Deflected: Game On in Seattle

I have enjoyed this author’s writing and the series which has been sexy, entertaining, and great characters exclouding this one. Rosalind has no redeeming qualities and treated Alex horribly throughout the book. She was weak, rigid , judgmental, and the list goes on. Alex deserved so much more nor should he have been the only one fighting for the relationship and apologizing. This book also lacked the heat of the other books in this series. If only we could give negative stars, I would rate this a negative 3 as a stand-alone book and a negative 10 stars for damaging the series.

I’m not sure how I missed this book when I read the series the first time, but I was thrilled that “Rush” finally got a story of his own! I loved this book, and I loved that we got to visit Madrona Island again. The story between Rosalind and Rush was beautiful, each one of them vulnerable and hiding a part of themself. Confused by their feelings for each other, will they learn to trust enough to open their hearts. I loved this!

Deflected was a Game On In Seattle, Seattle Sockeyes series book by Jami Davenport.

Alex “Rush” Markov was a star on the Seattle Sockeyes NHL team. He had been with them since the beginning of the franchise but hadn’t grown up much. He played hard, partied hard and was with different women every night. He had no plans of slowing down until the team mandated his off season at a remote island near Seattle to relax and settle down quietly.

Rosalind Newcomb was the local island bookstore owner. She was born and raised on the island and never wanted to be anywhere different. She was very set in her ways, manipulated structure, and despised disorder.

Davenport took us through the clash between Alex and Rosalind while revealing a few secrets here and there. It was a lighthearted read.

I enjoyed the plot, but I wasn’t a huge fan of Alex or Rosalind. I couldn’t quite grasp their connection. Not bad writing, just not my favorite characters of the series.

I did love the island. It took me back to the Tyler days with Homer and the Veterans club (Snap Decision, Seattle Steelheads Originals #2). I loved it then and loved it now.

I’m curious where Davenport will take this next. Alex’s teammate Cave may be next, however, he may be traded too so one never knows! Either way, looking forward to see what Davenport brings us!

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Sometimes we hide what we really are behind what we think people want to see. Alex “Rush” has hidden his inner bookworm bind a large role than life party facade for years. It was easier to be the party hard and all the time hockey player than the Russian immigrant who loved to read and play hockey. When the parting ways begin to tarnish his teams reputation, the big wigs give him an ultimatum, calm it down and step up.

Alex is sent to a little island where parting hard isn’t an option for the Summer. What he finds is Rosalind a book shop owner. Alex can’t stay away from her or her shop full of books and he finds that maybe the quieter life isn’t so badly.

Rosalind wants nothing to do with the loud not to mention big and arrogant hockey player but as she gets to know him she sees what she behind the act. A man she’s could just fall in love with if she let herself.

Life is easy on the little island away from the “real” world but when Alex’s old life begins to intrude will he choose love or fall back into his old ways no can Rosalind deal with the famous hockey star life style?

Alex is so fun and alpha and yummy and Rosalind is just uptight enough that you can’t help but watch and hope they will balance each other out.

Deflected is a story of never judge a book by its cover because you might miss an awesome story.

I received an advanced readers copy of this book for a honest review.

Loved this next book in the Game in In Seattle series. I love hockey romance and Jami Davenport never fails to deliver a page Turner. In this book Alex a member of the Seattle hockey team has been partying too much following the team winning the Stanley Cup, the owner, the coaches, and the Captain tell him he needs to clean up his act and they want him to go stay at the owners house on an island off the coast for a little while and think about whether he want to continue with the team and work towards being a Captain. Roz owns the bookstore on the island and she and Alex seem to rub each other the wrong way but Alex reads a lot so they are going to see a lot of each other and he likes rubbing her the wrong way and he can't understand why his charms are not working on her. They are working but he doesn't fit into her cookie cutter world. Maybe he can get her to loosen up and she can get him to straighten up, but only if she will stop throwing him out of the bookstore.

I can't wait for Jami's next book

Yankee Brotherhood!!! It was funny to see them show up. But back to the actual review. This book can be read as a stand alone. I have read some of the other Seattle books, but not all. You would just get more out of the secondary characters if you had read the other books. You do not feel as if you miss out on anything at all. This was a great book with a combination of a small town romance, sports romance with chemistry thrown in. I loved the combination and of course the HEA. Can't wait for the next book.

This was, I believe, the second book of Jami's I've read. And honestly, an out of country hockey player who essentially taught himself English from reading books? My heart burst in heart eye emoticons. Rosalind is my ideal type of person I wish I was (except the not a fan of hockey part because I love hockey too much).

I adored this book to pieces. It's one of the few that I've read that is 100% completely in the off season for hockey. Was definitely different than what I'm use to but not in a bad way different. As I said, I adored this book. If you like hockey players and bookish bookstore owners and lovely descriptions of the island it's set on. Which, not sure if the author knew this or not, but Madrona Island is a real island in Vancouver, British Columbia between mainland Vancouver and Vancouver Island. But I'm weird and like to look things up like that because it doesn't change my viewpoint on the book just makes me go "huh. interesting". But yeah, this will definitely become one of my re-reads.