One trip to the doctor ruined all those plans. I’m not the beta I thought I was, I’m an omega and my heat is coming ready or knot. My best friends and foster brothers have made it clear they will never see me as anything more than family, and I am not willing to put them in the position of having to knot me just because I’m desperate.
My dreams of true love are well and truly shattered, floating away like dust on the wind.
A lifeline comes from the most unlikely source- The Scented Scorpions. The deal is simple- teach Malcolm, Deacon and Raynor to grow up on and off the ice and they will help me with everything I need to survive this heat, including an alpha who will take care of me like a queen.
I have no choice.
One of us had to grow up.
Vae is leaving. She’s giving us these crappy reasons none of us believe, but she’s leaving. All the parties and girlfriends seem so trivial now. She’s given me my dream on the ice, and Malcolm his but now we’re going to have to show her that the Lost Boys aren’t lost and we’re prepared to grow up and do absolutely anything to keep her.
There’s only one thing we can do- rise to her challenge or lose her forever.
This is Book One in the Knotty Puckers shared Universe.
No. Just…no. The FMC, Vae, has been in love with her foster brothers forever and they treat her like a doormat and she lets them. She stays a virgin while they screw everything that moves. They finally realize they want her and she falls into their laps? I might have been able to get over it if there had been massive groveling, or she had been sleeping around and living her best life also, but that wasn’t the case. I just cannot stomach storylines like this.
Excuse me what? You make out with another girl in front of her and then throw a tantrum because she didn't come watch your game the next night? How dumb can one be. I can't with this book and I wasted a weekend reading it. They don't love her. They're just sad they're losing their live in maid. No redeeming qualities and the 80% break up just to realize a couple of days later they could come up with a different plan instead of breaking her heart. Nah.
What actual hell am I in. This girl was walked all over and treated like literal shit and she BEGGED for the scraps. Never once stood up for herself and these men never once groveled. I cannot read about vile man children and a woman who was nothing other than a doormat with no backbone. At one point she says her job is to get them to grow up and teach them empathy and consideration for other people. This is about grown ass men?? In the big year of 2025? Over my deadddd body. I hate read this.
This was such a disappointing read. I wanted to start this series cause my favourite omegaverse author is writing one of the books and this is the first book in the series but it was just not good. First of all it's incredibly predictable. The story goes EXACTLY like you think it will. Poor little unnoticed girl that has been taking care of the boys now men she loves but it's unrequited love and she can never tell them cause it would ruin everything and they have NEVER paid any attention to her in THAT way and she's just a poor little Beta that doesn't deserve love and affection. BUT WAIT! Out of nowhere one day in her adult life she starts to feel off and LO AND BEHOLD SHE'S ACTUALLY AN OMEGA! *Shocked faces all around* And now our doormat of an FMC has to finally decide to move on with her life cause her first heat is fast approaching and she needs an alpha to help her along and of course that can not be the alphas that have NEVER looked at her like that. BUT WAIT AGAIN! They suddenly become possessive and angy and start throwing tantrums cause SHE CAN'T POSSIBLY LEAVE THEM. And we start getting flashbacks of them actually saying they HAVE been having feelings for her for YEARS but now all of a sudden they are starting to realise that omg these feelings are not feelings of family (cause it's totally normal to hug a member of your family and get a hard on, right? An honest mistake on their part) but maybe they are in love with her??? And guess what, there is an evil, shitty girlfriend/ex-girlfriend in the picture and of course she is a total bitch and hates our sweet, innocent saint like FMC and constantly bullies her. The toe that broke the camels back for me was the third act break up because of miscommunication. It's a very tired trope, combined with the sweet and innocent and what should be every alpha's dream, beautiful, untouched, caring, amazing doormat of an FMC, the bitchy, vindictive,shallow, bully of an influencer girlfriend (also surprise, surprise, she's actually so ugly under all the make up and she wears a wig and has craters on her face and has had plastic surgery and she could never be as perfect as our pure and untouched FMC) and the "I've been in love with you this entire time but I only just noticed even tho I have never felt like this before but wait I actually have and now I can't live without you" of all three of the MMCs that have been enormous assholes their whole life and honesty though the FMC was happy and content just living as their live-in maid while they did their best to be the poster children for athlete superstars with too much money and the whole thing is just very very very bad. Truth be told I don't exactly expect masterpieces and I know my favourite author has set the bar VERY VERY high for omegaverse but this wasn't but for an omegaverse, this was just plain bad. You remove the omegaverse and even the polyamory and it's still really bad. I will not read the rest of the books in this series by the other authors and will only read the one by my favourite cause it's way too many books to risk spending my money on something this bad again.
