Review: Delayed Offsides by Shey Stahl

I’m Leo Orting, the goofy center and team captain for the Chicago Blackhawks who no one ever takes seriously. I’m used to being the player. I’m cool with it. Being the star front-man of the team, I’m involved in every play. My lifestyle, much like any professional athlete, has its perks, and mostly between the legs of countless puck bunnies. One girl, my favorite regular, Callie Pratt, has been on my mind for a while. It wasn’t like I was in love with her, but I did think of her a lot. That’s a lie. I thought about her all the time and found every excuse I could to call her, send an inappropriate text, or be around her in some way. She kept me on my toes and never played into the crap I spewed, but part of me wanted her to see what I was really about under the joking exterior and player mentality. Trying to assuage my mild obsession over her, I took her home on New Years Eve to satisfy that urge. After our one night together, we now found ourselves offsides, trying to avoid a penalty, hoping that what we have can withstand even the most challenging of opponents. And now for those who could never take me seriously, I’ve found myself needing the most important girl in my life to put her trust that I will finish this game, I have to finish this game…if she’ll just give me the chance.

3.75 stars by Natasha Gentile

So another hockey book.  Score one for me.  This is my first time with this author so I was really excited…Plus he’s a Captain.  Of the Chicago Blackhawks.

I’m Leo Orting, the goofy center and team captain for the Chicago Blackhawks who no one ever takes seriously. I’m used to being the player. I’m cool with it. Being the star front-man of the team, I’m involved in every play. My lifestyle, much like any professional athlete, has its perks, and mostly between the legs of countless puck bunnies.

So he’s the dream.  The dream of being a hockey star on the ice and a hockey god in the bedroom.  Just one little problem, seems he is hooked on one ‘puck bunny’ in particular and she goes by the name of Callie Pratt.  Just one problem, she’s been with all of his friends, and some of his friend's friends, and well some of his friend's friend's friends.  No judging.

She’s not easy.  That’s not why any of us have slept with her.  She puts super models to shame, she ‘s beautiful and her body goddamn.  Still, that not entirely why I was f*cking her.  But what most fail to realize is that I love Callie Pratt.  There.  I said it,  I f*cking love this girl and I wish I had the balls to tell her.

So here lies this dilemma. He’s in love with the puck bunny.  But she has changed.  She doesn’t want to be that girl anymore.  She wants to be loved, she wants to love, she wants to be the girl and she wants to be Leo’s girl.

Leo Orting wasn’t someone you wanted to be in love with.  If you were, you were going to get your heart broken.  He’s never even had a girlfriend for Christ’s sake.  I was probably the closest thing he’s ever had to one and we barley got along.

So now Leo is on a mission.  To get Callie to realize that she is the one for him.  Well it’s nothing short of a miracle for him to accept her and vice versa. 

I found the characters very immature and vindictive at parts.  I guess you can blame their past for that, but you always hope that they grow out of it and move forward.  It’s very easy to throw stones, you just have to make sure that the house you live in isn’t made of glass.

In the end it was a good story just frustrated with some of the characters.