But it’s an image and a job that Ryan wrestles with, and which has been weighing down on him more and more as the years have passed, because that’s not who he is at all. On the ice, he’s an enforcer, someone other players actually aspire to fight with – especially rookies, for whom “paying the Price” is something of a rite of passage. While I wasn’t as utterly caught up in the romance here as I was in the previous book ( Heated Rivalry – which made my Best of 2019 list), I nonetheless enjoyed the novel, and appreciated the way the author flips the stereotype of the confident, ripped jock so often found in sports romances (both m/f and m/m) and creates instead an endearing, gentle-giant-type character with severe self-esteem issues who struggles to reconcile the person he truly is with the one he’s expected to be on the ice.Īt six-feet-seven inches, with a build like a bulldozer, Ryan Price knows how to intimidate. Tough Guy is book three in Rachel Reid’s Game Changers series, set in the world of professional hockey.
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