This was a really lovely romance. It was really well written with great dialogue and plot and a fantastic set of characters, both the main ones and the peripheral ones. Would really recommend. Thank you to NetGalley and the Publishers for giving me access to a review copy of this book.

Unfortunately I didn't love this book. The idea of it was great and I did enjoy that their meet-cute, as it isn't one that has been overused, at least in the books that I've read.
I did love that there is single-dad rep, even more so in the way that it is shown, there were parts of the book though where I felt that Poppy had either been forgotten about as a character or was simply there as an accessory.

Everything else felt quite empty, there was no real tension, it was VERY insta-lovey which isn't a trope I particularly enjoy, the third act miscommunication breakup seemed extremely hypocritical to me. For a hockey romance I was expecting more hockey, or at least more ice hockey rink, the majority of the book took place in a hospital over a short period of time and by the third day of knowing her he was already in love.

There were also consistent grammar issues, I'm not 100% sure if this was a formatting issue for the e-book as it appeared different on my kindle app to my netgalley app but it was something that I was continuously noticing throughout my read and it would always remove me from the scenario that was happening.

Aside from this, it was a fast read and if you're looking for something fast and cute, something that you don't really need to use brain power on I could see someone enjoying it, it just wasn't for me.

Thank you NetGalley and Lisa Daily for giving me the opportunity to read this book.

This was a super cute book, I lost count of how many times I found myself smiling while reading it.

The plot was inventive, I like the way Logan and Coco. I liked how their relationship developed but as usual, I got frustrated for the third act break up, I never like them.

I'm very curious to find out what happens in book 2

I really enjoyed the concept of the book but there were a few inconsistencies for me that threw off the story.
The first was the whole aspect of their relationship in the middle, Logan calls Coco his girl to his teammates and she questions it before quickly confirming that she'll have him but then a few pages later she's shocked that the team thinks they're dating.
Another thing was how quickly coco took him back after she kicked him out of her hospital bed.

Overall the story was cute, and we love a single dad NHL player romance, it just needs some tweaking

This was a quick little read under 250 pages. Coco and Logan are good together. I like the pace of the book as well as the humor and slow burn. It you are a fan of slow burn this book is for you. The conflict i saw coming from halfway and was easily remedied. So, over all I like the book not loved but it was pretty good.

Thank you, Net Gally for the Arc.

Being sent to a hospital after getting hit by a hockey puck slapshotted by one of hockey's best players is never a good start to a relationship, but in The Cutting Edge it works. Coco is a figure skating champion with goals to medal in the Olympics. Logan is a single father who doesn't make the best first impression on his daghter's skating teacher when he injures her with a hockey puck to the head. Wanting to make it up to her, Logan spends a lot of his free time at the hospital with Coco where sparks start to fly.

I thought this was a cute and fun sports romance. It isn't so dark and dirty as some of the other hockey romances that are all the rage right now, but I enjoyed it a lot for what it was. I always gage a book on whether I'm happy to get back to reading it, and I was always excited when I got to go back to this one. I liked the characters a lot and enjoyed the light heartedness of the book.

Thanks to Siesta Key and to NetGalley for providing me with a copy of this book.

From the moment i saw the cover of this book i knew id love it . That is because i love both hockey and figure skating romance. But to have a book put the two together was amazing. At first i thought it was gonna be like icebreaker but i was surprised and happy to find out it wasnt .

i loved the premise of the book and i loved how smitten logan was for fl . That may be because i love mmcs who are instantly in love with / crushing on the fmc .

The way he was so caring and sweet had me swooning . Everything he did was so sweet . i would definitely reccommend this book and it deserves 5 stars

The Cutting Edge is a cute rom com about the romance between a Figure Skater and a NFL player. I really enjoyed this romance, it was clean and funny at all the best times. I thought the characters were so lovable and relatable. Thank you again to NetGalley and the publisher for this opportunity :-)

Really cute hockey rom-com! I like that this hockey romance actually included hockey and not just a sprinkle of it. Coco and Logan are an adorable couple - can’t wait for Lana and Cam’s story next! ❤️

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC!

Ok, this was some creative storytelling! There isn’t really a great meet-cute in this book; it’s more like an “Oops, I’ve injured you” interaction! I truly loved the two main characters! They were both such goofy dorks, and were perfect for each other from the start!

