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A review by litwithleigh
A Favor for a Favor by Helena Hunting
3.0
writing: normal | plot: fun and light-hearted | ending: hea | spice: surprisingly slow burn
my opinion
Confession: I thought Helena Hunting was the same author who wrote [b:The Heart Principle|50056075|The Heart Principle (The Kiss Quotient, #3)|Helen Hoang|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1634059904l/50056075._SX50_.jpg|68489545] and I was like "oh wow, someone's got RANGE." Turns out she is in fact NOT Helena Hoang. My b.
Another hockey romance, Leigh? Yezzzirrrr!!! This was a quick workplace-ish hockey romcom. Take your thinking hat off for this one because we cannot normalize getting boners during physio sessions. I hate to say this, but it's truly a case of: if the feelings weren't mutual, this has #metoo written all over it.
If you're into KU hockey romcoms and don't mind a slow burn with only one full-on spicy scene AND you're a millennial, I would dub this a Honda Civic Reliable. Stevie and Bishop have great banter and chemistry, Bishop was decently normal for an MMC, and Stevie was only prone to a handful of pick-me tendencies. However, her thinking her ex wearing a tank-top (muscle shirts) between physio clients was endearing and Bishop calling her bae without irony... 3 life sentences to be served consecutively.
pros and cons
pros: easy, fun, and fluffy read (as long as you turn your critical thinking skills off), good pacing, subplot with Stevie's ex was handled well, good chemistry and banter between Bishop and Stevie
cons: veered into "dogs like bones, real men like meat" territory—or whatever tf that saying was (I ain't googling it), pretty much broke every HR rule globally
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my opinion
Confession: I thought Helena Hunting was the same author who wrote [b:The Heart Principle|50056075|The Heart Principle (The Kiss Quotient, #3)|Helen Hoang|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1634059904l/50056075._SX50_.jpg|68489545] and I was like "oh wow, someone's got RANGE." Turns out she is in fact NOT Helena Hoang. My b.
Another hockey romance, Leigh? Yezzzirrrr!!! This was a quick workplace-ish hockey romcom. Take your thinking hat off for this one because we cannot normalize getting boners during physio sessions. I hate to say this, but it's truly a case of: if the feelings weren't mutual, this has #metoo written all over it.
If you're into KU hockey romcoms and don't mind a slow burn with only one full-on spicy scene AND you're a millennial, I would dub this a Honda Civic Reliable. Stevie and Bishop have great banter and chemistry, Bishop was decently normal for an MMC, and Stevie was only prone to a handful of pick-me tendencies. However, her thinking her ex wearing a tank-top (muscle shirts) between physio clients was endearing and Bishop calling her bae without irony... 3 life sentences to be served consecutively.
pros and cons
pros: easy, fun, and fluffy read (as long as you turn your critical thinking skills off), good pacing, subplot with Stevie's ex was handled well, good chemistry and banter between Bishop and Stevie
cons: veered into "dogs like bones, real men like meat" territory—or whatever tf that saying was (I ain't googling it), pretty much broke every HR rule globally
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Check out my YouTube and my TikTok