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4.5 stars! Shutout is a new hockey romance from Avery Keelan, and after loving Offside by this author I could not wait to dive into this next book in the same series! This is a sports (hockey) romance, they become roommates after sharing a previous one-night-stand hook up, he’s her brother’s friend and teammate, a pierced and tattooed broody hero, and a sunshiny heroine with ADHD!

Tyler is the goalie for his college hockey team and his career is under a lot of pressure when the story starts; from himself, his dad (who is also his agent), his trainers, and the prospective team he’s waiting to get a call from. Seraphina recently moved from Arizona to Massachusetts to be near her mother who is going through cancer treatments. She ends up moving in with her brother Chase (hero of book 1, Offside) and his hockey teammate roommates. She had hooked up with a mystery man at a club’s masquerade ball on Halloween and is shocked to realize it is Tyler, one of her brother’s teammates and her new roommate!

I loved the dynamic between Tyler and Sera. The back and forth texting banter and playing �21 questions� throughout was so fun. I loved seeing them get to know one another and how sweet and protective he is towards her. They keep their nicknames from their Halloween costumes throughout the story, Hades for him and Tinker Bell for her. They have to keep their relationship under wraps and a secret from her brother at first. Sera has ADHD (from the author’s own experience) and that is touched on throughout the book. This book was a lot shorter than the previous book in the series, which was nice 😅, but I did want more hockey action/time in this one. I just had a fun time with this one and flew through it, I just love this author’s hockey romances!

CW: parent with cancer, testing for possibility of future cancer for MC