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Pucked and Possessed #3
Puck, Muchas Gracias: Una intensa y adictiva novela MM de hockey, entre rivales con demasiada historia y una química peligrosa. (Puck y Pecado)
We’re not just rivals—we’re at war.
ZANE
Jakob Martin is the cocky Larkin Lion who knocked me out cold in a bar fight.
Now I can’t stop thinking about him.
We were supposed to crush each other on the ice, not crushing each other in the bedroom.
But every time we clash, it feels less like hate and more like foreplay.
He’s the enemy. He’s the obsession. He might be the best mistake I ever make.
JAKOB
Zane Martin’s got a mouth I’d love to shut up. Preferably with mine.
We brawled before we ever played—and now, I can’t stop wanting more.
He's aggressive, arrogant, and he drives me crazy… in every way.
We’re supposed to be sworn enemies.
So why does it feel like we’re playing for the same team when no one’s watching?
PUCK YOU VERY MUCH is a spicy, enemies-to-lovers MM hockey romance packed with locker room tension, explosive fights that turn into something filthier, and two alpha players who can’t decide if they want to throw down… or give in. Book 3 in the Pucked and Possessed world of standalone MM hockey romances.
ZANE
Jakob Martin is the cocky Larkin Lion who knocked me out cold in a bar fight.
Now I can’t stop thinking about him.
We were supposed to crush each other on the ice, not crushing each other in the bedroom.
But every time we clash, it feels less like hate and more like foreplay.
He’s the enemy. He’s the obsession. He might be the best mistake I ever make.
JAKOB
Zane Martin’s got a mouth I’d love to shut up. Preferably with mine.
We brawled before we ever played—and now, I can’t stop wanting more.
He's aggressive, arrogant, and he drives me crazy… in every way.
We’re supposed to be sworn enemies.
So why does it feel like we’re playing for the same team when no one’s watching?
PUCK YOU VERY MUCH is a spicy, enemies-to-lovers MM hockey romance packed with locker room tension, explosive fights that turn into something filthier, and two alpha players who can’t decide if they want to throw down… or give in. Book 3 in the Pucked and Possessed world of standalone MM hockey romances.
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366 pages, Paperback
Published October 24, 2025
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November 9, 2025
Tropes: Rivals to lovers, secret relationship, hockey romance
Feels: 1/5
Steam*: 1/5 (there was smut, but the quality was bad)
Kinks: rough sex
Angst: low
HEA: HEA
Pairing: MM
Triggers/potential icks/content warnings/representation: third act break up, past death of parent
Cheating between MCs: No
Any cheating: No
Other person drama: neither of them are interested in anyone else once they kiss. There's no other love interests for them. There's references to them both being f*** boys before with women, but nothing detailed.
1.25 stars
This book is about two hockey players on rival college teams. They have both never been with a man before, and they find themselves attracted to each other. They start hooking up and have a secret thing going on, and they awkwardly declare it a relationship after a while. They crack under the pressure of having to compete against each other and it splits them up for a wee bit because they cannot be mature. Then Zane accidentally injures Jakob and Jakob makes Zane put in some work before he'll be forgiven.
I wanted to like this book. It had an interesting premise. I love a good enemies to lovers story. And there was some promising early banter between the characters and an unhinged, zany reluctant attraction. But from the opening passage there were a lot of flaws and signs that this was going to go poorly, and it just got worse and the book never delivered anything good.
This book made me angry. It was so bad. The characters were such assholes, the relationship was so superficial, the writing was so ugly, that at times I was offended that this was a representation of a homosexual relationship. I actually took offense while reading it. I wanted to dnf it at times, but I'm not a person who can easily dnf. And I didn't want to give this book a permanent space in my brain as an incomplete read. My OCD could not handle it. And I also wanted to release my rage and tell you my multitude of reasons why I hated this book, by giving it a full review.
Things I didn't like about this book:
- I hated that the characters kept breaking the fourth wall and talking to the reader in such a ridiculous cheesy way, it came off as bad writing, and the characters came off sounding like frat boy assholes. "Wait, I don’t want you to get the wrong impression of what happened. I’m not a scaredy cat. Farthest thing from it. Let me tell you my side of the story from scratch. All right, so we were at the bar the night before we were supposed to square off against that group of pompous stuffed shirts, the Remington Riptides. Remington was located in the suburbs and filled with rich kids."
- the book was riddled with typos
- At times, characters knew things that they had absolutely no way of knowing. That made no sense.
- The use of the English language in this book was so awkward and unnatural that it made me cringe. Who talks and thinks in these terms!? Examples: "No sooner than we fell deep into the kiss did I feel Jakob’s hard-on jab at my leg." And "when I beheld Jakob"
- The way they jumped into wanting to be boyfriends was ridiculous. These guys are casual acquaintances who have had one hookup, and they are both guys who have only done casual. It's unrealistic that they would jump to saying let's be boyfriends after one hookup, when they have both been telling themselves they need to stop the thing between them.