I also loved Logan’s daughter. So often, I feel like child characters are often not properly represented based on their stated ages; they’re either written too old, too young, too intelligent, too verbal for their claimed age. That wasn’t the case here. The child was portrayed very much like a five year old child! She was adorable, and added so much to the story!

This isn’t really a slow-burn situation. I mean, they weren’t hopping into bed at first sight, but their attraction was pretty much immediate and mutual. It was very satisfying!

When Coco finds out the secret about Logan, she feels betrayed and angry. But wasn’t she keeping the exact same secret? It was a frustrating double-standard that she held.

Ultimately, though, both main characters were able to accomplish their independent goals, even while in a relationship, something they weren’t sure could happen.

So, besides the story itself, I had an incredibly hard time reading this book because I was SO distracted by the many grammatical and punctuation errors. When I started reading, I was highlighting and bookmarking each one. That became ridiculous, as I was marking about every third page. The story was really great, the book could have been so much better!

2.5/5 stars - the cutting edge by lisa daily had an interesting premise, and the one trope everyone loves: the olympic skater & the nhl hockey player. i firstly want to thank netgalley, siesta key, and lisa daily for an e-arc in exchange for an honest review.

when i read the description i thought the plot was really interesting, but a lot of aspects of the book fell flat for me in the actual execution. close to 52% of the book (actually, 52% on the nose according to the kindle app) takes place in the hospital after logan accidentally injuries coco, giving her a concussion that could make or break her skating career. there is a lot of forced chemistry between the characters. logan is very clearly a male written by a woman, but somewhere around the 67% mark is when his behavior begins to shift.

he starts being more... well, male. swearing also begins to happen more - but seems to only be in logan's point of view chapters. the entire premise that's promised in the book description finally begins close to the 70% mark, and at this point, i had lost almost all interest in the book.

some other things to note:
- there was a lot of spelling and grammar errors, including misspelling of character's names which is a personal pet peeve
- repetitive use of descriptions, metaphors, etc. many times i had to go back and re-read parts because i wasn't sure if i had read the same page over again and forgot to scroll on my kindle. nope, just repetitive.
- there is no actual buildup to the romance between coco and logan. they just instantly hit it off, flirt, kiss, and the whole nine.
- coco had no idea who logan was even though poppy is one of her favorite students???
- logan has always had a crush on her??? meanwhile it's noted multiple times he's barely ever picked poppy up
- 5/5 stars to poppy. she's the star of this book

The Cutting Edge
By Lisa Daily
Release Date: 6/22/23
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

An ice hockey/figure skating couple romcom? Yes please! I was immediately invested in this story from the first page. Lisa Daily has a great writing style that captivates you and makes you not want to put the book down!

Read if you love:
•single dad trope
•cinnamon roll hero
•touch her and I’ll kill you
•ice hockey/figure skating
•man who spoils his lady
•he falls first—and hard!

Seriously, I can’t recommend this enough! I laughed as much as I swooned!

I really liked the two main characters in this one, and Poppy was the cutest little girl. They were definitely a highlight of the book! The main story though felt like it dragged - Coco was in the hospital for the majority of the story so it was just a lot of conversations and they all seemed to revolve around her injury and recovery. And when she starts falling for Logan and then gets mad at him for the accident, it seemed really juvenile for me. If the story was better developed, this could have been a fantastic book.

Some things I really enjoyed about this book were the mention (albeit slight) of some social justice and equity issues. I wish the author would have expanded on the struggle of Black women in figure skating or the difficulty of less popular athletes living paycheck to paycheck. I don't see these themes mentioned often in books and would've liked to read more. I appreciate the author including this.
As other reviews have mentioned, the timeline of this book felt slowed down at the beginning and then sped up at the end. There was also a lot of repeated phrases and words that often took me out of the story. The premise of this story was different and if some changes were made I think it may be better received.

The overall arc of The Cutting Edge is an insta-true love story as a star NHL player falls hard for an Olympic figure skater after accidentally sending her to the hospital with a concussion. These types of rom-coms are rarely believable true life stories, so I’m quite surprised at all of the negative reviews about the storyline. I found it to be a cute, fun read.

The multiple editing errors are hard to overlook. The book seems to have made it to publishing in an early draft state. Chapters are alternatively narrated by Logan (a male), and Coco (a female). It seems that the author would forget whose point-of-view they were telling, and frequently confuse pronouns. There are also jarring errors: Logan raps on Coco’s door, and then a paragraph later he again reaches Coco’s door and knocks. The sloppiness of the editing took a lot away from what was overall a nice read.

