Sunday, November 26, 2023

Cocky

                                             

Title: Cocky
Series: Cocky #1
Author: Sean Ashcroft
Published: April 7, 2017
Pages: 298
Genre: LGBTQ Hockey Romance

Faking a relationship with an injured hockey player had never been on Eliot’s to-do list, but when he’s sent by his editor to interview the newly-out hockey legend Danny Harper, he gets a little more than he bargained for.

Eliot has been stuck writing a fashion and grooming column that no one reads since he started at Cocky—a men’s lifestyle magazine—a year ago. Desperate to prove himself, he takes the assignment to interview Harper, even though he couldn’t hold a hockey stick the right way up in an emergency.

Danny turns out to be nothing like he expected—a lonely man who’s missed out on a lot by being in the closet, rather than the overconfident jock Eliot expects him to be. As much as he resists it, Eliot finds himself drawn to the other man.

When Danny proposes they fake a relationship to improve his image, Eliot jumps at the chance—not only does he need the money, but his curiosity about Danny demands to be satisfied.

With Danny struggling to get through the season on a busted knee and Eliot digging up the story that could make his own career, can the two of them bring themselves to admit their real feelings and find their happy ending?

These two are so cute. Danny is oblivious and Eliot is a little flirt. It's a pretty standard fake date for reasons, but we both are super attracted from the start. Which is an excellent formula. Eliot being a reporter was pretty fun. It introduced a new angle to the hockey romance than you typically see. But it was still just a fun romp of a romance between these two! 

This was fairly low angst which was a nice change of pace from what I've been reading lately. I won't say no angst, we still had some in there. But it was dealt with fairly quickly. At least when it comes to relationship angst. Career and medical angst were there in spades, but because the relationship angst was fairly low it didn't stress me out so badly. 

It helped that the audiobook was like 5 hours long. What a short, snappy little book. You gotta love a book that you can listen to during an 8 hour work day!

Ratings
Stars: 3/5
Spice: 2/5

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