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I have never been as irked by a book in a long time. The FMC is just the worst, she is an absolute wet rag whose only personality is that of existing for the absolute hateful despicable MMCs ..her idea of standing up for herself is saying a NO, and waiting for about 3 seconds before conceding. She had zero spine, no personality, just a skivvy and an emotional punching bag for the guys. The only reason they really wanted her was so no one else could, and then found out when was an omega. I gave up. Can't believe all these five star reviews are for the same book I'm trying to read. I was gonna try and struggle though but I just can't. As I always say, life's just to damn short to read bad books. I can already forsee what's gonna happen. I've read almost all of this authors books bar the last two of the raines series, they went the same way but nowhere near this level. I actually wish Vae ended up with Jansen. He was much more deserving and I wish Vae had have left properly and let the guys truly be without her for a while. The whole Marilyn thing made zero sense on a deeper level, seemed merely for a superficial plot device. I may return to this book later but I doubt it. Thankfully I got this on KU so didn't really cost me.
I loved so much about Vae, Mal, Deacon, and Raynor’a story!! It made me laugh, it made me cry, it made me want to throw things, and it made me swoon. Mal, Deacon, and Raynor always knew Vae was family, but that didn’t stop them from taking advantage of her and taking her for granted. She doesn’t know what to do when she finally presents as an omega. She’s loved the guys forever, but she doesn’t think they see her the same way. There could have been a little more groveling, but they eventually realize what everyone else around them could see…it was always Vae for them. Yummy spice and some witchy ex-girlfriend drama.
I wanted to DNF this book so bad but I also wanted to know what happened so I kept reading and I felt like I should’ve just given it to be honest. The FMC was such a doormat to be honest she let the guys walk all over her and she didn’t stand up for herself until the end. Don’t even get me started on the MMC‘s. They were the worst man I’ve ever read about and I felt like they didn’t grovel enough. Honestly, she should’ve ended up with better guys 🫣. They didn’t want to admit their feelings for her because when they were younger, their foster mom said that they were family and they carried on until they were older, but they only admitted their feelings when they found out she was an omega. Which should’ve been red flag number one, among other others. I think the book would’ve been better if she got with different MMC’s.
There’s miscommunication tropes, there’s taboo (adjacent) love stories… and then there’s this.
I’ve never loathed a FMC this much, she was more doormat than human. The slave, foster sister and punchline to three absolutely irredeemable garbage heap alphas. No.
I really did like the premise of the storyline, and the blurb grabbed my attention. But the story itself, and how it all ended up panning out didn’t make total sense.
There will be some spoilers so read more at your own risk.
So the MMCs, they’re flirtatious, manwh*res, and alphas. They’re so self absorbed, and whoever they’re screwing that they don’t realize that their foster sister went from a beta to an omega. They depend on her for EVERYTHING, waking up, cleaning, cooking etc. Even after parties she has to clean up after them. They all needed a swift kick in the ass which they DID get but, then they managed to fk up AGAIN. ACHK
After they made things right, they allowed an ex to blackmail them, and just left the person they care about so much think the worst of them. So the 3 of them were together, and she was all ALONE. She had some help, but still lived alone. If they had told her what happened they could’ve solved it together. But they didn’t, and when they “got her back” they didn’t grovel enough at all for me.
