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Pucking Sweet by Emily Rath

6 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

nanastradamus's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny fast-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

3.5

gooped and gagged tbh!! in all seriousness i rly need to know more about that

violet and olivia

situation 👀 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Confinement, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child abuse, Physical abuse, Violence, Vomit, Medical content, and Death of parent

Minor: Racism, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

skb163's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Medical content

Moderate: Blood, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Death, Homophobia, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, Lesbophobia, Outing, and Abandonment

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

thisteachreads's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny medium-paced

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

3.0

It’s Emily Rath… what more is there to say? 

If you’ve read her books in order, you know what you’re in store for.

I enjoyed the easy love between Cole and Lukas, although I did have to question

how quickly they become each others person, esport having only known each other for 2 years and those years weren’t consecutively prior to coming to the Rays.

Then again, I guess it’s silly to question anything in the Rays universe - there is clearly something in the water that makes Florida a place that just accepts polyamory amongst a large swath of its players. 

I will say that this book does come with a big surprise pregnancy trigger warning. Definitely not a trope I enjoy reading. In this case, it didn’t seem to really become a thing until later in the novel. 

It’s a long read but a light one. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Medical content, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Emotional abuse and Alcohol

Minor: Death of parent

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