Reviews tagging 'Infidelity'

Pucking Sweet by Emily Rath

11 reviews

garbage_mcsmutly's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

📚 Ugh why is this series so good??? And why isn't there more of it to read yet??? This book did a good job of bringing in events from books 1 and 2 in the series and putting them in a different context, so even if you knew what was happening from the previous books' MCs' perspectives, it felt familiar but still felt fresh.

📙 This was a great story. There was emotional vulnerability, there was rivalry, there was love and discovery and tons of sex. And I really liked all three of the MCs in terms of personality.

🎧 All three of the narrators (1 female, 2 male, all first person POV) did an excellent job with the material.

🌶️ 5/5 it didn't get into like deep/hardcore kink but other than that, this book (like the others in the series) is constantly on.

🏳️‍🌈✊ We of course have the diversity in sexuality involved in a 3 way relationship (and it is truly 3 way). There are also other team members who are queer (some from book 1 and some others). One of the MMCs is biracial: Black and (I think) white. This is a hockey romance, and it does seem like most of the side characters are white. There's diversity in backgrounds: one of the MCs grew up alone and basically on the streets, one had a loving middle class family, and the other comes from a powerful and moneyed (but cold) family.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Sexual content, Medical content, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Violence, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Biphobia, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Terminal illness, Blood, Vomit, and Death of parent

strawberrycasualreader's review against another edition

emotional funny slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship and Blood

Moderate: Homophobia, Infidelity, and Sexism

Minor: Death of parent

theblackstepford's review against another edition

lighthearted medium-paced

3.0

So this was run of the mill for this author. It was 20 hours long and really didn’t need to be. FMC has an awful family throughout the book. That situation was solved… kinda. Things came to a head and then we, the reader, never heard anything else about it. Even in the epilogue, which happened YEARS later. The relationship was cool. The spicy scenes were above par, but this could have easily been a 12 hour listening experience, instead of 20. Spice 3.5/5 🌶️ storyline 2.75/5 📚

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Bullying, Chronic illness, Medical trauma, and Abandonment

Minor: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, and Toxic relationship

fromthefoxhole's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Medical content, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, and Gaslighting

Minor: Child abuse, Infidelity, and Death of parent

bergha1998's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

I cried, laughed, and enjoyed the spice throughout this whole book. Novy is going to be my fav character of the month, I’ve already called it. His journey throughout this book cause so much laughter and tears for me. And I loved Poppy and Colton, too. Enjoying an accidental pregnancy plot was not on my bingo card for this year, but it happened. Wrath can do no wrong. 

MMF Romance, Enemies to Lovers and Friends to Lovers, 4 🔥

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Cursing, Homophobia, Infidelity, Misogyny, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

rosie_valadez's review against another edition

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Medical content, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, and Gaslighting

Minor: Child abuse, Infidelity, and Death of parent

kaitlynnnng's review against another edition

lighthearted slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Pregnancy

Minor: Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Toxic friendship

kloughlin's review against another edition

emotional funny slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

I really liked the story over all. That said, the parts of the story that matched up with the timeline of the previous two books no longer felt like the same characters. I could justify Poppy’s suddenly upbeat attitude towards the players and support staff as her putting on a happy front to other people. But I cringed when

Poppy grabbed the wine glass at the turtle party and sputtered to Rachel and Tess about her pregnancy and not knowing who the father was. Up until that point, it didn’t matter to her which one of them was the father and she spoke as if they both were the father. Plus, the reader never saw her struggle not to ingest alcohol before this scene. In fact, she politely held a glass of champagne without being tempted to sip it at Rachel’s wedding before the events of the turtle party.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Pregnancy

Minor: Addiction, Infidelity, Medical content, Death of parent, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

antidietleah's review against another edition

emotional lighthearted fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

3.5 stars, a bit of a let down after Pucking Around. There just wasn't enough relationship development for me. "Well that escalated quickly" was uttered multiple times. This book takes place at the same time as Pucking Around and kinda makes me want to go back and read it again to pick up on the crossover. 

The characters were great, lots of dirty talk that got a little repetitive, slow burn on the MM side of things. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Violence, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child abuse and Infidelity

iamsammie27's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Medical content, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Chronic illness, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, and Gaslighting

Minor: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Infertility, Blood, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail