HAWKE (Cold Fury Hockey #5) by Sawyer Bennett-Review & Book Tour

HAWKE
Cold Fury Hockey #5
by Sawyer Bennett
Genre: adult, contemporary, erotic, romance, hockey
Release Date March 15, 2016

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date March 15, 2016

Off the ice, elite defenseman Hawke Therrien enjoys his fair share of booze and good times. And why shouldn’t he? He’s worked his way up from the minor leagues and made himself a star. The only thing Hawke misses from that life is the pierced, tattooed free spirit who broke his heart without so much as an explanation. She’s almost unrecognizable when she walks back into his life seven years later—except for the look in her eyes that feels like a punch to the gut.

Vale Campbell isn’t the same girl she was at twenty. As crazy as she was about Hawke, her reckless behavior and out-of-control drinking were starting to scare her. She had to clean up her act, and that would never happen with Hawke around. Cutting him loose was the hardest thing Vale ever had to do—until now. Because she’s still crazy about Hawke. And if he could ever learn to forgive her, they just might have a future together.

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REVIEW: HAWKE is the fifth installment in Sawyer Bennett’s adult, contemporary COLD FURY HOCKEY romance series focusing on the members of the Carolina Cold Fury hockey team. This is hockey player Hawke Therrien, and PT Vale Campbell’s story line. HAWKE can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty.

Told from alternating first person points of view (Vale and Hawke) HAWKE focuses on the rekindling relationship between Hawke and Vale-high school sweethearts-who through hurt feelings, and a lack of communication went their separate ways when Hawke was drafted into his first professional team. At twenty years old respectively our couple looked forward to a future together but on the morning of Hawke’s new adventure into professional hockey, our heroine pushes away the man that she loves without an explanation or cause. Fast forward seven years wherein our couple will reconnect when Vale is hired as the team’s new assistant athletic trainer and Hawke realizes he has never stopped wanting the woman he once loved.

HAWKE follows the second chance romance between two people whose lives were destroyed by miscommunication, heartbreak, immaturity and loss. Hawke has no idea why Vale tossed him aside, and Vale’s reasoning is obtuse, once again, immature. The $ex scenes are intimate and seductive but our hero has a difficult time trusting the woman who was once a very large part of his life.

Several of the previous storyline characters play secondary and supporting roles, but the majority of the story focuses on Vale’s relationship with her father, and Hawke’s relationship with Vale.

HAWKE is an emotional story line; a tale about two people who were once madly in love but misconceptions, a lack of communication, and an idealist attitude about the world found Vale and Hawke going in opposite direction towards life. The premise is familiar-the surprise revelation was not unexpected-in fact, I had figured out the elephant in the room from the start; the characters are animated and colorful; the romance is a rebuilding of what was meant to be. There are moments of romance and love; realization and regret; heartbreak and loss. HAWKE is a second chance romance that could have been avoided if Vale had been willing to acknowledge the truth years before.

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Reviewed by Sandy

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Best-Selling author, Sawyer Bennett, is a snarky southern woman and reformed trial lawyer who decided to finally start putting on paper all of the stories that were floating in her head. She is married to a mobster (well, a market researcher) and they have two big, furry dogs who hog the bed. Sawyer would like to report she doesn’t have many weaknesses but can be bribed with a nominal amount of milk chocolate.

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