Ice Cold Player

Beyond the Ice, Book 1

De: Nikki Hall

Narrado por: Samantha Cook, Bryant Walker

A deal with the devil...

Gavin

Anyone but her. Eva Adams—the entitled, picture-perfect cheer princess. Incapable of empathy, patently manipulative, and absolutely beautiful. I can't afford her drama—I just want to play my last year of hockey without being kicked out of TU, but there she is on my first day back. Crying. In a weak moment, I make her an offer. An agreement I never thought she'd take. Except she surprises me, and now I'm faced with a dilemma. Protect my secrets… or win the girl.

Eva

Anyone but him. Gavin King—the rebellious, coffee-slinging hockey god. Arrogant, irreverent, and way hotter than he has any right to be. Despite the lady tingles, I'd be happy to spend my last year at TU without seeing his face—or his tattoos—again. It should be easy. I have cheer, I have my friends, and I have nowhere to live. To my eternal frustration, he offers me a solution… for a price. When I take the deal, I can't help wondering what else I'll give him before the end.

Ice Cold Player is the first book in the Beyond the Ice series of interconnected standalones featuring the hockey players of Teagan University. It's an enemies-to-lovers, he-falls-first, forced-proximity, college hockey romance with plenty of heat.

©2024 Nikki Hall (P)2024 Podium Audio

Beautiful, Spicy, and Henry 🦆 college hockey romance

I've read quite a few of Nikki's books, I started w/her football series, which is where we first meet our FMC, Eva. Nikki putting Eva in her hockey romance series, my ABSOLUTE FAVORITE sub genre of sports romances, is the icing on the cake!! Eva has been in several stories so far, and she is always in control of herself, but she cares about her friends and is kind to everyone. I love that in this book, we get to see a completely different side of her. Eva’s parents are the worse, and we learn she wants to keep the peace, get through college, and then be done with it all. Sadly, her opinions are treated like they don’t matter, and reading the things her dad puts her through, expects of her, like she’s a puppet, makes you feel really bad for her. BUT, we get Gavin as our MMC 🥵😍 he thinks he knows who Eva is, but he quickly realizes he is very wrong! I loved Eva and Gavin’s back and forth banter, getting to know the other 3 roommates, which each will have their own book. I believe Cole is up next, and he’s going to be a fun one to read 🤭 it’s not long before they both are starting to let the other in more, being a little more vulnerable and caring about each other. Both our FMC and MMC tried to fight it, but in the end, they were meant to be together. One of my favorite quotes from Eva is, “He felt like coming home, like I belonged here with him”. 💗 I have to mention the chemistry between these two 🥵🔥 the tension and chemistry was there from the very beginning, Gavin’s inner dialogue was 🔥🔥 the spice was spicing 🌶️🌶️🌶️ I love some good spice, I could have used a little bit more thrown in there, but the spice we did get 💋🥵🔥 lastly, you can’t forget about Henry, Eva’s duck. 🦆 we have Henry to thank for Eva needing a new place to stay and thanks to Henry, Eva became a roommate w/ 4 hockey players and falling in love w/ one of them. Nothings cuter than reading about 4 hockey players who dote on a 🦆. They help babysit, argue over who Henry sleeps with, and each has a special thing they do w/ Henry, and Henry has a special quack for each guy ❤️ if you haven’t read Ice Cold Player, you’re missing out on the beginning of a FANTASTIC hockey series, by, Nikki Hall

Not bad. Story line was ok.

Plot needed reworking. MC holds a grudge for a long time over nothing, and the actors reading it are too monotone. Not enough emotions, otherwise it’s ok.