- Zane's coach offered the team big money to seriously injure one of the Larkin Lion players. This is illegal. Very unsportsmanlike. Also it would affect the professional career someone hopes to have in the NHL and their status on the team currently if they were to deliberately cause this kind of injury. And eventually, Zane accidentally caused a very serious injury to Jakob (accidentally, not for the money) but everyone thought he did it for the money, and he suffered no consequences. What the coach did did not come to light, no one suffered any consequences.
- this book was exhausting to read. It's so hard to follow who is speaking. Both mmcs have the same conversations with their friends, their voices are not distinct, their experiences are not distinct. At least once I've seen the author use the wrong name accidentally in a passage where it's clearly supposed to be the other MMC.
- this was what I was thinking at the 71% mark, and I continued to think this way right up until the last page of the book.... I don't understand why they like each other. I feel like they don't really know each other and neither of them have done anything that makes them likeable or lovable. And their relationship is superficial.
- You know when someone is an a****** and has been a horrible human being, and then they can hardly bring themselves to mutter the word sorry. And when they do, they expect immediate forgiveness, and they are appalled and want to take back their apology when they are not immediately forgiven? That was Zane. "His eyes widened in shock like he couldn’t believe I wouldn’t forgive him that easily over what happened. Look, forgiveness was mine to give. Zane might’ve felt sorry (maybe), but I could choose when and if I wanted to forgive him. “I just humbled myself more than I’ve ever been humbled,” he said."
- The smut was bad. They weren't good lovers. There was no sensuality. There was no emotion or yearning. It was just like frat boys jackhammering away roughly at each other. It was ugly, I wanted to skim the sex.
- Out of absolutely nowhere, Zane tells Jakob that he has been drafted and is going pro. That is what ends their rivalry, they no longer have to compete because Zane is going pro. This came out of nowhere. We haven't seen any Scout interactions or engagement with teams. And also he was saying a few pages ago that he wants to quit hockey!!!
- Zane proposes to Jakob at the end, and no it's not in an epilogue. It's unrealistic. These guys are in college and they have only just started to date. And they have had such an ugly relationship and built no trust between each other. They are literally on their second date when the proposal happens.
Some notable moments:
They had funny banter early on that was promising. It turned to s***. "I doubted a full ten minutes passed before I received another text from Zane, telling me he was at the front door. I crossed myself before answering. Come on, that’s not that dramatic. If Zane appeared everywhere you went, and you shared a moment like ours at the gym, you’d cross yourself, too. Matter of fact, you’d probably bring garlic and holy water, too."
Levi's mind going there was funny. "“How are things going with him anyway? You two blow each other and make up yet?” “Not yet. He’s got me working as his slave right now.” “Holy shit, dude, I love that. I’ve been trying to get my boyfriend, Quinn, to get into the whips and chains and dungeons and all that shit. He just isn’t having it.” “Not sexual slavery, you idiot. He’s got me doing every little chore for him like he’s helpless.”"
*FYI about steam: I rate steam based on a combination of quality & quantity. I note kink separate from steam because I don't want to underrate steamy reads that don't have much kink.
**Note about spoilers: I like to comment on the plot of a book in reviews, so I almost always mark my reviews as containing spoilers. But I try to avoid spoiling the big dramatic moments! As a reader, I personally like to know what I'm getting into before I read a book so I know more about the content and if it's to my taste/mood, so I try to give that information in my reviews for myself when I'm considering rereading and also for other readers.
Feels: 1/5
Steam*: 1/5 (there was smut, but the quality was bad)
Kinks: rough sex
Angst: low
HEA: HEA
Pairing: MM
Triggers/potential icks/content warnings/representation: third act break up, past death of parent
Cheating between MCs: No
Any cheating: No
Other person drama: neither of them are interested in anyone else once they kiss. There's no other love interests for them. There's references to them both being f*** boys before with women, but nothing detailed.
1.25 stars
This book is about two hockey players on rival college teams. They have both never been with a man before, and they find themselves attracted to each other. They start hooking up and have a secret thing going on, and they awkwardly declare it a relationship after a while. They crack under the pressure of having to compete against each other and it splits them up for a wee bit because they cannot be mature. Then Zane accidentally injures Jakob and Jakob makes Zane put in some work before he'll be forgiven.
I wanted to like this book. It had an interesting premise. I love a good enemies to lovers story. And there was some promising early banter between the characters and an unhinged, zany reluctant attraction. But from the opening passage there were a lot of flaws and signs that this was going to go poorly, and it just got worse and the book never delivered anything good.
This book made me angry. It was so bad. The characters were such assholes, the relationship was so superficial, the writing was so ugly, that at times I was offended that this was a representation of a homosexual relationship. I actually took offense while reading it. I wanted to dnf it at times, but I'm not a person who can easily dnf. And I didn't want to give this book a permanent space in my brain as an incomplete read. My OCD could not handle it. And I also wanted to release my rage and tell you my multitude of reasons why I hated this book, by giving it a full review.
Things I didn't like about this book:
- I hated that the characters kept breaking the fourth wall and talking to the reader in such a ridiculous cheesy way, it came off as bad writing, and the characters came off sounding like frat boy assholes. "Wait, I don’t want you to get the wrong impression of what happened. I’m not a scaredy cat. Farthest thing from it. Let me tell you my side of the story from scratch. All right, so we were at the bar the night before we were supposed to square off against that group of pompous stuffed shirts, the Remington Riptides. Remington was located in the suburbs and filled with rich kids."
