Edging Coach

Edging coach By: L.A. Witt & Gabbi Grey 📚💕⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💕📚 It’s shouldn’t work but it thrives! In another amazing book by L.A. Witt and author Gabbi Grey we get an amazing forbidden romance. Couch and player and complete roll reversal. It shouldn’t work, younger player, dominate vs submissive and so much respect for each other. The chemistry is perfect page after page. The authors write with so much intensity and emotion pulled from each book it’s felt page after page. Some have quick witted story lines that are so perfect and lets you believe you have a front row seat. So being able to read this love story didn’t disappoint. The authors ability to have two separate individuals struggling in their everyday life and try to navigate someone else’s thoughts, needs and desires was intense and gives all the fills. Authors blurb: Retired hockey star Jack Showalter is ready for a new challenge: taking over as head coach of the disastrous Abbotsford Grizzlies and turning their horrific season around. Except Jack isn’t the Grizzlies’ onlymid-season acquisition. Blueliner Devon Jarvis just wanted a no-strings hookup the night before his first practice with his new team. He didn’t expect the silver fox from the app to be such an eager submissive. He didn’t expect to want more than a single, first-name-only night. He definitely didn’t expect to walk into the locker room and recognize his new coach. Now Jack and Devon are struggling to focus on hockey while the chemistry sizzles…

Coach Jack Showalter was a famous hockey player in his day. He was also a trail blazer. He was the first player to come out as gay and later to get married to his lover once gay marriage was accepted. But, after his playing days were over, his need to “play nice” to everybody’s rules was also over. His husband became his Ex and at 43yo Jack was looking for a new challenge. He gets his new life when the Abbotsford Grizzlies need a new coach and they too need a new beginning from their atrocious losing streak. The Grizzlies are getting a new defenseman 25yo Devon Jarvis. The night before their first practice, two gay men meet and have a wonderful evening. The next day these same two men meet as Coach of the Grizzlies and its new defenseman. Can they keep their relationship as a one-night-stand? Coach has found what was missing in his marriage and Devon has found something he did not know he needed. So many possibilities. There is also a bit of intrigue in the form of a jealous player. If you like gay sports romance with lots of intimate details, you will want to check out this book. I volunteered to review it through Gay Romance Reviews.

Abbotsford, British Columbia is the home of the Grizzlies, the farm club for Vancouver’s NHL team. Jack Showalter is a retired American hockey star, the first openly gay player in the NHL. While a shoulder injury put him out of competition, he still has a lot to offer, and he’s come to Abbotsford to take over as their new head coach. The Grizzlies are having a horrible season, and the former coach was a jerk. Devon Jarvis has just been traded to the Grizzlies from Toronto’s farm team which no one can understand. Devon had been playing since before he was old enough to lace his own skate and he’s a phenomenal talent. It was supposed to be a hookup the night before the both reported to the club. Neither knew the other, neither knew they were both hockey stars. Jack didn’t know Devon was into kink and he also didn’t know that he’d been looking for a Dom since he divorced his husband. They both had a hard time controlling their faces when the met the next morning at the rink. Devon wasn’t out and they both knew that an inappropriate relationship between a coach and one of his players would tank both of their careers. But they couldn’t stop. There would always be a few homophobic players on any team although BC was a gentler place to live and work. And there were certainly plenty of homophobic NHL fans. Unfortunately, there would always be players who would do anything, literally anything, to tank another player’s career if it meant they could get ahead. I’ve only recently come…

I received an advanced copy of this book and could not be happier to leave my review. Edging Coach is filled with heat, chemistry and all the feels. This is an intense and emotional book that takes you on a roller coaster of love. The depth of feelings between Jack and Devon is profound. I wasn’t sure if I could get into the story and I was absorbed from the first page. I love a good May/December romance, and this gave it to me. Excellent read, you won’t want to put it down!

This was my first book by either author. I rate this book 4.5 stars rounded up to 5 stars. The only problem with a cowritten book is that it's impossible to determine which aspects I liked or disliked to attribute to which author. There was a lot to like about Jack and Devon's story. The plot was interesting and the dramatic tension held all the way through. I've always enjoyed a D/s age gap story where the younger man is the Dom. Devon was a particularly caring, considerate Dom in all the best ways. Jack's sense of ethics made him admirable, and it was very satisfying to see them work through Jack's past trauma and achieve their hard-won HEA. However, some scenes were choppy and poorly paced, especially the scenes involving Mickey. Some felt like they were added later in the writing process, and I felt those could have been written better. However, overall this is a good story that makes me eager to read more by these authors.