Second Shot with #76

Hockey Hotties, Book 5

De: Piper Rayne

Narrado por: Vanessa Edwin, Chance Smolders

My mom always said you don’t get a second shot at making a first impression. I’ve remembered that my entire career. Especially since I’m one of the few Black men who play professional hockey.

I’m calculated and respectful in the way I speak to my coaches, the owners, and the media. I’ve never taken a risk...until her.

I could blame it on the fact that for once I pushed away the pressure of my career for the ocean waves, the sand, and good times with my new teammates. But those are excuses because the minute I saw her at the airport, something lit up inside me and the best week of my life was spent with her in my bed.

After our week in paradise, we said good-bye, exchanged phone numbers, and both assumed that unless one of us was flying through the other’s city on the opposite side of the country, our vacation fling was over.

Then one night after practice I see her. She’s here. In my city. Telling me she moved here for a job. If that’s not fate, tell me what is.

I’ve never wanted a second shot more than I do this time, but she’s determined to leave what we were on the island we left behind.

©2022 Piper Rayne Inc. (P)2022 Piper Rayne Inc.

Good!

This is the first book I've read in this series and though it wasn't exactly what I expected, it wasn't badly done. I thought this would be just your normal run of the mill second chance story and it certainly isn't that. I didn't expect the revenge aspect at all, but I appreciated it for giving Ande the push that she needed. Did anyone else want to choke her sister for most of the book or was it just me?!

This one got me curious about all the other characters in this series so I'll be diving into the rest of this series when I get a chance to! I'm excited about the lead up to the next book at the end as well and can't wait to see where that story goes. I expect a loooot of drama!

The listened to the audio book and I have to say that both Chance Smolders and Vanessa Edwin did a phenomenal job. I'm new to the audio book scene and this is the first book I've listened to with multiple narrators. It was well done and their voices work together well, making it easy to immerse yourself in the story. I will also say that Vanessa is astoundingly good at doing male voices. Both narrators were very good about shifting their voices for different characters and making things easy to follow with their clear speech. I will jump on anything either of them narrate in the future!

I have really enjoyed this entire series

I’ve really enjoyed this series and have been reading them in order. I however missed that there was a novella that happened right before this book in the series. I would highly recommend reading that before you read this. There were many times I felt like I was missing something and when I went back and read the novella, it answered all my questions.

Not my favorite in the series

I'll be honest, this storyline wasn't my favorite in the series. Kind of contrived.

I enjoyed Vanessa Edwin as Andi, and Chance Smolders as Cory. However, I didn't care for Chance's overall narration, it was hard to tell different characters apart in his narration.

Overall, what I enjoyed about this book was catching up with earlier couples from the series, but I didn't really enjoy Andi and Cory's story overall.

love the series!

absolutely love the series! each one brings a drama and love story like no other!

Great story

Male narrator sounded like a 60 year old man. It was hard to picture a young hockey rookie with that voice. But as usual Piper Rayne never disappoints with their storyline.