Review: A Kiss for a Kiss

A Kiss for a Kiss by Helena Hunting
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Three and a half stars.

Jake and Hanna's story.

Jake Masterson is the GM of Seattle's NHL team and single father to Queenie after his girlfriend couldn't handle being a teenage mother. Now Queenie is all grown up and engaged to be married to Ryan Kingston (Queenie and King, bleurgh), one of Jake's players. Jake's older sister Hanna, who is really his biological mother, has been helping Jake and Queenie with the wedding planning, but things have got very hot and heavy between them. Hanna thinks she's perimenopausal and so, given she and her ex-husband resorted to IVF to (unsuccessfully) try to have a child, she thinks she can't get pregnant. One thing leads to another and before she even realises it she is 12 weeks pregnant. What will Jake say? What will Ryan say? What will her parents say? How will she and Jake raise a child when he is based in Seattle and she lives in Tennessee?

I really liked the sound of this book but sadly for me the reality fell a little short of the expectations. There seemed to be too much time spent with Hanna debating where she and Jake should live and, frankly, not enough plot. I mean the guy raised his daughter alone when he was little more than a teenager, whilst he might regret that he isn't going to spend his forties living the single life there was never a doubt that he would be there for his child. Also he earns millions of dollars a year so travel and living expenses are never going to be an issue.

Also, I am simultaneously reading Kate Meader's Rookie Rebels series and the similarities of names confused the heck out of me, I was thinking Violet? Four kids? No, I'm sure she hasn't - wrong series, wrong author!

Overall, not enough hockey, too much shilly-shallying about where to live and not enough drama.

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