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lizzie1096 's review for:
Pucking Wild
by Emily Rath
After reading the trigger warnings for this one, I knew I was in for a painful time, but this book is truly heartwrenching at times.
Tess and Ryan met in Pucking Around when Ryan accidentally hit Tess in the head with a soccer ball, and the tension between them was palpable from the start. So when Tess is driven away from Cincinnati by her terrible, abusive estranged husband and ends up accidentally sharing the same house with an injured Ryan, things heat up rather quickly.
But what I loved about this one was that there was never spice for the sake of spice. Every spicy moment in this book was the result of or resulted in the development of their relationship. While Tess was firmly in denial for a lot of the book, hoping to spare Ryan from the drama of her life, Ryan is all in from the start. He never doubts that Tess is the one for him, even going so far as to stand up to the Prices when they try to intimidate him. From page one, Ryan knows that Tess is his endgame, and he never wavers even when shit gets hard in the end.
And speaking of the end. Troy is the worst antagonist I've read in a romance in a long while. To go so far as to forge a restraining order to keep Tess and Ryan apart. That was a new low. And to pray on Ryan's insecurities regarding his dyslexia in serving him with a document with font so small that even Tess couldn't read it...Troy is the worst of the worst. I'm so happy Tess never has to see him again.
But speaking of people, we DO get to see again. I'm ready for Poppy's book. It's gonna be so messy, I can already tell, and I'm one hundred percent here for it.
Tess and Ryan met in Pucking Around when Ryan accidentally hit Tess in the head with a soccer ball, and the tension between them was palpable from the start. So when Tess is driven away from Cincinnati by her terrible, abusive estranged husband and ends up accidentally sharing the same house with an injured Ryan, things heat up rather quickly.
But what I loved about this one was that there was never spice for the sake of spice. Every spicy moment in this book was the result of or resulted in the development of their relationship. While Tess was firmly in denial for a lot of the book, hoping to spare Ryan from the drama of her life, Ryan is all in from the start. He never doubts that Tess is the one for him, even going so far as to stand up to the Prices when they try to intimidate him. From page one, Ryan knows that Tess is his endgame, and he never wavers even when shit gets hard in the end.
And speaking of the end. Troy is the worst antagonist I've read in a romance in a long while. To go so far as to forge a restraining order to keep Tess and Ryan apart. That was a new low. And to pray on Ryan's insecurities regarding his dyslexia in serving him with a document with font so small that even Tess couldn't read it...Troy is the worst of the worst. I'm so happy Tess never has to see him again.
But speaking of people, we DO get to see again. I'm ready for Poppy's book. It's gonna be so messy, I can already tell, and I'm one hundred percent here for it.