Vae, she had a backbone sometimes but other times she didn’t. I would’ve liked her character more if she wasn’t still a virgin when she went into heat. She was pining after them for SOOOO long, and it just IDK. Then got jealous when she had the attention of another alpha, but it was fine when they brought the girlfriends around and did all of the sexual stuff.
The OWD and the random meddling from the PR person for their hockey team, made less sense as the story went on.
The MM between the guys read like an after thought.
okay, so there are some aspects of this book that really suck you in and have you waiting for the moment that everything changes. i stayed up so late to finish this book because i was just so curious and needed to know what happened.
and i’m a sucker for a good hurt/comfort situation, with the groveling and the realizations and all of that.
but unfortunately, this book didn’t quite get there for me.
in the beginning of this book, it’s kind of hard to understand why vae is even still friends with these guys, let alone in love with them. and i know the book is about the guys making the conscious decision to be better and whatnot, but they act like lazy, spoiled children in the beginning, in a way that’s so infuriating that you just kinda wish vae would do literally anything to get out of this situation.
and it’s strange because this isn’t an enemies-to-lovers situation. obviously i’ve read enemies-to-lovers where the guys treat the fmc horribly due to a misunderstanding or something like that before they realize they love her, but this is not that. this is supposed to be a group of best friends, and it just really doesn’t feel like that from the beginning.
the other thing that bothers me is part of the framing device of this book. so the idea is that vae is somewhat employed (in a way that we don’t really get the details of and that doesn’t really make sense) to try to make the guys better for the sake of their hockey team. which would at least make sense if they were like…the star players of a really prominent team. but they’re not. for 90% of the book, we’re given to understand that this team barely talks to each other and loses every single game. so it just doesn’t make sense that a) they even have a public/fans that particularly cares about them, or b) that the team would even spend the money to hire someone to fix just two of the players.
like some of the conflict towards the end is the guys being blackmailed with some information that would “hurt their careers” but at this point it’s like…what careers? who cares? apparently this is the worst hockey team??
and then the rest of the book just moves too fast. vae getting her bakery to fall into her lap and somehow opening the business within like 4 days??? is insane and makes no sense. the guys and their behavior with indy is meant to be kinda funny but it just kinda feels awful to watch them treat indy the way they treated vae even though indy is horrible. but it feels weird because it proves that clearly they recognize how awful their behavior was in the first place.
i think the desperation and the dedication to each other and the watching the guys figure out how much they love vae is the most interesting and best part of this book, and there’s just enough of that to keep you interested the whole time, but all the details surrounding the whole plot just start to crumble if you think about them for longer than a minute or so.
So if you are a fan of Hockey and Omegaverse romances what are you waiting for? Seriously?
I was super excited to see the Knotty Puckers: A Hockey Omegaverse series pop up on my Kindle recommendations yesterday as I had no idea it was coming out and I do read a lot of Omegaverse. It looks like it will be a 12 Book series all by different authors with Puck My Life by Tea Ravine as the first book.
I really like Tea Ravine as an Omegaverse author, I enjoyed her Omega Accords series and a few of the books in the When It Raines series are probably almost close to favorites in the genre.
I would consider Puck My Life as grey, it is not dark as many books get in this type of Universe, but it is definitely not all rainbows and sunshine for Vae and her three foster brothers meant-to-be Alphas, Raynor, Deacon and Mal.
