Save Your Breath - Kandi Steiner

Save Your Breath by Kandi Steiner is the fourth book in the Kings of the Ice series and seriously, it's unfair how each book is just SO freaking DELICIOUS.

Here in book four, we meet Mia and Aleks, the squeaky-clean popstar and the hockey bad boy, who are in a bit of a tricky situation. He needs someone to help clean up his image and she needs help getting the attention off her ex and on to her and her music. So of course, fake dating and a fake engagement are CLEARLY the answer for BOTH of them. 

What makes all of this extra difficult for them? Oh, they've totally NOT been entangled since they were teenagers, and he came from Switzerland to live with her family in Illinois with dreams of playing in the NHL. Of course, he promised to keep his hands off her and he did... and oh the yearning and regret. 

So, of course, this is one of my favorite of Steiners books because he falls so hard it's PAINFUL in the best of ways. 

This book is also so good in how it handles mental health - maybe not in a everyone gets the therapy they need way - but in that people are leaning on their people way. Not all of us hit rock bottom and go to therapy, some of us hit rock bottom and rely on those closest to us in those dark moments. Maybe we do the work in different ways. Maybe not the healthiest way to handle things but it's how the real world works. 

I was lucky enough to ARC read this one and am so glad it's now out for everyone to get their hands on. Go forth and enjoy Save Your Breath!