These plot lines undergird Hockey with Benefits with a depth of story that is compelling for the reader. You can’t help but “feel” the characters’ emotions.Īdd to the decided characterizations of Mara and Cruz messages about mental illness and its impact on loved ones and the trauma and process of dealing with SA. Tijan makes us work through their complicated relationship in an almost tedious manner, allowing us to experience the difficulties of their lives. When he protects her from the complications of her life, their tether becomes more defined and bold. It makes it so that it’s impossible for them NOT to become more than a situationship. Cruz’s capacity to understand Mara’s situation is one of my favorite aspects of their relationship. After Hockey with Benefits, everything makes sense about Mara, and Tijan’s capacity for drawing sympathy and empathy around her endears us to this new story.Īdding Cruz to the mix and the complication of their relationship creates a depth of emotion in this story. In her newest tome, Tijan takes Mara, who stands as a bit of a foil to the heroine in Rich Prick, challenging and insidious, and invites us into her backstory, which is complicated and heartbreaking. One of my favorite characterization treats is having a vilified character humanized. I didn’t realize, on entering her book, that we would be re-introduced to Mara, the somewhat throwaway character from Tijan’s Rich Prick. Tijan’s Hockey with Benefits is more than its blurb. Tropes: sports romance new adult romance inter-connected series tortured lead mental illness hockey romance
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