Vae, affectionately referred to as Hook by her Lost Boys Raynor, Deacon and Mal, have lived together since they were young as the ward of the same foster mother. Until recently, Vae believed herself to be a Beta and understood that her three bonded foster brother alphas would need to settle with an Omega and she would most likely be left behind. However, she'd been nursing a serious crush on her Lost Boys which all comes to a head when she discovers that she's an Omega who will soon go into her first heat and can't really stomach being around the boys while they are in a relationship with anyone else. Complicating matters is that these grown Alpha men really are Lost Boys in the truest sense of the word and at the beginning of the book they are incapable of caring for themselves, their environment or really anything around them. Vae is a caretaker at heart but by cooking, cleaning, and doing everything for the guys it seems that she's unintentionally hindered them from growing into the mature alphas they should be. But with her newly revealed designation, Vae has decided that if she can't have these Alphas she needs to move out of their house and get on with her own life.
There is a lot of OOD (Other-Omega-Drama) in this book which is difficult to see Vae having to deal with the Knotheads not realizing that she would be a much better match and also that she struggles enough with her self confidence and is so blindly in love that she doesn't stand up for herself as much as one might hope. They are not cheating on her as they are not together, but one does feel bad for Vae not making her feelings clear to the clueless Alphas sooner in the story. The guys have to learn to work together both to save their careers on the ice and to claim the mate that was right under their noses for such a long time.
Tropes: Found family, Omegaverse, Hockey romance, Peter Pan references, OWD, Groveling, Pack, Coming into one's designation (Like coming of age but specifically for someone in an omegaverse that is a designation they never expected to be)
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
Vae lives with her foster brothers who are all hockey players. She has loved them since she was young, but they only see her as a little sister. Vae gets the shock of her life when she goes in for a routine check up and finds out she’s an omega, not the beta she always thought she was. Now everything is changing. She refuses to stay in the house with the three men who pretty much break her heart daily by bringing in a parade of girls to sleep with. She has always done all the cleaning, cooking, washing, everything, and realizes they’ve treated her more like a maid than anything else. Vae decides to move out and lets Marilyn the hockey teams PR agent set her up with an eligible alpha since her heat is near and there is no way she’s asking her friends to pity f*ck her. She slowly distances herself from them but when they find out she’s an omega they tell her that their feelings for her are real and they help her through her heat. Vae is happy, finally, until a shocking betrayal leaves her wrecked. Can the guys make it up to Vae, or will they lose her forever?
**THOUGHTS/OPINIONS**
This was a sub par sports omegaverse. I wanted to like Vae but honestly found her a little spineless. What girl lives with three guys she loves for over 12 years acting like a slave for them while they treat her like crap and parade their girlfriends in front of her…oh they throw her crumbs of affection, but is that really enough? Not in my book, it’s not. When Vae finally moves out, it’s not for long. She goes on one date with an incompatible alpha and ends up spending her heat with the guys. The guys didn’t grovel enough IMO. And Vae shouldn’t have forgiven them so easily. It was silly, and unrealistic. Frankly the book needed…more. More drama, more bite. It would’ve been better, honestly if Vae found another alpha or pack, one that was great, and maybe at the end of the book or something her guys realizing their mistake come to get her back. But frankly I would’ve been okay if she refused them. The author didn’t really make her harem likable. They were spoiled, pampered, babies, who didn’t treat her well. The book didn’t give them enough emotional depth to make them likable, or in any way worthy of such a selfless omega like Vae. And Vae, for her part, needed to grow a backbone. She was their doormat for way too long.
