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Slapshot
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Start date
April 22, 2025
Finish date
May 13, 2025
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kayla Buis
Apr 29, 2025 rated it really liked it
3.5⭐ 2.5🌶️

Slapshot follows our FMC Blair as she tries to navigate her own life in the shadows of her sister's beauty and fame. Working in the hockey industry has been a labor of love for her, her entire life. The only thing that makes it unbearable is a tall, muscled bulk of a man, who she finds equally as annoying as she does remarkable.

Enter Cian, the beautiful, golden retriever misunderstood hockey god, who just wants everyone to like him. How far is Cian willing to go to make the insecure r
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Annemarie Joubert
May 14, 2025 rated it really liked it
3🌶️

Blair is a social media manager who likes to hide herself. Cian is the hockey player who wants to get to know her. Blair is wild and fierce and Cian is kind and patient. With an agreement on friendship, they work together for the team's sake.

Triggers:
- Parental neglect
- Self deprecation

Tropes:
- Cinnamon roll MMC
- Hard-ass FMC
- Colleagues to friends to lovers

This was a sweet read for me. Blair's inner voice hit hard and was a reminder how mean we can be to ourselves. Both these characters work
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Melody Madness
May 10, 2025 rated it liked it
A quick, easy hockey romance read. Our FMC is an ugly duckling learning to move past her family's views of her and find her self worth <3 ...more
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