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Over the summer I had a giveaway of sports related romance books. I asked the question, what are your favorite sports romance books? Body Check and the New York Blades series was suggested several times. Right away I put a ton of books on my wishlist. So when I was looking for a good alpha athlete and his spunky heroine, I picked this one up as my first try.

Janna MacNeil is a successful publicist, working to turn around even the worst images. When a winning hockey team needs a new image, she jumps at the job only to be stone walled by one player in particular, Ty Gallagher the captain of the New York Blades. Ty’s only goal is to win the Stanley Cup again and doesn’t give a fig about what the owners want.

The two clash over everything and it gets old fast. I don’t think Janna asks to much for the players to volunteer for good causes, but Ty stands firm on not doing anything that the owners want. He’s not really a bad guy, just jaded. He feels he got the owners the Stanely Cup and plans to get it again. What more do they want from him.

Then there is Janna who puts on a good tough front, but inside she doubts herself over and over. Coming from a family with really no love. Her parents don’t get along, her sisters are beautiful bitches and a younger brother she adores, but is so messed up by his parents arguing. Secretly she wants to own her own publicist company, but to scare to go out on her own.

Then there is an incident that didn’t sit well with me over all. One of the other players abuses Janna’s best friend on a date. She escapes, but when she presses charges, it is Janna’s department looking for dirt on the friend and trying to discredit her. While Janna wasn’t involved with the dirt finding, she was pressured to work on the friend to get her to drop the charges. Ty didn’t totally believe everything at first, but then he steps in with a solution that I thought was a piece of crap. In the end, the friend probably would never have won, but this just didn’t seem to give the other player much of a punishment for his actions.

So the story was just ok. I didn’t grow to love either character nor any of the side characters. They all just left me feeling the world is filled with useless people who don’t give a crap about anyone but themselves. Oh, wait I did like two characters. I liked Kevin and his wife. Kevin was an assistant captain and Ty’s only friend. Unfortunately, the book wasn’t about Kevin.

In the end, there is a twist that made me really want to throw Ty into outer space and leave him there. He just wasn’t a stand up guy and no way would I ever trust him with my heart. Janna just wasn’t the confident female she needed to be to put Ty in his place. She was his doormat I felt and bent to what he wanted. While there was the element of sports, I think I am done with this series unfortunately.


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Body Check New York Blades Deirdre Martin 9780515134896 Books Reviews

Janna is a publicist who has been hired to change the image of the New York Blades. These men are players in every sense of the word and they need to start projecting the family image or the owners may start firing people. Ty is team captain and all he cares about is winning, he doesn't let anything get in the way. He doesn't do romance and he doesn't have time for the Janna. They are attracted to each other and they begin a relationship, but Ty still won't let anything interfere with his career. Janna has to decide if she can handle Ty being gone all the time and Ty has to decide is Janna is more important to him than Hockey. Janna is a wonderful main character; she works hard and will be unconventional when needed. She also cares about her family and does not put up with peoples bull. Ty is your typical male sports star, he can get any girl he wants, and he also only really cares about hockey. Both of them take you on a roller coaster of emotions throughout the book. I loved their story and I really loved how Ty and the other players stood up for Janna's friend. I will definitely be reading the rest of this series.
STORY BRIEF
The new owners of the New York Blades hockey team hire Janna to change the image of the players - the bad boys of hockey. Her first challenge is to get each player to sign up for three charity events during the coming year. When she addresses the group asking for volunteers, no one comes forward. Then she asks Ty (team captain) hoping he will be first; he defiantly says no in front of the rest of the team. The story continues with other aspects of Janna's PR job as well as getting the players to do charitable work. A coworker is jealous of Janna, making things difficult. A couple of the players continue to misbehave causing more work for Janna. Although Janna and Ty are attracted to each other Ty doesn't want a relationship. Past experience has shown that he doesn't play as well when there is a woman in his life. Hockey comes first. The most he wants is a short-term casual affair.

REVIEWER'S OPINION (WITH MILD SPOILERS)
There were a few scenes where the author told rather than showed, which bothered me. Examples follow.

