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Pucking Around (includes That One Night) by Emily Rath

31 reviews

meowrie's review

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

I know nothing about hockey. I don't care about hockey. But when a book is this full of MMF+M spicy scenes, I'll read a book about hockey. 
Rachel was sweet, had a sensitive side, but was strong and sexy too. 
The guys were a perfect blend of everything you want in a man. And there are 3 of them. She has 3 holes so it works out perfectly. 
The sex was hot and the scenes were varied. It wasn't 750 pages of the same thing over and over. 
This book has been recommended in so many book groups, and I'm glad I finally got to it. Fun summer read 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Edit. The audio is pretty bad. Amy Hall has this halting delivery, Ash Beverly forgets he is supposed to be Finnish, and Alex Kydd has this odd chuckle that he does. It really was hard to listen to. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Misogyny

Minor: Alcoholism, Bullying, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, Medical content, Death of parent, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

cookreadrepeat's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Sexual content, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, Vomit, and Dysphoria

shinyfox's review

emotional funny 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Violence, and Medical content

Moderate: Homophobia, Misogyny, Outing, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Addiction, Drug abuse, and Pregnancy

peachani's review against another edition

emotional hopeful medium-paced

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

4.0

The page count had me stuck – why would a romance need to be damn near 800 pages?? But damn if I didn't enjoy nearly every page. (There were 1 or 2 bits of dialogue that repeated.) Overall, I liked this way more than I thought I would. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Sexual content, and Medical content

Moderate: Ableism, Misogyny, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Cancer, Drug abuse, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Blood, Medical trauma, Death of parent, and Abandonment

underscoresyd'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? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, and Outing

Moderate: Homophobia, Medical content, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders and Pregnancy

sha's review

adventurous hopeful tense fast-paced

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual violence, Violence, and Medical content

beebowbabe's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny lighthearted fast-paced

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

3.75

I had no idea a why choose sports romance would make me think so much about my relationships and the flexibility of the human experience 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing and Sexual content

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Medical content, Outing, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Biphobia, Homophobia, Sexism, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

heftsi's review against another edition

challenging slow-paced

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

1.0

I will never read a book like this again. This book is entirely too long and would’ve been great without the never ending sex scenes. I had to skip forward and play the audiobook at up to 2x speed in several cases. The backstory is interesting but unfortunately overshadowed by the unending sex scenes.

When I saw the audiobook was 14.5 hours I thought there’s no way a book needs to be that long. And the reason it’s so long is because it’s a bunch of drawn out sex scenes linked together by an interesting story. This bin could have been shorter. Way shorter. But apparently the sex scenes just had to be as long as possible. I wish there was a version I’d the book with less sex and more story.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Toxic relationship

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders, Outing, and Injury/Injury detail

acasiamae's review against another edition

funny informative lighthearted fast-paced

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

3.75

This was the sluttiest thing I’ve ever read. Woah. I picked it up as a joke and got sucked in. I did not at all expect to read a 105 chapter book in a week or less. This is not for the faint of heart and I had no clue what I was in for. There are many kinks that I didn’t know about or arn't interested in but it held my attention. The writing is honestly meh, it was cringy and sappy and kind of stupid but I can’t say I didn’t kind of love it in the end. The characters are well rounded and their own individual people which is appreciated. And while our main character annoyed me a few times I warmed to her too. What a wild ride. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cancer, Drug abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Outing

kenomilligan's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring tense 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? It's complicated

4.25

I would say this book is like 80% sex and 20% hockey. Some chapters its just sex after sex after sex, and as someone who loves a bit of smut, it was a little too much at times. It felt like they had sex sometimes just to have sex and it didn't really add much to the plot.

Poor Caleb, man. He kept getting the short end of the stick. 

Rachel cries too easily. The zodiac stuff was annoying.

I think Jake was left out of some sex scenes for no reason...like Mars and Caleb definitely got more action than him—but Jake arguably had more of a connection to Rachel.

Anyway, it was a fun and cute read. The first 20 or so chapters made me want to pull my hair out with how emotional Rachel was...and how she kept calling Caleb "daddy"...and the stuttering. But it got better.

Caleb is revealed to be queer at the beginning of the book, but it doesn't come into play until around 50% of the way in. Definitely thought the author made him gay just to have a gay character and be "inclusive", but I'm glad it actually went somewhere and was useful to the plot.

VERY sex positive.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Drug abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail