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onelia's review against another edition
- 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
5.0
Graphic: Sexual content
Moderate: Violence and Cursing
Minor: Homophobia, Pregnancy, Biphobia, Drug use, Addiction, Medical content, Misogyny, and Sexism
andeng's review against another edition
- 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
4.5
Graphic: Emotional abuse, Violence, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Alcoholism, and Medical content
Moderate: Eating disorder and Drug use
Minor: Death of parent and Cancer
rdeardurff's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
Graphic: Sexual content
Minor: Eating disorder, Drug use, Misogyny, and Alcoholism
sam_xmc's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.5
Minor: Drug use, Addiction, Injury/Injury detail, and Eating disorder
lilyemmaaa's review against another edition
- 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
3.75
Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, and Sexual content
Minor: Abandonment, Cancer, Outing, Self harm, Death of parent, and Drug use
briochebun's review against another edition
”It's as if his aura takes up so much space all on its own that he compensates by making the other pieces of himself smaller.”
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This novel combined two of my favorite things: hockey & why choose romance. Unfortunately — it still wasn’t able to live up to my expectations.
I admittedly wasn’t the biggest fan of the prequel to this novel — ”That One Night” — but I’ve heard <b>amazing</b> things about ”Pucking Around” so I still wanted to give the novel a go to satisfy all of my curiosities.
One of the main issues that I had while reading ”Pucking Around” was in regards to Rachel’s characterization (which was a bit confusing at times). It felt as though she was all over the place most of the time — there was no consistency to her character.
In the beginning of the novel Rachel stated that she cared about her position too much to risk anything with Jake + Caleb, but not long after that she ended up sleeping with them & forming a relationship with the pair. I understand that she had to cave at some point (it is a romance novel after all), but I did expect her to hold out for at least a little bit longer than she did…
Another issue that I had with this novel was that all of the relationships seemed to lack healthy communication (at least up until the 62% mark — which is where I stopped). I was more of a fan of Rachel + Ilmari & Jake + Caleb as separate couples rather than the MMFM that they were in the process of forming because there were moments where I couldn’t feel the chemistry between them / it didn’t feel like a true why choose MMFM romance to me.
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It’s possible that I’ll attempt to give this one another go in the future — but for now I will just say that I’m glad that others have read and enjoyed this novel & leave it at that. ♡
Graphic: Sexual content, Outing, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Abandonment, Medical content, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, and Sexual harassment
Moderate: Homophobia
Minor: Biphobia, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Alcoholism, Pregnancy, Drug use, Addiction, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Death of parent, Bullying, Sexism, and Alcohol
alybeth's review against another edition
- 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
Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, and Cursing
Moderate: Sexism, Homophobia, Outing, and Medical content
Minor: Abandonment, Drug use, Suicide attempt, Panic attacks/disorders, and Pregnancy
fromthefoxhole's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Injury/Injury detail and Sexual content
Minor: Drug abuse, Drug use, Homophobia, Alcoholism, Eating disorder, and Dysphoria