Poetry on Ice (Totally Pucked #1)

I'm HORRIBLE lately at picking a book and sticking to the plan on reading it. Here's Jesse H Reign's novel "Poetry on Ice." It's the first novel in the Totally Pucked series. 

["I can’t tell if we’re fighting…or flirting?

Being traded to the Seattle Vipers has left me with mixed feelings. On the one hand, they’re my team, the team I’ve loved and supported since I was a kid, but on the other hand, he’s here. Him. Ant Decker. Infamous NHL bad boy. Right wing to my left. A man who’s made it his sole purpose in life to be better than me.

Well, the joke’s on him because I’m faster and my stats are better than his.

Not that I’m competing with him. Of course not. I wouldn’t stoop to his level.

He’s the most infuriating person I’ve ever met. A dark, chaotic presence that distracts me.

When we’re not coming to blows on the ice, he tries to provoke me by calling me Princess. And Pretty Boy...and Babygirl.

I hate it. Obviously, I do. It makes me so angry I can hardly see straight.

So why does my body react as if I like it?"]

I was...just so not prepared for how much of a pouty, adorable brat Robbie was. Not at all. Then again, neither was Ant. All that is Robbie threw Ant for a loop and a half. Ant couldn't have been prepared for Robbie even if he tried. And he did tried resisting him, of course Ant did, but Robbie is a fucking force.

And the two of them together? Magnets. Poetry on (and off) the ice. 

I saw spoilers for this book. Mainly hints and teases of spicy scenes (and a few fluffy scenes), but I was just...once again not prepared. Ant and Robbie blew me away. They fought the chemistry between them, but with the force of plastic windows in a hurricane; they caved so fast and so often to the thing between them, that it quickly went from the occasional guilty pleasure to accidental-dates. Well, Robbie did tell Ant it was a date; Ant just didn't believe him until it was too late.

It was also far too late when both of these guys realized they had capital F Feelings for the other. They some how reacted exactly how I thought they would but also the exact opposite. Which...tracks, since that's how they were the entire book to me. 

Trigger Warnings: mild off-page homophobia, internalized homophobia, and more

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