“I highly recommend if you’re a fan of hockey romance, HEAs, and wonderful writing with characters you won’t forget!” – Chrystal’s reviews
It was supposed to be only one night. But one night can change your life forever. And even the most magical nights have consequences.
EmiliaAccording to others I live a fairy-tale life.But what appears picture perfect on the outside can crumble on the … perfect on the outside can crumble on the inside. And holding up appearances is the number one rule for anyone carrying the Ravelli name.
But what if one reckless night changes everything?
Sent to Boston to manage the Ice Tigers’ franchise, can I break free from my overbearing grandfather?
Matt
I was betrayed and deceived. Now all I want is to win the Cup.
But what if the new team owner turns my world upside down?
Can Emilia convince me there’s more to this world than stickhandling?
Two lost souls.
A secret that changes their lives forever.
An unexpected love story.
Center of Gravity is the third book in the spirited Ice Tigers Hockey sports romance series but can be read standalone. If you like second chance romances, swoon-worthy characters, and triumphs over life challenges, then you’ll adore Isabella Cassazza’s story of unexpected connection.
Buy Center of Gravity to dig your blades into ice-cold tension today!
Reading Order Ice Tigers:
Falling for Gravity
Defying Gravity
Center of Gravity
Fighting against Gravity
Playing with Gravity
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Center of Gravity by Isabella Cassazza I five-star read that is smooth as ice. This is number two in the Ice Tigers Romance series but they can be read as stand-alone, I haven’t read number one and didn’t feel like I missed anything, that being said I will pop back and read number one as I loved this one and am hoping the rest of the series will be just as good. This has great pace and is a fantastic slow burn that will keep you on tenterhooks, the chemistry builds and builds to explosive proportions. The whole back and forth and the misconceptions will keep you hooked and have your heart in your throat one minute and your stomach the next. This is a great story and one I hope many will pick up.
Loved this story! I love a good sports based romance and this didn’t disappoint. I loved the characters of Emilia and Matt and really enjoyed their character development. This author did a beautiful job crafting the storyline and developing very relatable characters. I loved every page and am excited to find this is part of a series. This will be a series I will most definitely read every book.
Center Of Gravity by Isabella Cassazza was a wonderful read! This is the first novel I’ve read from this author, and and I’ve never read a book from the Ice Tigers Hockey series before, but this standalone was great, and I wasn’t confused in the least. Everything that needed to be explained got explained fairly quickly, and there was no confusion in past events. I was instantly enthralled in this entertaining romance novel the moment I started reading. It was touching, and fulfilling, and extremely satisfying to read. I thoroughly enjoyed this novel and can’t wait to read more from this author in the future!
I enjoyed this friends to lovers sports romance. I thought it was sweet and funny and the author pulled me in with her good writing. The main characters in this story have a very hard lesson to learn.. Our actions have consequences. Even if the choice was an amazing one at the time, the outcome can be something that will change their lives forever. Emilia and Matt learn this the hard way but i loved their story and they were such awesome characters. The chemistry between them is spicy and i was eager to see if they would get their HEA. You do not want to miss this one!
This is the first book that i have read by this author and i am looking forward to reading more by her in the future!
Happy Reading!
I can honestly say that this was one of the best books that I have read in a while. Isabella Cassazza is a new to me author but she is now at the top of my top authors list and future must reads. Emilia and Matt had me falling in love and rooting for them the entire book. Here were a few times where I had wanted to slap Matt in the back of the head and shake some sense into him but I am so extremely happy with the way this book ended and I absolutely can not wait for the next book!!!!
This is my first time reading something by Isabella Cassazza and I am so going back for more after I finish this review. This book was a perfect read for a rainy day. It has the slow burn romance with a sports theme and hot men and fun fashion to boot. Throw in babies and I pretty much am in heaven.
In Center of Gravity we find Emilia struggling to please and make her grandfather proud. Something that is even more crucial given his financial and social status. Things seem to take a turn for the worse when Emilia finds herself pregnant and being sent to America to manage the hockey team that her grandfather just met. She is hoping this might just be the start over moment she needed but when she gets there she discovers that the one night of fun that left her pregnant is actually a player on the team! The build up to the finale of the book was so perfect and written with a flow that had me engrossed to find out what would happen between these two. I can’t say enough good things about this read!
Center of Gravity: A Standalone Friends-To-Lovers Sports Romance by Isabella Cassazza is the second book in the Ace Tigers Hockey Romance Series. This book is one of those that has such strong characters to it that the story is definitely all about them.
I loved Emilia and Matt. They were so interesting to read about. They had such a believable chemistry between them. I knew immediately that I wanted these to characters to find their happy ending because they just felt so right together.
