Review: Foreplayer

Foreplayer by Kate Meader
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Mia Wallace was a teenage college hockey star, but a run-in with one of the hockey supremoes meant she couldn't get a place on a hockey team and lost her chance at the Olympics, something she has hidden from family and friends. She has spent years tutoring girls hockey but is determined to take another crack at qualifying for the Olympic squad and realising her dreams.

Mia's older half-brother Vadim Petrov asks his old hockey pal Cal Foreman to train with Mia to get her ready for the Olympic try-outs. Mia is less than impressed by Cal when she sees him engineering a situation at a wedding to get his girlfriend to break up with him and she sort of anonymously calls him out for his behaviour on social media, which makes for some awkward conversations on the ice.

Mia has her eyes on her brother's agent, the suave, sophisticated, Tommy Gordon. But she thinks a man like him needs an equally sophisticated woman, and she's still hanging on to that pesky v-card, so she asks Cal to teach her the ways of seduction, without revealing the object of her affection.

Mia and Cal start to catch feelings for each other, each thinking the other isn't interested.

As with so many of these stories, there are too many strands which interconnect. There is no reason whatsoever for Mia to like Tommy, who is a bit slimy TBH. Cal doesn't want to put himself out there, because of stuff, Mia's nemesis gets involved with the Chicago Rebels threatening Mia's future etc, etc. It was too much and dragged for me.

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