Heavy Shot- Review
Heavy Shot
By Toni Aleo
Genre: Contemporary, Hockey Romance
Series: Nashville Assassins: Next Generation #7
Publication Date: July 31,2023
Source: Received an ARC in exchange for an honest review
Rating: 4 Stars
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Description:
From the Nashville Assassins: Next Generation series, comes your next book-boyfriend!
Dimitri Titov was on hockey skates before he could walk. All he’s ever wanted is to play for the Assassins, his dad’s team. After growing up in Russia, he’s back in Nashville, Tennessee, and ready to pursue his lifelong goal.
Austen McDavid escaped the kind of life they make Netflix documentaries about. But she has survived and is thriving in her new position, preparing to lead the Assassins’ farm team.
A housing mixup leads to a middle-of-the-night encounter so reminiscent of his parents’ relationship, Dimitri can’t help but wonder if it’s fate.
And when everyone is telling you not to go for it, sometimes you just have to line up the shot and let the pucks fly where they may.
Review:
There’s something about a Toni Aleo hockey book that feels like coming home for me. Her characters are so well written and complex and the fast paced hockey keeps you engaged. Even having read her original Assassins series, I still find the children and how everyone is connected a bit confusing. I wonder if there’s a family/book tree available somewhere. Anyway, the hero, Dmitri is the son of the couple in Blue Lines. As far as I can remember, he wasn’t in the other Assassins Next Generation books. So even though we know his parents, we’re introduced to Dmitri fresh in this book as well as his heroine Austen. Austen has a traumatic past as she and her sisters escaped from the cult they were raised in. Her wealthy grandfather is creating the Assassins’ farm team and wants Austen to be the general manager. In the meantime, she’s spending the year learning from the Assassins’ GM and through an apartment mix up, ends up rooming with Dmitri. Dmitri played hockey in Russia and is now back in the USA to hopefully join the Assassins. The issue of power and control within the workplace is neatly sidestepped for most of the book. Dmitri and Austen are really attracted to each other but it does take a while for them to act on it. Instead we get to see a friendship and roommate partnership grow between them. This works with Austen’s past and it made sense for things to go slow. Overall, I really enjoyed this story and I’m intrigued by the set up for what I think will be the next book!
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