This is the first book that I have read by this author and I have to say I really enjoyed the writing style. The whole book had a really good pace about it. The story was great and the characters were just amazing. This is definitely a hit new series for me and I am excited to see what else this author has to offer!
Center of Gravity: A Standalone Friends-to-Lovers Sports Romance (An Ice Tigers Hockey Romance Book 2) by Isabella Cassazza. While this definitely can be read as a stand-alone without any confusion it made me excited to read book one for sure. This author is new to me but it definitely won’t be long before I read all the books. The characters are complex and relatable, they pull you into their story so completely I found myself lost in the pages for a few hours not wanting to put it down. It’s amazing how one night can change everything you know in life. Each page had me falling more and more for each character who brings something unique to the storyline. I was very happy to find this author and I’m so excited to read more. This story was definitely well written and paced nicely never feeling rushed or lacking anything. Five stars all the way and highly recommended!
I absolutely love this story! It is filled with wishes, lost hope and amazing characters. This really pulled me in from the beginning and I could arely put it down. Each page I flipped drew me more into the lives of these two. Matt, who feels relationships with women are a terrible idea since they only let you down. I am thrilled we got chapters with his thoughts and feelings otherwise I would have labeled him a emotional jerk. Then there is Emilia who feels like everything in her life she fails at. She tries very hard to do the right thing only to let others and herself down. She wants people to love and recognize her for herself not her famous name. These two have a one night stand expecting to never see each other again but the universe has other plans for them.
This story brought me chills of delight as well as goosebumps from the desperation. I enjoyed and *felt* Each characters as they worked their way through this tricky development. Secondary characters are wonderful and full. This makes me want to delve more into this hockey series.
This is my first book by this author. I am impressed with the flow and naturalness of the story and characters. I recommend this story for not just lovers of hockey themes but those who want a real story that goes along with it.
I’m so glad that I picked up this read! This is my first read from this author and won’t be my last! While hockey isn’t a go-to sport I watch or even know about, 1 I thought I might learn about somethings, and 2 it’s a romance read and being a go-to favourite genre of mine I jumped at the chance. Being the second book in a series I thought I might lose the flow of the story and not know the characters but I had no problem connecting with the story or the characters. This read flowed brilliantly from start to finish and had me hooked from the start. I absolutely loved the characters I connected with them immediately and couldn’t wait to see these characters journey through the read. I can’t wait to read more from this author and see where she takes the rest of this series, but until then I’m going to go back and read Book 1 and dive into this authors world again!
Center of Gravity is the 2nd book in the Ice Tigers Hockey Romance Series by Isabella Cassazza. Each book can be read as a standalone but centre around a hockey team so characters will reoccur. I hadn’t read the first book in this series before reading this one but now that I have read the blurb of the 1st book I NEED to read it ASAP.
One thing I don’t usually mention when writing a review is the cover of a book but as this book has the beautiful Kamil Nizinski on the cover, it’s certainly worth a mention. He’s definitely a good muse to have when picturing Matt.
Matt is the captain of the Ice Tigers hockey team and is focussed on winning the Stanley Cup with his team. Emilia Ravelli is the new GM who just happens to have a bit of history with Matt and her appointment just might make Matt lose some of that focus.
I loved Matt and Emilia’s story. It’s filled with so much emotion. This book really tugs at the heart strings, particularly Matt’s relationship with his family. Emilia also has a difficult family relationship which adds to the stress she is under trying to prove to her family that she is a valued member of the family business.
I really loved the story line of this book. The author reels you in from the very start and doesn’t let you go. This is definitely a page turner. I couldn’t wait to see how Matt and Emilia’s story turned out and now I want to read more of this series.
After being betrayed, Matt finds himself in Italy. There, he has a one-night stand with a hot Italian woman before heading back to the US where his life is. More importantly…that’s where his hockey team is. As a member of the Ice Tigers, his focus is on winning the next game and winning the cup.
Emilia is sent to Boston to run the Ice Tigers. Her grandfathers expects her to be successful and get the team to the finals. Imagine Isabella’s surprise when her one-night stand from back home is listed as a player on the team. She and Matt need to talk, because their lives are about to be turned upside down. However, Matt wants nothing to do with Emilia or the news she brings to his doorstep.
This book was interesting to read. There is so much going on behind closed doors and behind the scenes that brings depth to characters that otherwise seem shallow on the outside. I enjoyed watching Emilia not only fight to prove herself to her family…but also to herself. And Matt has been burned in the past and does what he feels he has to in order to protect himself. I found their back and forth banter to be entertaining, while I was rooting for to get their acts together along the way. A good addition to the Ice Tigers series that I enjoyed reading.
