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Power Play #3
Hat Trick
He's been in love with his best friend's brother for ten years. Tonight, the brother is moving into his guest room.
Jonah Park is the Atlanta Reapers' center and everyone's favorite teammate. He's the glue. The good guy. The one who always has the right joke at the right moment and who goes home alone to an apartment where a guest room is set up with 400-thread-count sheets, a reading lamp he drove from Minnesota, and towels folded in thirds. All for a man who has never been invited.
Ren Briggs is Cole's younger brother. Former AHL player. Career over before it started. He's moving to Atlanta to rebuild his life, and Jonah offered him the guest room because Jonah's mouth operates independently of his survival instincts.
The lamp was bought at a Target five years ago because Ren once mentioned he liked warm reading light. The receipt cost $34.99. Jonah framed it.
Living with the man you've loved since you were sixteen is an exercise in controlled demolition. Every shared meal, every late night on the couch, every accidental brush of hands in the kitchen is another crack in the wall Jonah built to protect his best friend, his friendship, and the only secret he's ever kept.
But Ren is not the fourteen-year-old kid from the dock in Minnesota anymore. Ren is a man who sees more than Jonah thinks, who has been carrying his own secrets for longer than either of them knows, and who is about to make Jonah choose between the safety of silence and the terrifying possibility that ten years of wanting might not have been wasted.
The problem with a hat trick is that you need three goals to get one. Three chances. Three risks. Three moments where you put everything on the line.
Jonah has been waiting ten years for his first shot.
Hat Trick is a best friend's brother MM hockey romance with a decade of pining, a $34.99 love letter, and an HEA that proves some things are worth the wait. Third in the Power Play series. Can be read as a standalone. Dual POV. No cliffhanger. KU enrolled.
best friend's brother, he falls first (by a decade), roommates to lovers, bi-awakening, pining, secret relationship, found family
169 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 14, 2026
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June 20, 2026
Which timeline are we following?
Alright. This book could have used a lot more content editing. The same characters are re-introduced fully new in every chapter. I know who the best friend is the first time you tell me he is the best friend: you do not need to re-introduce him with his full name and best friend status every time he makes an appearance in the book. It seems like the chapters in the second half of the book are all trying to end the book when they end, which made it confusing when the book kept going. At one point, the author straight-up talks about the power-play series?? And I’m pretty sure the book wandered forward and backward in the same timeline without context clues a few times, which made it difficult to know when what I was reading had happened in the overall beginning-to-ending timeline of the book. This book is not my favorite, because of the major lack of editing!
Ren and Jonah were lovely.
Alright. This book could have used a lot more content editing. The same characters are re-introduced fully new in every chapter. I know who the best friend is the first time you tell me he is the best friend: you do not need to re-introduce him with his full name and best friend status every time he makes an appearance in the book. It seems like the chapters in the second half of the book are all trying to end the book when they end, which made it confusing when the book kept going. At one point, the author straight-up talks about the power-play series?? And I’m pretty sure the book wandered forward and backward in the same timeline without context clues a few times, which made it difficult to know when what I was reading had happened in the overall beginning-to-ending timeline of the book. This book is not my favorite, because of the major lack of editing!
Ren and Jonah were lovely.
April 2, 2026
3.75
Ag my heart. The yearning.
"You're down. You're not done."
"Say the thing I need to hear. You've always done that. Since we were kids."
"He laughed. The sound filled the truck cabin and I absorbed it the way you absorb a drug, through every available surface, into every available receptor."
"The feeling of being known, in a way you didn't realise you were being known. The feeling of a detail about you existing in someone else's memory, preserved and acted upon without fanfare."
"You laughed. You were standing in the sun and you laughed and you ruined my life. In the best possible way."
"You are the direction I was always supposed to be looking, and I'm done apologising for not finding it sooner."
Ag my heart. The yearning.
"You're down. You're not done."
"Say the thing I need to hear. You've always done that. Since we were kids."
