Release Blitz, Review, Excerpt & Giveaway:
Two-Man Team
By Amy Aislin
Stick Side, Book 5
One wrongful arrest ruined Kris Xappa’s image—and made his NHL team look bad. Now, with orders to keep his head down, the last thing he needs is to develop feelings for his younger teammate—and best friend’s brother. The fact that he can’t stop thinking about their one illicit kiss doesn’t mean anything.
Rory Stanton is perfectly capable of taking care of himself and doesn’t need his brother’s best friend keeping an eye on him. Sure, he likes having Kris’s attention, but he’d rather have it for entirely different reasons. Too bad that one kiss they shared wasn’t enough to convince Kris to take a chance on him.
When an injury lands Rory in Kris’s care, will these teammates be able to see past the obstacles to become a two-man team?
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Heather's Review
I love Rory and Kris together - this book is a slow burn, brother's best friend, secret crush trope and it works so well! Add in that they are both hockey players on the same team, roommates and that the whole thing is set in my hometown of Toronto and well...
Amy Aislin's pace, writing style and cadence are all on point, making you slip right into the world Kris and Rory are living in. Her descriptions of place and both grounding and evocative and I can see myself as a fly on the wall (or an ant) in Kris' house, can picture the street where Rory plays ball hockey with the kids and more...
Whether you like sports romance as a genre or not, you'll enjoy this sweet, slow burn romance and I highly recommend you add it to your TBR!
Red's Book Reads's Review
I have read a few in this series now and each time I get a new favourite! Kris Xappa and Rory Stanton are team mates who have known each other since childhood with Kris being best friends with Rory's older brother (and I really hope we get his story too!). I loved Kris was just so oblivious and also how sweet Rory was! Whilst this is the 5th book in the series, it can be read as a standalone - but the books are so good you might find you want to read them all! As with all the books in this series, once I started I really didn't want to put it down and so I recommend proceeding with caution!!
Excerpt:
At some point while Kris had been occupied—or possibly when he’d been sitting here feeling sorry for himself—Rory had brought a bowl of grapes and blueberries to the table, as well as two sets of cutlery, two tall glasses of water, three different types of jam from the fridge, and two empty mugs. The smell of percolating coffee hit and Kris almost wept.
Rory was surely here because Emery had asked him to come, but Kris didn’t give two shits about his motivations. As long as Rory fed him, the man could come by anytime he wanted.
“You look like you need this.” Rory set Kris’s plate at his elbow. “And about twelve hours of sleep.”
“You’re not wrong. Thanks for this.” Closing the laptop, Kris shoved it aside and brought his food closer.
“Maybe stay away from fast food breakfast sandwiches in the future.” Rory wrinkled his nose. “That thing looked like poison.”
Kris chuckled and shoved half a toast in his mouth, not bothering with jam.
Rory Stanton was one of those cute as button types. High forehead, small nose, big brown eyes. In Rory’s downtime, those big eyes were usually covered with glasses. Today, he wore his contacts, which meant he’d been outdoors. He’d complained, more than once, about the annoyance of changing from prescription glasses to prescription sunglasses and back whenever he went from indoors to outdoors to indoors again. He always seemed to smell like sunshine and grass, and his dark brown hair was constantly in a state of dishevelment.
“You got a bit of a burn on your nose,” Kris said, pointing his fork at him.
“Damn.” Rory’s eyes crossed. “I do? Didn’t think I’d need sunscreen for an hour of street hockey this late in September. Ah well.” Unconcerned, he dug into his meal.
Kris stood, retrieved the ketchup from the fridge, and proceeded to smother his eggs in it.
Rory stared at him. “God, you’re disgusting.”
“Ketchup brings me joy.”
For some reason, Rory thought that was hysterical and he dissolved into snorted, hiccupy giggles. The same kind that had left Rory a snorting, laughing mess at last year’s Christmas party.
The same night he’d kissed Kris.
If Kris had thought about that sloppy, back-of-an-Uber kiss more than once in the intervening months, well . . . it wasn’t Kris’s fault. Despite tasting like a barroom floor, that kiss had awoken something in him. Not feelings. More of an awareness of Rory as something other than Kris’s best friend’s little brother. An awareness of Rory as a fully grown man.
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About the Author:
Amy's lived with her head in the clouds since she first picked up a book as a child, and being fluent in two languages means she's read a lot of books! She first picked up a pen on a rainy day in fourth grade when her class had to stay inside for recess. Tales of treasure hunts with her classmates eventually morphed into love stories between men, and she's been writing ever since. She writes evenings and weekends—or whenever she isn't at her full-time day job saving the planet at Canada's largest environmental non-profit.
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