***ARC REVIEW***
4.5 ⭐️
When I read the description I knew I needed to read this book and wow it did not disappoint. The writing was amazing I didn’t want it to end. Zach Briggs is my new book boyfriend. He gives such golden retriever vibes. It broke my heart that nobody took him seriously because he deserves the world. Finley is so strong and I loved watching her grow throughout the book. Also the way she stuck up for her man made me love her more. I loved how they were opposites but exactly what each other needed. Overall i’m so happy I read this book and enjoyed it so much.
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Thank you so much to NetGalley, Victory Editing NetGalley Co-op & Kathryn Kincaid for the e-ARC in exchange for an honest review 🫶🏻🫶🏻

I will always love when I go into books blind because those are the books I always love from start to finish. I love this hockey/gymnastics romance between two people recovering to get back to the sport they love, especially when one is keeping it a secret from the rest of their family.

Zach and Finley have such a good beginning relationship, I love how they start off as just two strangers at a party and move to roommates with a forbiddenness of Finley’s brother not wanting these two dates. I love how these two develop a friendship and feel comfortable with each other from the beginning, while there are still major secrets to come out, they are the first two people who get each other in a long time.

Zach supports Finley in a way she never has experienced before as the rest of her family is slowly but surely controlling the life out of her, but with love. Finley has Bipolar 2 and after a near death experience, her family has put in a lot of protections to make sure she lives a long life and can help see early symptoms of a bipolar episode. However, she feels like as a result, she can’t live her life, fall in love, do the things she loves, and honestly based on the way her family was portrayed she was right.

I loved how her and Zach stand up for her, and make sure she gets the help she needs in a way to continue her life the way she wants to. The books gets so emotional towards the end and I was crying the entire second half of the book. I couldn’t stop reading even though I needed to go to bed, but I don’t regret it! Absolutely loved this book and can’t wait to read more from Kathryn Kincaid

Friends, this book is so good. Kathryn has delivered an absolute treasure of a book and this is immediately one of my new comfort reads. I can’t imagine myself not rereading this at least once before the end of the year.

Ok, here’s why you should read it:

The main characters are delicious. They both have incredible stories and growth and their chemistry is so good.

Finley is a “retired” gymnast who is trying to get back into the sport so you get to see her work through all of her trauma. Kathryn also provides INCREDIBLE mental health rep for Bipolar 2 disorder. You have to read it to get the full effect but it’s perfect.

Zach is a sweet baby playing nhl hockey and I ate it up. He brings so many side characters that are sweet and sassy and just the best.

Since I read Stick Your Landing, I have become a hockey fan. In case you were wondering, I am now a committed Carolina Hurricanes fan. If a book can motivate me to pick up a new hobby, it’s immediately a 5 star read for me.

4.5 ⭐️
I knew I was going to love this book just by the cover knowing it was going to be a gymnastics and hockey romance. This was the first book I have read by this author, and I really enjoyed it. The characters Finley & Zach really start off strong with being able to get to know each other since they are living under the same roof in Finley brothers house and Zach best friend/ captain of the hockey team. Zach is only there due to a concussion he had on the ice. Finley was there for Zach when he needed someone to talk since Hockey is his life. Zach was there for Finley along her journey of life stuck in a routine due to having bipolar disorder. (Zach does not find out until the end.) Finley wanted to keep it from him because she was afraid of how he would react.
I really loved how much of mental health representation was in this story, it was done very well. I really liked the FMC & MMC. The family from the FMC however was pretty annoying, they literally did not trust Finley to make her own choses even though she is an adult. She had to hide the fact she was doing gymnastics again. Zach was the only one who knew. Finley knew her triggers for her disorder and Zach helped her get back to having fun in life which she taught Zach some basic life lessons since no one takes him seriously. I loved watching the chemistry these two shared even if their relationship was a secret.

Tropes
hockey x gymnastics
forced proximity
mental health rep
brother's teammate
friends to lovers
black cat x golden retriever
secret relationship

Thank you NetGalley for the ARC!

This book made me cry and feel appreciated.

I did not expect it from this book but it delivered more than I wanted.

On top of the amazing romance this book sent me on a roller coaster ride of emotions. As someone with dyslexia I felt represented, I also felt like Finley's relationship with everyone who cared about her struck a chord with me.

