What do you think?
Rate this book
Knotty Puckers #1
Puck My Life
I would have sat with my unrequited love forever.
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.
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.
325 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 1, 2025
508 people are currently reading
409 people want to read
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
Displaying 1 - 30 of 151 reviews
November 2, 2025
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.
November 3, 2025
Puck my life. Why did I finish 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.
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.
November 7, 2025
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.
November 19, 2025
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.
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.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
November 11, 2025
DNF @58%
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 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.
November 3, 2025
1.5 Stars
January 26, 2026
Just Okay.
**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.
**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.
February 22, 2026
Dnf - mm content not disclosed in the blurb.
Updated: I really wish this series would disclose which books contain MM in the blurb. I shouldn’t have to rely on reviews to inform me. I doubt I will continue this series.
Updated: I really wish this series would disclose which books contain MM in the blurb. I shouldn’t have to rely on reviews to inform me. I doubt I will continue this series.
November 7, 2025
They were all terrible and she should’ve ended up with someone else
November 30, 2025
These men are trash!
Where was the grovelling?
Also, Vae, honey; have a bit of self respect.
Where was the grovelling?
Also, Vae, honey; have a bit of self respect.
November 4, 2025
The only thing the male characters deserved was to be spontaneously exploded into a million little pieces
November 2, 2025
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.
November 9, 2025
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.
March 15, 2026
HORRIBLE
November 10, 2025
DNF 69%
February 12, 2026
A 2.5 to be more realistic. Highly angsty, had potential. The mmcs don't experience enough redemption for the resolution.
November 5, 2025
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’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.
February 9, 2026
nunca había leído a hombres tan INSERVIBLES
November 28, 2025
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.
It had a lot of promise, I’m just disappointed.
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.
It had a lot of promise, I’m just disappointed.
January 7, 2026
😤🙄
The only reason I'm not giving this a one-star is because the synopsis reeled me in, and the beginning was decent. My issue with this story is its characters. While the synopsis caught my attention, by the end of the book I was daydreaming of an ending where she leaves them for good and makes it big somewhere, leaving them to finally grow up and regret with actual groveling. So, starting with the FMC, she is a doormat, to put it lightly, and caters to the whims of the MMCs too much for no logical reason. Her one true moment of independence and putting her foot down is lackluster due to the multiple times (in her mind and exterrnally) where she says enough is enough yet caves the second one of the MMCs looks at her. As a reader, the sympathy that the FMC got from me died completely around 45% of the book. The MMCs were just as bad, if not worse, due to how they act from start to finish. The FMC has basically been a maid/"little sister" to them for YEARS. They've never pulled their weight and are basically children in grown men's bodies, yet the fact that their sooooo handsome is supposed to make us ignore everything else [Insert eye roll]. The men are supposed to grow up in order to win her, yet that doesn't happen, in my opinion. These men were quick to sleep around with any girl (even the FMCs bully) but get mad when the FMC shows the slightest interest in a guy. For far too long in this book, the MMCs think nothing of their actions and how they've constantly hurt the FMC since they believe that she'd never leave them. And let's not forget the "she's a virgin trope" because, of course, she hasn't slept with anyone since she's always been in love with the MMCs even when the guys treat her like a doormat/maid and turn a blind eye to every woman they bring home treating her horribly too [Insert massive eye roll]. The period of time when MMCs think about how've they hurt the FMC is quick and weak. I could keep going, but I'm ranting too much. Overall, the premise was interesting, yet the execution of many scenes and the characters' reasonings and actions for things fell flatter than flat for me. I've liked some of the author's other books, but sadly, this one was not for me.
The only reason I'm not giving this a one-star is because the synopsis reeled me in, and the beginning was decent. My issue with this story is its characters. While the synopsis caught my attention, by the end of the book I was daydreaming of an ending where she leaves them for good and makes it big somewhere, leaving them to finally grow up and regret with actual groveling. So, starting with the FMC, she is a doormat, to put it lightly, and caters to the whims of the MMCs too much for no logical reason. Her one true moment of independence and putting her foot down is lackluster due to the multiple times (in her mind and exterrnally) where she says enough is enough yet caves the second one of the MMCs looks at her. As a reader, the sympathy that the FMC got from me died completely around 45% of the book. The MMCs were just as bad, if not worse, due to how they act from start to finish. The FMC has basically been a maid/"little sister" to them for YEARS. They've never pulled their weight and are basically children in grown men's bodies, yet the fact that their sooooo handsome is supposed to make us ignore everything else [Insert eye roll]. The men are supposed to grow up in order to win her, yet that doesn't happen, in my opinion. These men were quick to sleep around with any girl (even the FMCs bully) but get mad when the FMC shows the slightest interest in a guy. For far too long in this book, the MMCs think nothing of their actions and how they've constantly hurt the FMC since they believe that she'd never leave them. And let's not forget the "she's a virgin trope" because, of course, she hasn't slept with anyone since she's always been in love with the MMCs even when the guys treat her like a doormat/maid and turn a blind eye to every woman they bring home treating her horribly too [Insert massive eye roll]. The period of time when MMCs think about how've they hurt the FMC is quick and weak. I could keep going, but I'm ranting too much. Overall, the premise was interesting, yet the execution of many scenes and the characters' reasonings and actions for things fell flatter than flat for me. I've liked some of the author's other books, but sadly, this one was not for me.
