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n this original holiday novella in the Play-By-Play series, New York Times bestselling author Jaci Burton gives readers the gift of “plenty of romance, sexy men, hot steamy loving, and humor.” (Smexy Books)
Superstar hockey player Patrick “Trick” Niemeyer and dancer Stella Slovinski have picked up where they left off a year ago, resuming their hot, uncomplicated affair. Stella refuses to call it dating, or a relationship. But lately, Trick is looking for more…
Stella’s been burned before—in a relationship she never talks about—not with her family, not with her friends, and definitely not with Trick. But now it’s the holiday season and Trick is determined to give Stella his heart wrapped up in a bow. He knows Stella is the right woman for him, but he’ll have to melt the ice surrounding her heart to keep her from walking away.
Series: Play-by-Play Novella
Release Date: November 18, 2014
Publisher: Penguin Group
Source: Manic Readers
Reviewer: Iris
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Reviewer’s Thoughts
As a huge fan of the Play-by-Play series and author Jaci Burton, I have to admit to a soft spot to the hockey stories, you see, I’m an avid hockey fan. So it was with great excitement that I picked up Holiday on Ice. In an odd turn of events this novella does not begin with two characters meeting for the first time and discovering each other. They have a previous physical relationship. I use the word relationship loosely here as our heroine, Stella, repeats on numerous occasions that she does not “do” relationships.
That being said, I absolutely adored Trick. He was everything a female hockey fan wants her favorite play to be like on and off the ice. Hard-hitting and give no quarters on the ice but a softy and a romantic once the skates come off. In typical Burton style, Trick’s every word and every action makes the reader’s heart melt. You can just hear every female reader’s sigh when he unveiled the tree topper. Stella on the other hand… I found her not very likeable at all. She was kind of selfish and jumps to conclusions easily instead of talking (or in the case of most of us women… yelling things out).
All in all, Holiday on Ice was a sweet romance but was not what I would have expected from Burton.
