Hockey with Benefits by Tijan.

Thank you for the Valentine PR and Tijan for giving me a book to read and review.

At first I want to say that I have read Tijan's books before, but this was a first book for a while.

I enjoyed the book at certain level, three stars for the book and the fourth solemnly for Cruz . Mara was the kind of a character that I don't really like. At the beginning she was pictured kind of a mean girl. She definitely had some growth during the book, but I still didn't connect with her the way I would have liked.

Cruz was a totally different story. I liked his character. I liked how he reacted and how he was over all. He had some serious depth and I felt like there really could be a Cruz out there.

This book contains some heavy issues and is not suitable for young readers. I liked the fact that this wasn't your everyday read, but had some serious stuff going on. Both of the main characters had their baggage, which helped Cruz to understand Mara and I think that was really well explained in the book.

The book had so many side characters that I got confused at the times. Few of the characters were familiar from previous books. At the beginning of the book there are a lot of steamy scenes and I was afraid that the whole book would be like that, luckily for me it wasn't. I felt like there were some loose ends, but nothing too much.

The things I liked in this book: the fact that Mara's character evolved, the hockey, Cruz, the relationship between Mara and Cruz, the double POV and I really enjoyed the epilogue. I think that it was a meaningful.

Over all this was a good read.

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Hockey with Benefits by Tijan

2023