Book: Icy Control: A Brother's Best Friend Hockey Romance by Carly Robyn
Reviewed by Desi Disassociates
Rating: 5/5
When her cat ~accidentally~ sets her apartment on fire and her landlord refuses to renew her lease, Sophie is struggling to find a place to live that will take her cats that's also in her budget. Enter Cameron, the meddling older brother who convinces his best friend and teammate, Jake, to let her live in his condo with him while he fixes up the new historic brownstone he revenge bought and is renovating.
I didn't think I could like a couple in this series more than I liked Kennedy and Cameron, but BOY was I wrong. With her longtime crush on Sophie and the way she babbles around Jake, it immediately endears her to readers as a woman who's definitely been nervous around her (very rare) crushes before. Add in the fact that she has two chaotic cats in her life, she's just every millennial friend I've made in my adulthood. I loved her.
Sophie and Jake were chefs kiss perfection. Seriously, why do men like Jake not exist in real life?? The way he tolerated her chaos cats and then started referring to them as "their cats" MY HEART. But also just the way they show up for each other, especially when dealing with the fallout from Jake narcissistic father buying the tone thing Jake built for himself in his adulthood.
If there's one thing Carly can do, though, it's make me crack up reading her books. Seriously, I highlighted so many passages that had me laughing out loud. She's just so funny and I genuinely love reading her books. But she also writes conflict and real-life struggles in a way that I can relate to as a reader so well. It makes the books so much more enjoyable. And enter new characters into the chat?? Yes please! So excited for the next book in this series next year.
Thank you to Carly for having me on her ARC team. I love this series so much and am so thrilled to be a part of the crew hyping these books up!