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One Pucking Time
He fell first. He fell second. And she's happily caught in the middle.Emily When I’m in love, I’m all in.
I don’t think that’s such a bad thing, but according to my exes, it is.
When I fell in love with Bryce, I knew he was the one. We've been together for a year and he's the epicenter of my universe.
After a day from hell that culminates in losing my job, he's the first person I run to.
Instead of comfort, I find another woman in his bed.
Devastated, I rush home to vent to my roommate, Sebastian. As my brother’s best friend, he’s known me for years and has all the right words—and delicious food—to cheer me up.
He also has a lead for a new job—the social media manager for the Vancouver Evergreens. Sebastian is the hockey team’s private chef, so I have an excellent shot at getting the job.
At the stadium, I meet Mac, the Evergreen’s up-and-coming star. As their newest center, he’s setting records left and right and has a smile that lights me up.
I agree to go on a date with him and am completely thrown off when Sebastian acts all protective-older-brother, practically growling at Mac as he picks me up.
When I find out the two of them have history, I wonder if this is a solution to my problem. All of my exes have told me I’m too much, but maybe they weren’t enough.
Maybe I was destined to be loved by two men.
This why choose hockey romance is filled with steamy MMF scenes and is intended for the 18+ crowd. It is part of a series that follows the trio and leaves off on a minor cliffhanger.
I don’t think that’s such a bad thing, but according to my exes, it is.
When I fell in love with Bryce, I knew he was the one. We've been together for a year and he's the epicenter of my universe.
After a day from hell that culminates in losing my job, he's the first person I run to.
Instead of comfort, I find another woman in his bed.
Devastated, I rush home to vent to my roommate, Sebastian. As my brother’s best friend, he’s known me for years and has all the right words—and delicious food—to cheer me up.
He also has a lead for a new job—the social media manager for the Vancouver Evergreens. Sebastian is the hockey team’s private chef, so I have an excellent shot at getting the job.
At the stadium, I meet Mac, the Evergreen’s up-and-coming star. As their newest center, he’s setting records left and right and has a smile that lights me up.
I agree to go on a date with him and am completely thrown off when Sebastian acts all protective-older-brother, practically growling at Mac as he picks me up.
When I find out the two of them have history, I wonder if this is a solution to my problem. All of my exes have told me I’m too much, but maybe they weren’t enough.
Maybe I was destined to be loved by two men.
This why choose hockey romance is filled with steamy MMF scenes and is intended for the 18+ crowd. It is part of a series that follows the trio and leaves off on a minor cliffhanger.
313 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 28, 2024
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November 23, 2024
Love a thrupple, love a hockey romance!!! This was good. The spice level was exactly right. There was an actual back story for the characters that really brought the whole thing full circle. Sometimes you need just smut, sometimes you need just romance, and sometimes you need a mix of the two. If you need a mix of the two, pick up One Pucking Time. It was a good Pucking Time for sure!
November 5, 2024
Spicy hockey romance
Wow this book is 🔥🔥🔥. I absolutely love the story line and pov from each person. It really explains how they are feeling.
Wow this book is 🔥🔥🔥. I absolutely love the story line and pov from each person. It really explains how they are feeling.
May 12, 2025
I honestly had to DNF this book.. and I rarely DNF books.
I was excited for a hockey MMF romance but there were so many poorly written scenarios that felt really out of place that it affected the reading experience.
Now I am not a huge writing critic but when I notice issues it means it isn’t just okay but bad. In the start of the book our main lead Emily is on her way to work ready for an early morning meeting anticipating a promotion. When she gets to her very professional seeming job she greets the receptionist and gets handed a box of her things. No meeting about her being fired, no HR, no nothing. It honestly felt like the receptionist would later become a “bad guy” because it felt like the whole situation was fake. It was glossed over SO badly.
Then the main lead heads over to surprise her boyfriend with a quickie to make her day better.. and describes getting wet at the anticipation even though she was just sobbing over losing her job? Talk about whiplash. When she gets to her boy’s friends after monologuing about how she isn’t good at relationships and this one finally lasted a year etc. she finds him cheating on her in his bed. But both parties just invite her in. She says no and then he calls her a prude and that’s the end of a year long relationship? Again.. feels very glossed over.
