The Last Guy On Earth by Sarina BowenMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Fifteen years ago Clay Powers and Jethro Hale were roommates in a tiny one-bedroom apartment, teammates on a minor league hockey team, the Busker Brutes. It was a case of opposites attract, Clay was from a rich family of professionals, a people-pleaser desperate to 'fix' the issues with the team, sensitive, and prone to tension headaches. Whereas Jethro didn't finish college, his father was a drunk who walked out on the family, and his mother was a drunk who drove her car into a telephone pole, his sister is hooking up with a low level drug dealer and Jethro is having to work side jobs to make rent. For a few brief months the two of them became close physically without ever really putting a name to their relationship.
Fifteen years later, Clay is the youngest coach of a professional hockey team, the Colorado Cougars, and Jethro is a goalie with two championships under his belt and fifteen years in Denver. Then, boom, Jethro is traded to Colorado over Clay's head and neither of them are happy. Clay may have made his feelings very vocally known, not realising that Jethro is within earshot. Now there's tension in the locker room and both of them are remembering just what happened fifteen years ago.
I loved this, I'm a sucker for an opposites attract second chance romance, throw in some seriously ripped athletes and take all my money. But it wasn't just wall-to-wall banging (although there's a fair amount), there's also loneliness, betrayal. lost love, I confess I shed a tear at times.
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