Reviewed by Valerie
TITLE: Clueless Puckboy
AUTHORS: Eden Finley & Saxon James
SERIES: Puckboys #5
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 256 pages
RELEASE DATE: October 5, 2023
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QUINN
Straining my groin is bad enough. It puts my hockey career, my future, but even worse, my dignity on the line.
Having to get massages in that area from Vance Landon, one of the team trainers, is mortifying.
It’s impossible to hide my feelings toward him. If my constant blushing and bumbling doesn’t give it away, my body does.
It’s getting to the point where I wonder if hockey is even worth the embarrassment.
Trying to avoid him only makes him seek me out more. He’s determined to rehab my injury, but all I want is for him to leave me alone.
Or fall for me.
One or the other.
VANCE
Ayri Quinn isn’t your typical jock … except for the fact he refuses to admit when he’s injured.
I’ve seen more than enough professional sportsmen lose the career they love due to injury, and I’m not having it happen again.
Especially not when the guy in question happens to be the sweetest, most awkward, innocent jock I’ve ever met.
When a night out leads to Quinn reinjuring himself, I create a care plan that keeps me hands on, literally. Unfortunately, working with him in close proximity brings all those feelings I’ve been trying to ignore to the surface.
I just need to get him better so he can be back on the ice and out of my bed.
Ah, my massage bed.
Because if this goes on any longer, I might mean my actual bed.
Ayri Quinn is impossible to resist.
REVIEW:
Clueless Puckboy is the fifth book in Finley and Saxon’s Puckboys series. Hockey player, Quinn, is a member of the delightful Queer Collective of NHL players. He’s the eponymous clueless one who acts like a bumbling fool in front of his love interest, Vance, one of the team’s trainers. When Quinn sustains a groin injury, he needs to have it massaged and worked on. Unfortunately, he has a big crush on Vance and can’t quite hide what he feels when Vance’s hands are all over him. They’re attracted to each other early on but both try to resist the other.
Quinn is laugh out loud funny at times, like when he can’t form a coherent sentence in Vance’s presence. I enjoyed his naivety. Vance is a much more laid back character and they balance each other well. I found Quinn to be the more interesting of the two. And I loved the Queer Collective. Asher brought the laughs again.
This is a fun, feel good book but not my favorite in the series. The story is low angst – which is fine – but it lacks a significant conflict, resulting in less intense emotions and exciting moments. It just left me a bit bored. I do, however, recommend the book to those who have enjoyed the series so far.
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