Then her best friend Sebastian, who is one of the main male leads ends up suggesting she become the social media person for the professional hockey team he works for? With zero experience. No idea about social media marketing.. and they hire her based on them liking the captions she writes??? This team would have a whole marketing department and it felt like the woman who “hired” her was in PR? No research put into this at all! And then she wasn’t even interviewed.. just chatted with the woman and was handed a new employee packet with zero references, none of her information given, etc.
Now I know that you have to give a set up for the story but it feels like a day of research or talking to people who work in professional settings would give enough information to be able to write these scenarios. Even if you skim over the interview and firing with a small time skip of “well when I entered that meeting I thought I was getting a promotion. And here I’m walking out with a pink slip. My mangers kept saying it was because of budget reasons but I don’t believe them.” Or SOMETHING would have been better or more polished.
But the final nail in the coffin for why I couldn’t finish the book was because during an intimate scene.. that felt slightly out of place after the two guys just nonchalantly agreed to sharing her separately.. the ML told her to “roar for [him]” and then later he demands she “roar.” It gave me the biggest ick in the moment and given all the other issues I can’t finish this book. No amount of smut or random cute scenes can make up for the lazy writing.
I do think if this author reworked some stuff and had it edited it could be good tho from what I’ve seen. The concepts were good.. but the actual result is poorly done.
I was excited for a hockey MMF romance but there were so many poorly written scenarios that felt really out of place that it affected the reading experience.
Now I am not a huge writing critic but when I notice issues it means it isn’t just okay but bad. In the start of the book our main lead Emily is on her way to work ready for an early morning meeting anticipating a promotion. When she gets to her very professional seeming job she greets the receptionist and gets handed a box of her things. No meeting about her being fired, no HR, no nothing. It honestly felt like the receptionist would later become a “bad guy” because it felt like the whole situation was fake. It was glossed over SO badly.
Then the main lead heads over to surprise her boyfriend with a quickie to make her day better.. and describes getting wet at the anticipation even though she was just sobbing over losing her job? Talk about whiplash. When she gets to her boy’s friends after monologuing about how she isn’t good at relationships and this one finally lasted a year etc. she finds him cheating on her in his bed. But both parties just invite her in. She says no and then he calls her a prude and that’s the end of a year long relationship? Again.. feels very glossed over.
Then her best friend Sebastian, who is one of the main male leads ends up suggesting she become the social media person for the professional hockey team he works for? With zero experience. No idea about social media marketing.. and they hire her based on them liking the captions she writes??? This team would have a whole marketing department and it felt like the woman who “hired” her was in PR? No research put into this at all! And then she wasn’t even interviewed.. just chatted with the woman and was handed a new employee packet with zero references, none of her information given, etc.
Now I know that you have to give a set up for the story but it feels like a day of research or talking to people who work in professional settings would give enough information to be able to write these scenarios. Even if you skim over the interview and firing with a small time skip of “well when I entered that meeting I thought I was getting a promotion. And here I’m walking out with a pink slip. My mangers kept saying it was because of budget reasons but I don’t believe them.” Or SOMETHING would have been better or more polished.
But the final nail in the coffin for why I couldn’t finish the book was because during an intimate scene.. that felt slightly out of place after the two guys just nonchalantly agreed to sharing her separately.. the ML told her to “roar for [him]” and then later he demands she “roar.” It gave me the biggest ick in the moment and given all the other issues I can’t finish this book. No amount of smut or random cute scenes can make up for the lazy writing.
I do think if this author reworked some stuff and had it edited it could be good tho from what I’ve seen. The concepts were good.. but the actual result is poorly done.
June 14, 2024
I loved this book. I am a big fan of hockey romance and especially why choose romance so I had to read this one! ❤️ It has a lot of similar aspects like pucking around does it has the instalove, why choose , hockey but you also get to see their individual feelings and how they try to compress those because they’re not sure how the other feels. You’ve got the FMC who is struggling with the loss of her brother, and living with his best friend and after some unfortunate events finds herself in a new situation with a hockey player. I personally loved each character, they did each have doubts and some things could have been avoided with communication. But the FMC was always there to line it out which I enjoyed. The spice was amazing, but it wasn’t overpowering if you enjoy hockey why choose romance id definitely check this out
April 22, 2024
Instalove with a side of friends to lovers
Love the multiple POVs, and the MMCs are pretty developed, but the FMC is kind of beat down in life and doubts just about everything, then somewhere along the line her confidence changes up and it’s almost an odd transition. It’s like this book could have been shorter because at times it really felt dragged out and for no real reason. Good premise here, but so much felt unrealistic sadly.
