The cringe-moments aside, I did enjoy Pucked.

I mean, don’t get me wrong, I love a good euphemism for manhood, and it’s a hockey romance, so I went into it expecting a “hockey stick” reference or twelve, but “Snuffleupagus” was taking it a little too far. It’s not something that I usually mind, but between all of the dramatic hating on hockey players (including her own step-brother), degrading other women for being “puck bunnies,” and the borderline-obsessive references to Alex’s genitalia, I found myself getting pretty annoyed with her.Īlso, the number of times she used cutesy nicknames for both her own and Alex’s nether regions was a little over the top, in my opinion. Violet is the definition of a word-vomiter. On the other hand, I found portions of it kind of cringeworthy.

I also really liked how well Helena Hunting set up future books in the series via the side characters it’s one reason I will continue to read the series. Alex is a complete hunk and totally smitten with Violet, making the bits written in his POV really fun to read. I liked the writing style, and I think that the dual POV really worked for the story. There was just enough balance between the romance and the hockey. It was lighthearted, easy to read, and funny. I have mixed feelings about this first installment in the series of standalone books centered around the hockey players on the Hawks. Violet swears that the night they spend together will be just that-one night-but after several weeks of flower deliveries, expensive gifts, and cute texts and phone calls, her resolve wavers. After a bad experience dating a hockey player, Violet has sworn off of them entirely, Until she meets Alex.ĭespite his reputation as a player, he charms her. Pucked follows Violet, a recent college graduate working as an accountant for hockey players, and Alex, the captain for the Chicago Hawks, the hockey team Violet’s step-brother was recently traded to. I’ve been seeing people rave about the Pucked Series only my feed for months now, so since I recently got Kindle Unlimited, I finally broke down and started it. Well, it’s time for another installation of Bookstagram made me do it.

Pucked Under by Helena Hunting