Pucking Sweet by Emily Rath on September 24, 2024
Genres: Fiction / Romance / Polyamory, Fiction / Romance / Sports, Fiction / Romance / Workplace
Pages: 576
Format: eBook
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“I don’t think she knows how beautiful she looks like this, how powerful, how desirable. I feel like I’m holding onto a beam of pure fucking sunlight. Her attention is life-giving. It’s restoring. With her, I am remade.”
My name is Poppy St. James and I’ve just landed my dream job as the Director of Public Relations for the NHL’s hottest new team, the Jacksonville Rays. But if I want to stay beyond my one-year contract, I’ll have to prove myself. Easy. PR is in my blood. What’s not so easy are the hockey players. They’re a real handful, especially party boy defenseman Lukas Novikov. I don’t care how well Lukas plays hockey. Off the ice, he’s a PR nightmare. Brash and bossy, he’s always finding ways to drag his teammates into trouble, especially fellow defenseman Colton Morrow, and I have to find brilliant ways to drag them out of it. The players can all call me PR Barbie all they want, but I’m getting the job done. Because I am poised, powerful, and always professional . . . until the fateful night my phone rings. With one little phone call from home that leads to one drunken mistake, my carefully balanced life is knocked off-kilter. And now I’m staring down at a little blue plus sign and I have no strategy, no idea what’s next. All I know is that nothing will ever be the same.
I don’t know what she puts in these books but they’re crack to me. I like this story way better than Pucking Wild but no one compares to the original Pucking Around. Poppy’s story with Novy and Marrow was indeed sweet and so loving. It was fun to go back to the same timeline as Pucking Around and see how their story was evolving at the same time. I loved getting the details of the bits and pieces we were given in the other books. There was a good mix of plot and spice, plus a lot of character development with each of the main characters. I really enjoy this series because Emily does a wonderful job connecting you to each player on the team. It has you wanting to read the next one in line to learn what happens in their individual journey.
I rated this novel 4.5 stars. This book is filled with lots of steam, lots of dirty talk, lots of swoons, and just lots of amazingness! These characters have my heart! Their love story is beautiful and I fell for each of them. The emotional pacing of this book is perfection. Nothing felt rushed or “too soon,” but flowed organically.