Blog Tour Review: Hat Trick by Kristen Hope Mazzola

Posted October 25, 2016 by Shannon in Blog Tour, Reviews, Shannon, Social Butterfly PR / 0 Comments

Blog Tour Review:  Hat Trick by Kristen Hope MazzolaHat Trick by Kristen Hope Mazzola
Published by Self Published Publication Date: October 17th 2016
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three-stars

One accident - a freaking car crash.
That’s all it took to send my brother’s and my life into a tailspin with no end in sight. I was going to be something. I was going to be the best. I had the Olympics in my sights. And it all went to shit in one flash. Brayden wasn’t ready to raise a younger sister when I was thrown into his lap. He had his life and everything going for him. Thankfully, he was still drafted to his dream hockey team. The same one dad played for when we were growing up.
It took time, but I started to get better, started to open up, started skating and even dating again. I even thought I found the perfect guy for me.
Isn’t it funny how guys hit on you when they know you’re not available, but when you’re single they won’t give you the freaking time of day? I guess the game is more fun that way. And for the captain of my brother’s team, that’s exactly what I was. A hat trick is three goals in hockey. Some say three is a crowd and they might be right.
I was Gavin Hayes' unobtainable goal.
*A No Cheating Standalone*

Cocktails and Books received this book for free from Provided by Author in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect our opinion of the book or the content of our review.

I wanted to so much to fall in love with this story.  Myla, Brayden and Gavin were linked by the hockey playing fathers and probably could have had a very angsty, emotional story.  Instead, this one fell flat to me with an unrealistic romance and storylines that left me hanging.

Myla and Gavin’s romance was almost too easy, given everything else that was happening.  They hide their romance from her brother.  He’s mad, but that seems to slip away.  Then there is the censure from Gavin’s parents over their relationship, but that also seems to fall by the wayside.  Given these huge obstacles, I wanted more angst and to have one or both of these be a factor in demonstrating how this couple should be together.  Instead they just merrily moved on and everything was OK.

Brayden was another story. He was a hot mess.  He had a lot of guilt when it came to Myla, their mother’s death and unresolved anger with their father.  He dealt with this by raging on the ice and turning to alcohol off the ice.  This storyline had a good start, but this seemed to tie up a little too neatly for someone who had such issues.

As I said above, I wanted to love this story.  But there neatly tied up storylines that felt like they should have been a lot messier bothered me a bit.  I would have been ok with the ending if there was truly some suffering and redemption for these three characters before we got there.

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About the Author:

I am just an average twenty-something following my dreams. I have a full time “day job” and by night I am an author. I guess you could say that writing is like my super power (I always wanted one of those). I am the lover of wine, sushi, football and the ocean; that is when I am not wrapped up in the literary world.

Please feel free to contact me to chat about my writing, books you think I’d like or just to shoot the, well you know.

A portion of all my royalties are donated to The Marcie Mazzola Foundation.

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I am a lover of alpha males with dirty mouths, strong heroines putting alpha males in their place, and the Chicago Blackhawks. I'm a proud hockey mom who can often be found at the hockey rink cheering on my favorite forward, with my kindle close by.