The Copper Valley Thrusters Origin Series by Pippa Grant

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

A billionaire boss, a terror on the ice with ego to spare, and a hockey-playing prince are here to entertain you with their love stories in this box set introducing the Cooper Valley Thrusters hockey team!

‘Mister McHottie’ is the hilariously sexy prequel to the Copper Valley Thrusters series, where you’ll first meet the twin tank hockey players who inspired the next books. It comes complete with an organic happy-ever-after (or seven), a Bratwurst Wagon ill-advised office pranks between a billionaire boss and the woman he tormented as a child, and no cheating or cliffhangers.

‘The Pilot and the Puck-Up’ is a stand-alone romantic comedy featuring a hockey player whose ego is the only thing bigger than his shoe size, a fierce lady-boss pilot, rubber chockey (don’t ask), and no cheating or cliffhangers.

‘Royally Pucked’ is a side-splittingly epic romance between a spare heir and the lady least likely to ever wear a princess crown, complete with dirty cookies, and emotional support monkey, and lots of pucking around. This romantic comedy stands alone with no cheating, cliffhangers, ends happily with a family of. . .more than two.

The Copper Valley Thrusters Origin Series

Terrific stories!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💙❤️💜💚💖
Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📘📙📔
World building: 🌏🌍🌏🌍
Character development: 😊😘😟🙃🥰
Narration: 🎙🎙🎙🎙🎙
Narration Type: Duet & Dual Narration



Mr. McHottie – Chase and Ambrosia grew up together in a small Minnesota town. Though things didn’t end well between them. Ambrosia now works for Crunchy, an organic food company in social media marketing. She loves her job, but when the company is bought out by billionaire Chase Jet, she thinks it might be time to get a new job.

The two main characters have a strange and kind of funny backstory involving a bratwurst wagon. Chase had once been looked upon as a part of Ambrosia’s family, she was his best friend’s little sister. They had a prank war going on for years while they were kids, and he took her virginity before betraying her. Ambrosia decides that she isn’t going to quit the job she loves. Along with her best friends, they decide to make him pay for what he did when they were teenagers.

The Mr McHottie audiobook was done in dual points of view via duet narration. It was narrated by Ava Erickson and Aiden Snow. These are two of my favorite narrators and always do a terrific job. The story is interesting, and I liked the acerbic banter between the two main characters. There is also some awesome dirty talk which is pretty hot, and their intimate scenes are quite steamy.



The Pilot and the Puck-up – The Hero in this book was Zeus Berger, brother to Ambrosia from Mr. McHottie. Zeus and his twin brother Ares are both great characters. They are professional hockey players on two different teams. They are the biggest guys in professional hockey (or really anywhere), both of them are about 7 feet tall, musclebound and great at what they do. Zeus is the brains out of the two of them. They are also both pranksters and always have a lot of fun.

Joey was a great heroine and was pretty badass; she is a pilot that was special ops in the military, and she now owns her own airplane. She and Zeus meet at a charity event surrounded by the rich and famous. Zeus was winning a bet by being dressed as a woman, with a pink wig, coconuts on his chest, a skirt and size eighteen pumps. Joey says he looks like an overgrown hooker troll and calls him Zeusette.

Joey had been underwhelmed by all of her previous sexual encounters and had never let them get very far, so she was still a virgin, but she definitely knew what she wanted in bed, so when Zeus was gone in 60 seconds, she hightailed it out of there and was quite disappointed. It was quite the funny scene and I liked the relationship between these two quite a bit.

This audiobook was done in dual points of view via duet narration. It was narrated by Erin Mallon and Jason Clarke, who are every bit as good as the narrators of the first book. I love Erin Mallon’s clear, feminine voice and Jason Clarke’s gravelly deep one.

Royally Pucked – Gracie is the sister of Joey from The Pilot and the Puck-up. Manning is the spare prince of a small Scandinavian country, who was sent to the US for a year after causing a scandal in his own country. He is also a professional hockey player. The two first met at the same charity event where Joey met Zeus in the last book. Gracie owns her own bakery, though is a bit on the innocent side as she was raised in a small town on the border between Alabama and Tennessee. Her sister Joey is overprotective of her since she is the younger sister.

I like that Gracie is attracted to Manning but told him that she was basically just using him to torture her sister Joey who was driving her crazy. Manning, on the other hand, is betrothed to a woman named Ellen in his home country, to a woman his grandfather promised him to. Though he kept telling his father that he doesn’t want to marry the woman, he did promise to do so after the scandal he caused. When Gracie finds out she is carrying a royal heir, things get a bit messy.

I liked the story much better than I expected. Though the premise of a prince playing hockey for a professional team in the US is a bit far-fetched. The story about Manning being stuck with his betrothed was interesting. Apparently, his grandfather squandered the royal fortune and agreed to the marriage in exchange for an interest free loan from the Ellen’s father. They still owe him money to this day and the debt will be erased when Manny marries Ellen. If he doesn’t marry her the debt will not only come due, but the father will use the fact that the royal fortune was squandered to get Manning’s family out of power. So, he is well and truly stuck.

This audiobook was done in dual points of view via dual narration. It was narrated by Jacob Morgan and Virginia Rose. I wasn’t very familiar with Virginia Rose, but she did a fine job, though I’m not fond of her southern accent. Jacob Morgan is another of my favorite narrators who always does a terrific job and sounds conversational rather than like he is reading. He does a good accent, which is kind of English/Irish. Not quite Scandinavian, but it works.

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