If you've been reading my reviews for the Copper Valley Thrusters hockey series this week, you know that I had a wild idea to read ALL the previous books in the series prior to the release of I Pucking Love You. Seriously, who does that? Apparently I do that. But I needed the backstories!
Well today I Pucking Love You is available! I am all caught up on the series, and thanks to Give Me Books PR I was able to read an advanced copy of I Pucking Love You.
Well today I Pucking Love You is available! I am all caught up on the series, and thanks to Give Me Books PR I was able to read an advanced copy of I Pucking Love You.
If you don't know what I'm talking about, I Pucking Love You is the fifth book in the Copper Valley Thrusters series by Pippa Grant. She just did a cover reveal earlier this week, and has been sharing graphics/teasers on her Facebook page. So you should go follow Pippa Grant's Facebook page and subscribe to her newsletter! (links are down below)
Here are my thoughts about I Pucking Love You.
If you've been during my Copper Valley Thrusters readathon, you'll know that I adored two of the books, and the other two were just okay. And that's perfectly okay as you're not going to like every book you read. That being said, I was nervous about I Pucking Love You. Especially after coming off Charming As Puck. I mean could Tyler and Muffy make me as happy as Nick and Kami?
Well my friends, I am happy to report that I Pucking Love You was a very good read. I literally was laughing out loud at times, and I can relate to Muffy. No I didn't leave medical school and tell no one the reason why, only to then open a match making service that has more failures than successes. But being a more awkward person, oh absolutely I can relate to that. Not having what the world deems an ideal body size, oh yep I relate to that too.
If you've read Charming As Puck, then you were able to witness the beginning of the friendship between Tyler and Muffy. In I Pucking Love You, we find out that things happened at a bunny bar, and that encounter didn't live up to the expectations Muffy had (it was just okay). A while after all that happened, Muffy finds herself needing to go back to her college town for a funeral. Knowing what awaits her back there, Muffy is obviously nervous about the situation and decides she needs a date. Who offers up his companionship? Tyler. You see after the night at the bunny bar, Tyler has an issue, and to "fix" it he needs to spend time around Muffy.
ANYWAYS
The funeral is just a small part of this story. It is more so what happens afterward that made me fall for Tyler. The way he stood up for Muffy. The way he builds her up. The way he doesn't let her get away with saying negative things about herself or her business. Tyler isn't putting up with it. I know it sounds like Tyler is doing all of these things for Muffy and getting nothing in return, but that's not true. These are just the things that stood out to me.
If you've read Charming As Puck, then you were able to witness the beginning of the friendship between Tyler and Muffy. In I Pucking Love You, we find out that things happened at a bunny bar, and that encounter didn't live up to the expectations Muffy had (it was just okay). A while after all that happened, Muffy finds herself needing to go back to her college town for a funeral. Knowing what awaits her back there, Muffy is obviously nervous about the situation and decides she needs a date. Who offers up his companionship? Tyler. You see after the night at the bunny bar, Tyler has an issue, and to "fix" it he needs to spend time around Muffy.
ANYWAYS
The funeral is just a small part of this story. It is more so what happens afterward that made me fall for Tyler. The way he stood up for Muffy. The way he builds her up. The way he doesn't let her get away with saying negative things about herself or her business. Tyler isn't putting up with it. I know it sounds like Tyler is doing all of these things for Muffy and getting nothing in return, but that's not true. These are just the things that stood out to me.
Tyler and Muffy together is just amazing. It makes my heart happy. Oh so happy. I am so glad that she is getting her HEA. Muffy found someone who loves her for who she is. Muffy also has found a great group of friends to be a part of her life. And those two things are everything.
I am so glad that I read I Pucking Love You. No it wasn't my typical hockey romance read, but I'm okay with that. Pippa Grant's writing style is much more rom-com than traditional contemporary romance, and while it doesn't always mesh with me, it does on occasion.
Do I recommend reading I Pucking Love You? Absolutely. Do you need to read the entire series before doing so? No you don't, but it definitely helps for the backstories. The only thing I have to say, knowing my history/feelings with the series, is to go into it with an open mind. Don't go into it with my view points in mind. Just give it a chance, and if one book doesn't quite hit the mark try another. It worked for me, and it might for you too.
Do I recommend reading I Pucking Love You? Absolutely. Do you need to read the entire series before doing so? No you don't, but it definitely helps for the backstories. The only thing I have to say, knowing my history/feelings with the series, is to go into it with an open mind. Don't go into it with my view points in mind. Just give it a chance, and if one book doesn't quite hit the mark try another. It worked for me, and it might for you too.