January 21, 2026
lo odie demasiado
hubiese preferido q termine sola!! ellos la trataron super mal
hubiese preferido q termine sola!! ellos la trataron super mal
January 15, 2026
2.5 ⭐
qué bronca me da cuando la protagonista es tan migajera. amo el harem inverso, Pero creo que podrían haber desarrollado los personajes de cada integrante mejor. pareciera realmente que la quisieran porque se volvió Omega, sino la hubieran tratado como una posesión más...
aparte no me cierra que parecieran pobres cuando ellos eran jugadores famosos de hockey (? y re que al final el dinero no es problema...
qué bronca me da cuando la protagonista es tan migajera. amo el harem inverso, Pero creo que podrían haber desarrollado los personajes de cada integrante mejor. pareciera realmente que la quisieran porque se volvió Omega, sino la hubieran tratado como una posesión más...
aparte no me cierra que parecieran pobres cuando ellos eran jugadores famosos de hockey (? y re que al final el dinero no es problema...
November 29, 2025
Only 32%... this is not good.
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.
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.
December 7, 2025
MMCs are garbage
These grown “men” require a woman to teach them how to cook and clean, and they’re the love interests?? They walk ALLLL over FMC and she never bats an eye. I’ve seen wet noodles with more backbone. Genuinely a waste of time to read this. They walk all over her, demanding her work doing chores and cooking food and cutting her out of their lives. There is no groveling for their treatment. They’re just upset they lost their maid. The whole time she pines and whines and whimpers “why don’t they love me” ma’am they love your labor. Anyone who actually likes this type of story needs to listen to “Labour” by Paris Paloma. Women deserve better than this.
1 star because I can’t get my time back.
These grown “men” require a woman to teach them how to cook and clean, and they’re the love interests?? They walk ALLLL over FMC and she never bats an eye. I’ve seen wet noodles with more backbone. Genuinely a waste of time to read this. They walk all over her, demanding her work doing chores and cooking food and cutting her out of their lives. There is no groveling for their treatment. They’re just upset they lost their maid. The whole time she pines and whines and whimpers “why don’t they love me” ma’am they love your labor. Anyone who actually likes this type of story needs to listen to “Labour” by Paris Paloma. Women deserve better than this.
1 star because I can’t get my time back.
November 16, 2025
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.
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.
November 2, 2025
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)
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.
January 1, 2026
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.
November 3, 2025
Pucked
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!
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!
February 2, 2026
3.75
This omegaverse hockey romance will absolutely have you wanting to smack multiple characters upside the head — and not in a fun way.
Deacon, Raynor, and Malcolm spend a solid chunk of this book being deeply annoying. They parade other omegas around like it’s a team bonding exercise, completely oblivious (or willfully ignorant) to the fact that Vae has very real feelings for them. Watching them “unknowingly” take advantage of her devotion while she silently eats it all down? Infuriating.
Things really hit a nerve when Vae discovers she’s an omega and is about to go into heat. Instead of getting the support she desperately needs, she hides it from the three alphas and suffers in silence while scrambling to find someone else to help her through it. The angst is there, sure — but so is the frustration of watching everyone make the worst possible choices for way too long.
Eventually, the alphas pull their heads out of their skates and give in, and yes, the spice does arrive. It’s good… just not as explosive or satisfying as it should have been after all that buildup. For a story that leans this hard into omegaverse tropes, I wanted more intensity, more payoff, and a lot more groveling.
Overall, it’s entertaining, dramatic, and rage-inducing in equal measure. Worth the read if you like hockey romances with omegaverse angst and messy dynamics — just be prepared to yell at your book and wish the characters would do better.
This omegaverse hockey romance will absolutely have you wanting to smack multiple characters upside the head — and not in a fun way.
Deacon, Raynor, and Malcolm spend a solid chunk of this book being deeply annoying. They parade other omegas around like it’s a team bonding exercise, completely oblivious (or willfully ignorant) to the fact that Vae has very real feelings for them. Watching them “unknowingly” take advantage of her devotion while she silently eats it all down? Infuriating.
Things really hit a nerve when Vae discovers she’s an omega and is about to go into heat. Instead of getting the support she desperately needs, she hides it from the three alphas and suffers in silence while scrambling to find someone else to help her through it. The angst is there, sure — but so is the frustration of watching everyone make the worst possible choices for way too long.
Eventually, the alphas pull their heads out of their skates and give in, and yes, the spice does arrive. It’s good… just not as explosive or satisfying as it should have been after all that buildup. For a story that leans this hard into omegaverse tropes, I wanted more intensity, more payoff, and a lot more groveling.
Overall, it’s entertaining, dramatic, and rage-inducing in equal measure. Worth the read if you like hockey romances with omegaverse angst and messy dynamics — just be prepared to yell at your book and wish the characters would do better.
November 3, 2025
Whiplash Hearts
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 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.
Displaying 1 - 30 of 151 reviews