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Lucky Bounce by Cait Nary
3.0
3.5⭐️
Thank you so much to Carina Press and Netgalley for providing an advanced copy of this book! All thoughts and opinions are still my own.
I like everyone else, has been riding the hockey romance train. And I was really excited to see a queer hockey romance from a new to me author.
This was a bit of a mixed bag for me personally.
On one hand I actually really enjoyed the romance itself. There was so much mutual pining between the characters. And I loved how much their friends meddled in their budding romance. Their interactions and scenes together were absolutely adorable.
The daughter element was also done well. I felt like it was a realistic depiction and didn't take over the plot or story. She was adorable, sometimes frustrating, and acted her age.
Where this lost me a little was in the style choices. First of all, this only had Zeke’s POV and I thought it could have benefited from dual POV. But the real hold up was the fact that it was written in 3rd person.
I'm normally not one to care about, or often even notice, 1st or 3rd person narration. But in this case it was... jarring. Everything is written in 3rd person from Zeke's POV but it's written in a stream of conscious way... so you got these weird tangents and moments of internal dialogue. But from a 3rd person narrator...
And it was honestly bizarre. I had to actively ignore it while reading because it just kept distracting me. It was just an odd choice in my opinion. And I've never felt to distracted or aware of the narration/tense of a romance.
Overall, this was a cute fun story. But I don't think it's one I'll think about or rec often. If you're in search of a quirky hockey romance with buckets of pining though, it's definitely worth giving a shot.
Thank you so much to Carina Press and Netgalley for providing an advanced copy of this book! All thoughts and opinions are still my own.
I like everyone else, has been riding the hockey romance train. And I was really excited to see a queer hockey romance from a new to me author.
This was a bit of a mixed bag for me personally.
On one hand I actually really enjoyed the romance itself. There was so much mutual pining between the characters. And I loved how much their friends meddled in their budding romance. Their interactions and scenes together were absolutely adorable.
The daughter element was also done well. I felt like it was a realistic depiction and didn't take over the plot or story. She was adorable, sometimes frustrating, and acted her age.
Where this lost me a little was in the style choices. First of all, this only had Zeke’s POV and I thought it could have benefited from dual POV. But the real hold up was the fact that it was written in 3rd person.
I'm normally not one to care about, or often even notice, 1st or 3rd person narration. But in this case it was... jarring. Everything is written in 3rd person from Zeke's POV but it's written in a stream of conscious way... so you got these weird tangents and moments of internal dialogue. But from a 3rd person narrator...
And it was honestly bizarre. I had to actively ignore it while reading because it just kept distracting me. It was just an odd choice in my opinion. And I've never felt to distracted or aware of the narration/tense of a romance.
Overall, this was a cute fun story. But I don't think it's one I'll think about or rec often. If you're in search of a quirky hockey romance with buckets of pining though, it's definitely worth giving a shot.