I Pucking Love You by Pippa Grant

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

A hockey/fake date/not-quite-a-virgin very wrong romantic comedy

You know those stories where an adorably misunderstood clumsy girl needs a fake date to a wedding so she asks her brother’s best friend and they accidentally fall in love?

I wish that was the kind of life I lead, but it’s not.

I don’t need a date to a wedding. I need a date to a funeral.
Clumsy sometimes fits, but then, that’s true for all of us, right? But adorable? No. Misunderstood? Nope again. I’m just your average girl, standing in front of a funeral invitation, asking it to be a winning lottery ticket instead.

And I don’t have a brother, or a best friend with a brother available, which means I’m stuck with Tyler Jaeger.

Sure, he’s a professional hockey player who also knows advanced calculus, but let’s say we’re not compatible and leave it at that. I should know. I am a matchmaker.

Not a very good one, but that’s beside the point.

I know a mismatch when I see one.

Still, Tyler’s what I’ve got, and I am not going to this funeral solo, so he’s what I’ll take.

After all—what could go wrong at a funeral?

I Pucking Love You is a hilariously wrong romantic comedy about the world’s worst matchmaker, a hockey player with a problem he doesn’t want to talk about, and an awkward date-of-convenience that everyone would prefer to forget. It comes complete with a cat working his way through his nine lives, all the sexy times, fish and chips, and a swoony happily-ever-after.

I Pucking Love You

The misfits!

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

The heroine: Muffy Periwinkle – she is cousin to Kami from Charming as Puck. Muffy is a bit of a hot mess. She was kicked out of medical school in some sort of incident, and later started up a matchmaking business called Muff Matchers. Her matchmaking business is for misfits, in the last book she ended up matching Kami to a dirty old man, then the crazy ex-boyfriend of Kami’s best friend. Muffy has some self-image issues and always thinks of herself as not good enough.

The Hero: Tyler Jaeger – he is a professional hockey player with the Copper Valley Thrusters. He has been popular with the puck bunnies, and never bothers to learn their names, he thinks of them like ‘Sparkle hair’ or ‘Super tits’. Though it has been a while since he was with a woman. Now when he has the chance for a threesome, he is having mechanical difficulties. The last time he was with a woman was one that he couldn’t stop thinking about.

The Story: Muffy is completely embarrassed when her former hook-up and pro hockey player, Tyler Jaeger catches her at her secret job in a local fast-food fish restaurant called Cod Pieces. The following week she has to go to a funeral for Veda, her silent business partner and former med school BFF, and she really doesn’t want to go, especially since it is being held in the same town as their medical school (home of the incident). She can’t refuse, though she wants to go with a date for moral support. She asks her cousin’s husband to accompany her, Tyler overhears her and offers to go with her.

This story was good and there were some fantastically funny scenes. For instance, Tyler had some issues with death after his grandfather died when he was young. Muffy doesn’t tell him they are going to a funeral until they get there and his reaction to being inside a funeral home was hilarious. I also liked the fact that Tyler and Muffy were friends before they hooked up and he was protective of her.

This audiobook was done in dual points of view via dual narration. It was narrated by Aiden Snow and Emma Wilder. Aiden Snow is one of my favorite male narrators. His voice is soft yet deep and very sexy. Emma Wilder is really good at showing anxiety through her voice. It sounds a bit whiny at times, but so was the Muffy. This whole series had terrific narration, the only complaint I have was that a few of the earlier books in the series were duet narration, and I wish they all would have been.

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