Reviewer: Rowena
Head Coach (Hellions Angels, #2) by Lia Riley
Series: Hellions Angels #2
Publisher: Harper Collins, Avon Impulse
Publication Date: November 21st, 2017
Genres: Contemporary Romance
Pages: 159
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Neve Angel’s life is all work and no play, but she wouldn’t have it any other way. One of Denver’s top sports reporters, she's fought hard to make it in a male-dominated world, and she won’t back down from a fight with anyone–not even the Hellions’ gruff head coach, Tor Gunnar. Her hostile relationship with the icy Scandinavian is the stuff of local legend.

Tor Gunnar hates dealing with the media; at best, they are a nuisance and at worst, a distraction. And no one distracts him more than the scrappy, sexy reporter who gets him hot under the collar. When he wins a not-so-friendly bet with Neve, he decides it’s high time they either kiss or kill each other, and invites her as a date to an out-of-town wedding.

But what happens when enemies become lovers? Will they be able to smother their sizzling attraction, or is it time to start playing for keeps?

Head Coach is the second book in Lia Riley’s Hellions Angels series but it was my very first book by Lia Riley. After finishing the book, I can definitely promise that it won’t be the last book that I read by her because I really enjoyed this one. The chemistry was off the chains, the conflict was believable and I had a lot of fun reading this. I’ve been having trouble reading in the last couple of weeks. I just haven’t been in the mood but I picked this one up because the release date was coming up and was surprised with how quickly I read it.

Neve Angel is a hockey reporter for the Hellions Hockey team and she’s really made a name for herself. She annoys the snot out of the head coach for the Hellions and with the hockey lockout in full swing, she needs to find a story and why not try to get one from the head coach?

Tor is spending his time trying to get his mind off an annoying reporter but when that doesn’t work, why not take her as his plus one to a wedding? The game changes once they’re away from home and alone together. The sparks burn brighter and the story definitely gets more interesting.

Tor and Neve were such a great couple. I had a lot of fun reading about them falling in love with each other and it was so much fun because they started off hating each other. This was a total enemies to lovers story and Riley does a great job of bringing them together in a believable and fun way.

I’ve never been a fan of heroine journalists but I liked Neve. I liked seeing her butt heads with Tor and I really enjoyed seeing her come into her own over the course of this book. She was strong and she was fierce and in the end? I believed in her and Tor and I thought the ending (though rushed) was still a pretty great one.

I love a grumpy hero and Tor really fit the part in this book. The grumpy coach thing really worked for him and I adored him to pieces. Sure, there were times when I wanted to throttle him but for the most part, his character worked for me and I just ate him up with each passing page.

Overall, this was a fun romance by a new to me author that I will not be passing up on in the future. Lia Riley did such a great job of entertaining me with this story that I’m thirsty for more. I definitely recommend this book for a quick but delightful romance.

Grade: 4 out of 5