Going All In by Cassandra Carr-Review

Going All In

Cassandra Carr, Isabo Kelly, Stacey Agdern

 

Blurb:

Professional hockey players Marcus, Alex, and Chris attend their team's Vegas Night fundraiser unaware their lives will change forever. Can they face their difficulties and win the most important game of their lives – the game of love? These guys are going all in…

HEDGING HIS BET: Cassandra Carr

Marcus Mitchell never thought he’d find the love of his life with champagne dripping from her shirt rather than walking the runway at Fashion Week like the models he usually preferred, but you can’t always plan these things. Annalise Alonso isn’t going to make it easy for him, though—he’s going to have to work for her love. Now, Marcus is taking a shot and hedging his bet on love.

 

CASTING THE DIE: Isabo Kelly

After she sees his murder in a vision, Nathalie Mendez has to warn star hockey goalie Alexander Semenov of the danger. To keep him alive, she risks exposing her many secrets. But once the die is cast, her biggest gamble involves her heart.

 

PLAYING HER GAME: Stacey Agdern

Melanie Gould has been dubbed ‘The Girl in the Lace Corset’. But she doesn’t always like to be the loud mouth defender of the romances she writes, and is definitely not good at playing the games relationships require. Of course, she’s never gone head to head with a guy like Chris Emerson. Chris is trying to behave, and someone like Melanie would destroy his plans to stay under the radar. So what happens when the ‘Girl in the Lace Corset’ and the NHL’s most infamous bad boy go one on one?  Will they play her game?  Will they play his? Or will they both end up in the penalty box?

Review: 

 

Although this is one book, it is broken up into 3 different stories (the stories do intertwine & overlap)  written by 3 very distinct authors. This leaves me with the question...how to review it???

 I will do my best.

First & foremost....I loved the entire storyline. All three hockey players meet the loves of their lives in very different ways but at nearly the same time. The trust that Marcus has to build with Annalise to get her to enjoy life is very well written. Marcus could have easily pushed too far & too fast and lost the girl but he didn't. Alex & Nathalie opening up to each other about their secrets was perfect for their storyline-I loved these two. Chris & Melanie were so much alike in the way they lived their lives they almost lost each other. I am a huge hockey fan, who has only read one book previously with a hockey storyline, so that alone made me want to read this.

I applaud all three authors in making this book very cohesive. The transition from one story to the next in this book is smooth & very well done, and the places where the storylines overlap, perfectly done! I highly recommend you pick up this book.

 

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Author Bios:

Cassandra Carr is a multi-award winning erotic romance writer with Ellora's Cave, Siren Publishing, Sybarite Seductions, Decadent Publishing, and Loose Id. She lives in Western New York with her husband, Inspiration, and her daughter, Too Cute for Words. When not writing she enjoys watching hockey and hanging out online. Cassandra is the co-founder of two successful group blogs, Romancing the Jock and Dirty Birdies, and participates in several others as a contributor. Recently she was re-elected president of Western New York Romance Writers.

For more information about Cassandra, check out her website at http://www. booksbycassandracarr.com, "like" her Facebook fan page at http://www.facebook.com/ AuthorCassandraCarr or follow her on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/ Cassandra_Carr.

 

 

Isabo Kelly is the award-winning author of multiple science fiction, fantasy and paranormal romances. After finishing her Ph.D. in animal behavior in Ireland, Isabo settled down to write full time. She currently lives in New York City with her brilliant Irish husband, her two heroes-in-training sons, and her mad dog.

For more on Isabo and her books, visit her at www.isabokelly.com, follow her on Twitter www.twitter.com/IsaboKelly or friend her on Facebook www.facebook.com/IsaboKelly 

 

 

Stacey Agdern is the two time award winning Romance Specialist at Posman Books, an independent bookstore located in Grand Central Terminal. She has a regular column, ‘Dispatches from the TBR Pile’ at ‘HEA’, USA Today’s online romance blog.  She has also written reviews and commentary for publications such as Barbara Vey’s ‘Beyond Her Book’ Column at Publishers Weekly’s online site, Heroes and Heartbreakers, Criminal Element, Romantic Times Magazine and Romance at Random.  She has given presentations on the effective use of booksellers at regional and national conferences.  You can find her on twitter at @nystacey.  She lives in New York, not very far from her favorite hockey team’s practice facility.

 

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