I knew Henri would be the protagonist of book three, how could he not be after being the rock for both Carter from Shots on Net and Max from Save the Game. He’s a big teddy bear and needs his happily ever after and he gets it in this grumpy sunshine romance that was just so cute.
In On the Edge, we learn that Henri is either demiromantic and most likely asexual, without it ever really being confirmed or defined, but it’s done in such a way that provides some great comic relief for the reader and the characters. He meets his match when he’s partnered with the grumpy Atlas, who is openly bisexual, but has a chip on his shoulder (mommy abandonment issues) and hates the world.
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Book two of J.J. Mulder’s SCU Hockey series finds us once again back on the campus of South Carolina University, but this time it’s not as happy of a story. Trigger warning: sexual assault off page.
In general, Annabeth Albert can do nothing wrong. She’s explored some kinks that weren’t exactly for me, and she’s written a few books that were meh overall, but every one of them contains well written character written romances and this one was no different. Winning Bracket was a bit of your standard nerd/jock trope added in with a bit of friendly competition and long suppressed feelings for each other.
I didn’t realize it at the time, but this has many similarities to 
Toward the end of January 2024, I was coming out of an intense January term course and entering my final semester of grad school and I needed a break so I leaned HEAVILY into graphic novels. It started a random evening when I passed the bookshelf in our bedroom where my graphic novels live on the top shelf. I was like “OH I could read all of #Hockey! tonight as a palate cleanser.”