Love the multiple POVs, and the MMCs are pretty developed, but the FMC is kind of beat down in life and doubts just about everything, then somewhere along the line her confidence changes up and it’s almost an odd transition. It’s like this book could have been shorter because at times it really felt dragged out and for no real reason. Good premise here, but so much felt unrealistic sadly.
September 16, 2024
I really enjoyed this story. It had a little bit of everything…friends to lovers, enemies to lovers, and Instalove. Throw in a bit of a slower burn and some good spice once it happens. I loved how they all made each other better. I can’t wait to read more of their story in book two.
July 16, 2025
2.5/5 lol this was bad but also good and I was entertained. I didn’t realize it would become throuple action but I actually liked when bash and mac got together. A good time to sit down and read in like 5 hours.
July 28, 2024
I enjoyed this MMF, nice and spicy
May 21, 2025
I really wanted it to be good. The writing was disjointed and it felt like a generic version of Pucking Around :(
November 15, 2024
I liked this book but it was slow and choppy for me. Not saying it will be like that for everyone. Ot wasn’t a book i felt the desire to devour.
But i did like how the the male characters had a past and because of not communicating they had animosity between them until she came into the picture.
But i did like how the the male characters had a past and because of not communicating they had animosity between them until she came into the picture.
December 14, 2025
So what happens when a playboy hockey player falls for the serious one, and the woman they both fell for instantly?
Emily is not having a good day. It's the anniversary of her brother's death, she just lost her job, and found out her boyfriend was cheating on her under the guise of she was too much. Good thing her best friend, Sebastian, is there for her. Someone she would love to date, but doesn't want to ruin that friendship. He does help her find a job where she meets Mac, one of the hockey players for the Vancouver Evergreens, and Mac falls for Emily immediately, which brings out Sebastian's need to claim her, too. So why can't they share? Turns out, Mac and Sebastian have a bit of a past, too, and they have a few kinks to work out. Once things go well, they only need to worry about lining up their schedules and what it will look like for the team's public image when it comes out.
While Mac, Sebastian, and Emily get their happy for now ending in this book, there is another to follow!
These three! While I loved that they all agreed to open communication from the beginning, they all sucked at it terribly! They could have avoided so many issues if they had talked to one another sooner. I do love how the guys tried to one-up each other, and it only benefited Emily in the long run. I would have loved to have seen more of the team's reaction to the three of them together, especially since they all work for the team and they know each other. I can't wait to see what's in store for these three as they try to plan a wedding, but also have to deal with the public and, at least, Mac's awful parents.
Emily is not having a good day. It's the anniversary of her brother's death, she just lost her job, and found out her boyfriend was cheating on her under the guise of she was too much. Good thing her best friend, Sebastian, is there for her. Someone she would love to date, but doesn't want to ruin that friendship. He does help her find a job where she meets Mac, one of the hockey players for the Vancouver Evergreens, and Mac falls for Emily immediately, which brings out Sebastian's need to claim her, too. So why can't they share? Turns out, Mac and Sebastian have a bit of a past, too, and they have a few kinks to work out. Once things go well, they only need to worry about lining up their schedules and what it will look like for the team's public image when it comes out.
While Mac, Sebastian, and Emily get their happy for now ending in this book, there is another to follow!
These three! While I loved that they all agreed to open communication from the beginning, they all sucked at it terribly! They could have avoided so many issues if they had talked to one another sooner. I do love how the guys tried to one-up each other, and it only benefited Emily in the long run. I would have loved to have seen more of the team's reaction to the three of them together, especially since they all work for the team and they know each other. I can't wait to see what's in store for these three as they try to plan a wedding, but also have to deal with the public and, at least, Mac's awful parents.
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