I’ve been reading a lot of romantic fantasy, romantasy if you will, and consuming as much of this type of fiction as I can has pretty much been my motivation to read as much as possible lately. But I think I just found a series that will bring me back to reality. A hockey romance, a very dirty hockey romance.
If you read my post from last week I discussed the novella which was a prequel to this book. That piece of work was full of smut. This full length novel had a decent story with plot behind it, and the scenes with our love interests were just as naughty. On top of that, as the story progressed the moments between our female main character and all her men became even more debaucherous.
The story starts off a few months after that one night between Rachel and Jake. She is wallowing in her disappointment at not getting the position she was hoping for, and not being near Jake. Due to a misfortune, the job that Rachel has been in a pit of depression over is now available. Less than forty eight hours later she has left the apartment she shared with her best friend in Cincinnati and has arrived in Jacksonville. She is picked up by one of her new colleagues and they could not have had a worse first encounter. The story starts off with the regular introduction of the characters, but things get heated pretty quickly when Rachel sees Jake walking towards her and at that moment learns that she is going to be working with him. Even though the two are attracted to each other with a desperate longing akin to lost soulmates meeting for the first time, Rachel puts her foot down. She doesn’t want to risk either of their jobs with an office romance. Jake reluctantly agrees to her terms, but he wants nothing more than to break down her walls, and he is not at all subtle when it comes to hiding his true intentions. There are other characters and other plot points I want to discuss, but to say any more would in my opinion be giving too much away. And I don’t want to do that because I believe this is a book worth getting into, without spoilers, for any of my fellow smut lovers looking for a new series to start.
Even though this piece of fiction tells a story that could possibly happen in real life, and by that I mean there isn’t any magic being thrown about or mystical creatures walking around, I think that it would have to be in very similar circumstances for something like this to happen. I feel like the events that occur and the relationships that develop could only exist between famous professional athletes and children of the extremely wealthy. I can tell you, I don’t personally know anyone who has ever lived anything close to what goes on in this story and I don’t think I ever will.
Forgetting all that, this book gets a five out of five on my raunchy scale. I remember the exact scene in the novel when I realized that I had just read the filthiest piece of literature I had ever read in my life. And while there were more equally scandalous scenes ahead of me, the one encounter I just mentioned is one I will never forget. There was a point in the midst of the story when I thought that the numbers were a bit much, but everything seemed to round out well enough in the end. All I can say is, it couldn’t be me.
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