Two Man Advantage by Samantha Wayland

20261981Title: Two Man Advantage

Series: Hat Trick, #2

Author: Samantha Wayland

Genre: Contemporary/Suspense/Hockey

Length: Novel (199 pages)

Publisher: Loch Awe Press (December 19th, 2013)

Heat Level: Moderate

Heart Rating:
 ♥♥♥♥4Hearts

Blurb: Rhian Savage is working his way up the ranks of professional hockey, with the dream of making it to the NHL getting closer every day. He’s doing it alone—no family, no friends—and that’s the way he likes it. Then he arrives in New Brunswick, and meets the Moncton Ice Cats. Suddenly, he’s got friends—and even something, that might be an honest-to-god crush.

Garrick LeBlanc is lonely, counting the days until his last season with the Ice Cats is over, and he can move to Boston. When his girlfriend suggests he take a lover—as long as that lover is a man and he tells her all about it—Garrick laughs it off. But damned if his friend Rhian doesn’t suddenly take on the starring role in his fantasies. Good thing Rhian is way too young—and straight—for what Garrick has in mind.

Rhian takes a chance when Garrick’s increasingly confusing signals start making sense, and soon discovers he’s bitten off more than he can chew. Sex with strangers is simple. Sex with his best friend? Complicated.


Product Link: http://www.amazon.com/Two-Man-Advantage-Trick-Book-ebook/dp/B00HEVPZ6C

Reviewer:   GiGi

Review: Garrick’s girlfriend is off in Boston enjoying the excitement of her new career move as Garrick tries to balance his new role as co-owner of the Ice Cats and his imminent retirement as an active hockey player. The distance is difficult, and when she suggests Garrick find a male lover he’s dubious. He knew from their past experience that she was aroused by Garrick’s history with men. But he wasn’t so sure he could divide a new sexual relationship from his future with her.

While he’s having these doubts his attraction for Rhian reignites, they dance around each other for a while, each doubting the other’s sexuality, but eventually they combusted. The sexual attraction and interaction quickly proceed, and before you know it, Garrick is fighting the fact that he’s struggling with his feelings for two people.

This lacks some of the suspense and parallel plots of the previous book, but the sexual content is steamy. The only thing that disappoints is the balance between the two men. I did not appreciate that Rhian was made the “damsel in distress.” I like different but equal in my star couples, it’s why I actually enjoyed the m/f role in the last book. The female lead was obviously physically weaker, but stronger in mind and constitution, it leveled the playing field, or the playing ice as it were. Here we see Rhian’s past, the fact he’s been taken advantage of, blackmailed, and then we see Garrick ride to the rescue, and add to that Garrick’s dominance in the bedroom. I really wanted Rhian to take the reins.

Still a good story, interesting how the end surprises me a little, and I look forward to finding out how book three ties these two couples into one.