Holiday Hostilities

               

Title: Holiday Hostilities

Series: Cyclones Christmas #2

Author: Katie Bailey

Published: Eleventh Avenue Publishing Inc., November 22, 2024

Pages: 332

Genre: Holiday Sportsball Romance

There’s only one thing Olivia Griswold hates more than Christmas: her brother’s best friend, Aaron Marino.

The NHL’s favorite playboy has hordes of adoring fans, but to her, he’s still the cocky jerk she’s loathed since high school.

But when Aaron hears Olivia’s spending the holidays with her roommates from hell, he offers her a place to escape to.

His place, to be exact.

In return, all she has to do is be his date to his hockey team’s Christmas gala. It seems simple enough, but Olivia soon discovers that sleeping behind enemy lines is a dangerous game—especially when the enemy looks like that. 

Olivia knows she’s playing with fire, but she won’t let herself get burned again.

And they do say to keep your friends close and your enemies closer…

I like the concept of this series. But I don't know that I actually like this series. I don't love the concept of "steamy, closed door romance." That sounds oxymoronic to me. BUT I do love hockey and the holidays, so like. What's a girl to do. Read this book, and potentially read the next one if she releases Dallas and Caelin's story later this year. Maybe. We'll see because one of my goals this year is to make more discerning choices regarding my reading. And this one..I did not love that miscommunication was the main conflict everywhere. And when miscommunication wasn't the conflict.... it was a woman who falsely accuses men. It gave me the ick.

Ratings

Stars: 3/5