Pucking Wild

This book is amazing!!!! All I can say is wow! This one is slight more slow paced compared to the first book but I think that fits Tess and Ryan perfectly, the spice is AMAZING!!!! It has the perfect amount of angst, comedy, fluff and spice! I highly recommend reading Pucking Ever After vol2 to get the extra Tess and Ryan chapters! Over all I know this is going to be a series that I read over and over again!

Pucking Wild is Book 2 in Emily Rath's Jacksonville Rays series. Book 1, Pucking Around, along with its prequel novella, That One Night, and follow-up novella, Pucking Ever After: Volume 1, have all been top reads for me in 2023, so my expectations for Pucking Wild were quite high going in.What I expected (and what Rath delivers):🍒 A fun, flirty, swoony, hockey romance🍒 Reverse age gap🍒 A sweet, eager, young puppy MMC🍒 Positive plus size representation of the FMC🍒 Spice for days (including toys)!🍒 A MC leaving a bad marriage behind and finding true love🍒 #TeamPrice from Pucking Around loving and supporting Tess and Ryan🍒 Tantalizing glimpses of future Book 3 Pucking Sweet charactersWhat I *didn't* expect (and what Rath delivers):🏒 A clear and accurate representation of a secondary character with narcissistic personality disorder🏒 An often heart-wrenching, but also uplifting portrayal of a recovering complex trauma survivor of narcissistic abuse🏒 A brutiful "messy but real" depiction of what it looks like for someone to genuinely love a survivor of narcissistic abuse🏒 More of an intentional focus than would usually be given in a romance novel to consent, clear communication, and checking-in with a sexual partner during intimacy. This rocked my world and is a new k!nk unlocked.🏒 A sympathetic window into the shame, inadequacy, and feelings of isolation often experienced by a person with a disability and how inaccessibility and lack of accommodations impacts their daily lives🏒 While reading, I occasionally found myself sceptical that a younger MMC would be so mature, kind, selfless, and unafraid of commitment. Reading Pucking Wild served as a reminder that ageism, generationism, and sexism work both ways.Thank you, Dr. Rath, for treating these topics with the care they deserve and for delivering such a tender, humorous, spicy, AND thought-provoking read. You exceeded my already lofty expectations.I am already anxious for Pucking Ever After Vol II and Pucking Sweet, as well as the audiobook versions of Pucking Around and Pucking Wild!

Nice hot read! Very spicy and with a little suspense and humour and good banter. Spice scenes are out of this world!

My, oh my. I do not know how Emily Rath has written such an amazing, and long, book in such a small time. I am SO HERE for the writing style - it is so smooth and unique, so easy for me to read. It flows so well in my thoughts and it comes off as witty and humorous, as well as intelligent and flirty. The character development for both Tess and Ryan in this story - but also Ilmari and other strong characters from the previous books - completely reignite my love for the Jacksonville Rays universe. Emily Rath is a total wizard at writing these hockey romances and I feel so lucky to have found such an amazing author! I loved and cried with the characters in this book, as I did with the others before and most likely will with the next books. Tess and Ryan are so likeable and their characteristics, traits etc are so well developed. I found Tess so relatable, to the extent where this book felt both inspirational and healing to me.Emily writes with such passion, such extravagant and witty wording and all the positive spirit in the world. I really enjoyed us glimpsing back into the Price family, as well as all the setting up for the books to come. I already love Poppy based on what we have seen of her in this book - and to be honest, would even be more than happy to have a book about Shelby. It is another absolute hit for me - another 5 star read I highly recommend - especially if you love hockey romance, reverse age gap, a kickass, independent female lead and a sweet puppy male lead. The tension and steam was of course perfect in all the right places, too, but the plot and growth of the characters was something entirely incredible on its own as well.I could go on about this book and praise it forever, truly. Thank-you for sharing Tess' story with us and letting us be a part of this story, Emily! I can't wait to revisit this book and the others in the rays universe again already.

I was anxiously awaiting this book. The first book in the series blew me away and I hoped the second would too and it absolutely did. Emily manages to write characters that are on their journey and beautifully flawed while finding happiness in ways that suit them. You get to know them in a way that feels real. I love all the different kinds of representation of relationships and love and how they never seem forced. Her books are so much more than regular romance . I love how Tess and Ryan's story was so uniquely theirs while still being part of the series. Similar to how I was excited to see some Price family action I'm now excited to catch glimpses of Tess and Ryan in the next book.