Super quick and easy read. I love hockey romance and this book fit right into it! I love the small town, second chance romance. Dan is a NHL player returning home and runs into Kiera. Dan was very much not feeding into “puck bunny” behavior and I loved that. Overall I loved their relationship and loved the writing .

3⭐️ Thank you to NetGalley and Wild Lime Books for an advanced copy of The Rebound Play.

Keira has her hands full with her job, helping to care for her sister Clara, and running her niece and nephew around to different activities but she takes it all in stride. Until her famous and attractive NHL star ex boyfriend Dan comes back to town and throws her life upside down. They were high school sweethearts and both secretly still in love with one another. Will they get a second chance at love?

I liked this book it was a cute second chance at love romance but it was a little predictable.

The Rebound Play: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Keira and Dan were high school sweethearts who called it quits when Dan left for college. Keira, aka Kiki, has been back in their small town of Maple Falls for awhile now, helping her sister, but she never forgot her first love, Dan. When Dan has a chance to come back to Maple Falls for a small hockey tournament for charity, he jumps at the chance, especially as he wants Keira back. But Keira is a little hesitant to try their relationship again, especially when Dan has a firm date for when he leaves. Dan on the other hand knows that Keira is his forever, so he does everything in his power to help Keira make the right decision, to choose them.

This was such a cute second chance romance. I laughed out loud at all the ways that Kiki successfully avoided Dan whenever he came back to Maple Falls for his quick trips, and especially her epic fails once Dan is back for an extended visit. Dan was a little too cocky for me at the beginning, but Kiki helped soften his slightly rough edges. I’m loving watching the world building between the different books in this series, and the map at the beginning really helped keep the placement of everything straight in my head, but I’m probably going to have to make a map of characters and how they are all connected, especially over the rest of the series. I highly recommend this new hockey sweet romance series!

This book was fun in a lot of ways. It had the small town charm and the plot and characters were fun. For me it just got boring and too predicable. I felt like I wasn’t very invested in their relationship. I also did not enjoy the one-dimensional “puck bunnies,” they were used as a way to hate women and pit women against each other unnecessarily.