by Odette Stone Published by Independently Published on January 25, 2019
Genres: Contemporary, Friends to Lovers, Romance, Sports Romance
Pages: 360
Format: eBook, Kindle Unlimited
Source: Kindle Unlimited
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He's a professional hockey player trying to survive on his new team. I'm just trying to survive. I'm down to my last dollar.I live day-to-day in a world that doesn't care.Despite my bad luck, I'm a fighter.I never give up. I never stop trying.Ryan Parker's wealth and generosity, sets him apart from anyone I know.Yet, I don't trust him.It's nothing personal. I trust no one.But when my bad luck takes a turn for the worse, one person shows up.Ryan Parker. I do not understand why he bothered because the guy has enough of his own issues to deal with.But I don't have a choice.I need him. It's a matter of survival.His friendship changed everything.It changed me.I started to believe in myself.I allowed myself to trust. And for the first time, in a long time, I felt my heart beat again.In the game of love, winning is harder than it looks.I don't know the rules.I don't know how to win.But I'll play my heart out until the whistle blows.Home Game: Who's got your back when the puck drops?This is a standalone book, and this series can be read in any order.Read all the Guilty Series Navy SEAL romances:1. My Fiancé's Brother: Book 12. My Fiancé's Brother: Book 23. My Fake Fiancé Book 3, standalone4. My Donut Princess: free novellaRead all the Vancouver Wolves Hockey romances:1. Puck Me Secretly2. Home Game3. The Penalty Box4. High Risk Rookie
Home Game as a good story but just a bit bland. ~ Sharon – Simply Love Books
I’m not going to lie, I had to look several times to see if the same author had really written this one after reading the first book in this series because this book was so normal for the most part. That’s not a bad thing, it was just very different from the first book and I was expecting more over the top craziness. That said these characters didn’t grab me quite like before, but I think that had more to do with their situation than anything else.
Ryan is a new player for the Vancouver Wolves hockey team and because of an accident on the ice last season playing this team in which a player was severely injured his new teammates are freezing him out. He’s tried to be a part of the team but they aren’t having it, so he’s devoted himself to training and doing the best job he can on the ice but even the team owner and general manager has told him he needs to figure out a way to be a bigger part of the team. While trying to enter his receipts for his CPA at a coffee shop he can’t figure out what he’s doing wrong to make the program disappear which a young woman steps in and show him. He offers to drop her off where she’s going when she freaks out that she’s missed her bus and he takes her and figures out that it’s a homeless shelter and because they were late she’ll be on the streets that night so he offers his couch. There’s a vibe between them because he truly isn’t interested in her and she’s worried he’ll expect something from her and her hackles are up, the next morning as she leaves he hands her his card with his phone number on it in case she ever needs anything.
Waking up in a hospital and realizing she was attacked and her shoulder and arm are wrecked Zoey has no idea what she’s going to do since she can’t work and her bag isn’t with her which meant it was left at the restaurant where she was attacked. What she doesn’t expect is for Ryan to show up and then offer to let her stay with him until she’s on her feet again with no other choice she agrees but only after he agrees to let her pay him back for anything he buys for her.
This was an interesting set up and it took a long time for Zoey to let her walls down and accept help and realize Ryan didn’t want anything from her. Ryan had no idea why it was important for him to help Zoey just that is way and as they became friends they learned more about one another and attraction began to form. This was a VERY slow burn story, like almost to the end slow burn but honestly for this couple and their situation it worked. While I did think things worked out a bit too easily for Zoey and their big miscommunication (one of my least favorite things in romance) could have been avoided I applaud the author for having Zoey learn that she was capable of standing on her own two feet.
I enjoyed this story but I didn’t feel the heat and attraction between Ryan and Zoey like I did in the first book and because it was such a slow burn at times it became a bit monotonous.
Overall, Home Game as a good story but just a bit bland.
About Odette Stone
Odette has ranked in the top #50 of all Amazon Authors, with a Top #20 bestseller. This KDP All-star author loves to write contemporary, new adult and sports romance books.
She resides in beautiful Vancouver, Canada and she lives for coffee, walks on the beach (no, really), a good book and TV dramas. She is a proud dog mom to a beautiful fur baby puppy named, Mica. She has been described as introverted, funny, and an excellent listener. She’s so good at keeping secrets, her friends call her “the vault.” She hates being the centre of attention but she’ll push you to take the stage.
Odette writes real, honest and intense romance novels. If you like hot, intelligent Alpha males, you’ve come to the right place! Her writing goal is to keep her readers up late at night, because they keep saying, “Just one more chapter, I’m just going to read one more chapter.