Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Pucking Around by Emily Rath

20 reviews

ka_ke's review

funny hopeful lighthearted fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders and Blood

samagader35's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

 When one dumbass meets another dumbass meets another dumbass meets another dumbass and they all fall in luuurrrvvvv.

4 stars for vibes. This was cringe and silly and spicy and I could not put it down. The plot was about an 1/8th of these 500+ pages and sometimes the crow brain wants what it wants.

My only real question is WHO WAS WATCHING THE DOG ALL THOSE TIMES CALEB WAS GONE OR BUSY?! (Other than Harrison ONE NIGHT on page 430 something. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Blood and Medical content

Minor: Pregnancy

garbage_mcsmutly's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No

5.0

📝 Okay so this book was super long but it makes sense that it is? It's a why choose with 1 FMC and 3 MMC's, and we get POVs from all four of them. And the book doesn't end when they all get together, it actually spends a good amount of time grappling with what it would mean for famous-ish people to be poly.

🎧 The narration for these characters was really good and nuanced overall. There was one thing that kinda bugged me with one of the narrators, but I was able to look past it after a bit. They did a good job with the sexual tension and the sexytimes, as well as the "normal" thoughts and feelings.

🌶️ 5/5. There is no other way to rate this book... It was chock full of hot sex. Like almost all the possible configurations of the four of them happen, there's a ton of fun and playfulness, there's a little bit of kinky stuff. And there was just a lot of sexy scenes 😆

🏳️‍🌈✊ It's a foursome (MFMM), so there's straight, bi, and queer rep amongst the MCs. As for other forms of diversity, there were one or two side characters that were explicitly not white but they barely get any page time. Even class-wise, 3/4 of them are like mega rich, there's really not a lot of diversity besides sexuality. But you can't be everything for everyone all at once. It's good at what it is.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Sexual content, and Medical content

Moderate: Misogyny, Violence, Outing, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Biphobia, Cancer, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Abandonment

meowrie'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

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

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

books_hay's review against another edition

adventurous slow-paced

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

3.0

When I started this book I thought it would end a five star. It did not. This book dragged on and dragged on and then became unrealistic. She said this dude was her soulmate and love of her life but by the end of the book she was hardly speaking to him. It was just bonkers and felt like word vomit at the end.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Minor: Violence, Blood, Medical content, and Outing

peachmoni's review

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

acasiamae's review

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

immovabletype's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted fast-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? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, Medical content, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Ableism, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Blood, Abandonment, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Drug abuse, Drug use, Homophobia, Vomit, Pregnancy, Outing, and Alcohol

There's a lot of behavior from various players toward the FMC in the capacity of her job that is meant to be cute but would absolutely be sexual harassment irl.

kb33's review

fast-paced

• Diverse cast of characters? No

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Sexism, and Medical content

Minor: Addiction, Drug abuse, Homophobia, Infidelity, Blood, and Outing