I felt like I could really relate to this book.

It made me want to fine my Zach, if he's out there.

Easily my top 1 or 2 read this year.

A beautiful addition to those who are looking for a romance that includes the sports of gymnastics and hockey. I appreciate when there are sports romances that include a sport that is not commonly done as a lot of sport romances feel overdone, this was not one of these romances.

Zach Briggs blazed onto the Palmer City Wolves professional hockey team, winning over legions of fans with his carefree demeanor and remarkable skill on the ice. After surviving the sophomore slump, he’s determined to prove his worth and land a long-term contract with the Wolves. Finley Harris was in contention for a spot on the U.S. Olympic gymnastics team. When she pushed herself too far and suffered a medical emergency, her parents forced her to step back and focus on her mental health. Now she’s fighting for a comeback.

During the opening game of the most important season of his career, Zach is smashed into the ice and sustains a severe concussion. When he wakes up in his captain’s house, he’s stunned to see Finley—the girl he hooked up with two years ago. His captain’s sister. She can't afford any distractions while trying to revive her career, and he doesn't want to complicate his relationship with her brother. But neither can resist the attraction growing with every shared moment.

Yes! Another Kathryn Kincaid sports romance! I'm a huge gymnastics fan, and this is one of the few gymnastics romances that is well-done! I loved Zach and Finley, both individually and together. Highly recommend this one!

Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for the advanced digital reader's copy (ARC) in exchange for an honest review!

4 stars!

I jumped into this story without any expectations, I just know I love a good sports romance. I also hadn’t read the previous books in the “All In” series, but that did not impact my experience with this book. I was immediately drawn to Zach’s bright and occasionally awkward rambling; he is the definition of a golden retriever MMC. Finley complemented him so well, being serious and focused on managing her health and life, and it was obvious she needed Zach to help her find the light and happiness.
The depiction of mental health in this story is probably one of the best I’ve read in a very long time. I so appreciated the recognition of everything it takes to work through the changes in so many facets of life that occur when you have these symptoms or a diagnosis like Finley’s. I love the way Finley’s character (and her family too really) showed so much growth through a lot of daily effort, participation in therapy, appropriate use of medications, and relying on her support system to help her recognize changes.
Also, I will always support a romance book without a third act break up. Just saying...
I would also love to go back and pick up book 1 and 2 from the “All In” series to get to know these other fun characters more! I’m not sure who is the main characters, but I would assume Kennedy and Volk get a story and I need more of them for sure!
Go pick up this book if you enjoy the following:
-Sports Romance (hockey and gymnast)
-Forced Proximity
-Mental Health Representation
-He falls first and hard
-Dual POV
-Secret Relationship
Thank you so much to NetGalley and the author for this eARC. It was my pleasure to read this book and review with my honest opinion.
Release date: November 7th!

I loved this book!! Zach and Finley had such a beautiful relationship!! Their chemistry Is their Instantly from the first meeting! I loved how the author wrote about Finley's mental health and how she struggled and how Zach was their for her🥰 I also loved how she finally opened up to her parents about how she was feeling and how they truly tried to support her🫶 Zach and Finley where there for eachother throughout this whole book and you could tell they would truly do anything for eachother🩷

Thank you to NetGalley, Victory Editing NetGalley Co-op, and Kathryn Kincaid for an electronic ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Kathryn Kincaid, where have you been all my life??? This book is incredible! Sports romance is one of my favorite romance genres and I love it when both of the main characters are athletes.

Stick Your Landing is the third book in the "All In" series, but can be read as a standalone. The story is dual POV following the two main characters, Zach and Finley. Zach is on the same professional hockey team as Finley's older, protective brother. Zach and Finley have *quite* the meet cute and let me tell you, I was instantly hooked from the very beginning.

I absolutely love the characters in this book. I feel like Zach and Finley's characters are well developed. Things are not perfect for them and they both have their insecurities. These characters are relatable in that sense. It is the vulnerability and character development that sets this book apart for me.

I stayed up way too late reading this book, because I simply could not put it down. Stick Your Landing is perfect for fans of sports romance, mental health representation, found family, and supportive love interests.

I will absolutely be circling back to read the first two books in this series.

