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In the Penalty Box
by Lynn Rush, Kelly Anne Blount
Published by Entangled: Teen on January 5, 2021
Genres: YA Sport Romance
Pages: 400
Format: Kindle
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The Cutting Edge meets Friday Night Lights in a sizzling new hockey romance from bestselling authors Kelly Anne Blount and Lynn Rush.
WillowFigure skating was supposed to be my whole world. But one unlucky injury and now I’m down...but I’m definitely not out. I just need to rehab—a boatload of rehab—and who’d have thought I could do it on the boys’ hockey team?
Of course, the infuriatingly hot captain of the team seems to think I’m nothing but sequins and twirls. What’s a girl to do but put him in his place? Game on.
BrodieHockey is my whole world. I’ve worked my tail off getting my team in a position to win the championships—hopefully in front of major college scouts, too—so what’s a guy to do when a figure skater ends up as our new goalie?
Of course, the distractingly sexy skater thinks I’m nothing but a testosterone-laced competitive streak. And surely she’s only biding her time to heal, then she’s gone. Game over.
In the Penalty Box by Lynn Rush and Kelly Anne Blount is a great book about a hockey player and a figure skater helping each other out.
Will Willow go back to figure skating or continue playing hockey?
Willow Covington
Willow is our first main character, and she is trying to get back in shape to return to figure skating. The problem with that, though, is that what she is already doing isn’t enough. Wind is helping her to get better while she helps his hockey team by being their goalie. Brodie also said that he would help her train for both. Now that is an accomplishment. The question is, will Willow loves playing hockey more than she does figure skating? That is the biggest question that she has to ask herself a lot throughout the book. Along with will she keep her figure skating dreams in the forefront of her mind?
Willow is a great character, and I loved following her journey of recovering from her injury to figuring out that maybe going home wasn’t such a bad thing. She is great because Willow knows that she might not be able to make it back to figure skating, but she is hoping to, yet maybe she could find another passion on the ice that won’t hurt herself even more.
Brodie “Wind” Windhom
Brodie is focused on getting to State Championships again to get into the same college as his grandfather and dad and be on the hockey team to get through college. He has two problems with those dreams. Will that be enough to get his dad to stay at home again? And is spending so much time with Willow be a good thing in the long run for him? Those two questions he has to ask himself throughout the book.
Brodie has two different sides to him that he shows throughout that makes him such a great character. He is a typical jock type of character when he is near his friends, and only certain people see his gentler side that is reserved for his home life. Brodie’s homelife is complex, and I feel so bad for him. I hope that something good happens to him.
Five Stars
In the Penalty Box by Lynn Rush and Kelly Anne Blount is such a fantastic book that I didn’t want to put it down for anything. I admit I love watching the Cutting Edge films, and this book did such a great job of representing both hockey and figure skating life. Both sports require a lot out of the athletes, and that if it helps some people recover from injuries as it does with Willow, that is fantastic. I love the banter between Brodie and Willow. In the Penalty Box by Lynn Rush and Kelly Anne Blount deserves a five-star rating and a recommendation to anyone that likes a young adult sports romance.
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About Kelly Anne Blount
USA Today Bestselling author and Wattpad Star Kelly Anne Blount has more than seventy-three-thousand followers on social media. Her Wattpad stories have been read more than twenty-million times. She’s contributed to Tap, Wattpad’s new app for chat-style stories, where her work has been “tapped” more than fifty-million times. She is a writer and reviewer for SpoilerTV, which has allowed her to develop an incredible network of film and TV stars.
Two of her Wattpad works, including Captured (seventeen-million reads), have been optioned for film by Komixx Entertainment, and she is regularly invited to present seminars about social media at author events.
About Lynn Rush
Lynn Rush: New York Times & USA Today Bestselling Author, Lynn Rush, is a full-time writer, wife, and trail runner living in the Sonoran Desert, despite her fear of rattle snakes. Known as #TheRunningWriter, Lynn can’t resist posting epic sunrise pictures while running in the desert with her trail sisters, even if she has to occasionally hop a scorpion.
When she’s not running or writing, she’s watching movies that fuel her everlasting love of superheroes, vampires, and all things Supernatural. The books she reads usually carry the same theme, but this former college athlete loves reading sweet sports romances as well.
She’s madly in love with her Ironman husband of 20+ years who is the inspiration for what true love is.
Reading this book contributed to these challenges:
- 2021 Alphabet Soup Reading Challenge
- 2021 Goodreads Reading Challenge
- 2021 New Release Reading Challenge
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