"Love On Ice"

Rachel Gibson weaves a delightful tale in SEE JANE SCORE. Jane Alcott is living in Seattle and writing a column called Single Girl. Due to the illness of a sports reporter she is drafted to become the beat reporter for the Seattle Chinooks of the National Hockey League.

Jane is an odd choice for hockey reporter as she knows zip about the sport and has to rely on Ice Hockey for Dummies and it's equivalents to do her job. Since the players at first won't talk to her and enjoy dropping their jocks in front of her; she has a tough time doing good columns.

Jane also has another source of income that no one at her paper knows of: she writes a porno column called Honey Pie for a men's magazine. Through Honey Pie Jane has an outlet for all of her fantasies and it is no surprise when our hero ends up in her column.

Luc Martineau is the team's goalie and has no time or use for the press, as he has been burned by erroneous details of his rehab from pain pills and his busy love life. Now that Luc is raising his 16 year old sister and having his best season in years, he is really guarding his privacy and refusing to talk to the press. He gradually comes to trust Jane and open up to her. But, but is horrified at being immortalized (not to mention screwed into a coma) in the anonymous Honey Pie's column.

Jane and Luc gradually warm to each other and their repartee is delightful--these are two sharp and funny characters. Especially amusing were the superstitions that the team had and everytime she had to call Luc a 'big dodo' it just made me smile. I thought Jane and Luc's 'happilyeverafter' ending was both believable and satisfying.

Rachel Gibson is one author who has not disappointed me yet and with SEE JANE SCORE Gibson has scored another winner.

Reviewed by Linda Hurst
Posted April 15, 2003