Review: Game Changer

Game Changer by Kelly Jamieson
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Three and a half stars.

Molly Flynn's wedding to NHL player Steve implodes big time when she is sent explicit texts between Steve and a mysterious woman just before their wedding. In desperation she turns to Steve's teammate Jackson Wynn, who is also her trivia mate, to get her out of there.

Jackson was just dropping in on Molly and Steve's wedding before reluctantly visiting his family and all its accompanying drama. His father cheated on his mother and Jackson has never really forgiven him for that. Then Jackson's grandfather married a much younger woman and fell out with Jackson's father and uncle over money. The entire family dynamic is one huge drama-llama and Jackson wants as little as possible to do with it, if his grandfather didn't have Alzheimer's he wouldn't even have bothered, the last thing he needs is absconding with his teammates fiance - that never bodes well for the team dynamics.

Molly and Jackson have only ever been buddies, drawn together by a mutual love of trivia but as they spend the summer together they find close proximity fosters attraction. Is this a secret summer fling? Is Jackson Molly's rebound guy? Or could this be something more?

I love Kelly Jamieson novels and after a string of disappointing reads this was like a breath of fresh air. A friends to lovers romance between a stoic hockey player and a wholesome teacher? Sign. Me. Up! However, I did feel it started to flag in the middle a bit, maybe there wasn't enough tension? Or, maybe a novel about a hockey player set in the summer off-season lacks the essential sporty element?

Anyway, after the brief lull in the middle I really liked the way this romance was resolved, there were some interesting ways of resolving the inevitable conflict which I found refreshing.

If you want a summer away from the city, relaxing by a lake in Manitoba, barbequing with friends then this is the novel for you.

I received a free copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley in return for an honest review.

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