The books of this series don’t hit the usual — no one admits to being in love until the last chapter — beats. Instead the character reads like real people (as much as fictional wealthy hockey players can) who act like actual communicating adults. While some of the situations the characters found themselves may be a bit more than the average person has to put up with, they deal with their issues like grow-ups and work through any issues they have, without doing the whole “I shouldn’t tell him/her how I feel about him/her” thing that annoys us all about the typical romance novel. Oh, and I so want a Fuggler now.