Wicked Serve: A Brother’s Rival Hockey Romance (Beyond the Play Book 4)

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Last update: 08-18-2024


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Pre-order your new obsession from TikTok sensation Grace Reilly, a spicy brother’s rival hockey romance! Perfect for fans of Hannah Grace, Liz Tomforde and Elsie Silver.

He’s my brother’s biggest hockey rival…but he’s bringing the heat for me.

Nikolai

Hockey is my life, and I need to make this last season count. But when I’m forced to transfer to rival school McKee University for my senior year, I risk pissing off the captain, who happens to be the older brother of Isabelle Callahan: the gorgeous beam of sunshine I messed around with in secret this summer.

Rekindling our fling could risk her brother icing me off the team—not to mention the fact that my scarred past makes having a real relationship impossible—and yet the moment I see Isabelle again, all my wild, burning feelings come rushing back.

Izzy

I have two goals for sophomore year: win back my old volleyball position, and forget I ever knew devilishly handsome hockey defenseman Nikolai Abney-Volkov. As the youngest and only daughter in a family full of athletes, failure isn’t an option.

But when Nik crashes back into my life, I can’t stay away from his broody charm. I’m determined to guard my heart this time, but between the furtive hookups and the heartfelt conversations, the lines between friends-with-benefits and more begin to blur.

As we fall deeper into a place we can’t come back from unscathed, we’ll have to make a choice: fight for a future together, or watch it go up in flames.

Filled with swoons, spice, sports, and koalas, Wicked Serve is a don’t-miss new adult college sports romance.


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Top reviews from the United States

Megan Tolley
5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic end to an amazing series!
Reviewed in the United States on August 15, 2024
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Such a superb ending to one of my favorite series! There’s just so many things I loved about this book, and I’m sad it had to end! Isabelle is every girl who’s ever dealt with the stress to be perfect and crippling anxiety and I love her relationship with Nik and how they heal each other. His anxiety and panic disorder mirrors my own - and it perfectly explains the notion “you can’t judge a book by its cover”. Solnishko will forever be one of my favorite nicknames ☀️ I also loved how it made it seem like choosing yourself and being selfish isn’t always bad - sometimes it has to be done to better yourself so you can not be selfish in the future????????

Can’t wait to see what Grace writes next -
IF GRACE REILLY WRITES IT I READ IT????
Anne Mitchell
4.0 out of 5 stars Exceeded my expectations
Reviewed in the United States on August 15, 2024
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I was actually really scared this book wasn’t gonna live up to the expectations I had in my head. I read the first three Callahan books back to back, and LOVED them, and I was so excited for Izzy’s book. She’s my favorite Callahan after all, so watching her get her love story was something I was so excited about. The hype and expectations were definitely met and exceeded.

Izzy has been my favorite from the beginning. The little glimpses we got of her personality and struggles throughout her brothers books made me love her even more, and she just grew so much from James’ book until the end of this book and it was fun to watch and read. I appreciate how much she fought for her relationship with Nikolai, and for the man himself.

While Izzy didn’t need anyone to fight for her, the fact that Nik did it anyway is adorable. Here is this big tough hockey player with enough demons to fill his own circle of hell and he is soft only for her. I love the way Nik comes out of his shell and opens up, not only to Izzy but also to Cooper. The romance between Izzy and Nik is amazing, but so is the friendship between Coop and Nik. Nik grows so much as a character and it was amazing to read!

What a great conclusion to the Callahan family!

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Ashlyn Watkins
5.0 out of 5 stars a great hockey romance
Reviewed in the United States on August 14, 2024
I need more. This book was soooo good. I didn't want it to end. I am definitely in my hockey romance era and this book did not disappoint. This was my first Grace Reilly book and now I am going to go back and read the rest of the books in this series.
I am obsessed and I can definitely see myself rereading this one again soon. This book was the perfect balance of sweet and spicy. I loved how some of the heavy topics were handled.
Rachael Marzonie
4.0 out of 5 stars perfect ending to a great series
Reviewed in the United States on August 13, 2024
What a perfect ending to such a classic series. I really appreciated the men’s mental health representation Grace gives us in this story, Nik’s panic disorder is something that isn’t often touched on with men in romance books. Izzy’s internal struggle to achieve approval from her parents to “match up” with her brothers is such a familiar struggle and I felt seen ????

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- MMC Mental Health Rep
- broody x sunshine
- found family
- secret relationship
- brothers rival turned teammate
- college sports romance
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jean hall
5.0 out of 5 stars Izzy and Nik
Reviewed in the United States on August 15, 2024
OMG such a heartfelt story and ????️????️ as well. Nik and Izzy do have personal issues with themselves. I love all this author navigated their emotions and I loved how she let Nik deal with his issues on his own. But I love how Izzy made that possible for him. Great ending but I wanted more
Leslie @ She Reads Romance Books
4.0 out of 5 stars Wickedly sweet and spicy! Grace Reilly knows how to deliver a steamy college romance!
Reviewed in the United States on August 13, 2024
Wicked Serve is book four in Grace Reilly’s popular Beyond the Play series which features a bunch of college sports romance books.

Though this is the final book in the series, it can be read as a standalone. It does include couples from the previous books but you don’t have to have read their stories first to enjoy this one though I did read Breakaway (book two) and felt like that was a good intro to this world, Izzy and her brother.

I eagerly dived into it because Grace made the heroine a college volleyball player and you rarely, if ever, see this sport mentioned in a romance book. I’m a bit partial because I played volleyball in college so it was really fun to commiserate with Izzy and follow her in this sport.

But I’m also a HUGE hockey romance fan and Nickolai did not disappoint as a college hockey hottie who could bring it on the ice but who also had a very soft heart when it came to his little sunshine.

Grace gave both of these characters great backstories with a connection and chemistry that was undeniable.

Izzy is the youngest in a family of amazing athletes so she’s feeling the pressure to excel in a sport too despite hitting some road bumps in her career due to paryting in the past. She’s been a bit impulsive but really tried to make something of herself in this story.

Nickolai is a star hockey player that gets kicked out of his school and has to transfer to a rival’s school for his final year. I was intrigued by his upbringing in Russia and the traumatic past with his father which plays out in the later part of the book.

Overall I liked the character focus of this new adult romance. How Izzy and Nickolai connected over a summer and continued their fling once he transferred schools. Though more obvious to the reader than the characters that they were more than a fling, I enjoyed the progression of their relationship until they finally figured it out for themselves and could admit it!

Grace does not shy away from the steam in her books and I love it. So if you’re looking for a book with a good amount of steam this has it.

I will say that this book is pretty long coming in at over 400 pages. This wasn’t necessarily a bad thing as it just gives you more of Izzy and Nickolai working through their issues but I did find myself skimming the last few chapters to pick up the plot highlights.

It must also be nice for these two to come from families with money. I’m not sure that athletes could just up and fly across the world to Australia for a few days during the school year and their season but I guess I’ll go with it!

I’d recommend this book to readers who love college romance books with spice and characters who are athletes but who also have compelling aspects to their lives outside of their sport.

Be sure to also check out my interview with Grace Reilly on the She Reads Romance Books Podcast where we talk about Wicked Serve and our love of sports romance books.

*Thank you to Netgalley for the advanced reader copy. All opinions are my own.
Allie Koval
5.0 out of 5 stars Grace Reilly does it again!
Reviewed in the United States on August 13, 2024
As always, Grace Reilly wrote a beautiful love story. Nikolai and Isabelle's love is beautiful and exactly what each other needs. I have loved reading books about all the Callahan siblings and said to see them ending. Highly recommend this book and series!

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