Broken Ice, Mended Hearts By Ryan Taylor and Joshua Harwood
Genre: Contemporary Romance, GLBTQ, MM,
Tropes: Rivals-to-friends-to-lovers, hurt/comford, bisexual awakening
Released: March 20, 2024
Publisher: Wainscott Press
Series: Bethesda Barracudas Hockey, Book 6
Length: 358 pages
Cover Design: R. Bosevski of Story Styling Cover Designs
PIERRE (“GAGS”)
My life is complicated.
Hell, I’m complicated.
I don’t know a life beyond how I’m perceived. After a devastating divorce, it looked like I never would.
Can a hockey fight change your life?
I may not understand my attraction to Sven Holmer, but I can tell you my obsession with kissing him started in the middle of a fight. When we met again, the conversation was easy, the banter effortless. Once stolen glances gave way to secret touches, I was more confused than ever. How the hell am I supposed to handle it when everything I’ve always believed about myself no longer fits?
Things are great… until they aren’t.
Our connection deepens with every minute we spend together, but like me, Sven is no stranger to betrayal and heartache. Between my stubbornness, his reservations, and the start of a new season, how can we survive months apart?
When tragedy strikes, all bets are off. I just hope it’s not too late.
Broken Ice, Mended Hearts features two thirty-something hockey players hardened by heartbreak. This compelling, angsty book includes a bisexual awakening, hurt/comfort, found family, first times, high heat, and a hard-earned HEA. Though it is part of the Bethesda Barracudas Hockey series, it can be read as a standalone.
Reviewed by ButtonsMom2003
They fought hard for their HEA.
Book six in the Bethesda Barracudas series, Broken Ice, Mended Hearts can easily be read as a standalone story. It’s been two years since I read the last book in the series (which means I’ve read about 700 books since then) and I never felt lost. Characters from the other books do appear and the other books are great, so please check them out.
This story offers a fair amount angst as both MCs are recovering from broken relationships. Gags was recently divorced from his cheating now ex-wife and Sven recently broke up from his now ex-boyfriend. This book gave me all kinds of feels; it’s funny in places but there were also tears involved when things got tough for them.
I loved that both MCs were over thirty-years-old and that they each wanted a life with a partner that they couldn’t live without; they just didn’t know it would end up being each other. The blurb already lets you know that something tragic happens and that served as the wake-up call that Gags needed.
The story spans more than a year and the epilogue, set two years later, was the perfect finishing touch.
♥♥♥♥♥
O Factor: Scorcher
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Ryan Taylor met his husband and co-author, Joshua Harwood, in law school. They live in a suburb of Washington, DC, and share their home with a big, cuddly German shepherd. Ryan and Josh love to travel. In addition, Ryan also enjoys swimming, and Josh likes to putter in the garden whenever he can. They began writing to celebrate the romance they were so lucky to find with each other, and the sharing soon developed into a passion for telling stories about love between out and proud men.
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