Keep scrolling to read the teaser for I Pucking Love You! I've also included a link to add it to your Goodreads TBR, as well as a link to Amazon should you want to buy a copy. That being said, if you're a KU subscriber, this book is included in your subscription.
Title: I Pucking Love You
Series: Copper Valley Thrusters #5
Author: Pippa Grant
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Release Date: April 8, 2021
BLURB
You know those stories where an adorably misunderstood clumsy girl needs a fake date to a wedding so she asks her brother’s best friend and they accidentally fall in love?
I wish that was the kind of life I lead, but it’s not.
I don’t need a date to a wedding. I need a date to a funeral.
Clumsy sometimes fits, but then, that’s true for all of us, right? But adorable? No. Misunderstood? Nope again. I’m just your average girl, standing in front of a funeral invitation, asking it to be a winning lottery ticket instead.
And I don’t have a brother, or a best friend with a brother available, which means I’m stuck with Tyler Jaeger.
Sure, he’s a professional hockey player who also knows advanced calculus, but let’s say we’re not compatible and leave it at that. I should know. I am a matchmaker.
Not a very good one, but that’s beside the point.
I know a mismatch when I see one.
Still, Tyler’s what I’ve got, and I am not going to this funeral solo, so he’s what I’ll take.
After all—what could go wrong at a funeral?
I Pucking Love You is a hilariously wrong romantic comedy about the world’s worst matchmaker, a hockey player with a problem he doesn’t want to talk about, and an awkward date-of-convenience that everyone would prefer to forget. It comes complete with a cat working his way through his nine lives, all the sexy times, fish and chips, and a swoony happily-ever-after.
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EXCERPT
Tyler
We all have to be at practice tomorrow morning—check that, this morning, as it’s shortly after midnight—but I don’t want to go home.
I don’t want to drink. I don’t want to talk. I don’t want to screw.
I want—
Dammit.
I want a bucket of greasy fried fish and chips, because it’s what my big brother used to take me to get every time he came home on leave from the Marines and got annoyed at being hen-pecked by the four sisters between us.
My car’s cold, thanks to the early November weather, and no, I’m not telling you what kind of car I drive, because yes, it very much feels like compensation tonight.
It gets me where I want to go.
That’s all that matters.
That, and getting my ass to Cod Pieces before they close for the night.
Could I stay at the bunny bar and get fried fish and chips?
Yes.
Will I?
No fucking way.
I’m still stewing in my own misery when the bright neon sign with the armored cod and the storefront that looks like a medieval castle comes into view at the edge of a strip mall four miles the wrong direction from my downtown condo. I roll the window down, letting in a blast of chilly air and the scent of fries.
Just in time.
I holler my order over the sound of my engine, then pull around to the window to get my fish.
Debate calling my brother in Miami.
It’s one AM. He and his wife recently celebrated their kid’s first birthday, and I think they’re working on baby number two.
If I call him in the middle of the night to bitch about how I can’t get it up, he’ll probably hang up on me, then tell our sisters.
And Mom.
She’s a professional comedienne with her own popular Netflix special. There’s no damn way I’m bothering West in the middle of the night for this.
I’ll talk to the fried fish and call it even.
Has as much personality as West had before he married Daisy.
The window swings open. “That’ll be fourteen seventy-three, please.”
My car lurches forward before I remember to put it in park, and I gape up at the woman staring down at me. “Muffy?”
My brain is playing tricks on me.
It has to be.
Because there’s no way the curvy, clumsy, smart-mouthed goddess who’s haunting my dick is standing there wearing a Cod Pieces polo and hat.
But she is.
And I swear to god, her long brown braids are recoiling in horror as her whole face twists, her lip curling, her left eye squeezing shut, before she snaps herself together. “For the hundredth time today, I have no idea who this Muffy person is. My name is Octavia Louisa Beaverhousen.”
Fuck me.
There are two of them? She looks exactly like Muffy. I’m not seeing things, and I’m not projecting just because I want my dick to work again and the bunnies made me think about screwing Muffy in the walk-in fridge at the bunny bar.
“Fourteen seventy-three, please.” She turns away as she holds out a hand, twitching her fingers like she’s waiting for cash or a card.
And that’s when I see the tattoo.
Rufus.
Her cat’s name. It’s on her wrist.
Octavia Louisa Beaverhousen, my ass. This is Muffy.
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AUTHOR BIO
Pippa Grant is a USA Today Bestselling author who writes romantic comedies that will make tears run down your leg. When she's not reading, writing or sleeping, she's being crowned employee of the month as a stay-at-home mom and housewife trying to prepare her adorable demon spawn to be productive members of society, all the while fantasizing about long walks on the beach with hot chocolate chip cookies.
