So Over You (Chicago Rebels series) by Kate Meader

Title: So Over You

Author: Kate Meader

Release Date: December 19, 2017

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Blurb: Three estranged sisters struggle to sustain their late father’s failing hockey franchise in Kate Meader’s sizzling Chicago Rebels series. In this second entry, middle sister Isobel is at a crossroads in her personal and professional lives. But both are about to get a significant boost with the addition of a domineering Russian powerhouse to the Rebels...

Isobel Chase knows hockey. She played NCAA, won silver at the Games, and made it thirty-seven minutes into the new National Women’s Hockey League before an injury sidelined her dreams. Those who can’t, coach, and a position as a skating consultant to her late father’s hockey franchise, the Chicago Rebels, seems like a perfect fit. Until she’s assigned her first job: the man who skated into her heart as a teen and relieved her of her pesky virginity. These days, left-winger Vadim Petrov is known as the Czar of Pleasure, a magnet for puck bunnies and the tabloids alike. But back then... let’s just say his inability to sink the puck left Isobel frustratingly scoreless.

Vadim has a first name that means “ruler,” and it doesn’t stop at his birth certificate. He dominates on the ice, the practice rink, and in the backseat of a limo. But a knee injury has produced a bad year, and bad years in the NHL don’t go unrewarded. His penance? To be traded to a troubled team where his personal coach is Isobel Chase, the woman who drove him wild years ago when they were hormonal teens. But apparently the feeling was not entirely mutual.

That Vadim might have failed to give Isobel the pleasure that was her right is intolerable, and he plans to make it up to her—one bone-melting orgasm at a time. After all, no player can perfect his game without a helluva lot of practice...

Review:  Holy %&$#.  If I could end my review of So Over You by Kate Meader with those words (and symbols) I would, but I feel I owe it to you to describe what an outstanding novel this was. 

First off, I didn’t read the first novel in the series because I didn’t even know there was one until I read the blurb and saw “second entry”.  Whoops.  All that means is that I’ve got more reading to do.  This book was so amazing that I have no doubt that the ones about her sisters and other members of the hockey team will be equally as spectacular.

The only part of the book that I didn’t like was the cover because I didn’t feel that it accurately encompassed what I was about to fall into.  I went into this read reluctantly thinking I was about to read a so-so sports novel and was just hoping that it wasn’t a complete waste of my time.  Oh my god.  I need to stop judging books by their covers because my life would be so much worse if I’d never read So Over You.

Maybe I’ve got a thing for Russian men?  I’ve found that some of my favorite books involve Russian men.  Vadim is definitely in my “Top Ten Hottest Men Ever” list.  Whether it was his accent (that I picked up on throughout the entire novel), his penchant for speaking Russian, or that internal dialogue of his… long, drawn out sigh.  He is something else.  Whenever he opened up that beautiful mouth of his and spoke dirty I found myself whispering, “Holy shit” out loud in my empty living room.

Isobel was a wonderful protagonist.  She was strong and confident and a star on the ice, but she also had those insecurities we all like to see within our characters.  I really enjoyed learning more about her and getting to watch her work her way out of the dark and into Vadim’s arms.  The best part was that she gave as much as she got… and what a treat that was.

And the two of them together?  Some of the best scenes I’ve ever read.  There wasn’t a spark… there was a full out forest fire happening between those pages.  I kept expecting the book to turn to ash in my hands.

The way Kate Meader writes is like a song and it was a song that I wanted to go on forever and ever.  I finished the book right before bed and Vadim hummed through my dreams all night.  If you’re going to pick this book as your next read (please do!) then make sure that you’re alone, that you’ve got wine nearby, and that you’ve got all night to get it done.  You will not be able to put it down.

P.S. Did I mention the next book is actually a male/male novel about their team manager?  Somebody needs to come and pick me up off the floor.

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