Title: In The Penalty Box
Author: Kelly Anne Blount & Lynn Rush
Genre: YA Sports Romance
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Toe Pick.

I’m old enough for that to be romantic and adorable before reading Kelly Anne Blount’s and Lynn Rush’s In The Penalty Box.

After a horrendous injury, Willow Covington is home nursing her wounds. She’s doing what she can to work her way back to the Olympic Figure Skating Team she was on before getting hurt. It just isn’t going well. Going to open ice time at the local ice rinks is giving her practice and keeping her sane.

Puck Head.

Brodie Windom is the wealthy and athletic ‘It-Guy.’ Girls want to know him, and guys want to be like him. What does he want? He wants someone who doesn’t fall for the Windom name and doesn’t care about the legacy with which it comes. The girl who just checked him where the sun doesn’t shine looks like his next new mistake. She’s beautiful. And he learned last year beautiful ruins hockey. But when she makes an unlikely save from the stands that put their goalie to shame, he starts thinking of her in a new light.

In The Penalty Box is a cute love story with a lot of baggage. I was halfway in thinking that this was all sweet and precious when the poop hit the fan. There is some brutal reality in In The Penalty Box that many kids will, unfortunately, be able to relate to, and that is a shame.

I recommend this book to fans of Sara Ney’s Kissing in Cars.

I voluntarily reviewed a complimentary advance copy of this book.

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About Kelly Anne Blount:

USA Today Bestselling author and Wattpad Star Kelly Anne Blount has more than seventy-three-thousand followers on social media. Her Wattpad stories have been read more than twenty-million times. She’s contributed to Tap, Wattpad’s new app for chat-style stories, where her work has been “tapped” more than fifty-million times. She is a writer and reviewer for SpoilerTV, which has allowed her to develop an incredible network of film and TV stars.

Two of her Wattpad works, including Captured (seventeen-million reads), have been optioned for film by Komixx Entertainment, and she is regularly invited to present seminars about social media at author events.

Connect with Kelly Anne Blount:

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About Lynn Rush:

New York Times & USA Today Bestselling Author, Lynn Rush, is a full-time writer, wife, and trail runner living in the Sonoran Desert, despite her fear of rattle snakes. Known as #TheRunningWriter, Lynn can’t resist posting epic sunrise pictures while running in the desert with her trail sisters, even if she has to occasionally hop a scorpion.

When she’s not running or writing, she’s watching movies that fuel her everlasting love of superheroes, vampires, and all things Supernatural. The books she reads usually carry the same theme, but this former college athlete loves reading sweet sports romances as well.

She’s madly in love with her Ironman husband of 20+ years who is the inspiration for what true love is.

Connect with Lynn Rush:

Website | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter | BookBub | Amazon