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One Pucked Up Pack
by Sarah Blue
I have become obsessed with hockey romances and that mixed with omegaverse can only be a wild ride!
Charlotte is an omega in college tired of campus life. Back home during her winter vacation, cupid strikes (literally) and she meets three hockey playing alphas and fellow college students named Eli, Mikael, and Anders.
The Good
I liked that this book really dives into the issue of having a pack and playing a sport. I never thought about how having a pack would work in you're drafted to different teams. The version of omega-verse presented here was pretty interesting. This book took a big emotional turn and I applaud it for doing so. It was technically a miscommunication which some people dislike but I liked it in this book. I just love a messy female lead. Charlotte was in a lot of pain and had established issues that made her react in an extreme way.
The Bad
For a book with a lot of sex, none of the scenes really did anything for me. I don't really know why. I think it is because they didn't have much chemistry in and outside of the explicit scenes. I think a consequence of why-choose stories is that it is hard to make each love interest distinct and interesting. Eli, Anders, and Mikael had distinct traits to make it easy for readers to tell them apart but I didn't feel connected to them individually but as one blob. Mikael obviously stand out more as the most critical alpha but he often annoyed me. This made it hard for me to want them all to be together because outside of the scent matching, I didn't understand why they liked each other. For a 600 page book, there was not enough time spent establishing the relationship outside them being fated for each other. I felt really bad for Mikael in the last act and didn't like him and Charlotte together. Charlotte didn't really apologize to him and wasn't taking responsibility of her actions in the breakup and just wanted him to forgive her again without acknowledging how her actions hurt him. She just kept saying "well this happened to ME" instead of acknowledging how SHE hurt HIM. The narrative around his journal entries really annoyed me. Nothing about this plot-line satisfied me and it didn't make me root for them being together.
Tropes:
— A/B/O Dynamics
— Why Choose
— Scent Matches (Fated Mates)
Horn Level: 3/5
Charlotte is an omega in college tired of campus life. Back home during her winter vacation, cupid strikes (literally) and she meets three hockey playing alphas and fellow college students named Eli, Mikael, and Anders.
The Good
I liked that this book really dives into the issue of having a pack and playing a sport. I never thought about how having a pack would work in you're drafted to different teams. The version of omega-verse presented here was pretty interesting. This book took a big emotional turn and I applaud it for doing so. It was technically a miscommunication which some people dislike but I liked it in this book. I just love a messy female lead. Charlotte was in a lot of pain and had established issues that made her react in an extreme way.
The Bad
For a book with a lot of sex, none of the scenes really did anything for me. I don't really know why. I think it is because they didn't have much chemistry in and outside of the explicit scenes. I think a consequence of why-choose stories is that it is hard to make each love interest distinct and interesting. Eli, Anders, and Mikael had distinct traits to make it easy for readers to tell them apart but I didn't feel connected to them individually but as one blob. Mikael obviously stand out more as the most critical alpha but he often annoyed me. This made it hard for me to want them all to be together because outside of the scent matching, I didn't understand why they liked each other. For a 600 page book, there was not enough time spent establishing the relationship outside them being fated for each other. I felt really bad for Mikael in the last act and didn't like him and Charlotte together. Charlotte didn't really apologize to him and wasn't taking responsibility of her actions in the breakup and just wanted him to forgive her again without acknowledging how her actions hurt him. She just kept saying "well this happened to ME" instead of acknowledging how SHE hurt HIM. The narrative around his journal entries really annoyed me. Nothing about this plot-line satisfied me and it didn't make me root for them being together.
Tropes:
— A/B/O Dynamics
— Why Choose
— Scent Matches (Fated Mates)
Horn Level: 3/5