buket's Reviews > Desire or Defense

this Ken's job is hockey 🏒

“You, Mitch Anderson, are a good person. You are worthy of love, and worthy of happiness. And you should chase after it.”

i love Mitch. Mitch doesn't spend his days with girls. Mitch(28) goes therapy(mandatory at first) and just wants to be left alone and play his hockey🏒 Mitch is wrong, he's just afraid that nobody will love him but guess what? Andie loves him. and Noah(little bro) loves him🥺 cute.

Andie(26) is a legal guardian of her brother Noah(12) and i love Andie too🥺 Andie loves and understands Mitch and she's happy that she found new friends(his teammates) 😌 i love teammates too because every single person in this book was lovely(except that bitchy mom and slimy manager)

i don't know anything about hockey but i don't understand why would anyone care about who he's dating with🤨 they made an article about him dating a mom? so what? why would anyone care🤨 are the hockey players really that big of a deal?🤔

also divorced mom causing drama because Mitch didn't want her? it's so embarrassing 🙄🙄🙄

anyways at one point Mitch tries listening a spicy hockey romance and it was so funny 😭;;;;

Finally, I reach my phone and stop the book just as the hockey player tells the coach’s daughter she's a good girl.
“If she’s such a good girl, why’s she doing that two feet away from her dad? And in a lavatory? Gross.”

this was a closed door romance which i didn't know. there's no owd/omd and no third act break up(they spend 1 day without talking because of a conflict so i don't count that as breakup). since both of them lost their parent figures, dealing with grief/loss of parents mentioned a couple of times.


✨I realize… she's hugging me. An affectionate, comfortable feeling envelops me. This is the hug I’ve waited for all my life. Right here, with this girl. A hug that makes up for a lifetime of not being held, not being loved, not being enough. This is the hug to end all hugs.

✨I decide right in this moment, that if by some miracle I ever have children, I will hug them, and hug them often. What a simple, but life-changing gesture.
Kissing is great… epic… amazing. But hugs are severely underrated.

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