This book took me to places, and never expected right from the beginning with its original setup and then to the places he went with it.  I was coasting along, living in happy Tal La La Land, and then I was just left speechless and repeating OMFG!  The twists and turns had me flipping pages and perhaps cursing a certain author. There is so much more to this hockey story than I ever could’ve expected. And there is also a lot of emotional baggage that makes healing and hope so much more important.

I don’t think I’ve hated another antagonist so much in any book as the one in this one.  But I was also so impressed with some of the other characters. This book is an epic and tumultuous journey that makes you feel every emotion along the way. And it is not just for the two main characters. It is for this whole team of guys who needed someone to believe in them so badly. There is such a connection running through all of them. You feel their pain and their joy. You feel like you’re on the ice with them when people are cheering them on. You want to just belt out their team song as you read. 

And then, when it was all done, the author gives us two bonus stories, All Your Tomorrows and Boise Boy, for two of the other characters. I binge-read the book and bonus stories, and now I am just emotionally spent, but completely in love with all of these characters and their stories. Moogs and Shea and Brody and Lawson and so many of these guys will forever be in my heart.