I cannot get enough of Melissa Ivers’ writing. Her humor is refreshing and pleasantly witty. Anyone who writes in details like a goalie who has full blown conversations with the goal is probably just the right amount of crazy to invent entire worlds of people. She blends light humor and emotions together seamlessly to have your pulling for her characters and invested in the story. She makes readers care about what happens and hang on the hope for the characters to pull their heads from their rear ends and grab love with both hands. This book was no different. While our hero may not be the himbo that Linc and Tag have been, his gruffness is definitely sexy. The way she writes the issues with him and his family, you’re fighting the urge to pull him in to a hug the duration of the book. You fall in love with Lucy through his eyes, even if he is too stubborn to admit that’s what he feels. You fall for Rhett’s protective and possessiveness, and his animalistic need for Lucy. She really makes you a part of this world, and THAT is key to a five star read.Book 3 in the Nashville Devils series is actually one I read in May, but reread again in series order last night for the sake of my Instagram and blog reviews (and maybe because I’m ADHD and didn’t fully remember everything). Broody Devil is Lucy and Rhett’s story. We as readers meet Lucy in the first book, and Rhett at the very end of the second. Rhett is a surly, broody (hence the title) jerk. Or at least on the surface. He really has a big heart with a serious savior complex. After growing up with an alcoholic abusive father, where Rhett made sure to take the brunt of the abuse to spare his younger siblings, Rhett has really started to believe he is the disappointment and failure that his father thinks he is, despite his success on the ice. Events from his personal life spilled over into his professional life which ended in him beating the skates off his teammate, resulting in his trade to the Devils. He views the trade as punishment, because he refuses to say why he pummeled the golden boy of the L.A. Stars.After fights with his teammates, a naked incident with some ladies of questionable morals, and a slew of other mishaps (all within his first 30 days as a Devil), he finds himself at the mercy of our fierce (and very pink) Lucy. As we’ve seen in the last two books, Lucy is an intelligent, independent, badass in her own right. We know from her sister Elle’s book, Untamed Devil, that Lucy forged her own path, despite her father’s expectations and attempts at controlling her. Her parents cut her off and Lucy had to couch surf at her friends’ houses until she had been able to save up and got a job in Nashville, and the rest, as they say, is history. She informs big, bad Rhett that he has two options: clean up his image, or get sent back down to the minors, and possibly even kicked out of the sport all together.Of course, Rhett takes that about as well as you’d expect. He jets off to Vegas the first chance he gets, where Lucy has no choice but to follow. She finds our stubborn man in a sticky strip joint, because of course she does. He promptly challenges her to a drink, and next thing you know, they’re waking up with wedding bands on and not much else. Can these two convince the world their accidental marriage is real to save both their jobs? Or is this “fake marriage” a lot more real than it seems? Grab Broody Devil by Melissa Ivers and find out.