Save Your Breath by Kandi Steiner is now live!
I received this book for free from Valentine PR in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.
Save Your Breath by Kandi Steiner Series: Kings of the Ice #4
on March 20, 2025
Genres: Adult Rock Star Romance, Adult Sports Romance
Pages: 412
Source: Valentine PR
Format: E-galley
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Blurb:
THIS JUST IN: HOCKEY BAD BOY AND POP STAR EXTRAORDINAIRE ENGAGED!
That was the headline we’d wanted. If only I’d known the cost to get it.
Aleksander Suter has been my best friend since high school—and the only man who’s ever been able to truly get under my skin. With his reputation for trouble and a smirk that could melt ice, he’s also the NHL’s favorite bad boy.
When my publicist’s plan to fix my image collides with his need to clean up his own, we find ourselves in a fake engagement that feels too real from the start.
Now, I’m releasing my new album, putting on a show for the paparazzi I usually try to dodge, and falling too fast for a man who never falls for anyone. Every stolen glance, every heated touch blurs the lines between us until I’m wondering where the lies end and the truth begins.
And when a hurricane traps us together in his high-rise condo, all my carefully built walls collapse, and resisting the pull between us becomes a losing game.
Suddenly, the stakes are higher than just headlines, and the risks feel more personal than ever.
But as our past resurfaces and old feelings reignite, I realize the biggest risk isn’t losing my career—it’s losing my heart to the one person I thought would never be mine.
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TROPES:
Pro Hockey Romance
Fake Engagement
Athlete & Pop Star
Childhood Friends to Lovers
Forced Proximity
Unrequited Love (or so they think)
Opposites Attract
Slow Burn
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Save Your Breath is book four in the Kings of the Ice series: a series of interconnected standalones following a team of professional hockey players and the women who bring them to their knees. They do not need to be read in order, but you will gain glimpses of future characters/couples in each book.
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My Review
This is the first in this series of standalones that I’ve read, but I really enjoyed it! It totally was a type of story like we are seeing with Taylor Swift and my KC Chiefs star Travis Kelce. It was a hockey player, not football, but same old type of story. I loved all the insight into Mia’s career and how it was taking off, but also how there were people out there putting her down. Again so much like Taylor Swift deals with. And then there was Aleks, who was the grumpy sexy hockey player, but also the boy she knew as a teen and that she knew how hard his life had been. It was easy to understand why he felt the way he did about himself based on his family, and even then when Mia’s dad kind of warned him off of her. However he was a teenage boy at the time, so what dad wouldn’t?
It was easy to see the attraction between them already there, and how it grew enough they could show it to each other, and those around them could see it as well. But oh my gosh the miscommunication at times was so frustrating. It made sense, again, based on what the two had dealt with in their past with their families, exes, and even how interactions between the two of them that could have led to more ended up going. Even with the miscommunication issues, I love the way they figured out and didn’t let it go for long that they didn’t really want to break up. I loved how quickly that was solved even if something else had to pop up for that final drama/darkest moment.
Now, the final epilogue was one of Aleks’s teammates, and I am very excited for his story, even if this is the first one in the series I’ve read. So I’m looking forward to that book. And, I have to get this out, one negative and then I’ll stop, I cannot stand the “hot guy” cover for this book. I hate that expression on his face. I mean I get why he is kind of sneering. But that is not an attractive (to me) sneer at all. So I will stick to the pretty purple special edition cover, or the other one with the drawn characters instead. Anyway, this was a wonderful sports/rock star romance!
About the Author
Kandi Steiner is a USA Today and #1 Amazon Bestselling Author living in Tennessee. Best known for writing “emotional rollercoaster” stories, she loves bringing flawed characters to life and writing about real, raw romance — in all its forms. No two Kandi Steiner books are the same, and if you’re a lover of angsty, emotional, and inspirational reads, she’s your gal.
An alumna of the University of Central Florida, Kandi graduated with a double major in Creative Writing and Advertising/PR with a minor in Women’s Studies. Her love for writing started at the ripe age of 10, and in 6th grade, she wrote and edited her own newspaper and distributed to her classmates. Eventually, the principal caught on and the newspaper was quickly halted, though Kandi tried fighting for her “freedom of press.”
She took particular interest in writing romance after college, as she has always been a hopeless romantic and found herself bursting at the seams with love stories she was eager to tell.
When Kandi isn’t writing, you can find her reading books of all kinds, planning her next adventure, or pole dancing (yes, you read that right). She enjoys live music, traveling, hiking, yoga, spending quality time with her family (fur babies included) and soaking up the sweetness of life.
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Oh… I need a rockstar romance for my bingo. I’ll put this down as a place holder. Thanks!!
That’s exactly what I used it for on the bingo too!
This book certainly covers a lot of romance tropes! I’m glad that you enjoyed it Lisa. Great review.
It did cover sooooo many!