I had caught up with all of my ARCs, requested a toooon more, and proceeded to avoid them. Oops. Here's Saxon James and Eden Finley "Forbidden Puckboy." Its the seventh novel in their Puckboys series.
["Easton
You know what’s the worst feeling in the world? Being in love with someone since you were twelve years old, knowing they only see you as a little brother type.
Not even becoming an NHL star has made him realize I’m all grown up now.
All of that changes when I ask my brother’s best friend to ref a charity match and we spend an entire week in each other’s pocket.
Being close to him is torture, but for the first time since my adolescent crush started, I begin to feel hope. I swear Knox looks at me the same way I look at him. Or so I think. When I throw myself at him and get utterly rejected, I never want to see him again.
Yet, shaking him is impossible, because he and Connor are always around, and my older brother is suffocatingly protective. Every time I look at Knox, I’m reminded of how he turned me down.
Can’t I just die of embarrassment in peace?
Knox
The Kiki brothers are legendary in the NHL world. Thick as thieves, unstoppable on the ice, and the kind of family nothing can come between. Or so I thought.
For the last ten years, I’ve successfully hidden my feelings for the middle Kiki brother. Easton is snarky, determined, and the prettiest guy I’ve met. Ever since we stumbled across each other on a gay dating app and shared our secrets, I’ve felt a connection to him that I haven’t had with anything else.
But Connor is my best friend and when it comes to his little brothers, “protective” doesn’t cover it. I’m determined to take my feelings for Easton to the grave, but after a week in close proximity to him, my willpower is ready to break.
All it takes is one charity hockey match, a drunken night out, and a forbidden kiss for me to know that Easton Kikishkin is it for me.
And unless I want to lose Connor, Easton will never be mine."]
I really thought this book was about a "forbidden" fuckboy because hockey players and refs can't be together. No, Easton is "forbidden" because this perfect gem (the book and Easton) is a brother's-best-friend story. I'm soooo weak for those (okay, for a lot of tropes; fight me)!!
EASTON!!! D: Sweet baby boy! Okay, maybe not sweet, per se. He was sweet, but he was also sassy as fuck, and flirty and confident and independent (after some anxiety-inducing drama). And utterly PERFECT combination for Knox, even if it took them years and years (and years) to finally get their shit together and get together. Annnnnd then it got worse again (and I cried).
There was SOOOO much angst in this book and so much mutual pining and sooooo many (in the first 50%) miscommunications that turned to heartaches/heartbreaks. I mean, my chest hurt so, so bad from all of the anxiety, that I forced myself to keep reading (and breathing) to a point where everyone was being less fucking dramatic (Easton, Knox, Connor, ect) so I could calm the f down. The angst didn't disappear completely, but it was much easier to get through as the secrets starting popping out of the closet (and hockey players).
CLEARLY the next book is for our lovely Connor, who is in for some serious grovelling... on his knees probably. ;) Though, I do really want Lachie to have a book after that. We need books for all of those hotheaded Kiki brothers to get their HEA (and join the mayhem and debauchery that is the Queer Collective--oh our Collective boys).
Speaking of Collective boys: there was literally soooooo much mayhem (and debauchery) in this book because there was so much more on-page time for the gang to...be themselves. ;)
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