Well and Truly Pucked by Lauren Blakely

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I swear I only asked one hot hockey-playing friend to give me romance lessons for the week, but three hockey stars volunteered…

The post breakup plan was simple – escape from my toxic ex to a vacation rental and stay far away from men.

But thanks to a booking snafu I’m accidentally sharing it with three hot hockey players. One’s flirty, one’s broody, one’s a cheeky Brit, and they’re all the most attentive men I’ve ever met.

After a couple of glasses of champagne, I’m telling them about the contest my ex is running on his dating advice web site. The topic? What makes a great boyfriend, and I want to submit a column.

All three offer to show me every single thing I’ve been missing in and out of bed.

We make a deal for one week only. It’s only for revenge, of course. I work for the other hockey team in the city so it’d be a big mistake to truly get involved with a rival, let alone three .

Even though I melt under their touch. They show me what it means to be adored, cherished and romanced .

But as the week ticks on, what started as revenge fast turns into me giving my heart to three men I can’t have. Looks like I’m well and truly pucked.

Tropes: friends to lovers, rivals to lovers, why choose, no swords cross, hockey romance, force proximity, romance lessons, one week only, world’s cutest dog

Well and Truly Pucked

Terrific reverse harem sports romance with awesome narration!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💚💜💙❤️
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙📘
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌏
Character development: 😒😀🙂🥰
Narrator(s): 🎙🎙🎙🎙🎙
Narration type: Duet Narration – Full cast

The heroine: Briar – she recently returned from a work trip to find that her boyfriend had fallen in love with someone else in the week she was gone, and he even gave his new girlfriend, Blair’s cat. He had called her yoga fitness app a hobby, not the business that she is trying to build. Briar is determined to get her cat back, so creates a homemade step stool and tries to climb up through the balcony after her ex-boyfriend leaves.

The Heroes: Hollis, Rhys, Gavin – All three are professional hockey players with the Golden State Foxes. Rhys is an Englishman who is sick of eating sushi, their winning streak lately means they have to go eat sushi after every game, since that was what they did after the first win in the streak. Gavin is muscular and broody with BDE. He holds himself like a man who knows what to do with a woman. While Hollis is open and flirty and good at just about everything.

The Story: The guys are on their way to check out a rental property they are thinking of buying when they come across Briar hanging from the balcony. They recognize her since she used to be the yoga teacher for their team, until she got a job with another team. They help her get her cat and they end up being friends with her, so when they end up at the same rental property a week later due to a reservation snafu, they decide to stay there together.

I liked the fact that two of the guys had shared girls in the past and Briar had a friend that was in a polyamorous relationship so the fact that she is attracted to all three guys and they are attracted to her doesn’t present as much of a problem as it would in some cases. The one thing I hate about some reverse harem romances, is the convoluted ways in which the relationship(s) happen.

This audiobook was narrated from multiple perspectives, with a duet narration by Samantha Brentmoor, Jason Clarke, Connor Crais, and Teddy Hamilton. These are some of my favorite narrators, so I was confident that this audiobook would be great in audiobook format, and I wasn’t disappointed. Jason Clarke surprised me with his spot-on British accent. His accent, combined with his gravelly voice, made him sound sexy rather than posh. Teddy Hamilton has the perfect expressive voice for the flirty and happy-go-lucky Hollis, while Connor Crais has the deep, sexy voice that was terrific for broody Gavin, who is sparing with his words. Samantha Brentmoor has a soft feminine voice that is always pleasant.

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