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My Lucky #13

Piper Rayne

3.74 AVERAGE

libertyreads789's review

3.25

emotional funny 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: No

I'm going to try to keep this review short since I'm being hit with a migraine and looking at a screen will kill me very soon. I'm certain of it. I read this one in less than 36 hours so we know that I had a good time with this fun and fast read. But I'm so conflicted as well. I was loving this book up until the 60% mark. Up to that point, I would say my rating was sitting around the 4.5 star range. I was living my best life. But then they finally got together and it turned into a mostly sex filled story. That always happens. But this was a variety of sex scenes. Some were very fade to black, some weren't. Yet the ones that weren't fade to black also weren't the best. I complain a lot as an asexual who likes romances with spice in them...sometimes. Sometimes I like the spice. I also complain a lot about the kinks I don't like that get put in these spicy scenes. The scenes we did get felt so detached. I don't even know if this review is making sense at this point. Sorry. I just felt like the sex scenes in this one felt like the author didn't have a lot of experience writing them and was therefore embarrassed while writing them. Is this true? Absolutely not. Look at their backlist. But it felt that way. Which is weird. But there was so much this author got right. And for most of the book I was vibing, I was living laughing and loving. I loved the female protagonist's best friend. I hate that Tedi is probably never going to get her own book in this series. I feel robbed. And the guy in this one does so much so well. It's like a guy read all of the reviews for the worst romance novels and went "I'm going to do exactly the opposite of all of that."

Also, yes, the author did get some hockey stuff wrong. Will I continue to point this out with every single hockey romance I read? Yes, I will. I am who I am as a person. Am I also about to pick up another hockey romance to read immediately after this one? Also, yes. But brownie points to this author for not putting me off reading a hockey romance immediately following their book. Normally I need some space between hockey romance and today my brain said no.