Review: Stone By Sawyer Bennett
Rating: 5/5
Series: Pittsburgh Titans Book 2
Tropes: Hockey Romance, Siblings best friend, Sports romance, neighbors, Grumpy Sunshine, Floof, slow burn
Pop: 76%
When I tell you this story was unexpected I mean it. When I tell you the Pittsburgh Series by Sawyer Bennett is like nothing I have ever read in hockey romance, I mean it!
I was not prepare to love Stone as much as I did. I read Baden and in the story Stone has a chip on his shoulder and comes off as a giant jerk! As this story opens he is totally going full jerk mode!
Stone is given a second chance at a hockey career because his brother is dead. He accepts a place on the Titans but in a shadow of expectations he is not sure he can live up to. Stone is grieving and is complex with in his grief. The words he never got to say to his brother. The things his brother never got to say to him. The true nature of grief in this story was in your heart from the first page. Stone’s growth as a human, as a friend, and someone who needs to learn to love themselves in this story is simply amazing.
Harlow is quiet elegance personified. She is a heroine that has a strength and self-awareness we all wish we had. I really just loved her. She is someone you call when you need a shoulder and someone you call when you need to celebrate. She is your best friend that holds you hair and kicks you in the ass. She was the absolute perfect heroine for Stone! She helped him find peace and realization with our being in his face. Harlow might be one of the strongest and smartest of Sawyer Bennett’s heroines.
The romance of this story is the reason I read romance. It is the one that shows when you are with the person you are meant to be with you are at your best. That sometimes love doesn’t have to smack in you in the face it can be a slow gradual realization that you are better with the other person.
Do you ever read a story and it isn’t until you are done that you realize just how special a story is? This story was that. You are living with Stone and his grief, the guilt of not connecting with his brother up to the moment in which he realizes that even in guilt he is not 100% responsible for others choices. That he deserves more, he deserves to be loved and he claims it all. It isn’t often that a story leaves me desperate more. One the couple has their HEA I am ok to move to the next story but this time, Stone left me wanting more.
The Pittsburgh Titans series is wonderful. I am loving this deeply emotional stories and the healing that is happening. I can not recommend this book enough and I would give it 5000 stars if I could!
