Holy. Shit.
Okay. So, I read all four books in two days. Puckboys is a series that follows openly out men who play in the NHL. We've got some friends to lovers, enemies to lovers, close proximity, bi awakening...
Egotistical Puckboy follows Ezra and Anton who are rivals on the ice... until Anton gets traded. Things start to heat up when the two are told to play nice to squash rumors that their rivalry will affect the team. Ezra is extremely superstitious, so when their team start to win games after the nights they spend together, he insists they have to keep doing it... for the team.
Irresponsible Puckboy is about Dex and Tripp. The pair are best friends with Tripp being secretly in love with Dex who is straight. When Dex breaks up with his girlfriend because of his commitment issues, he convinces Tripp to fake marry him to prove to himself he doesn't have a fear of settling down. Joke's on him because it turns out he didn't read the Vegas chapel fine print and the marriage is legal. PR tells them to fake it for a year then divorce to keep any scandals from blowing up the tabloids. Honestly, this one was my favorite of the four. Tripp loves Dex so much and will do anything for him even if it breaks his heart. And Dex is so sweet and his journey of realizing he's always loved Tripp... the authors did a great job of it.
Shameless Puckboy follows Oskar, an out of control hockey player, and Lane, head of PR for the team. When Oskar gets caught with his pants down in an alley on camera, Lane appoints himself as babysitter to keep Oskar under control. This was probably my second favorite. Lane realizing Oskar isn't actually the guy he puts up for everyone to see, Oskar noticing that Lane actually sees him and not the act he puts on. Then add the fact that it's a big no no for the two to be together because of the work relationship.
Foolish Puckboy is about Aleks and Gabe. The pair meet when Aleks throws a party at house and the fire department has to be called. Gabe and his fire crew show up to deal with the fire and find a bunch of extremely intoxicated men in drag who think the firemen are strippers. Aleks is freshly divorced from his wife of ten years after realizing they want different things. When the pair start to hook up, Aleks freaks out when he realizes he's never done this with a guy and he's only ever been with one woman. Gabe knows he wants to settle down, but needs to find the right man to do it with. He offers to teach Aleks the finer points of being with a guy so the hockey player can get over his insecurities and can go off to be the playboy he thinks he wants to be.
These books are smoking. The sex scenes were spicy, the characters are very well fleshed out. There is humor and romance and just enough conflict. I really hope Quinn gets a book too. The best part? I think there's going to be a spinoff series that follows Gabe's firehouse since the next book follow's Gabe's work husband, Sanden which comes out July 13th.
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