
I guess I can see how other people loved this one but I was just fed up with the story. This is the second Tal Bauer hockey book in a row that I've hated, so I think it's safe to say that his hockey books aren't my jam. Has 2023 already broken me? Am I broken? Or am I taking crazy pills? I could barely finish The Rest of the Story. You do not need to read Gravity first to enjoy The Rest of the Story. The Rest of the Story is set in the same universe as Gravity, but each novel can be read independently.

The Rest of the Story is a friends-to-lovers, hockey players/teammates MM romance, and includes themes of survivorship.

Falling for my co-captain while we’re on a Cinderella run could jeopardize everything we’re striving for. This team is finally putting up the wins, and we are making something of ourselves. And there’s nothing simple about Shea, or about the Outlaws. I’m head over heels, and I’m all tangled up in something I can’t understand or control. This crush, this infatuation, is going nowhere fast. It's a stratospherically terrible idea to want or crave him. Boy, howdy: meet my new co-captain, Shea Darling. Second: The first day I’m in Boulder, I go over the boards and come face-to-face with a pair of blue eyes and lose my heart. We are scrappy and plucky and built out of spit and duct-tape… and whatever we’re doing, it’s working. The Outlaws are made up of jaded veterans and wide-eyed rookies, and we have no business whatsoever succeeding. But these players have been through a mess of hell, and someone thinks I can help pull them together.

I'm a head-down, mind-my-business kind of guy. Then I'm traded to the absolute worst team in the NHL, the Rocky Mountain Outlaws, and I’m hit with a one-two punch.įirst: I’m asked to step up and lead the team, which is every kind of bad idea you can imagine.

My heart is vulcanized rubber, puck hard, and that’s the way I like it. Relationships? Are you out of your mind? No.
