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kat7794'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
4.5
Graphic: Cursing, Homophobia, Sexual content, Medical content, Pregnancy, and Outing
kaitlynnnng'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
This book is downright filthy and disgusting…and I loved it. The spice was wonderful.
As a huge hockey fan, I LOVED that Emily Rath actually knew what she was talking about. It can be painful to read hockey books when things aren’t accurate.
Caleb was my least favorite of the partners. I appreciated the dominance he brought to the table, but I didn’t feel like he and Rachel were on nearly the same level as Ilmari and Rachel or Jake and Rachel. His moments with her never made me feel the same way the other guys’ moments with her did. By the end, my mind kind of changed the dynamic to be something along the lines of Caleb and Rachel sharing Jake, and Jake and Ilmari sharing Rachel, not all of them sharing Rachel. However, that doesn’t mean that I disliked him overall. I just thought of him more as Rachel’s bestie.
I do wish that Rachel married Jake instead of Ilmari, given their history and Jake’s need for reassurance, but I do get why it happened the way it did.
Graphic: Cursing and Sexual content
Moderate: Homophobia and Outing
bookishlyyemma's review
- 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: Cursing and Sexual content
Moderate: Violence and Blood
Minor: Addiction, Drug abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexism, Blood, Medical content, and Suicide attempt
This is a hockey romance so the violence and blood is contained to on the ice. There are brief mentions of drug abuse and suicide attempt in the FMCs past.apolen's review
5.0
Graphic: Cursing and Sexual content
Moderate: Homophobia, Outing, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Blood and Death of parent
alybeth's review
- 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: Cursing, Sexual content, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Homophobia, Sexism, Medical content, and Outing
Minor: Drug use, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, and Abandonment
erkietheturkey's review
- 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: Cursing, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Medical content, and Fire/Fire injury
Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders
Minor: Addiction, Cancer, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Homophobia, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Outing, and Alcohol
inkdrinkers's review
- 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
Rachel Price has always kept her head down and her private life out of the eyes of the press. The daughter of a famous rockstar just wants to leave her party-girl image behind and move forward with the fellowship of a lifetime as the team doctor for the newest hockey team in the league, the Jacksonville Rays. But when Rachel realizes that one of the guys on the team was her mysteriously magical one-night-stand a few months ago, his best friend is the guy she can't stop herself from falling hard for, and there's a goalie who keeps worming his big Finnish way into her heart - she quickly realizes she's in over her head.
I LOVED THIS BOOK. I love Emily Rath. I loved the characters. I LOVED EVERY SECOND. I have so, so many good things to say about this book, but first and foremost - it was absolute why choose/RH/polyam perfection. There were so many wonderful conversations between Rachel and the guys in the pages, and then the guys with each other. Caleb, Jake, and Ilmari are now three men I might also be in love with? I'm definitely in love with Ilmari, we'll get to him first because I seem to always find myself falling for the absolute biggest, teddy bear of a man in RH books. Ilmari fits all my bills and then throws them in the shredder, he's incredible and I truly loved the emotional journey he went on in this book. Caleb had some incredible moments, he was such a rock for Rachel and I found myself wanting to just wrap him up in a big hug. And Jake, the ultimate golden retriever energy was everything I loved and more. The three of them were balanced to total perfection.
Rachel Price, oh my god, what a fantastic MC. At this point I'm expecting fireworks to start going off every time I open an Emily Rath. book, especially after reading the prequel and seeing Rachel and Jake in their one-night-stand glory. I loved her, I loved how she had her own background and insecurities to work through, and I loved how the guys both supported her and told her to get her shit together. What a way to throw me into hockey romances.
This also did a wonderful job with exploring and expressing some of the harsh realities of professional sportsmanship like outing, homophobia, injuries, and more. I really loved how the author didn't pull punches and made the characters have tough discussions and talk to each other. It was done in such a beautiful way and I'm just extremely glad I read this.
I'm sure people will balk at the page length of this. I did too, but I promise it's worth every single page. I never felt rushed with the relationships, I always felt like I was getting the scenes they needed for development and the moments that were extras, added in just to have. I really loved the shifting POVs and being able to peek into the heads of the guys when things started getting wild. It was just an overall incredible time. I highly recommend this to anyone! And the spice, oh my god the spice. Put me on the bench, I need a quarter to recover before getting back into the game.
Content warnings: sexual content (I mean, you name it they do it), cursing, outing (a major plot point), injury/medical content (Rachel is a doctor, she does doctor things), bullying/homophobia (some people are dicks, and they are put in their place)
Graphic: Cursing and Sexual content
Moderate: Homophobia, Medical content, Outing, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Bullying
lizrosereads8's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
Graphic: Cursing, Sexual content, and Outing
Moderate: Medical content and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Alcoholism, Biphobia, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Abandonment, and Alcohol
two-, three-, four-person sex scenes, impact play, choking, voyeurism, bondage, double penetration, double vaginal penetration, toy use, degradation, dom/sub, spit play, snowballing, breeding kink.siad's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Cursing and Sexual content
Moderate: Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Sexism
thecajunbookworm's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Cursing and Sexual content
Moderate: Alcohol
Minor: Homophobia