Square to the Puck, book two of J.J. Mulder’s Offsides NHL MM hockey romance series starts off with fireworks. Like WHOA, I was a little concerned she was going to go down the road of Damon Suede (Lickety Split, Hot Head, Bad Idea) or Heidi Cullinan (Dirty Laundry), where they go super hot and heavy bordering on crass, early in the book and then I’m like do I want to finish this novel!?! Thankfully, Mulder reined it in and we got a more sedate and emotional MM romance. Or, I guess, as sedate and emotional as it can be when two NHL pro-hockey players get together.
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OMFG. I can’t believe I waited as long as I did to read this. I accepted an ARC ages ago from the publisher, but then school and life got in the way and I blew past the publication date.* Then there were so many MM Holiday Romances I just had to read, and this is where we ended up me reading it in January 2024, six months after publication, and then finally getting the review posted almost a year to the date after publication (six months after I read it but back-scheduling). OH, THE SHAME.
I swear I’ve either read this book before or read something very similar to it. I checked the publication date and it was after I started the blog and was documenting every book. So I’m not sure why this and the second book were SO FAMILIAR. Or maybe I started it and didn’t finish it so it never made it to my list, but either way, it was really eerie reading the first two in this series.
It was a little surprising to see that this one was only written by Eli Easton but I found out that what I believe will be the final book in the series,