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Sunday, 19 April 2009

Body Check by Elle Kennedy


Readable hockey romance
3 stars

Hayden Housten is determined to stop being a good girl - but only for one night. After growing up being dragged from rink to rink with her hockey-coach father, all Hayden is looking for is stability, security and a man with a future. And she plans to get it - after she has one night of passion with a deliciously sexy stranger.

Hockey player Brody Croft is stunned when gorgeous Hayden approaches him for a no-strings night. He's finally decided to leave his playboy days behind him and settle down and is sure that Hayden is the girl for him. Now he just needs to convince her.


This was a readable and easy-to-read romance that definitely had the sizzle you would expect from a Blaze. I really got into the story but about a third of the way through the secondary plot of the hockey match-fixing overtook the romance and it became more about the hockey team and the ongoing 'mystery' than Hayden and Brody.

At first I really identified with Hayden. And what's not to like about a sexy, rugged hockey player like Brody? The sex was passionate and plentiful but by the end the conflict was so dragged out that I wanted to shake the couple and tell them to stop being so stupid!

Overall, this isn't the best Blaze book I have ever read but it was very readable, fairly enjoyable and a good choice for an afternoon in the sunshine. 3 stars.

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