3.71 AVERAGE

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
funny hopeful lighthearted fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Loveable characters: Yes
adventurous funny lighthearted fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Thank you so much to GoodGirlsPr and Lauren Blakely for an eARC of Well and Truly Pucked! Here is my honest review!

I absolutely love this spicy, interconnected standalone, why choose hockey series. I feel like every time I read one it's exactly what I need. 

In this installment we meet Briar, a yoga instructor whose just been given the boot by her ex right before she has to work a festival. Her neighbors/casual friends are three hot hockey players who help her get her cat back. 

Rhys, Hollis and Gavin are teammates and roommates. They love hockey more than anything and each have their own individual insecurities. Helping Briar out is a nonnegotiable though. After helping her they all go their separate ways promising to see each other at the festival which the guys are also attending. 

A snaffoo occurs when the guys and Briar realize that their rental for the week of festival was overbooked and now they are spending the week together in close quarters. Not only that but Briar has enlisted the guys to help with an article she's writing on what makes a great boyfriend to try and win some prize money to launch her Flex & Flow fitness app. 

Can they remain friends after the week is up?

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adventurous emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
funny hopeful lighthearted 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

Why choose
Hockey 
Yoga instructor 
Anxiety representation 
Rival teams
Animal lovers 
funny lighthearted relaxing 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
lighthearted medium-paced
Diverse cast of characters: No

The spicy scenes were spoicy, but the premise is so unbelievable. The narrators are amazing and made the story a thousand times better. I think if I had physically read it I would have not finished it just based on how thin the premise was. 
hopeful lighthearted
adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted relaxing 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

This book was glorious! 

You wouldn’t think that three guys who aren’t into each other could work as a part of a relationship but yet Lauren writes these hockey boys as teammates who know how to play well together as well as communicate. They are all also really good friends before they step up to share their woman. 

This is the fourth book in the multiple men and one women series but I’m happy to see that Lauren is going to continue the hockey world with the sister of one of the guys from book one in the series and one of his teammates!


Ok now back to this book! I love how they went from friendly, to friends, to bedroom partners to life partners with ease. 

There was no breakup, there was only a tiny thing early on in regards to Gavin wanting her but not being brave enough to say anything but she talks to Hollis and Reese about having him join and that’s all “she wrote” lol 

They all find a way to tell her their feelings without pushing her and she decided she wanted more and blurted it out and the perfect time!

This audio book was a masterpiece too! Four narrators in duet style! 

Jason Clarke playing and Englishmen is perfection personified lol the only way that character could have been played better was if a natural English narrator had been used. And we are talking taking it from a 9 to a 10 with that lol Jason does not disappoint.

Teddy Hamilton and Connor Crais play the other two male characters and they were amazing as always!

Samantha Brentmoor was the female narrator in this and voiced all of the female characters. She is such a talent and is so sweet too! I adore her voice and vocal styling! 
 
lighthearted slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: N/A
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No