Hockey player Leo Trevi has spent the last six years trying to do two things: get over the girl who broke his heart, and succeed in the NHL.

In high school they were the perfect couple-until the day Georgia left Leo in the cold.

(Not that that kind of personal development would have been believable in the course of a single date anyway.) I picked it up for free, and it was definitely worth the money I didn't spend.The first novel in a sexy series featuring the hockey players of the Brooklyn Bruisers and the women who win their hearts-from the USA Today bestselling author of the Ivy Years series. Andy is delicious, and it's easy to see his appeal, but Katie seems shallow and flaky at the start of the story, and though we get glimpses of the better person she could become, this novella doesn't really take us there. This is an entertaining geek-gets-the-girl story, but by virtue of the novella format, it's not long enough for the character development and arc that I crave in this type of story. Over the course of their date, Katie finds that Andy is everything she didn't know she was looking for: smart and decent and funny and, yes, sexy. Her roommate Scarlet (heroine of The Year We Hid Away) sets Katie up with Andy, who is a nice guy and and athlete (a basketball player), but too tall and gawky and introverted to be on Katie's radar. Unfortunately, the douchenozzley antics of her last boyfriend have left her publicly humiliated, and she realizes it's time to change her strategy. Katie is a sleek, blonde, polished freshman who must have been reasonably intelligent to get into an ivy league school like Harkness College (think Yale), but who has so far used her energies to rush a sorority and date athletes. more Years series in a long weekend, including this novella, which involves some minor characters introduced in The Year We Hid Away, and which takes place at the same time as that longer novel. Or a bunch of jocks at college, normally I wouldn't care or connect to these traditionally mainstream characters, but Bowen infuses them with humanity and makes them these non-charicatures that she makes it impossible not to love them. I loathe sorority/frat parties or cgaracters- I cant think of them without thinking of date rape and hazing. Blind Date embodies what I love of Sarina Bowen's writing even the smallest or shallowest of characters are not at all what they seem, and she can make situations that would normally turn me off into fresh and nuanced scenes. Review 1: Katie is not just the blond Katie, there is sweet depth there people! And Andrew remains the sweetest human on the planet- he's made of everything that is awesome.

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