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Alex
Cold
Fury Hockey # 1
By: Sawyer Bennett
Releasing October 14th, 2014
USA
Today bestselling author Sawyer Bennett scores big-time with the first novel in
a sexy new series hot enough to melt the ice. Hockey star Alexander Crossman has a reputation as a cold-hearted player on and off the rink. Pushed into the sport by an alcoholic father, Alex isn’t afraid to give fans the proverbial middle finger, relishing his role as the MVP they love to hate. Management, however, isn’t so amused. Now Alex has a choice: fix his public image through community service or ride the bench. But Alex refuses to be molded into the Carolina Cold Fury poster boy . . . not even by a tempting redhead with killer curves.
As a social worker,
Sutton Price is accustomed to difficult people—like Alex, who’s been assigned
to help her create a drug-abuse awareness program for at-risk youth as part of
the team’s effort to clean up his image. What she doesn’t expect is the
arrogant smirk from his perfect lips to stir her most heated fantasies. But
Sutton isn’t one to cross professional boundaries—and besides, Alex doesn’t do
relationships . . . or does he? The more she sees behind Alex’s bad-boy façade,
the more Sutton craves the man she uncovers.
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My Review
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| 4 Hockey Players are HOT Stars |
Alex is book #1
in the Cold Fury Hockey Series by Sawyer Bennett and also the first book I have
read by this author. I was given this book in exchange for an honest review so
here goes....
When this book starts it portrays Alex as a sexy
as hell but ice cold asshole and to be honest that’s pretty accurate. There isn’t
much to like about him, he treats his fuck buddies with distain and is just a
general knob head to everyone else.
I love me a good anti hero so this is all
working for me lol.
Enter stage left Sutton, she’s a bit of a goody
two shoes and at least at the start of the book I wasn’t a massive fan, she comes
across a bit preachy and I just didn’t really take to her.
Being a foreigner I have only recently
discovered Ice Hockey and the muscled sex gods that inhabit this super butch
sport. Here in the UK it’s pretty much unheard of except for the diehard fans.
What have I been missing out on!!!! Now this is
my second ice hockey book and I’m a teeny tiny bit hooked!!!
Between Sutton and Alex they have a barrel load
of daddy issues so they are kind of a messed up perfect match.
There is some serious sexual chemistry at play
with this couple and I did find myself getting a bit hot under the collar once
they started getting down and dirty.
I was squirming when Alex got all alpha and
demanding!!
There are bits of this book that were just a bit
too sickly sweet, Sutton’s family were basically the Walton’s and I did have a
few eye rolls at some of the seriously cliché moments.
I have to say I totally heart Garrett and I’m
looking forward to his book which is the next in the series.
This book is super sweet and kind of sexy. I enjoyed
it and devoured it quickly; this gets 4 stars from me.
Author
Info
USA Today bestselling author Sawyer
Bennett is a snarky Southern woman and reformed trial lawyer who decided to
finally start putting on paper all of the stories that were floating in her
head. Her husband works for a Fortune 100 company which lets him fly all over
the world while she stays at home with their daughter and three big, furry dogs
who hog the bed. Sawyer would like to report she doesn’t have many weaknesses
but can be bribed with a nominal amount of milk chocolate.
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Excerpt
When I look up, I’m
momentarily stunned speechless by what may possibly be a mirage. It has to be,
because seriously . . . it’s beyond belief.
He’s
beyond belief.
In
fact, he’s beyond my imagination.
A
man walks in, the early afternoon sun outlining a massive body. He has to be at
least six-five, six-six with a solid chest, narrow waist and pretty big guns
hanging from his shoulders. For a man so large, I’m surprised to note he moves
with a natural grace. Charcoal gray dress slacks and a lightweight black sweater
are molded to his body, showcasing dips and valleys of muscles that you see
only in men’s health magazines.
If
I thought his body was incredible, I almost pass out once I take full stock of
his face. It’s enough to make angels weep, and I consciously close my mouth as
I realize my jaw has flopped open in disbelief.
Dark,
dark hair . . . almost black, but most definitely the deepest
mahogany, is worn midlength, chopped in helter-skelter layers around his face.
The front portion of bangs sweeps left to right across his forehead, while
chunks stick up this way and that around his entire head. His face, if cast in
marble, would be sought after by all of the world’s finest art galleries.
Strong jaw covered in dark stubble, high cheekbones, straight-as-an-arrow nose,
and even from fifteen feet away and with the sun at his back, I can see the
most crystalline blue eyes I’ve ever beheld on a human being.
The
last thing I notice about him—because holy hell, I’ve noticed quite a bit—is
that his lips are full, the bottom one just a little puffier than the top. Said
lips, which may be the most perfect in existence, are now quirking upward into
a smirk and the first thing I think is, I wonder what he could do with that
mouth.
The
second thing I think?
He’s
smirking at me because I am so openly checking him out, even at this very
moment.
Maybe
because my brain has been addled by such magnificence, or maybe because I’ve
never been one to get easily embarrassed, I don’t even have a shred of decency
that will cause me to cast my eyes away in shyness or shame.
So
I hold his look as he walks up to the desk, places his palms flat on the
Formica-topped surface and hits me with a brilliantly sexy smile that almost
blinds me, and most definitely causes a pang low in my belly.
“I
can see you recognize me,” he says, his voice deep and slightly accented.
I
blink at him hard, his words penetrating, but not really. I’m still too dazzled
by the whiteness of his teeth, and I’d swear I saw one tooth actually cast a
sparkle.
“Um
. . . excuse me?” I say, because I have no clue who this is or why he’s here,
or why I should recognize him. Maybe he’s a famous model or an actor, and I
rack my brain trying to place his face.
His
smile turns into a bit of a frown and his brow furrows. “You don’t recognize
me, do you?”
For
some insane reason, I feel terrible because I don’t know who he is and he seems
to be hurt by that. No, not hurt . . . that’s not quite right.
Intrigued?
Yes,
maybe intrigued.
Sending
my brain into overdrive while it searches my memory for every movie, soap opera
or fashion magazine I’ve ever read, I flounder around trying to come up with
this man’s name.
“Alex
Crossman,” he says, letting me off the hook. “I have an appointment with Sutton
Price.”
Son
of a bitch.
This
is Alexander Crossman? Star player of the Cold Fury and potential GQ model, my
new cohort in creating an outreach program for troubled youth and overall putz
for being late and not calling? I don’t know whether to have an orgasm or be
pissed that he’s walking in thirty minutes after our scheduled appointment.
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