Center of Gravity
By Isabella Cassazza
4 stars
I love a good sports romance and it’s been a while since I read one so when I came across this book I liked the sound of the synopsis so decided to give it a go. The author is new to me also and I wasn’t disappointed at all. I t had everything that I love in a sports romance, a nice storyline, great characters a bit of angst and more. I really liked Emilia, she tried so hard to get her Grandfathers approval but nothing seemed enough. I did really feel for her at times. I really loved the setting for the story too, I love Italy and I love stories set there, I’m sure sometimes just stories just being set there makes them even more romantic!
Even though this is the second book in the series it can be read as a standalone which I did, I however definitely want to read the first book now! A great read that I highly recommend!
I loved how beautifully this is written by the author. Kudos on a great book! I loved how romantic everything in life never is for these characters that come together to save one another. Love always prevails as they attempt to help one another heal not only from life’s circumstances for them but this couple manages to overcome it to not only become better people but a better couple as well.
What’s not only entertaining but also inspiring is how well it’s written but the wonderful characters are the way they come together for one another almost at the perfect time in their lives. This is a happily-ever-after love story that’s easy to read and a great page-turner.
This is my first read by this author, while it’s the second in this series I was able to read it with no problems without having read the first.
What a great story. I love hockey books so this was right up my alley. And the characters had me hooked to every page. I was fully invested in this book and everything around me ceased to exist, sorry kids, until I finished.
I will be going back and reading book one to get this series from the beginning.
Matt and Emilia don’t meet under the best of circumstances and both have their own secrets. Neither knows who the other person is other than a first name. They meet in Italy and share a night together. Emilia has been raised by her powerful Grandfather but can’t seem to do anything right in his eyes, so he sends her to Boston to manage the Hockey team he just bought. As Emilia is going through the personnel forms before a meeting she comes across Matt’s page and is floored. Well now she knows who he is but stand by Matt your world is about to change.
There are so many hurdles to jump, and secrets, can they get through it together?
The author is new to me but certainly will be added to my list. I really liked this book. I thought it was well written and look forward to reading more of her work.
I enjoyed this friends to lovers hockey romance story. This is not my first book by this author but it is one of my favorites by her. This is a story that is about one magical night but everything has a consequence even if it is magical. This is Emilia and Matt’s story. They are well developed characters that brought the story to life. They made the story easy to read and really made the story pop for me. They pulled me into their story with ease and kept me engaged to the end. They both seem to be lost, will one of them save the other? Will Matt realize there is more to life than just hockey? Their chemistry is strong and they heat up the pages. I highly recommend this book and this author. You don’t want to miss this one!
Sweet! I’ve volunteered to review this book for United Indie Book Blog. This is the second book in the An Ice Tigers Hockey series. This is also my first time reading one of Isabelle stories. This story is about Emilia and Matt. They met one very hot night in Italy. Then a few months later her grandfather bought a hockey team in the states. Also put Emilia in charge of the team. Here comes the heart stopper Matt is on that TEAM, yikes! Matt is living his dream as professional hockey player. While he has been hurt not too long ago by someone that was suppose to love him. Emilia and Matt have a lot of stressful issues to overcome. But can they overcome them? I love the chemistry between its off of the charts. I can’t wait to read the next book in this series. I’m definitely going back and reading the first book in this series. OMG I love some really hot hockey players. Where can I find one at? Keep up the amazing work!
Loved the book, the story was well written and the characters were intriguing. Once I started I could not get enough, from the start till the end I was engrossed I was even on the edge of my seat with twists and turns, action pact, hot and steamy, lust and passion, strength, happiness with a happily ever after. Do yourself a favor and buy the book you want be disappointed.
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4.5 Stars for Center of Gravity
This is the first book I have read by this author and I’m really left wondering why she hasn’t crossed my radar before now. I will certainly be going back to read book one in this series as well as checking her other works out as soon as time permits . I love a good Hockey romance and let me tell you this book did not disappoint in fact I loved everything about it.
Emilia has spent her life trying please the only family member she has left her grandfather but it seems nothing she can do pleases the man who seems to want very little to do with her so when he buys a Hockey team and sends her Stateside she is determined to make the Ice Tigers a success.
Matt Walker has lost everything he holds dear and the only thing left to fight for is a cup win is that all about to change when a firecracker from Italy takes over at the helm of his team…….
A world turned upside down, two lost souls and a secret that could change their lives forever make this a great read. I loved the characters and their story and I’m sure you will too so I urge you to one click this romance that will certainly appeal to all sports romance lovers as well as romance lovers. Looking forward to reading more from this very talented author.