The Pucking Wrong Man by C.R. Jane
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Whoever heard of a homeless ballerina?
The Pucking Wrong Man
Everyone in my life has always disappointed me, but NHL hockey star Camden James says he never will.
We meet, and then in a single blink, he’s made me his roommate, promising me I don’t have to worry about anything ever again.
They call him a hero, and that’s what I desperately need.
I remind myself it’s all temporary. That I shouldn’t get used to it.
But he has other ideas. Camden tells me he’s obsessed, that he’s going to change my life, that he’ll never let me go.
As more time passes, I wonder if it’s going to take a villain to get me my happily ever after. And Camden James just might be the right man for the role.
The Pucking Wrong Man is a dark hockey romance standalone from USA Today and international bestselling author C.R. Jane. Camden James is a morally grey antihero who is obsessed with his girl and will do anything to keep her.
Super steamy sports romance!
The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 🖤💙❤️💜💚
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙📘
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌍🌏
Character development: ☹️😮😋😄🥰
Narrator(s): 🎙🎙🎙🎙🎙
Narration type: Duet Narration
The heroine: Anastasia – her mom disappeared when she was young, and her dad changed. He became an alcoholic and was abusive and neglectful. Ana had been in dance since she was very young. Dance was her one respite from her horrible home life, and she loved it. She dreamed of being a prima ballerina and was glad that dancing so much made her so tired that it was easy to sleep despite going to bed hungry. After her father hurt her badly one night, she was given to a foster family with an older son who had been threatening to her. She was also told that the breaks in her leg might leave her with a limp.
The Hero: Camden – he was a star pro hockey player, in his early thirties and well into his career. He is one of the few guys on the team without a significant other. He is great at trash talking and his nickname is “Hero” because he had a compulsive need to help women in distress. He’s been tired lately and hasn’t been going out as much as he did earlier in his career.
The Story: Ana was homeless and living in shelters for the last three years. Her leg injury never healed right, and she is always in pain, though she still dances. Every day she had to pack up all her belongings and bring them with her. She finally got a lead position in a ballet and was determined to keep overcoming her pain to be able to perform. One night while out with his 72-year-old neighbor Geraldine, he takes her to a dance event. He was bored and slept through most of the performances but was enchanted by Ana when she danced.
The next day Camden was volunteering at a community kitchen, he was distressed that he couldn’t find much of Ana online, as she didn’t have much of a social media presence. He was already obsessed with Ana and determined to find her as soon as possible. He had gone to a kitchen similar to that when his mom left his stepdad for a short time when he was younger. When Camden finds out Ana is homeless, he is determined to save her. Little did he know that her former foster brother and tormentor was still after her.
“She was probably thinking that I was some kind of demented stalker and didn’t want to give me too much information. I would have told her I wasn’t a stalker, but overnight that had become one of the un-truest things that could be said about me. I was a stalker, her f*cking stalker.”
“His Daddy energy was off the charts. It made me want to curl up against him and have him wrap his muscled arms around me protectively”
This audiobook was told in dual points of view via duet narration and was narrated by Troy Duran and Alexis Paige. I really enjoyed the narration in this book; not only was it done in duet narration, but Troy Duran is one of my favorite male narrators. He has a deep, sexy voice. Alexis Paige does a great job as well and sounds age appropriate for Ana. The narration was top notch, and the story held my interest throughout and there were a bunch of sexy intimate scenes as well.
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