- the book was riddled with typos
- At times, characters knew things that they had absolutely no way of knowing. That made no sense.
- The use of the English language in this book was so awkward and unnatural that it made me cringe. Who talks and thinks in these terms!? Examples: "No sooner than we fell deep into the kiss did I feel Jakob’s hard-on jab at my leg." And "when I beheld Jakob"
- The way they jumped into wanting to be boyfriends was ridiculous. These guys are casual acquaintances who have had one hookup, and they are both guys who have only done casual. It's unrealistic that they would jump to saying let's be boyfriends after one hookup, when they have both been telling themselves they need to stop the thing between them.
- Zane's coach offered the team big money to seriously injure one of the Larkin Lion players. This is illegal. Very unsportsmanlike. Also it would affect the professional career someone hopes to have in the NHL and their status on the team currently if they were to deliberately cause this kind of injury. And eventually, Zane accidentally caused a very serious injury to Jakob (accidentally, not for the money) but everyone thought he did it for the money, and he suffered no consequences. What the coach did did not come to light, no one suffered any consequences.
- this book was exhausting to read. It's so hard to follow who is speaking. Both mmcs have the same conversations with their friends, their voices are not distinct, their experiences are not distinct. At least once I've seen the author use the wrong name accidentally in a passage where it's clearly supposed to be the other MMC.
- this was what I was thinking at the 71% mark, and I continued to think this way right up until the last page of the book.... I don't understand why they like each other. I feel like they don't really know each other and neither of them have done anything that makes them likeable or lovable. And their relationship is superficial.
- You know when someone is an a****** and has been a horrible human being, and then they can hardly bring themselves to mutter the word sorry. And when they do, they expect immediate forgiveness, and they are appalled and want to take back their apology when they are not immediately forgiven? That was Zane. "His eyes widened in shock like he couldn’t believe I wouldn’t forgive him that easily over what happened. Look, forgiveness was mine to give. Zane might’ve felt sorry (maybe), but I could choose when and if I wanted to forgive him. “I just humbled myself more than I’ve ever been humbled,” he said."
- The smut was bad. They weren't good lovers. There was no sensuality. There was no emotion or yearning. It was just like frat boys jackhammering away roughly at each other. It was ugly, I wanted to skim the sex.
- Out of absolutely nowhere, Zane tells Jakob that he has been drafted and is going pro. That is what ends their rivalry, they no longer have to compete because Zane is going pro. This came out of nowhere. We haven't seen any Scout interactions or engagement with teams. And also he was saying a few pages ago that he wants to quit hockey!!!
- Zane proposes to Jakob at the end, and no it's not in an epilogue. It's unrealistic. These guys are in college and they have only just started to date. And they have had such an ugly relationship and built no trust between each other. They are literally on their second date when the proposal happens.
Some notable moments:
They had funny banter early on that was promising. It turned to s***. "I doubted a full ten minutes passed before I received another text from Zane, telling me he was at the front door. I crossed myself before answering. Come on, that’s not that dramatic. If Zane appeared everywhere you went, and you shared a moment like ours at the gym, you’d cross yourself, too. Matter of fact, you’d probably bring garlic and holy water, too."
Levi's mind going there was funny. "“How are things going with him anyway? You two blow each other and make up yet?” “Not yet. He’s got me working as his slave right now.” “Holy shit, dude, I love that. I’ve been trying to get my boyfriend, Quinn, to get into the whips and chains and dungeons and all that shit. He just isn’t having it.” “Not sexual slavery, you idiot. He’s got me doing every little chore for him like he’s helpless.”"
*FYI about steam: I rate steam based on a combination of quality & quantity. I note kink separate from steam because I don't want to underrate steamy reads that don't have much kink.
**Note about spoilers: I like to comment on the plot of a book in reviews, so I almost always mark my reviews as containing spoilers. But I try to avoid spoiling the big dramatic moments! As a reader, I personally like to know what I'm getting into before I read a book so I know more about the content and if it's to my taste/mood, so I try to give that information in my reviews for myself when I'm considering rereading and also for other readers.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
October 23, 2025
The writing style is so annoying for the lack of better wording, there were few editing errors that slipped through.
MCs were so juvenile, this would fit mid or high school setting better than university. I struggled to like either of them. The enemies to lovers part was rather underwhelming. I dnf but skipped to the end and the spice was so fucking weird (not to be mean but that was the worst cringe-inducing sex talk I have ever read).
Not for me, maybe someone else can enjoy
MCs were so juvenile, this would fit mid or high school setting better than university. I struggled to like either of them. The enemies to lovers part was rather underwhelming. I dnf but skipped to the end and the spice was so fucking weird (not to be mean but that was the worst cringe-inducing sex talk I have ever read).
Not for me, maybe someone else can enjoy
November 3, 2025
DNF so very very bad
November 17, 2025
Meh, tipo al principio si me gustó pero me terminó fastidiando, no vi un desarrollo de los personajes ni el porque se enamoraron fue muy equis
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