Let me start by saying that this was really a strong start to this multi-author world. I loved Vae a lot until I didn't. Then the other woman/omega drama was good. Honestly, I love the messy drama, and I have been desperate to find more of it, but I haven't really gotten my hands on it as much this year. This book had many elements I liked and was obsessed with. But now let's jump into the bad. First thing, we had SO many flashbacks. Literally every chapter started with a flashback, and by the end, I was just worn out of them. They had a purpose in the beginning, but then I felt like it just went overboard. I really wish we had either stopped them, wrapped everything up in a chapter, or just focused on the present day. I get why the flashbacks were needed in the beginning. I just think we get to the point where I needed to have more focus on the present day because we had so much going on, like the other woman drama, the late awakening, the hockey team, and the scentmatches. So, we had plenty to focus on and could've just grown out of the flashbacks at a certain point. Second, I needed more groveling. Not only did they overlook her pretty much their whole lives, but they were literally throwing girls in her face, even after acknowledging they kind of knew how she felt about them! We see them all act so terribly in here, and I wish we had more groveling because Vae deserved everything, and we just don't get a ton of it. Then, finally, for having so many dramatic elements and being a hockey book, we don't get to really zero in on it. It kind of felt like we have so much gone on that we don't get to focus on it very well. It sounds like I hated the book, and to be fair, there were elements that I needed to expand and focused on more, but overall, it just fell kind of mid for me. I wanted more attention to some elements and less attention to others. I still think it was a solid start to this series because there were a lot of introductions to teammates, and we see Marilyn a lot; she's like the matchmaker/PR person of the team. I can't wait to get into more books in the series.
3.5 ⭐️ rounded up 2 🌶️ MMMF Possible SPOLERS so read with caution.🥲 This is honestly the first book where I rooted for only the female from page one to the end. I’ve never disliked MMC’s so much as I do these guys lol. Others aren’t lying when they say it’s a rollercoaster read. For me, it’s hard seeing main characters have relationships that are with secondary characters and not other main characters. Especially when it’s through majority of the book and the FMC is in the sidelines getting walked all over and forgotten by her scent matches. Poor Vea goes through hell and back for these guys who couldn’t even realize they were in love with her. They took and took and didn’t give back enough. Now I’m not one who needs or cares for groveling (especially if it’s too drawn out) but these guys definitely needed to grovel more after the years of hurt they put her through. I liked the whole looking back in the past part of each chapter but I would have loved it more if the present them touched base on some of those past situations. Some of them truly just break your heart to read because they didn’t care that they hurt her / were too blind to see that they were hurting her. With the bondings, I wish there were more to it. It just felt thrown in there (as some other scenes did) with little details. How did the bond feel? What do they experience through the bond? It wasn’t as descriptive as I’d hoped. By the end of the book, I just wished she would have ended up with Jansen. He was better all around through and through and her alphas don’t deserve her. It was a good book, more angst than spice but I’m a sucker for friends to lovers especially childhood friends to lovers.
Definitely give it a read, it was a quick Saturday read for me and I look forward to the rest in the series 🖤
Puck My Life is an RH omegaverse. It can be read as a standalone.
There is some kind of magic that this author puts into her books. She pulls all kinds of emotions out of these characters and it gets me every time.
Vae, the FMC, is too kind. She really is an enabler. She loves her foster family and wants to help them, but it just leaves her on the outside...with a broken heart. And when she gets some medical news, she realizes that she can't stay in the house anymore. Of course, this just makes the guys mad. They don't understand how or why she won't just stay and take care of them.
That is the part that just wrecked me. How these alphas couldn't see her. They couldn't see how she might want a life, a family, and her own dream. It was baffling that they love and care about her, but think she should sacrifice everything for them. It was hard at times to think they were redeemable. Their backstory of being in a foster care situation did play into some of their behavior, but it's a good thing that the author is a genius at making her men charming and lovable at times.
The one thing that still breaks my heart was how Vae would've stayed if she hadn't gotten her medical news. That's just wrong on so many levels. She deserved more the whole time and never should've settled.
You know a book is good if you are still caught up in it after you finish. And I'm happy that there was a very satisfying ending. I look forward to what comes next!
I really loved this book—even though the alphas made me want to invoke violence on Vae’s behalf multiple times. This story hooked me, and I’m really starting to enjoy this author’s style more and more.
Vae is a beta/omega who grew up in foster care and has secretly loved her three sexy foster brothers for years. Unfortunately, she’s basically the alphas’ doormat, and I absolutely hated seeing her treated that way. She’s loyal, dependable, and constantly taken advantage of. The emotional whiplash from the alphas drove me crazy, so I can only imagine how Vae must have felt living it.
