My first hockey romance!!!
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Title: The Kennedy Rule: An addictive rivals-to-lovers MM hockey romance
Author: K.C. Carmichael
Genre: Sports Romance
Ages: Adult
Publisher: Storm Publishing
Release: Nov. 4th, 2025
Order: Amazon | Bookshop.org
Twenty more minutes. That’s all I have left to prove that Connor Kennedy is no better than me. Again.
Captain of his team, the privileged son of a hockey legend, Connor Kennedy is the league’s golden boy. And the one player who can always get under my skin. Our rivalry has been building for years, and when we’re forced to room together as Olympic teammates, I can feel the tension between us reach boiling point.
The world might see me as hockey’s most feared enforcer, Alaska’s angriest export, but in our room each night after practice, I can’t maintain my facade.
Now, I can’t get Connor out of my mind for another reason, and this obsession could ruin us both.
But one thing I know for sure: some rules are made to be broken.
A steamy rivals-to-lovers MM romance featuring Olympic pressure, locker room loyalty, and the kind of love that conquers all, even when the whole world is watching. Perfect for fans of Rachel Reid, Sarina Bowen, and Tal Bauer.
This book is silly…. and we all know I love a silly book (a well written one). Hence the 4 hearts rating. This is a very surface level book, not a lot of depth here, but I still had a good time reading it.
I groaned internally when I realized it was written in first person. I’ve had such bad luck with first person books lately. However, the writing here was leagues above what I’ve read recently, so I didn’t mind it too much. There were some awkward word choices though… which honestly added to the overall silliness. My personal favorite:
“With my hands, I spread his ass cheeks. Gooseflesh forms and I hear his breath hitch.”
Gooseflesh… mid ass cheek spread! LMAO this took my all the way out…
This is marketed as rivals-to-lovers, but it’s more like hockey rivals—and they’re both actually obsessed with each other from the start.
Gavin (MTC: main top character lol) can be described as:
“being gay doesn’t change the fact that I am, indeed, grumpy, brutal, and dirty.”
I liked that he was a bit rough and very possessive without being a massive red flag.
The nonsense of it all:
spoilers be here
Conner and his dad… His dad was especially one-dimensional—his whole thing was basically “I played hockey, now you play hockey exactly how I say.” That’s it.
Also, there is no way his dad had enough pull in the NHL to go full James Bond and basically kidnap Gavin, forcing him to skip the gold medal ceremony.
Everyone just kind of accepts Conner and Gavin (besides Conner’s dad), which, considering it’s the NHL… let’s be real… was surprisingly chill for a league that’s, you know… majority white boys.
spoilers over
Random Bits:
The POV does switch mid chapter and I realized… oh yeah it’s not a rule you have to do chapter by chapter lol.
In conclusion
4 hearts! If you don’t take this book too seriously… it’s a good book!
I was delighted this was my first hockey romance…however, and I’m so sorry but I don’t get it. I mean it was a good book, but I’m not going to go out of my way to find and read more hockey romances. I have another sports romance coming up (not hockey), so let’s see how I feel about that one.
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