A review by literary_simone
Meet Me in the Penalty Box by Cali Melle

2.0

Nico meets Harper in a night club, they then find out that she is the new photographer for his NHL team and they are not allowed to date - but the do ;)
I struggled through this book. The characters are a bit one dimensional and they are basically in love from the get go. Why? Nobody knows. They barely knew each other.
They were cute with each other, I give them that. But it was all happening too fast.

“I couldn’t let myself get involved with him on a personal level and I felt like we were already toeing that line.”
Honey, you just hooked up, you jumped over that line already.

Her whole “we can’t put a label because I will lose my job” was getting on my nerves rather quickly. In the end, she does get fired but is actually happy about it because now she can follow her real passion - okay, good for you girl, but then you were just being difficult all along for no reason.

General question, is it an American thing that dating at work is so strictly forbidden?

In the end Nico has to meet with an old friend of his and it is really, really urgent. However, this does absolutely nothing to the story and it just seems that the author wanted to introduce this character, Malakai, who also happens to have his own book.