This book is not good. There isn't really any plot and none of the characters are written that well. Some of the things that were being written as a five year old child's dialogue was just weird and didn't make sense for a child of that age. The two main characters were not really fleshed out and just felt like cardboard cutouts. The conflicts in this book make no sense and the interaction between the two mains is just....odd. I don't like how fast the supposed relationship progressed when nothing really even happened between the FMC and MMC. I really would not recommend reading this book. Also I don't really think it can be classified as a sports romance considering most of the book takes place in a different location.

I started this book out and really loved it and could see it being one I went back to and read more. I enjoyed the flirty banter between Logan and Coco and Poppy seemed fun. I did have a sense of uneasiness about where this could be going as about 30% in it seemed all was going well and I should be further through. Then at the halfway point my annoyances started. The whole thing with her being hired as a good luck charm made me feel icky from the start and how it’s handled makes it feel too icky to still enjoy their relationship. The Poppy starts becoming somewhat precocious and only ocadsionally mentioned and Logan says he has a dog which is mentioned for half a page and then never again and makes no plot impact though it’s kmplayed Coco will meet him.

It’s frustrating as the interactions between Logan and Coco where their flirting are lovely to read and you hope for your own Logan Rivers. But then the contrived conflict and plot points come in and it ruins the feelings and flow. Plus the ending covers them fighting, being broken up and making up in about 6 pages despite all this guilt building up.

At the halfway point I’d have given this a 4.5 but now it’s a 2 stars

Thank you Net Galley for providing me with this cute hockey romance arc.

I am a huge fan of Hockey Romances and this one hit the spot! This story is cute. The main characters developments and their chemistry/spice is great! If you love hockey romance quick cozy reads I am excited for the next book!

This book had potential in the beginning for sure. Where it lost me was when Coco got the phone call saying that she was in the wrong place/wrong time and she kicked logan out. I feel like she was a very immature character, because she did it again later on. I feel like she was a hypocrite because she was mad at logan for lying about the same thing she was lying about. Also I feel like him being a single father was just added in for effect because poppy didn't really play that big of a role.

I really wish I liked this book more but unfortunately it wasn't for me. I didn't enjoy the romance or the main characters as I felt like their development was really boring.

A good story that opens with a skating coach waiting with her young student for the parent to pick her up. When the daughter says her father works in the building they go looking for him. He is a hockey player who is having a slump and when they open the door he misses the net and hits her in the head with a puck. So, now you have Logan Rivers hockey player with a daughter at the hospital waiting to see if skater, and coach Coco who also is an Olympic figure skater getting the results back on her concussion. He feels bad because she has to stay in the hospital longer and now she is worried about her career and life in general. There is more to this story that really makes this a good read, especially with all of the different characters and the turmoil between the two of them. This is a really good book.

In case you are new here, I LOVE hockey romances! This one was no different! Coco and Logan are so adorable together! I loved the added layer of Coco being an Olympic figure skater took this story to another layer because Logan wasn’t the only talented person in their relationship which so often happens in sports romances.

Actually 3,5.
This is my first romance book I read that takes place in a rink or in this case two rinks, one for hockey and one for figure skating, and I really enjoyed it.

I really liked the characters that seemed down to earth (despite one of them being a really famous hockey player) and that it felt a bit cheesy but not to cheesy sometimes.

The storyline was really good and easy to follow even though I'm not in to hockey (thank you Daily for including some descriptions while Coco asked her friend about some terms).

If you want a quick, cozy, a bit cheesy and not so spicy romance then this is a book for you. Now I am looking forward to read the next one when it comes out even though it isn't about Coco and Logan (what a shame since I want to know how it goes for them and their future).

This story was so cute. The main characters developments along the way and their chemistry and spice was worth reading.
There were a couple parts (not many) that felt like the paragraph was repeated almost exactly. Possible editing issues aswell as a couple formating things to fix. It did get a little tiring about how she was accepting all his gifts and not him though, little gold digger like (just bugged me a bit) but I loved the rest of the story.

Thank you Net Galley for providing me with this cute hockey romance arc.

This is my first hockey romance — but I totally understand the appeal. I found the relationship between Poppy and Coco to be incredibly sweet and though I hate the way Logan became Poppy's father, it did make it easier to find him likable without having a crazy ex-baby mama added into the mix of this storyline.

I'm not a huge fan that we had a fade-to-black hospital first-time intimacy scene and it felt like Coco did a complete 180 with her feelings about Logan after she found out her medical issues were more severe. I also find it really odd that no one pushed the issue to see a doctor more quickly than just letting her lay around in a hospital bed for days with zero answers about a head injury. I've seen Grey's Anatomy too many times and a head injury is nothing to just sit on and wait around for.

