This is going to be Ryan Justice’s year. It’s his last year of college and his last year as a hockey player for the Bellevue Bullies. He’s making all the plays in preparation for achieving his dream of being drafted into the NHL.
This is Sofia Castilleja’s beginning. She is starting her college career as a star member of Bellevue’s brand-new gymnastics team. She’s going to tumble her way to success, first in school and then by realizing her dream of opening her own gym.
Ryan and Sofia didn’t see each other coming, but once they meet, they can’t look away. Their dreams are destined to take them in opposite directions. But it doesn’t take them long to realize that waking up to reality together may be better than dreaming alone.
ARC received for an honest review
If you have been reading Toni Aleo for a few years, and have read her Assassins series, you will have met our boy Ryan Justice - though he would have been a little kid back then.
Now he is all man, all grown and waiting for his call up to the NHL - and with his pedigree - he is Shea and Elli Adler's nephew - hopes are high.
I like that though he has plans, Ryan is not all about the NHL. I liked that he is taking his academic studies as serious as he takes his hockey.
Enter Sofia - his sister's roommate/bestie. I love her perseverance, I love her naivety, I love who she is.
I adored watching the relationship between them bloom and grow as they stop fighting their feeling and just... fall.
I loved seeing how the Adler's lives turned out. I loved seeing more of the Assassins. I am loving the Assassins: Next Generation.
Gah, I just really enjoyed everything about this story. Full of fun, laughter and sadness, I was hooked from the first word to the last.
Now I feel the need... the need to reread the Assassins series.
Can't wait to see what Ms Aleo brings us next.
My name
is Toni Aleo and I’m a total dork.
I am a
wife, mother of two and a bulldog,
and also
a hopeless romantic.
I am the
biggest Shea Weber fan ever, and
can be
found during hockey season with my nose pressed against the Bridgestone
Arena’s glass, watching my Nashville Predators play!
When my
nose isn’t pressed against the glass, I enjoy going to my
husband and son’s hockey games, my daughter’s dance competition, hanging with my best friends, taking pictures,
scrapbooking, and reading the latest romance novel.
I have a
slight Disney and Harry Potter
obsession,
I love things that sparkle, I love the color pink, I might have been
a Disney
Princess in a past life… probably Belle.
… and did I mention I love hockey?