The trio of selfish alpha idiots, (Raynor, Deacon, and Malcom) each bring something different to the table. Raynor is the steady rock of the group and occasionally for Vae. Deacon is the fierce protector with a cutthroat streak. Malcom is the sensitive golden retriever type. Raynor’s chasing music fame while Deacon and Malcom are professional hockey players, which added a fun dynamic to the pack.
I loved that Vae finally stood her ground and made the guys sweat, but I really wish they had groveled more. She’s such a sweet, caring omega and absolutely deserved better treatment. Still, I’m glad she and her “lost boys” finally found their way together and became a true pack.
I quite liked this one and while it may not be re-read material for me it hit all the right spots while reading it.
The h has been friends/ fosters with the 3 H's and has been in love with them for most of that time. Unfortunately for her they don't feel the same and are consistently selfish with her and bring other women around her all the time. The Unrequited bits of this book were done exceptionally well and I enjoyed that aspect a great deal.
I did however feel that the MMC's only decided to pursue her because they were afraid of change and also, now that she was an omega they could form a pack. I wasn't convinced that their love wasn't conditional to her being an omega.
At the beginning of ever chapter we get glimpses into the past, of the characters actions and words and also the h's feelings. Which served up the Unrequited aspect in bite size pieces. The one thing that was confusing was that towards the last 50 pages or so, when the guys are trying to win her back, one past snapshot shows them behaving badly again. And there's no closure there for their terrible behavior. In all they don't really reference specific situations in their apologies to the h, its more of a blanket apology situation. I wasn't convinced and the romance was just okay for me.
I spent the entire book on a rollercoaster of emotions. So much indignation for our sweet FMC — I wanted to shake her so she’d gain some self-respect, give those brats a piece of my mind — Headphones!? Seriously!? REALLY SERIOUSLY?, and scream at all the pettiness!
A love story as beautiful as it is complicated — partly because they make it complicated. First, they can’t see what’s right in front of them, and when they finally do, everything comes crashing down. So much suffering could have been avoided… especially if they had just communicated more.
Three Alpha MMCs and one FMC who thought she was a Beta — but life had other plans. They met when they were very young, in a foster home, and quickly formed a bond that carried them into adulthood. They became a family.
It’s a slow-to-medium burn, with steam that’s just so DAMN GOOD!
The Lost Boys are good boys — just a little blind sometimes. They’ll overcome it, of course, but in their own unique (and chaotic) way. After all, it’s time to take out the trash.
In the end, they finally get their HEA — their forever.
"This is what they call unrequited love, isn't it?"
"Our foster home forged an unbreakable bond that even adulthood can't destroy."
This is a fantastic story. Deeply emotion and filled with so many ups and downs. These boys took advantage of Fae and didn't even realize it. However, when Vae suddenly presented as an Omega she knew she had to leave but first they needed to learn to care for themselves first.
I was so angry with the boys through a lot of this story. They treated Vae like she was their maid, caretaker and sometimes even more. However, they happily paraded Omegas through their home and were very disrespectful to her. They were definitely the Lost Boys.
I wanted to strangle their girlfriend throughout the story but I was kicking my feet laughing when they moved in with her. Seriously my husband thought I had lost it.
Such a heartbreaking story that was a very very long fought for HEA. I absolutely adored Raynor the most. He was so different in all things but he was also the safest landing place.
Fantastic story Tea. I always know your stories will be an emotional ride with an absolutely beautiful ending.
