This was such a good book. The balance between hockey and MM story line was perfect. It was a cute story how they went from friends/roommates to lovers. Also the addict storyline was well written. It got his sad moments with addiction and family issues but the love story made everything better. How they're both there for each other was perfection. I couldn't put the book down until I finished it.
4,5 stars

I had a bit of a hard time getting into this, because the writing wasn’t really my thing. There was a lot of telling and not showing and the conversations between the characters as well as their inner monologues felt stilted and chopped to me. 

There were also <b>so many side characters</b> that didn’t really interest me but took up a lot of page time, especially in the beginning and before our main characters were properly established. I was mostly confused for the first 20% of the book, ngl. Like, did I miss 3 sequels to this?

At last the focus shifted to our MCs Lucky and Lars and that’s when things got more enjoyable for me. Thank god I‘m a sucker for pining, hurt/comfort and possessiveness because we have this in abundance here! 
Also the smut was <i>good</i>! These two could not control their boners or keep their hands off each other which led to many a steamy situation! 😏


<u>Kinks and CW</u>
Praise 
Dirty talk
Spit as lube 
Light exhibitionism
‚Mine‘ 
Light bondage 
Orgasm control
Felching 
Breeding

Drug addiction and overdosing
Codependency 
Alcoholism
Emotionally abusive parents 

Thanks to netgalley for this arc!

I am getting to be quite familiar with Heather Leighson’s work. I read her previous series, Unframed Art. Characters from that series are mentioned in this book, but they aren’t main characters, so if you haven’t read that series you can read this without any worries. (You should probably check that series out though).

If you enjoy spicy stories, this is a great one for you! Teammates Lars and Dylon are best friends. After Dylon had some struggles with addiction a year ago, Lars was there to take care of him, and became very protective. This protectiveness turns in to deeper feelings towards Dylon, and as our men figure themselves and their sexualities out, their relationship moves past good friendship.

Dylon comes from a low income background with parents that resemble parasites. Part of me wants to know more about what happened with them, because I can’t believe they will just let things drop.

Overall, this was a very satisfying book, which was a perfect read for this snowy day. I’m interested to see where this series goes after this!

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher/author for this copy of the book.

I liked it. Definitely spicy. Something about Lars really fell short for me for the first half of the book. I think in the author’s attempt to make him a brooding Swede they accidentally made him kinda boring. Once everything got going though Lars was very sweet. I loved the two of them together, and even though they kind of had the same conversation over and over, they were very supportive of each other’s issues and very good together.

Lars has supported Dylon through the roughest period of his professional and personal life. As team mates and housemates they have become close because of their respective life journies and traumas. They are a little stuck as both have feelings for one another but don’t know how to progress that part of their relationship for fear of ruining their friendship.

Misconduct Zone tackles addiction and co-dependence amongst a range of hard hitting issues. The issues are managed sensitively and Lars particularly is as supportive and as understanding as can be. There’s a mix of hockey and relationships throughout. It’s a fairly male-centric book (one of the females is incredibly objectionable but there are a couple of other females depicted more positively, though their roles are pretty fleeting).

This became fairly intense once feelings were recognised (still waters run deep with Lars) and I was worried it was going to overwhelm the story but that didn’t end up happening. There were some loose ends throughout but I’m hopeful these will be addressed in future books.

This is the first work of the author I have read and appreciate being able to do so through Netgalley.

Great book!