Bainbridge Hockey Book 2: Penalty Kill by Andi Burns

 

Bainbridge Hockey Book 2

Penalty Kill is a college hockey romance with a playboy hero who gets a second chance with the girl he never got over.

Van

I have one final season at Bainbridge University to show the scouts what I’ve got before I shoot my shot as a free agent and try to make it in the pros. 

The only thing standing between me and the hockey career I’ve worked my ass off for is the class schedule straight out of my nightmares. 

There’s no way I’m passing these courses. But if I fail, I can kiss my future goodbye. 

The only hope I have is the tutor Coach had assigned to me. 

She’s perfect. A dream come true. The answer to my prayers. 

And she’s also my ex. 

Josie

I’ve spent three years avoiding Beckett Vandaele III. If he turns left, I take a right. If he’s at the coffee shop, I find another place to study. 

But when his name lands on my tutoring roster, there’s nowhere for me to run. 

I can’t hide from the secrets I’ve kept, and I can’t pretend Van doesn’t exist. 

It won’t be so bad, at least that’s what I tell myself. I’ll treat this like any other tutoring job—I’ll be professional and detached. 

Except it doesn’t happen that way. Van’s just as irresistible now as he was when we were freshmen. It’s too easy to fall back in love with him, and I know from experience that only leads to heartache. 

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Penalty Kill is the second book in the Bainbridge U Hockey series, but it can be enjoyed as a standalone. If you love cocky heroes with a vulnerable side, smart-as-hell heroines, and lots of steam, get ready to fall in love with Van and Josie.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/213509231-penalty-kill

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My Review: 5/5 Stars

Been waiting patiently for Josie and Van’s story after reading the previous book. You can’t help but wonder what happened to these two and why they aren’t together anymore. And now we finally got an answer. Freshmen year these two met and instantly connected. But the two of them dating only lasted a little while before things broke and the two couldn’t look at the other without pain. Both keeping secrets about themselves and both too young to know much about relationships. So they spent the next three years doing their best to avoid one another. But truth is, the two of them were very much in love with the other. And moving was never so simple. But when Van’s grades are slipping and threatening his hockey career, he finds himself assigned to one of the best tutors: Josie. Now they’ll have to face their past in order to get their futures back on track. And maybe just maybe they can finally solve the issues between them. I loved Van and Josie. Neither of these two have had it easy. And it’s sad that they waited so long to just communicate about how they feel and what was going on with them. Josie lost her parents and her older brother and her became the parents essentially for their many younger siblings. They work hard to provide for their siblings and raise them. And it isn’t always easy. Meanwhile, Van has a pretty rough learning disability, and no matter how hard he tries, it isn’t always easy to figure out solutions to his classes. And one thing he wants more than anything is just to finish college and get to the pros. These two just deserve to be happy and get everything they want. And it was sweet to watch them fall in love again. The book also had just so many funny moments between them and the famous hockey house where Van lives with his teammates. A really fun hockey college book! And you don’t want to miss this latest story in the series.

I received an ARC in exchange for an honest review.