ICED: The Raptors Series Book Three by Caroline EastonMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
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📚 ICED: The Raptors Series #3 (Standalone)
🖋 Author ~ Caroline Easton
🖋 Features: Sports Romance, Hockey Romance, Contemporary Romance
⭐️ Rating: 5/5
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Maya & Owen
🏒 Hockey romance
🏒 Protector MMC
🧁 Single mum
🧁 Strong FMC
🏒 Second chances
🧁 Ex-boyfriend
🏒 Found family
Owen “Jacko” Jackson, the Enforcer for his Raptors’ hockey team, community service is perfect for a guy who works through his emotions with baking. He has mad baking skills. At the community kitchen, he’s assigned to assist Maya. Trying to stay under the radar, the last thing she needs, though, is attention, especially not from a man with fists like sledgehammers and a smile that melts her guard. But Owen bakes cupcakes, reads bedtime stories, and makes her daughter believe in superheroes. Worse? He makes her believe in second chances.
Caroline Easton is a new author for me. And, I will definitely add her books to my TBR list. Even though I started with the 3rd book in the series, there are enough details that Maya and Owen’s story unfolds seamlessly. What I loved about this book, aside from being set in England, was the phraseology, in that I could almost hear the characters, their voices, phrasing, and diction as I read. There’s a depth of experiences, emotions from both Maya and Owen. And, I love how Owen is attracted to Maya’s strength, her fears, and that she doesn’t have to be perfect…she just has to be real.
🖋 Enjoyment: 5. Readability: 5. Writing: 5.
🖋 Setting: 5. Plot: 5. Characters: 5.
💌 Favorite Moments:
🖇 I might be built for battle, but I’m about to learn how to fight for something a hell of a lot more important than a puck.
🖇 Her cheeks are flushed, hair tied back in a messy ponytail, forearms dusted in flour. She looks like art. Domestic, radiant chaos.
🖇 But fear isn’t rational. It clings to every corner of my brain.
🖇 Lila’s laugh echoes through the park like a song I didn’t know I’d been waiting to hear.
🖇 “I don’t want you to save me,” she says. “I just want to feel like I can stand beside you.”
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