I just really dislike weak willed main female characters. I think that was what dragged this one down for me. And two of the MMC’s were unredeemable for me. But that could be because we’re thrown back and forth through the past and present in each chapter. So you just keep having it thrown in your face how AWFUL they were to Vae. Raynor however was the shining star in this one for me. He never let the “flings” affect the way he cared for and respected Vae. I also love OW drama and this one definitely delivered on that. But I prefer when the MMC’s are smart enough to nip that shit in the bud! They claimed to love Vae so much but they continually did things to hurt her. Now I did enjoy how they gave the OW her due. However you almost don’t care about it because literally you’re thrown right into a flashback we’re AGAIN they’re treating Vae like crap and you just want to throat punch them AND her foot putting up with it! All in all if you like angst, a naive fmc, OW drama and MMC’s that KIND of grow up, you’ll enjoy this. It definitely wasn’t a horrible read but it won’t be a repeater for me.
And I LOATHE every single mmc. They are AWFUL. I have actively rooted for her to leave and go on to find a real pack and realize kids grow up and that while she can love the memories she shares with the guys who were there using her from puberty onward as a substitute for their metric butt load of mommy issues, she needed to close that chapter to find her happily ever after. That would have been a book worth finishing. But the fact that those absolute d0uche canoes are the male leads?! No. If my husband acted like that I would drag him by his ear to a shelter because clearly, he needs to be house trained and I am not his momma.
This book HAD potential, the writing up to 32% was technically sound, but the plot?! The CHARACTERS?! Dispicably unlikeable. The author wrote a whole doormat and gave her a name. Also, the heavy play on peter pan? Bruh, no wonder they can deacon pan, because while he might legally be an adult, he acts like an overgrown child. He's honestly the worst, he could have unalived in the first 30% and I would have cheered.
Let’s talk about the tension in this book—because it was amazing. From the very beginning, it’s clear those boys are head-over-heels for Vae, and watching them hurt her repeatedly was rough. You just want to reach into the book and shake them. Still, I loved how everything eventually unfolded.
I do wish we’d gotten a bit more groveling and quality time with Vae and the boys after things were resolved. The ending felt a little rushed, and I personally crave those tender, post-conflict moments—especially in omegaverse stories where the omega is cherished like royalty. The shift from unrequited love to devotion was perfect but, I would’ve loved to bask in that dynamic a little longer.
Overall, this was a compelling, slightly dark omegaverse romance that hit so many of my favorite tropes. And let’s be real—I’ll never say no to a good dose of dark romance 🥰 I’m ready for more of this universe !
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Knotty Puckers, 12 books, one hockey team full of aggressive, undisciplined Alphas in need of the soft touch from an Omega. This shared world brings 13 authors together to bring a different Omegaverse story to life with action, drama and the inevitable heat.
'I'm lost in him, chasing the pleasure his musical fingertips are strumming on my clit.' - Vae.
'My toys don't even do it for me. Once you go pack, you don't go back.' - Vae
Vae has the patience of a Saint! Tea Ravine has written the first book in this new shared world and these Alphas nearly did my head in with their antics and treatment of Vae. The mix between past and present was an excellent way of showing the bonds and the history between the characters while simultaneously bridging the gap to the current debacle that is the Scented Scorpions. The writing kept me engaged in the story and the character point of views helped in building the reader to a beautiful ending. This series looks to be a winner if the first book is anything to go by, so if you love sports romance and omegaverse, this is for you.
I loved this book. It is an amazing start to a series. Characters you can't help falling in love with, or cheering them on in support of their many dreams. I highly recommend this book if you are looking for an omegaverse, reverse harem, hint of second-chances, found family, steamy scenes and a happily-ever-after... this is it! Vae, Mal, Deacon, and Raynor grew up together as foster siblings, all striving to have a loving family that won't up and leave. But it seems like even as time passes and they grow into adults, these dreams turn into a handicap. Self sabotaging, rose colored glasses and a whole lot of denial all wrapped up in one. Causing tension, unhappiness and a sense of loss. There are so many emotions throughout this book that will keep you on a rollercoasters of ups and downs. But if you persevere the journey is well worth it, and you'll fall in love with their story just as I did.