Overall, I like their chemistry and the father/daughter storyline with him falling for Coco but I don't understand her finding a moral issue with Logan paying her bills versus letting the coach talk her into being his lucky charm for money and misleading Logan.

I love a good romance, and this one was wonderful! It had witty banter, and lovable characters. I was rooting for them the whole way through!

I really wanted to love this one. The plot was fun, and the beginning was clever. But the writing was repetitive in places and it needed much better editing. The pacing was also off. There was a lot to love here (the characters, the plot) but it tried to do too much. The ex-boyfriend scene in the restaurant should have been left out and that plotline abandoned. It didn't add anything to the story and was too much.
I would still want to read what the author writes next, but I do hope it will be better edited.
Thank you to Netgalley for my complimentary digital copy. All opinions are my own.

This story is super adorable cozy hocky romcom. If I could give half stars its really more of a 3.5. I personally struggled with the pacing and while I truly loved the banter between Coco and Logan and their chemistry was on point- I had moments where I had a tough time stay invested when the stakes felt a little low.

This did change for me around the 60% mark- the stakes and the plot started to feel a lot more fleshed out and I flew through the second half pretty quickly. The spice was pretty clean with one foreplay into fade to black, but the flirtation and the tension between the two leading up to the is just as delicious. I do wish we were able to get a bit more of the side characters and I would have loved some Coco and Poppy moments but all in all this was a delightful read

𝚁𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚐: 2.75⭐️
𝙶𝚎𝚗𝚛𝚎: contemporary romance📚

𝙼𝚢 𝚃𝚑𝚘𝚞𝚐𝚑𝚝𝚜:
I enjoyed the romance in this book but there too many small things that I wasn’t a fan of.

𝚁𝚎𝚊𝚍 𝚒𝚏 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚕𝚒𝚔𝚎:
Hockey romance
Single dad
He falls first
Insta love
Cute and cheesy reads

𝚃𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚜 𝙸 𝚕𝚒𝚔𝚎𝚍:
Poppy
Puppy therapy

𝚃𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚜 𝙸 𝚍𝚒𝚍𝚗’𝚝 𝚌𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚏𝚘𝚛:
Slow at first
Alot of the story took place in the hospital
The third act conflict was annoying
Felt repetitive
All the gifts felt like too much
The whole lucky charm thing felt too cringy

I was desperate to love this book - the plot itself is wonderful & I really connected with Coco and Logan! I really liked their relationship with Poppy too. There were a lot of typos and holes in the story (and an entire scene was repeated 2 pages later) which I assume were fixed before publication but also:
- I didn't love that 60% of the book was when Coco was in hospital - the rest felt rushed and lacking emotion behind the narrative/ secondary character development as a result
- Coco's ex wasn't mentioned until around the same amount of time, until that point there was no reference of her reservations about dating and it felt staged to deliver the scene where she sees him at the restaurant. It should have been a more consistent plot element as it would develop Coco's character much better.
- The blurb references being steamy - but the one and only steamy scene (which was brilliant!!!) wasn't until 80%, where as the opportunity for one in the hospital was totally glazed over.

This was cute and I liked all the characters, including of course the kid. The conflict at the end was sort of weak but it was enjouyable!

Thanks for the chance to review “The Cutting Edge” by Lisa Daly. This was super cute, with pro hockey player Logan as the adorable dad to Coco’s figure skater client. Logan was struggling with scoring on the ice, but accidentally hit Coco on the head with a puck. He helps her to heal, and to prepare for the upcoming Olympic tryouts.

The banter was fun, and the book was sweet and a bit spicy. There were numerous editing errors, to the point of distraction.

I received an ARC copy of The Cutting Edge by Lisa Daily and I am absolutely obsessed!!
I read this book on one day, and I literally could not put it down.
Coco is a figure skater dreaming of winning gold medal and going to the Olympics.
Logan is a single dad to an adorable little girl named Poppy and also a hockey star for the St. Pete Slashers.
A freak accident sets off a cute/funny chain of events between Coco and Logan.
I loved the instant chemistry and back and forth banter between the two and how their story unfolded.
I look forward to reading more books from Lisa!!

-Figure skater
-Single dad
-Hockey
-Romance
-Witty banter

I found the overall story very cute and I found myself smiling a lot throughout the book. Sometimes the story was a little over the top and cheesy but I didn't mind it that much.

Overall, I really enjoyed this book. I did feel like it was a little rushed and would have benefited from a slow-burn plot line. However, that was just not the way it was written and it did end up being pretty cute. I was kind of bothered by the amount of punctuation mistakes during the first half, mainly with quotation marks, but I don't know if that was a part of the writing or just a formatting error from when I downloaded it. I would have liked more scenes with the daughter because I feel like she was a great character. Again, this book was really adorable and that classic hockey romance that I feel a lot of people would like.