A sports romance book with life hockey and gymnastics? How could I not? Gymnastics is one of my favourite ever sports so I was so excited to read this! And boy I wasn’t disappointed. I absolutely loved this book! I loved the characters. They are literally 2 of the sweetest characters I’ve ever read and you can feel the chemistry so early on in the book. I loved how their relationship blossomed but also loved how the author wrote about Finley’s MH. It was so nice to read about a main character who struggles with her thoughts and to see a guy bring out the best in her so she feels so comfortable. They are so opposite but they work so well together by supporting and helping each other with their strengths and weaknesses. I love when Finley finally opened up in therapy to her parents and it was so needed. I love that Zach would do anything for her and was always by her side no matter what. I’ll definitely be reading more by this author!!

I absolutely loved Finley and Zach's story! Finley Harris, a spirited gymnast managing life with bipolar disorder, and Zach Briggs, a hockey player in recovery from an injury, are each fighting their own battles. Their unexpected friendship grows into something much deeper, creating a space where they can both feel truly seen and understood.

If you're a fan of golden retriever MMCs, forced proximity, or sports romances, this book is the perfect pick.

Thank you, NetGalley, for providing this ARC in exchange for my honest review.

This book was well written and easy to read. I love ice hockey romances and this one was great. It felt with a lot of intense issues such as bipolar and the trigger warning gave a good heads up. As a person with ASD and adhd this book taught me that sometimes we expect people to treat us differently and we assume how they are going to act but that’s not always the case. Say what you are feeling and don’t bottle it up. Learn to love yourself first. I needed to hear this and reading this book came at the right time. This book is amazing and has good representation. The only thing I wish was talked about more and dealt with was about body image. It mentions it briefly but I think it could have been talked about more.

4.5/5

Zach and Finley are just two of the cutest MCs ever. I just wanna bubble wrap them and protect them at all costs. How they fumbled through starting a relationship felt so realistic to their ages. Their love was so sweet!

"I'll never be easy to love. Relationships are complicated enough without adding my brand of challenges."

I rated this book 3.5 and I have to say, It was a really nice read! I was impressed with the care this book took towards things that could easily be miswrote or written in a way that was disrespectful but I feel like Katheryn did an amazing job handling this.

In Stick Your Landing our FMC Finley and Zach meet while attending Finley's brothers wedding after she was diagnosed with Bipolar II Disorder, and is in the midst of coping with her diagnosis and getting the appropriate medicine to balance her levels. She and Zach have a heated interaction and then we are flashed forwards two years later where Finley lives with her brother and sister in law, going to university and secretly training again in gymnastics, something that has been a hard 'no' from her family after her diagnosis. Enter Zach, a charismatic goofy Canadian hockey player who suffers a concussion and is needed to live with Finley and her brother (his captain) as he heals. With a mutual connection and attraction the two confined in one another and a beautiful kindship sparks to life.

Follow Finley and Zach as they balance one another like the beams that Finley practices on. The perfect Ying-Yang.

Thank you to NetGalley and Victory Editing NetGalley

Stick your landing releases November 7th 2024!

5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Tropes:
- mental health rep
- Hockey/ Gymnastics
- Older brothers teammate
- Black Cat FMC & Golden Retriever MMC
- Friends to Lovers

Genuinely I adore this book & characters with all my heart. Finley Harris is a strong FMC & watching her navigate her mental health in a realistic way was refreshing to see. The family dynamics were frustrating at points, but again it makes it real, family can be frustrating. Zach Briggs is the sweetest MMC & quite frankly deserves all the love. It was so sweet to watch their friendship develop to more & how they supported each other & saw each other & accepted each other as who they are. I absolutely cried at certain parts with the mental health rep bipolar ll. This was written beautifully & realistically for some of the heavier topics. So happy I got to read this & it will deff be a book I pick up to read again.


Thank you NetGalley, Victory Editing NetGalley Co-op & Kathryn Kincaid for the e-ARC in exchange for an honest review

✨Stick Your Landing: Review✨

Two driven athletes, an undeniable connection, the chance to have it all.

Just when I think her books couldn’t get any better than “Call Your Shot”, Kathryn Kincaid writes another book and I am obsessed all over again. I know I said this with the last one, but “Stick Your Landing” is definitely her best story yet.

