Title: Love On Ice
Series: Cannon City Book #2
Stand Alone Title: yes
Author: Lauren Marie
Genre: Romance
Blurb: Kate Beck once was a nationally
recognized figure skater. Eight years ago, on the brink of being one of the top
three skaters in the United States, her dreams came crashing down at the hands
of her coach and her mother. She walked away and has hidden from her mother
ever since. Moving from place to place, she gets off a bus in Canon City, finds
a job and settles in for the winter. She’s been lonely and dreams that one day
she’ll meet a man, have a family and be able to stay in one place. It’s been
eight years of running. She hopes her mother has given up the search for her.
Jay Hager grew up in Canon City. He once was an ice hockey player who got
picked up by the NHL and played briefly for a junior team. At nineteen years of
age, he blew his knee out and his career was at an end. He returned to Canon
and bought a dilapidated skating rink. His business has done very well. He
notices a beautiful strawberry blonde sits every weekend in the bleachers at
the rink and she watches the skating classes and his pee-wee hockey team
practice. He would like to get to know her, but finds a mystery around her.
Will Kate stay long enough to find love or let her past fears overwhelm all the
good emotions she feels for Jay? Will her mother find her and tear her new
world apart?
Thoughts: This is a sweet little romance – Kate is living on the run and trying to remain incognito. She has an immediate connection with Jay, who notices her immediately and has the vague idea he has seen her before. Kate has a past…one she is desperately trying to outrun, rather than turn around and face it head-on. However, as the book progresses, we get to see how truly evil her mother is!
The book is a bit slow to start, and I felt like the characters were inconsistent. Their behavior just didn’t match their words. It bugged me a little bit (Kate was especially bad for it), but it was a small thing in the scheme of the story. The further I got into it as a reader, the better the story became.
It was a pleasant, sweet romance that had a bit of a small-town feel to it and is definitely worth a read.
Rating: B
