Review: Offside – Bianca Somerland

A pace ahead of the play can send you back to the start. And put everything you’ve worked for at risk.

Single mother and submissive Rebecca Bower abandoned her career as a sports reporter to become a media consultant with her brother’s hockey team. A failed marriage to a selfish man makes her wary of getting involved with another. Unfortunately, chemistry is hard to deny, and all her hormones are dancing when she gets close to the Cobra’s sniper, Scott Demyan.

Zachary Pearce ‘came out’ to the world last season to shift attention away from a teammate. And his one night with Scott Demyan had been unsettling. There could be more there, if only Scott was a different person. Instead, a night of sensual BDSM play with Becky leaves him wanting more, but she thinks he’s gay and questions his interest. It’s been a long time since a woman has attracted him both as a man and a Dom, and he’ll do everything in his power to prove she’s the only one he needs. Or wants. His one time with Scott was a mistake.

Scott might have forgotten what happened in his childhood, but the effects linger, and he specializes in drunken one-night stands…until he meets Zach and Becky and sees what he’s missing. But neither one believes Scott can be faithful. Although he’s trying hard to clean up his act to avoid getting kicked off the team, they want more from him. He’s willing to make changes, but the most important one—putting their happiness before his own—means he’ll probably end up alone.

Series: The Dartmouth Cobras #4
Release Date: April 26th 2013
Publisher: Self Published
Source: Provided by Author/Publisher via Manic Readers
Reviewer: Iris
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Reviewer’s Thoughts

What do a divorced mother, a Dom hockey player and a bed-hopping playboy hockey player have in common? Give up? They have an endless supply of love, understanding and a deep respect and love of the game. Hockey permeates their lives. And when they’re not on the ice they’re in the club. At the club the Dartmouth Cobras can act on their desires for Submission, Domination or anything else. BDSM and everything that goes on in the club is just an extension of who they are.

To say Becky is a sub is to give her too much credit. With as many restrictions and snappy comebacks it is a wonder she doesn’t consider herself more of a Switch. That should be beside the point, however, I believe it is truly the root of many of the issues that pop up between her and Zach. If you thought Zach was gay, you weren’t alone. Although his big coming out in a previous book was done to help a fellow player, Zach is in fact bisexual, not gay. So where does this leave the man who we hope will straighten out his life and realize he truly had something good going with Zach? Seeing as how this is a ménage series, it leaves him in a great position actually, if he can clean up his act and stop with the man whoring.

Regardless of his loose and carefree ways there is just something so broken about Scott that you cant help but keep flipping the pages hoping either Becky or Zach will get through to him and help him realize he is not alone. I do not consider it a spoiler to tell you that of course it happens eventually seeing as how this is a ménage romance novel. Of course it is not without its conflict, resolution and even more conflict. Who ever said love was easy anyway? We do of course have some of our favorite characters in the previous books popping in intermittently throughout the book giving us, well me, a much needed look at what’s going on with everyone else. There are some definite “aww” moments that will melt even the hardest of hearts. And some that may even have you wanting to reach for tissues. Offsides is different from the other Dartmouth Cobra series books thus far in that it reaches a level of emotion we’ve become accustomed to in the series ten it surpasses it.

Definitely worth the read and highly recommended.