Rating: 5š
Blade, the 5th novel in the Boston Rebels series, is absolutely my favorite story to date. Even with the issues Iāve mentioned when reviewing some of the preceding books still present, the storylines, the outstanding characters, and their quietly remarkable romance shine so strongly that everything else is forgotten.
We are given two main characters, with different traumatic events in their background. Both stem from catastrophic events.
For former Boston Rebels hockey player, Moral āDunnyā Dunkirk, itās a plane accident that has left him a depressed amputee without his team and unable to go forward.
Cooper Harvey, inventor and billionaire, was orphaned at a early age in an volcanic explosion, that came close to taking his and his uncleās. A brilliant inventor as well as owner of a enormous company which uses his inventions in multiple ways, Cooper is autistic which makes relying on a special circle of people necessary in order to navigate life .
In every way, through dialogue, detailed scenes, the authors knowledge of people who have or are struggling with PTSD, adjusting to life as a amputee, the loss of a lifetime passion and love of hockey, depression, the challenges someone who is autistic faces throughout their lifetime, from bullying in school to prejudice in the board of directors.
Itās such a deeply honest and emotional display of men at their most raw and flayed. Watching Dunny rebuild his life with the help and love of Cooper is so heartwarming, so heartfelt that you want to reread passages as soon as you finish them.
I laughed at Cooperās jokes, and cried with Dunny at each step forward he made. And together, they were quietly unstoppable.
I wasnāt ready for their story to finish. As Iāve remarked before, this really isnāt about a team as it is the men leaving it. I have zero feelings about the Rebels. But about Dunny and Cooper? They are everything!
I could see a series about a sled team. Now THAT would be something to read about.
Iām highly recommending Blade (Boston Rebels Book 5) by RJ Scott and V.L. Locey. It is easily the finest book in the series or contemporary romance Iāve read lately.
https://www.goodreads.com āŗ showBlade by R.J. Scott – Goodreads
Boston Rebels:
š¹Top Shelf #1
š¹Back Check #2
š¹Snowed #3
š¹Royal Lines #4
š¹Blade #5
Synopsis:
Love doesnāt have a formula. Itās messy, unpredictable, and impossible to control for the autistic billionaire inventor and the hockey player who believes heās lost everything.
Moral āDunnyā Dunkirk has a passion for life. A robust outdoorsman, lover of life, and one of the Boston Rebels fan favorites, Dunny has always embraced excitement and the drive to try new things. During his inaugural flight behind the controls of a small plane, the fates decide to test his mettle in a way that he had never envisioned. When everything crashes down around him, heās lost in depression and alone in his cabin, facing an existence that is nothing like the one he previously led. Desperate to find some hope, Dunny reaches out to The Harvey Foundation who might be able to help, and he soon finds himself being lifted out of the pit of darkness heād fallen into one shy uplifting smile at a time.
Accidental billionaire and inventor Cooper Harvey is only happy in the seclusion of his lab, creating new and wonderful things he is sure will make the world a better place. Being on the spectrum, he knows being autistic means he’s different to others, but it’s in a good way, and it only makes him better at what he does. Other than being blackmailed into spending every fourth Sunday at his PAās house for dinner, he avoids the chaos of the world, and if that means no social life, then heās okay with that. In the most splendid isolation money can buy, he escapes the complicated and difficult emotions surrounding attraction, and his single-minded focus means that sex and love have never appeared on his list. When his latest invention reaches the testing stage, he would normally hand it over to his development team, but a chance meeting with the test subject makes him rethink. Something about the hockey player whoād lost it all makes him think life isnāt all about measured chemical reactions, and sometimes itās just about the craziness of love.
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Unless itās noted, all books reviewed have been purchased by the reviewer.
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