As Dante and Cade's taboo affair heats up off the ice and their relationship gets more and more intense, they'll have to decide: is love worth risking their careers? Or is this romance destined to be forever benched?
A 12-year-age gap between a closeted player and an openly-gay manager along with the implications of a relationship that's probably forbidden and mostly likely to be massacred by the press and the public? The odds seem unsurmountable. That Cade and Dante play starring roles here made my mind up for me to grab �Undone by You' by hook or by crook.
And Kate Meader makes it work with writing that's so confident and assured, more so since M/M stories aren't always on my priority list.
In fact, for its relatively short length, there certainly wasn't any time wasted with narrative meandering, which made �Undone by You' short, sharp and quite to the point. Cade surprised me by his straight-shooting talk and the mindgames in the dating game that he steered of when it came to Dante won me over. That he was the pursuer took me aback at first, though it wasn't long that Meader had me rooting wholly for him, particularly when Dante was being a frustrating arse with his inability to decide what he really wanted.
I did think the flurry of activities however, rooted Dante/Cade's burgeoning relationship very much in the present and I couldn't even quite determine if their happy-for-now ending was going to last. The story seemed to end on their happy-but-shaky foundation (undoubtedly hard-earned) and the odd epilogue disappointed me when I expected an HFN/HEA-type of closure and I think I would have preferred a �boring but normal' one with Dante and Cade some time down the road, settled in their relationship.
Nonetheless, the aspects of coming out to family and friends and what it meant to be homosexual in a workplace as testosterone-laden as competitive sports made this book a compelling read and Meader's prose tied these together nicely through that mix of witty dialogue and the internal monologues of both the protagonists and the supporting characters�which I can't wait to meet again as the series goes on.