If the book was better edited, my rating would absolutely have been higher.

THE CUTTING EDGE by Lisa Daily has a fantastic premise. Hockey player accidentally concusses figure skater with a slapshot, love ensues. Now, this book is already out, but I found it while browsing Read Now options on NetGalley. It brings me no joy to say this, because I really wanted to love it, but there are a lot of issues. I know ARCs are "uncorrected" but dang, this felt like a first draft. Not just the incessant quotation mark issues (quotes that open but don't close, close but never opened, smart quotes facing the wrong way...you name it) or the whole paragraph that appears twice, or they're talking outside the arena and then she turns and walks into her house, or her neighbor's name spelled four different ways, or he knocks sharply on her door and then two paragraphs later arrives at her door again and knocks softly, or where it periodically seems to switch to third person or maybe just forgets who is narrating. All of those things happen and honestly, by the time you get to an ARC they should have been caught. I'm not even talking about similes that don't work or the ending that is like a chapter and a half too long. I'm talking conflict and tension and resolution. Technically all the plot beats are there, but they end up feeling too convenient or too easy. This could have been a really good book. But I'm not willing to spend the $4.99 to find out what the final product is, because I fear I would be disappointed.

I am just getting into romances and had high hopes for this book. Normally, I read thrillers and use romances as an in-between to break things up. I’m not a hockey fan or figure skating fan, but that didn’t matter since the there wasn’t too much emphasis on the sports (thank you). The story line was cute but the instant romance wasn’t really believable. It was a quick read, but I did roll my eyes a few times.

Thank you to @netgalley and @Lisadaily for the opportunity to provide honest feedback in exchange for an eARC version of this book!

I had really high hopes for this but struggled to get past 30%.

The punctuation mistakes are rife firstly which makes for a very frustrating read.

Secondly - 60% of the plot line takes place in a hospital, the world building is non existent and the characters are flat and 2 dimensional.

It lacks tension and progression and bizarrely there’s no ice time at all?

Overall a very odd read to be honest

- hockey player X figure skater
- single dad
- romcom

I really wanted to like this book, but unfortunately it was just not for me. The humor was way too cringy, Logan was way too over the top with all his gifts and lastly no NHL player is going to have their cell phone on the bench during a a game let alone a playoff clenching game! I mean come on! I wanted to DNF on multiple occasions, but stuck it out to see if there was improvement…there really wasn’t.
⭐️⭐️⭐️
Can’t really give an accurate 🔥 rating as there was maybe one or two spicy scenes.

I feel like deep down this book had everything it needed to be the best book it could possibly be. All the parts were there. It was just missing some polish and a dash of grounding to reality and it would have been such a great read.

The beginning was really fleshed out, funny and it was a great place to start, but the remainder of the plot of the book kind of fizzled out of trying to do too much all at once. There were also some pretty glaring editing issues that I hope have been fixed for the final editions.

I appreciate the inclusion of Figure Skating in with the Hockey romance because I feel like Figure Skating always gets an uneducated throw in with the Hockey romance genre, and I felt as though this was a well researched part of the book. I did enjoy the reality of privilege when it comes to racism in the skating world and just how white a sport it still is. I appreciated that Coco had friends in skating, and it wasn't just a whole lot of cattiness from the field. So definitely some pluses when it comes to that.

The places where I struggled was things that were kinda thrown in, didn't really take time to explore the relationship she had with her neighbor, how she was recovering. The abusive exboyfriend really came out of left field. Sure we were elluded to a bad relationship, but it was so stark from what was happening, that it really threw me out of the book. Also the gift giving, I'm not opposed to gift giving, but it really did seem like he tried to throw his money at the situation without a whole lot of thought as to her position. It just seemed a little klunky, especially when we got near the end, because there is zero issues with training schedules, or adding her into the life of a single parent, money or no. And the last thing I struggled with was the third act breakup, if you could really even call it that. Just didn't have enough of a punch to make me believe that this was a thing that was going to break them up.

So although I liked a lot of it, there were some places that missed the mark. Overall a good read, and if you're looking for something fluffy, would be right up your alley.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for an e-copy, in exchange for an honest review.