Author: Becka Mack
Publication date: 2022
Publisher: indipendent
Genre: sport romance
Language: english
Rate: 5 ⭐ | 3 🌶
The plot:
Failing is part of life. And we pick back up and start again. We can do that, Carter. As long as you arfe by my side I can always start again.
Carter Beckett is the NHL’s resident bad boy, top player both on the ice and in the bedroom, and quite possibly the sexiest man to ever grace my field of vision. But worst of all? He knows it.
He’s arrogant, self-centered, and the man doesn’t seem to know what a filter is, let alone how to use one. He’s had everything served to him on a silver platter, including endless strings of women, and apparently, I’m up next.
His only problem? I have no intention of falling for his shi—um, charm.
I have the solution to all my sexual frustrations in a drawer at home, and it’s far less complicated than Carter Beckett. Sure, he may be pretty, but he’s also a walking, talking reminder for you to wrap it before you tap it.
But then I start letting my guard down, and he starts showing me pieces of himself I had no intention of seeing. The bricks surrounding me may be tumbling down one by one, but I’m not sold yet, which means for the first time in his life, Carter’s the one begging.
For my time, my trust, for a single chance.
For me to just…consider him.
Carter is a top-level hockey player, protective of his family, team, close friends, but he's also known for being a playboy and switching girlfriends almost every night. Like any self-respecting playboy, he just can't contemplate the possibility of not being able to get whoever he wants. That's why he does everything to make Olivia trust him, that she opens up to him and lets go. In doing so, however, he lets her glimpse a part of him reserved for a few, the part that he keeps hidden from the whole world and that he is afraid to show: that of the son who still misses his father and who, despite everything, can do nothing to help the mother, of the protective older brother, of the leader who leaves room for each player, of the friend who would throw himself under a train for the others.
In Consider me we see the transformation of Carter, a Carter who's cocky (and even a little arrogant), focused on hockey and having fun every night with a different girl, leaving a trail of broken hearts behind him, instead becomes the perfect boyfriend, who's not afraid to show his feelings in front of everyone and who boasts of Olivia in every possible way and occasion, making her appear on the big screen during the games countless times, just for the sake of making her blushes. Carter goes from going out every night drinking with friends and teasing Emmett for being obsessed with Cara, his girlfriend, to becoming the exact copy, preferring to stay in the room rather than at the bar when they are away for the games or stay at home with Olivia on the sofa instead of going out to celebrate the team's victories.
Carter and Olivia have become my favorite couple so far, out of all the books I've read this year (almost on a par with Christian and Stella from Twisted Lies). Despite all people's doubts, it turned out that Carter is actually a perfect boyfriend material: caring, sweet and obsessed (positively) by Olivia, jealous but not too much and that he doesn't seem to have any problem with PDAs (including dedicating various goals to her from the very beginning of the book, when they weren't together yet). Olivia on the other hand is much more withdrawn, reserved and likes to remain on the sidelines, which is not possible with Carter who goes out of his way to shout to the world whom she belongs. Together they create a one-of-a-kind couple, and despite Olivia's trust issues regarding Carter's past, he continues to pursue her and make her understand that for him there will always be only her, asking only to consider him and give him a chance.
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