1. Page 52 For a month "Janna the Human Terrier had been on him (Ty), relentlessly cajoling and wheedling and pleading and begging and bargaining, trying to get him to show his face at an event, any event. Which, of course, he wouldn't."

2. Page 67 Ty speaking to Janna "You march into the locker room day after day and tell the team what's what." "You should feel proud about how many of the guys have been willing to see things your way and cooperate on the PR stuff. It's a testament to your feistiness and powers of persuasion."

Regarding both of the above, I wanted to see some actual conversations. I wanted to see examples of her saying and doing different things to Ty. I wanted to see examples of what she said to individual players that persuaded them to do charitable events. I wanted to see examples that would cause me to say "Wow. She is good." Instead the author merely tells me that she was feisty with powers of persuasion.

3. There was a sex scene on page 125 and an attempted rape scene on page 130, both of which were told about after the fact rather than shown. Again, I was disappointed. The reader was deprived of experiencing the story. Sometimes telling can be good, but in these cases showing would have been better.

The story was not as lighthearted as I expected, being a sports romance. For example it touches on some of life's frustrations and unfortunate events the fighting of parents which indirectly hurts their children, a jealous and conniving coworker sabotaging another, a wealthy man abusing a woman who will lose because she doesn't have enough finances to fight him fairly, a good man who nearly dies because he overeats and doesn't take care of his health. These elements take the reader more toward the thought provoking as opposed to entertaining escape. This is worthwhile. It's just different than I expected.

The ending with Ty and Janna was too sudden - his actions and her "too easily accepting" needed more development.

DATA
Story length 323 pages. Swearing language strong. Sexual language strong. Number of sex scenes 3. Total number of sex scene pages 8. Setting current day New York and Connecticut. Copyright 2003. Genre contemporary sports romance.
Over the summer I had a giveaway of sports related romance books. I asked the question, what are your favorite sports romance books? Body Check and the New York Blades series was suggested several times. Right away I put a ton of books on my wishlist. So when I was looking for a good alpha athlete and his spunky heroine, I picked this one up as my first try.

Janna MacNeil is a successful publicist, working to turn around even the worst images. When a winning hockey team needs a new image, she jumps at the job only to be stone walled by one player in particular, Ty Gallagher the captain of the New York Blades. Ty’s only goal is to win the Stanley Cup again and doesn’t give a fig about what the owners want.

The two clash over everything and it gets old fast. I don’t think Janna asks to much for the players to volunteer for good causes, but Ty stands firm on not doing anything that the owners want. He’s not really a bad guy, just jaded. He feels he got the owners the Stanely Cup and plans to get it again. What more do they want from him.

Then there is Janna who puts on a good tough front, but inside she doubts herself over and over. Coming from a family with really no love. Her parents don’t get along, her sisters are beautiful bitches and a younger brother she adores, but is so messed up by his parents arguing. Secretly she wants to own her own publicist company, but to scare to go out on her own.

Then there is an incident that didn’t sit well with me over all. One of the other players abuses Janna’s best friend on a date. She escapes, but when she presses charges, it is Janna’s department looking for dirt on the friend and trying to discredit her. While Janna wasn’t involved with the dirt finding, she was pressured to work on the friend to get her to drop the charges. Ty didn’t totally believe everything at first, but then he steps in with a solution that I thought was a piece of crap. In the end, the friend probably would never have won, but this just didn’t seem to give the other player much of a punishment for his actions.

So the story was just ok. I didn’t grow to love either character nor any of the side characters. They all just left me feeling the world is filled with useless people who don’t give a crap about anyone but themselves. Oh, wait I did like two characters. I liked Kevin and his wife. Kevin was an assistant captain and Ty’s only friend. Unfortunately, the book wasn’t about Kevin.

In the end, there is a twist that made me really want to throw Ty into outer space and leave him there. He just wasn’t a stand up guy and no way would I ever trust him with my heart. Janna just wasn’t the confident female she needed to be to put Ty in his place. She was his doormat I felt and bent to what he wanted. While there was the element of sports, I think I am done with this series unfortunately.