Category: Fiction

Pucking Ever After Volume One is the novella that you should read after Pucking Around. It consists of a few chapters of short little extra bits focusing on the relationships between Rachel, Jake, Caleb, and Ilmari. You absolutely need to read Pucking Around because you will have no idea what is going on without having read it first. You should also buy Volume Two when you buy Volume One, because one chapter in Volume Two should be read before the second half of Volume One. I don’t know why the author chose to put that particular chapter in Volume Two, maybe I’ll see the sense of it when I get to it. However, before that can occur, I need to read the second full length novel in this series, Pucking Wild, which I am working on right now.

Although this was only six short chapters, it was fun to get a glimpse into the day to day life of these characters after the climax of the last book. I believe that the author wrote this because it was purely fun for her, and she took her readers’ suggestions into consideration. I believe that the content of Volume One and Two was written according to what the fans wanted to get a little more of. If someone suggested the plot behind chapter six in this book, or if the author decided that she wanted to write it all on her own, I am very grateful either way. That chapter was my hands down favorite in this novella and probably one of my favorite chapters that I have read in the series so far. The only spoiler I will give is that it focuses on Jake and Caleb. And there is a big cliffhanger at the end, the conclusion of which is coming in the fourth full length novel in this series, which is being released in September. Come back tomorrow to see what I have to say about the second book in this series, Pucking Wild.

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. 

If you don’t live in New Jersey, you probably weren’t aware of a crisis that started in February and was resolved just a few weeks ago. A bunch of sinkholes were discovered underneath a major highway, one that thousands of people used every day to commute from the suburbs to the more urban areas, including New York City. My commute of 40 minutes turned into 90 minutes, and I know it was even worse for others. I was driving home from work one of those days, stuck in the terrible mess of alternate routes, and I wasn’t in the mood to listen to music. Shocking, if you know me. So I started browsing through the audiobook section of Spotify and I came across this absolute gem of a novella that led to me buying the entire series in book form.

After listening to this novella in its entirety, I knew I wanted to read it even though I had just finished listening to it, and from there I wanted to immediately move on to the rest of the series. I was beyond ecstatic when I saw that there were three large novels waiting for me plus two more novellas, and I believe future works to come. But this, this right here, seventy three pages of almost pure smut.

Rachel is sitting in a bar, trying to drink away her sorrows after receiving some disappointing news. She wants to be alone, but some drunk trust fund boy is chatting her up, oblivious to how irritated he is making her. Just before she can blow up in his face, in walks Jake. He gets her, he can sense that she wants to drink in solitude, so he gets rid of the guy by pretending that they know each other and were planning to meet up this whole time. Good guy Jake plans to ignore Rachel for the remainder of her time there, or at least until the yacht club bro and all his friends leave, but to his surprise, she starts talking to him.

Things happen pretty fast after this. Once they leave the bar the rest of the novella is pretty much a non stop, multi round one night stand that is plenty descriptive. I was impressed. Not just with how the moments were described but by the way the author expressed that the two were kind of real life soul mates. They certainly have a few things in common, and they seem to think the same way at times, but the most enrapturing thing is the way their bodies are so in sync. And this is just a prequel to the love cyclone that is Jake and Rachel. It gets even more intense in the full length novel, which I will tell you all about next week.