"He laughed. The sound filled the truck cabin and I absorbed it the way you absorb a drug, through every available surface, into every available receptor."
"The feeling of being known, in a way you didn't realise you were being known. The feeling of a detail about you existing in someone else's memory, preserved and acted upon without fanfare."
"You laughed. You were standing in the sun and you laughed and you ruined my life. In the best possible way."
"You are the direction I was always supposed to be looking, and I'm done apologising for not finding it sooner."
April 8, 2026
I'm to the point when I see Chris Savage as an author I will have to download. The pace, the words, the feelings so perfectly written makes my heart happy.
Kudos to you, Author Savage. You have a fan for life.
Kudos to you, Author Savage. You have a fan for life.
August 4, 2026
Rate: ⭐️⭐️✨ (2.75/5)
Spice: 🌶️🌶️
With every book of this series I get more restless and suspicious and let’s be honest annoyed.
Don’t get me wrong, I liked the plot and the general idea of the book. I did not like the internal dialogue. It felt forced and unnatural. In the first two books it bothered me a bit, but it made sense for the characters to think this weirdly.
First of all, in the first two books of this series you could see a clear distinction between the main characters from each book AND within the same book; you cannot distinguish Jonah’s voice from Reg’s one. And even worse, when you compare their book with the previous ones it feels like a cheap copy and paste.
Second, why on earth is the internal monologue so overly complicated? The metaphors were overused to a point where I was just rolling my eyes and thinking “here we go again”. I love witty characters, unusual thinking processes and weird brains, but not every sentence needs to be some over the top metaphor. We can use plain English and the characters will not lose depth.
Lastly, there were too many instances where I was reading for example from Jonah’s pov and at some point it felt like the author changed the perspective to Reg’s pov. Which made me go back and rechecked what I was reading. Other times out of the blue we got a third person narrator for a couple of paragraphs when the rest of the book is written entirely as a first person story. It honestly felt like a bunch of different scenarios written at different times that were forced to be glued together, it made no sense and gave the impression of a poorly reviewed book.
Now let’s talk about something that it really bothered me and made me feel uneasy about not the story but the series as a whole (and the author). Chris is a self published author and I know how incredibly important reviews are, so I’ve kept this opinion to myself. But… with each book the suspicion that the author uses AI to create his stories grows more and more. I don’t have any proof of this and I obviously don’t want to tarnish someone’s reputation (AND I can be wrong!), but the over the top metaphors all the time, the ridiculous complicated monologue and the way the characters think sounds so so much like a robot wrote this series instead of a real human. The dialogues, the way the stories develop and how the books are written in general scream AI to me. Chris has a unique style of writing I give you that, I could recognize any of his books solely based on the writing style and it’s obviously possible that this is original work and AI has been trained using Chris’ original work so now it sounds like AI instead of human. I know all of this and that’s why I haven’t said anything before, but I can’t stop thinking about it. I do hope with all my heart that this series was not written by AI. I’m not interested or want to consume fiction that is not written by humans.
Spice: 🌶️🌶️
With every book of this series I get more restless and suspicious and let’s be honest annoyed.
Don’t get me wrong, I liked the plot and the general idea of the book. I did not like the internal dialogue. It felt forced and unnatural. In the first two books it bothered me a bit, but it made sense for the characters to think this weirdly.
First of all, in the first two books of this series you could see a clear distinction between the main characters from each book AND within the same book; you cannot distinguish Jonah’s voice from Reg’s one. And even worse, when you compare their book with the previous ones it feels like a cheap copy and paste.
Second, why on earth is the internal monologue so overly complicated? The metaphors were overused to a point where I was just rolling my eyes and thinking “here we go again”. I love witty characters, unusual thinking processes and weird brains, but not every sentence needs to be some over the top metaphor. We can use plain English and the characters will not lose depth.
