Tuesday, January 14, 2020

Roughing by Sarah Hegger




Title: Roughing
Series: Ottawa Titans #1
Author: Sarah Hegger
Genre: Contemporary Sports Romance
Release Date: January 14, 2020



Blurb

He’s the hotter than sin bad boy of hockey, on and off the ice, but right now Sam Stone is in trouble so deep, it’ll take a miracle to save his career.

A miracle like getting town sweetheart, and everybody’s go-to girl, Elizabeth Rogers to help him polish his tarnished reputation.

Problem is, Elizabeth and Sam grew up together, and she’s not even a little impressed by Sam. But she’s also the girl who—try as she might—can’t say no…

If Elizabeth and Sam can learn to play nice with each other, what will happen to all those sparks?



Review
Rating: 4.5*

Enemies to lovers - pretend lovers - sports romance all bundled into one.  This brought has brought some of my favourite elements together into one book.

Sam Stone is home with his tail between his legs after risking his hockey playing career on a bad play.  He is sidelined from the sport he loves and may never get a chance to play again. His mother sends Elizabeth to check up on him.  Elizabeth has always kind of hated Sam. He wrecked her pink playhouse and her dad was more interested in Sam than his own daughter.

Sam has lost touch with the reasons he loves his job so much but Elizabeth shows him the humility in helping those around him and not being selfish. Whilst Elizabeth is taken advantage of because of her kind nature, particularly her own family. Yet with Sam, she is fiery, passionate and stands up herself.  These two are really good for each other, if only they can get over the past and recognise the genuine chemistry between them. I loved the buzz and interactions between these two, particularly the power and confidence it brought out in Elizabeth. I could not get on board with her selfish family and the way that they take advantage of her. Elizabeth wants to be loved and appreciated.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book and the ups and downs it presents you with.  Some fantastic writing and really fun and characters you can relate to.

Purchase Links

AMAZON US / UK / CA / AU



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Author Bio

Born British and raised in South Africa, Sarah Hegger suffers from an incurable case of wanderlust. Her match? A hot Canadian engineer, whose marriage proposal she accepted six short weeks after they first met. Together they’ve made homes in seven different cities across three different continents (and back again once or twice). If only it made her multilingual, but the best she can manage is idiosyncratic English, fluent Afrikaans, conversant Russian, pigeon Portuguese, even worse Zulu and enough French to get herself into trouble.

Mimicking her globe trotting adventures, Sarah’s career path began as a gainfully employed actress, drifted into public relations, settled a moment in advertising, and eventually took root in the fertile soil of her first love, writing. She also moonlights as a wife and mother. She currently lives in Ottawa, Canada, filling her empty nest with fur babies. Part footloose buccaneer, part quixotic observer of life, Sarah’s restless heart is most content when reading or writing books.

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