Reviewed by Mal
TITLE: Absolutely Pucked
SERIES: Punk as Puck #3
AUTHOR: E.M. Lindsey
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 336 Pages
RELEASE DATE: September 22, 2025
BLURB:
Sometimes the one-night stand you meet at a bar on the outskirts of town shows up at your house a month later to reveal he’s the one man you were never supposed to touch.
My friends are all I have, so I’d rather lose my other leg than do anything to hurt them. But how was I supposed to know the bearded stranger at the bar that night was the one person who hurt my best friend beyond repair?
I never would have known who Killian was if he hadn’t turned up at my door a month after our little tryst. But here he is, on my doorstep, with nowhere to go and a sob story that wounds my already bleeding heart.
I should turn him away, but I can’t. Killian makes me feel things I’ve never felt before.
And he’s the first man to ever look at me like I’m a whole person and not just shattered pieces from a bad accident and a broken family.
How can I give that up?
My only job should be to protect my best friend, but the heart wants what the heart wants. All I can hope is that in the end, when truths are finally revealed, I won’t have lost the only people who love me for exactly who I am.
Absolutely Pucked is a forbidden relationship, found family, MM hockey romance in the Punk as Puck series, which is best enjoyed in order. It features a para-hockey player with a love of classic horror films, a chip on his shoulder, and a determination to be better than his family ever thought he would be, an estranged man with a past full of lies, sins to confess, who never believed he was worthy of a good man, a scraggly alley cat with high end taste, secret dates, making out in store rooms, playing amateur private eyes, the merits of forgiving not only others but yourself, and a steamy-sweet happily ever after.
REVIEW:
EM Lindsey never disappoints, their stories blend found family, representation and emotional chemistry making them effortless impactful reads. And it has to be said does one hell of a job with redemption arcs.
I did not think I would love Killian after the previous books and was prepared to love the story for Ford. But man oh man, I adore Killian. People are complicated, life is complicated and when a man is brought so low coming from such a traumatic past where he did not make good choices I believe in second chances. Ford though, he went through some horrific sh1t. His family is the worst, though his found family is the best. His heart is the softest, and I love him.
Killian had a life that led him to making a choice that led to an epic fall out which has snowballed in a way that he could never have anticipated, completely alone, estranged from his brother and nowhere to go he lands on Ford’s door step. Ford cannot believe the man he has been thinking about is one revealed to be someone he feels doesn’t deserve his empathy or his time and is completely forbidden to him if he is maintain his integrity with those he loves. But he makes the choice to help, to give a second chance and this leads to a story of beautiful love and redemption.
This story is the epitome of hurt comfort, of mending relationships and healing, of reaching for the forbidden because you can’t help yourself.
I loved the journey these two took to find their HEA. Their secret relationship wasn’t an ideal start but it worked for them and I think the way Tucker responded was splendid. I love Nugget and Athena and I adore this story.
Highly recommend giving it a go.
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