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True Love and Other Disasters (Chinooks Hockey Team, Bk 4)
True Love and Other Disasters - Chinooks Hockey Team, Bk 4
Author: Rachel Gibson
Disaster Number One: Men Hard knocks and hunger taught Faith Duffy not to believe in love. Still, when she married her very wealthy -- and very old -- husband, she became the perfect wife. And then he went to that big bank in the sky, leaving Faith with lonely nights, a pile of money, and a total mess of a pro hockey team.  Heck, Faith does...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780061579066
ISBN-10: 0061579068
Publication Date: 5/1/2009
Pages: 384
Rating:
  • Currently 4/5 Stars.
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4 stars, based on 309 ratings
Publisher: Avon
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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izzyabbysmom2006 avatar reviewed True Love and Other Disasters (Chinooks Hockey Team, Bk 4) on + 63 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 9
Finally another book in Rachel Gibsons hockey series! I rushed right out and bought it the day it was released and read it in one night!
Ty is the leader of the hockey team that Faith inherits from her late husband, Virgil Duffy who was the man Georgie left at the altar in an earlier book. She knows nothing about the game or how to run a team. The most contact she had with atheletes was working the stage in 5 inch acrylic heels in Vegas. Ty instantly dislikes the new owner but is attracted to her at the same time. His only goal is to win Lord Stanley. But all is fair in True Love, and with these two, True Love could just mean Disaster.
Great, funny and sexy story with no secondary romances to take your attention away from the two characters. Even if you have not read the other books before this one, it can be read as a stand alone. Go grab this one! It is a winner!
jilld avatar reviewed True Love and Other Disasters (Chinooks Hockey Team, Bk 4) on + 156 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 4
Rating: Grade B-

Faith Duffy's husband and owner of the Seattle hockey team has recently died, leaving Faith as the owner. Faith is only 30 years old and has a stigma attached to her as a gold-digger since her former husband Virgil was 80 years old and a billionaire. With all the negative buzz surrounding her, the hockey team doesn't want to be caught in the middle of it, especially Captain of the team, Ty Savage. He wants to win the Stanley Cup and nothing is going to make him loose focus, not even a beautiful bimbo like Faith Duffy.

I had trouble relating to Faith. Faith being a former stripper and playboy bunny, I have very little in common with her. She is unashamedly a gold-digger. She totally owns up to the fact that she married her former husband because he was rich and would provide her with the security she has always longed for. I don't really agree with this kind of marriage and not knowing anything about her, I would probably be one of those people who would judge her. So I kept thinking there was going to be a catch as to why she married a man 50 years her senior, but there wasn't. Honestly, she was a gold-digger. Okay... so not exactly heroine material in my book.

Having said that however, there was an innate honesty and conviviality to Faith that does work. When interacting with Ty this playful side to her comes out. She rediscovers herself, because Virgil molded her into this polite, proper woman for the upper crust society she had to be around. That really wasn't who Faith is and so she is rediscovering herself. Occasionally, there were these odd references to Faith's wild side that she dubs "Layla". A few times the references bordered on creepy, like Faith has a multiple-personality disorder. I could have done without that part of it.

I did like Ty. He comes across as a man's man, but not overly so. I would say it's a good balance. He wants to focus on winning the Stanley Cup, but he keeps finding Faith distracting. Ty and Faith have some good interaction to build up the sexual tension. I love how the author shows the process of how he perceives Faith. She goes from being a hot body to have sex with, to a woman he cares about and enjoys spending time with. I felt that the pacing of Ty and Faith's relationship was appropriate and believable, but the ending came much to swiftly. I could have used a few more pages tacked onto the end of the book.
reviewed True Love and Other Disasters (Chinooks Hockey Team, Bk 4) on + 301 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
I really like Rachel Gibson's books. One of the reasons is that she doesn't make sex the payoff at the end. Love is the payoff. In this case, there's a lot of sex that starts fairly early on. A lot of very hot sex. The payoff comes when the hero professes his love, refusing to let her sacrifice to "take care" of him.

I also like that Gibson's men are real men and not women in hairy suits. Being a professional hockey player, the hero is all man and talks and thinks like a real man. As long as Gibson writes smart women and manly men, I'll keep reading her books.
alishiaz avatar reviewed True Love and Other Disasters (Chinooks Hockey Team, Bk 4) on + 60 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
Good book. You don't have to read the other books to enjoy this one.
clemsongirl1 avatar reviewed True Love and Other Disasters (Chinooks Hockey Team, Bk 4) on
Helpful Score: 1
I really enjoyed this book! This is the first book I've read from this author but I will definitely be reading more. I enjoyed the character's wit and humor. And the book revolved around a hockey team, BONUS!
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damongina avatar reviewed True Love and Other Disasters (Chinooks Hockey Team, Bk 4) on + 41 more book reviews
Just got done reading this one. I started with Nothing but Trouble which I absolutely loved and this one is also Fantastic. Although I haven't been reading this series in order it doesn't make it difficult like some series to follow. I am a new fan of Rachel Gibson and look forward to many more of her books. This book did tend to repeat itself in many places, maybe she was in a slump of what to say and was trying to drive the point across- I GET IT ALREADY!! eh! Anyway it didn't bother me too much as I read this non-stop for 2 days.
reviewed True Love and Other Disasters (Chinooks Hockey Team, Bk 4) on + 426 more book reviews
An enjoyable, quick reading series.

Fun read, whether you know much about hockey or not, but I do agree with another reviewer that it's awfully close to the storyline of Susan Elizabeth Phillips' football series.
robinmy avatar reviewed True Love and Other Disasters (Chinooks Hockey Team, Bk 4) on + 2097 more book reviews
Faith Duffy has done a lot in her thirty years. First she was a stripper, then a Playboy model, then a trophy wife. Now her elderly husband has died and left her a professional hockey team. Not wanting to sell the team to her stepson who treats her like dirt, Faith hires competent employees to help her with the day to day operations. Ty Savage is the new team captain. He came to Seattle to win the Stanley Cup and doesn't want the new owner to screw up his chances. Faith and Ty dislike each other immediately, but sparks fly when they are forced to work together.

If you've read "It Had to be You" by Susan Elizabeth Phillips, this plot should sound familiar. Rachel Gibson gives us a fun book with likeable characters. Faith is a straight forward person who doesn't apologize for her past. Ty is a surly jock who sees Faith as an obstacle in his path to winning the cup. I loved both of them from the beginning and enjoyed seeing how they're feelings for each other change over the course of the book. I loved the hockey aspect of the story since hockey is my favorite sport. But there are a few jarring mistakes in the story (3 minute penalites?) that will make any hockey fan roll their eyes. My rating: 4 Stars.
reviewed True Love and Other Disasters (Chinooks Hockey Team, Bk 4) on + 4 more book reviews
This is a fun, easy read. Very cute series, I read them all in about a week. I hope she has more to come.

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