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Pucking Wild by Emily Rath

6 reviews

rosie_valadez's review

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3.0

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katharina90's review against another edition

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lighthearted slow-paced
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated

1.0

Cringey from start to finish. The dialogue is so painful. Also just boring and way too long.
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spl2d's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging emotional fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

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inkdrinkers's review against another edition

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emotional 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

"Life is beautiful and short, and you only get one. Live it on purpose."

Tess Owens has been trying, in vain, to extract herself from her abusive ex-husband for three years. They're separated in every way, except for on paper, but somehow she still feels twisted up and enmeshed with him. When he crosses a line and threatens her, she does what she does best and runs. Straight to Jacksonville, straight to the people she knows she can trust - and a man she feels a magnetic pull to.

I AM A W R E C K. I'll never recover from this book. Emily put her entire heart and soul into telling a story that has so much hope and joy and hardship in it and I'm a total disaster. I can't even tell you how many times this brought brought me to tears. Or the sheer amount of times I highlighted swaths of quotes. Tess's story hit different for so many reasons, but at the end of the day it made me ache in the best of ways.

I'll try to be as non-spoilery as possible, but I cannot write this review without saying that the ending? Best ending Emily could have written. Hands down. It made me want to curl up in a ball and sob. I'm SO glad that she chose the route she did for it, and it wrapped up the heavy plotline in a beautiful way that felt realistic and wonderful. I already know I'll be revisiting this, not only for Ryan Puppy Langley, but also when I need to remind myself that life is short.

Ily Emily Rath, I can't wait to cry about Tess and Ryan in Pucking Ever After Vol. 2.

Content warnings: Sexual content, Domestic abuse, Toxic relationship, Infidelity (in past, not from main characters), Emotional abuse, Stalking, Ableism (in regards to dyslexia), Death of parent (in past), Abandonment
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katie_lacour's review against another edition

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3.0

I liked the exploration of different types of sex with consent, overcoming an abusive relationship, and diversity through a learning difference and with a plus size woman as the FMC. On the other hand, parts of it were not super memorable and I struggled to finish this as fast as I did with Pucking Around. I wish Tess and Rachel’s relationship was a bigger part of the story, too. Finally, in terms of the series as a whole while there is great diversity in terms of bodies, learning differences, and sexuality, I wish there was more racial, ethnic, and gender diversity. That said, I appreciate how Emily Rath has helped to pave the way for books about queer relationships and people to become more mainstream.
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ashley_est1988's review against another edition

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emotional funny hopeful medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No

5.0

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