The Risk Taker

Review of Risk Taker Book 3 in the Colton U Playbook Series by Stephanie Alves. I love love love this book it is a 5 star read for me. I have been dying to read this book and it not disappoint I loved everything about it, it made me smile the whole time. This is Nathan and Logan's story and they are so cute I love their banter and the push and pull between them. I love Logan and how flirty he is and how he's always pushing Nathan’s buttons. I love that Logan gets Nathan to relax and explore his sexuality while Nathan gets Logan to focus and take hockey more seriously. This is a MM, teammates, opposites attract, broody mmc x golden retriever mmc, spicy, slow burn, coach’s son, college hockey romance. Nathan and Logan both go to Colton U and are both on the hockey team. Nathan is a junior and the goalie on the team, his dad is the coach. Logan is a sophomore and he’s Nathan’s teammate. They are complete opposites. Nathan is broody and serious he’s under a lot of pressure and carries a lot on his shoulders. He is always on the ice and constantly practicing to be great because his dad’s the coach but he doesn’t even know if he wants to play hockey professionally. Logan is a charismatic, flirty playboy, the life of the party and doesn’t take anything seriously. He is great hockey player but constantly shows up late for practice. Logan loves teasing Nathan and pushing his buttons. Nathan is drawn to Logan but has never attracted to another guy and isn’t sure how he’s feeling.…

This is a good book - has some of my favorite tropes and yearning/jealousy, AND a HEA. However there are quite a few perspective errors and sentence structure issues where the pov is off or the sentences are redundant. For example, it says the guy “stretched his arm behind me on the couch” like 3 times in one paragraph (even though I’m pretty sure he only extended it once and kept it there as the context implied) or certain words kept getting repeated within a singular sentence when a pronoun or synonym could have been substituted. At times these confusing errors made it harder to imagine the story, so I think some light editing might be needed, but overall this book is sooo good and made me smile and i think more romance books need the kind of healthy communication the people in this book have. They are so honest with one another it makes my romantic-heart swell with joy.