“𝙸’𝚕𝚕 𝚗𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝚋𝚎 𝚎𝚊𝚜𝚢 𝚝𝚘 𝚕𝚘𝚟𝚎. 𝚁𝚎𝚕𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚜𝚑𝚒𝚙𝚜 𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚙𝚕𝚒𝚌𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚍 𝚎𝚗𝚘𝚞𝚐𝚑 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝚊𝚍𝚍𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚖𝚢 𝚋𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚘𝚏 𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚎𝚗𝚐𝚎𝚜.”

I am so happy that Zach got his own story as he was one of my favorite characters from “Play Your Part”, the first book from the “All In” series. And there is no better match that I could have asked for than Finely. The way the two of them complimented each other’s personalities was fantastic. This story truly is a great example of a golden retriever MMC and a black cat FMC finding a balance in each other.

“𝓗𝓮’𝓼 𝓵𝓲𝓰𝓱𝓽, 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓪𝓯𝓽𝓮𝓻 𝓫𝓮𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓲𝓷 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓭𝓪𝓻𝓴𝓷𝓮𝓼𝓼 𝓯𝓸𝓻 𝓼𝓸 𝓵𝓸𝓷𝓰, 𝓲𝓽’𝓼 𝔀𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓘 𝓬𝓻𝓪𝓿𝓮 - 𝓹𝓾𝓻𝓮 𝓾𝓷𝓭𝓲𝓵𝓾𝓽𝓮𝓭 𝓱𝓪𝓹𝓹𝓲𝓷𝓮𝓼𝓼. 𝓗𝓮 𝓰𝓲𝓿𝓮𝓼 𝓽𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓽𝓸 𝓶𝓮.”

We really get to see the depths of their characters within Kathryn’s writing. I almost felt as if Finely and Zach are people that I actually know in real life. Finley is as stubborn as she is accepting, strong willed as she is vulnerable. Zach is a hockey player with a heart of gold that would do anything for his teammates and the people he loves…including Finley.

I really do feel that it takes an incredibly talented writer to be able to write about mental health so well, especially something as specific as bipolar disorder. Kathryn did such a phenomenal job writing about how Finley lives with her bipolar disorder without it overshadowing her personality and her character.

“𝑰 𝒃𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝒅𝒆𝒆𝒑𝒍𝒚, 𝒑𝒖𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒚 𝒔𝒄𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒚 𝒍𝒖𝒏𝒈𝒔. 𝑯𝒐𝒎𝒆.”

This book is perfect for fans of:
✨Sports romance (ice hockey + gymnastics)
✨Brother’s Teammate
✨He fell first
✨He fell harder
✨Secret Relationship
✨Forced Proximity
✨Dual POV

Hands down, this is Kathryn Kincaid’s best book yet. I am absolutely obsessed and wouldn’t change a thing. Thank you so much to the author and NetGalley for an eARC in exchange for my honest review.

Stick Your Landing comes out November 7th!

I’ve always been into sports romance but this one was refreshing as they’re both in sports rather than just a reporter//sports person which made this book stand out to me.
The relationship is incredibly sweet, a story about love, hope, hard work and trust, if you want a sports romance with duel POVS and no third act break up this one’s for you!!

3.5 stars. this was such a cute and easy read. i've been getting into sports romances lately and the fact that both characters were sports players >> i also loved that mental health was a key topic of the storyline, the author did a great job incorporating it in the book.

thank you netgalley for providing me with an arc in exchange for an honest review.

4 stars! We finally get Briggs's story and I really enjoyed it. The beginning started out with a bang in the first chapter when they first met. The the story actually begins and to me it started out strong. I loved how their friendship really grew and how trust developed between them. The middle of the story is what made this book a 4 instead of a 5. It was good, and I didn't want to stop reading it just didn't have my attention as much. But my oh my, the end got me. I loved how healthy this book was when it came to communication and relationships between Zach and Finley. I also liked how it promoted therapy. I wish we saw a bit more with Zach's dyslexia since that part of the storyline seemed flat. I also don't know why we got the little side storyline with Halo unless he is going to be in more books? I loved seeing Gemma, Matt as well as Kenned and Volk from the first book. The friends dynamic was top notch as always. Overall, great read. Play your part is still number one for me but this is a very close second to being my favorite in the series. It had a ton of fun banter and such a cute story.

Thanks NetGalley, Victory Editing NetGalley Co-Op, and Kathryn Kincaid for the free eARC in exchange for an honest review.