Achei que seria um livro entediante e que não iria me prender por conta da narrativa se começar no presente e depois partindo pra história do inicio de como eles se conheceram. I absolutely loathe in sports books where one MC forces the other to come out to prove their love (which was one of my complaints about the first book in this series). But, despite the top-notch, entertaining, and playful banter between the two and the obsession with freckles, there was nothing else this offered.

Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item. As the characters changed and grew, so did their perspectives and outlooks, but their characterization stayed consistent. Shane's sexual discovery felt organic and I appreciated Rose's characterization and positivity so much. Reid draws the reader in from the very beginning, changing things up and taking us along for the ride as we are given "glass seats" to Shane and Ilya's years long evolution from enemies/rivals with benefits, to secret friends/rivals with benefits, to eventually rivals as committed lovers/partners with a HFN ending.I read Special Forces - Soldiers and said, This is the Best Enemies to Lovers story ever, nothing can ever come close. Something definitely weird when reading this book is realizing how big a star Shane is along with Ilya, and realizing how weird it is in retrospect that Shane is never once mentioned in Game Changer. He felt the familiar slide of his rival’s tongue in his mouth, and slid his own tongue over teeth that had been fixed and replaced god knew how many times.

The same goes for his portrayal of Canadian , all around good guy, sweet , friendly and charismatic , Good Boy of Hockey Shane Hollander. Sometimes, in this trope, the couple goes from hating each other to loving each other in such a short time that it's not even believable. Shane and Ilya do see other people over the course of their strange sex arrangement and they do talk about having sex with other partners a lot. We follow the story of Shane and Ilya, two rival hockey players that have an enemies to lovers Romance that flourishes in the span of seven years.In between these time jumps, I can count on one hand how many cute scenes there were: Ilya and the kids; the support of Shane’s parents because there is nothing better than parents accepting their children as who they are; when Shane told Ilya to talk to him in Russian because it’s easier for him; the time Ilya was worried when Shane got hurt; the time Ilya made Shane a tuna melt, and they laid down together. They were only 17 back when they first met and they are already 26 when they finally take a real chance at falling in love with each other. There is nothing that makes me feel more detached from the romance than having explicit sex since chapter cero. I like how Ilya’s family issues was handled, kudos for not letting that drag out throughout the story.