Breakaway to You by Larissa Hommes: Book Review

 **ARC received for consideration. All opinions are my own. 

The Book

What happens when the one thing you’re fighting for is the one thing standing in your way?

Zeke Lawson knows his days in professional hockey are numbered, but he’s not ready to let go—no matter what his body or the team’s attractive physical therapist says. Hockey is his anchor, his home, the one constant in a life where everyone else has walked away. He refuses to lose the only thing that’s always been there for him.

Piper Fallon loves her job working for her favorite hockey team, but after a messy breakup with a player, she swore off dating athletes for good. The last thing she needs is another cocky, set-in-his-ways hockey star testing her patience—especially one who makes her heart race for all the wrong reasons.

Forced to spend time together during therapy sessions, Zeke and Piper go from butting heads to breaking down walls. He’s terrified of life without hockey—and of letting someone in only to lose them again. She’s terrified of falling for another hockey player. But as their connection deepens, so do the risks. Piper’s job is on the line. Zeke’s future is uncertain. And the hardest play of all might be figuring out if love is worth the gamble.

Will they risk it all for a chance at love—or let fear keep them on the sidelines?

The Author

Larissa Hommes has always loved reading, especially anything to do with romance. She never gets tired of meet cutes, friends to lovers, second chances, pretend relationships, and more. Since she couldn’t get enough through reading about romance, she decided to write stories of her own. She loves traveling, eating treats, and being outdoors. When she’s not caught up in make believe love lives, she enjoys spending time with her husband and two children, who are her greatest joys and biggest fans.

Book Review

While Breakaway to You is technically the first book in the Blindsided By Love series, there is a novella that takes place before this one. The couple from that book does make an appearance, but this can definitely be enjoyed as a standalone. 

Oh my goodness, this was such a cute read! Zeke and Piper were impossible not to enjoy right from the start. At first, Zeke comes off as a little bit cocky (adorably so), but as we get to know both of these characters, we see that perhaps that's not entirely true... but I did so love the moments of banter between these two... every bit as much as those more vulnerable moments when he let his walls down. The chemistry was flying off the pages and the emotional connection between these two was even better... despite neither looking for a relationship. I just couldn't help but love these two and root for them to get their happily ever after. If you love hockey and/or workplace romance (they both work for the same team-him as a player, her as a physical therapist), this is absolutely one to add to your TBR. 

Breakaway to You is a closed-door romance with kisses only. It does have some minor language. 


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