Lastly, there were too many instances where I was reading for example from Jonah’s pov and at some point it felt like the author changed the perspective to Reg’s pov. Which made me go back and rechecked what I was reading. Other times out of the blue we got a third person narrator for a couple of paragraphs when the rest of the book is written entirely as a first person story. It honestly felt like a bunch of different scenarios written at different times that were forced to be glued together, it made no sense and gave the impression of a poorly reviewed book.
Now let’s talk about something that it really bothered me and made me feel uneasy about not the story but the series as a whole (and the author). Chris is a self published author and I know how incredibly important reviews are, so I’ve kept this opinion to myself. But… with each book the suspicion that the author uses AI to create his stories grows more and more. I don’t have any proof of this and I obviously don’t want to tarnish someone’s reputation (AND I can be wrong!), but the over the top metaphors all the time, the ridiculous complicated monologue and the way the characters think sounds so so much like a robot wrote this series instead of a real human. The dialogues, the way the stories develop and how the books are written in general scream AI to me. Chris has a unique style of writing I give you that, I could recognize any of his books solely based on the writing style and it’s obviously possible that this is original work and AI has been trained using Chris’ original work so now it sounds like AI instead of human. I know all of this and that’s why I haven’t said anything before, but I can’t stop thinking about it. I do hope with all my heart that this series was not written by AI. I’m not interested or want to consume fiction that is not written by humans.
May 13, 2026
The story? 4 stars
The characters? 5 stars
But the writing is something particular. A rythme a bit too repetitive specifically for a short novel.
There are also some editing mistakes that break the reading flow.
But I loved the plot:
Jonah has been in love with his best friend’s brother for 10 years.
10 years of hiding it.
10 years of cataloguing every single details about him
When Ren comes to live with him, after loosing his position as a AHL Player, it takes him 10 minutes in the apartment to realize that there is more than friendship between Jonah and him.
He never wanted to have his hope that Jonah was different with him but now the guest bedroom has the lamp he said 5 years ago, he wanted. Jonah knows what he likes. Jonah has a smile specific to him…
Anyway that’s a comfort read
No 3rd act breakup
Just 2 persons who can finally show how much they love each other.
The characters? 5 stars
But the writing is something particular. A rythme a bit too repetitive specifically for a short novel.
There are also some editing mistakes that break the reading flow.
But I loved the plot:
Jonah has been in love with his best friend’s brother for 10 years.
10 years of hiding it.
10 years of cataloguing every single details about him
When Ren comes to live with him, after loosing his position as a AHL Player, it takes him 10 minutes in the apartment to realize that there is more than friendship between Jonah and him.
He never wanted to have his hope that Jonah was different with him but now the guest bedroom has the lamp he said 5 years ago, he wanted. Jonah knows what he likes. Jonah has a smile specific to him…
Anyway that’s a comfort read
No 3rd act breakup
Just 2 persons who can finally show how much they love each other.
July 9, 2026
I hope this book series it is selfpublished. Errors happens. In the first book i didn't notice a lot. But in the second sometimes there are personal things related to a carachter and in the following chapters is it possible find a reference to the same thing but related to another caracter. The timeline between stories is a mess because always change. In this book not only we find the same error. But we can find the same event ( the coming out for example, or the moment in which two best friends finally talk) written in two different version as the author wrote two of them and forgot to delete the previous one. In the first three books of the series the story it is a copy paste with very few difference, the carachter are copy pasted : Mik = Wes, Luca= Cole= Johan. Cole and Ren are brothers with the same father but the story about him is different from the 1 and the 3 book
July 28, 2026
To be seen is to be loved
This is a cute book. Great easy read. The understanding of someone even if you can’t say it. The right moment the right time. Understanding what it truly means to have someone see you and listen to who you’re
This is a cute book. Great easy read. The understanding of someone even if you can’t say it. The right moment the right time. Understanding what it truly means to have someone see you and listen to who you’re
May 19, 2026
Could have been cute, but lacks conflict of any kind and editing.
June 18, 2026
I really liked this series
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