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Review / Release Blitz: Restraint (Stingrays Hockey #1) by Mari Carr


RESTRAINT
Mari Carr
Release Date: June 18

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Why you need to #ONECLICK this book…
🔥Hockey Player
🔥ER Doctor
🔥Steamy
🔥Contemporary Romance
🔥Opposites Attract
🔥Neighbors
🔥Co-parenting a dog


Girlfriend…without benefits?

Hometown hockey hero, Blake has life completely figured out. He’s footloose and fancy free with the world’s coolest job and an endless parade of puck bunnies ready to help him celebrate his victories. The status quo is working for him, so why does he agree to co-parent a stray puppy with his too-serious, workaholic neighbor, Erika? And why is he so annoyed when she suddenly starts dating some tool named Doug? And why can’t he stop finding excuses to see her and touch her and kiss her and… She’s not his girlfriend, right?

Erika has enough on her plate as an ER doctor without adding any more stress to her life. So adopting a dog with Blake, the fun-loving, never-take-anything-serious, commitment-phobe across the hall is a stupid idea, right? Of course, she also probably shouldn’t be his plus-one for charity galas either. Or seeking comfort from him during a thunderstorm. Or kissing his five-for-fighting boo-boos better. Or letting him teach her how to “reduce stress” with her personal toy collection. After all, he’s not her boyfriend. Is he?

So what happens when two people reluctant to commit find love where they least expect it… Right across the hall.


MY REVIEW


When Blake's neighbor turned him down flat, instead of taking the loss and moving on, he and Erika became best friends instead. They've even adopted a puppy and are raising her together. But instead of the friends only space they've stayed in all this time, now feelings are starting to develop that are way more than friendly.


Erika doesn't have time for much aside from her job as an ER doctor. So why is she adopting a dog with the pesky guy next door who somehow became her best friend? And why the hell is she starting to think of him as more than a friend, when she friend zoned him way back in the beginning when she rejected him flatly? Blake seems to be the least likely person to be a good boyfriend, but after having been friends this long, she's seen the best parts of him - the ones disguised by his playboy image.


These two took their own sweet time figuring themselves and their relationship out! But though they were both reluctant, and oblivious at first, they were seriously adorable. Blake surprised me at first, having initially come across as just the f boy Erika thought he was. Thank God he turned out to be an absolute sweetheart, because she deserved the great guy he actually turned out to be. Friends to lovers can be boring for the lack of a better term, but with Erika and Blake's chemistry, their snark and banter, there is no way they can be described any anything but hot, funny, and sweet.


Meet Mari Carr
Virginia native Mari Carr is a New York Times and USA TODAY bestseller of contemporary sexy romance and romantic suspense novels. With over two million copies of her books sold, Mari was the winner of the Romance Writers of America’s Passionate Plume award for her novella, Erotic Research. She has over a hundred published works, including her popular Wild Irish and Compass books, along with the Trinity Masters series she writes with Lila Dubois.

Connect with Mari Carr
https://maricarr.com
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