Puck Drills & Quick Thrills

CU Hockey, Book 5

De: Eden Finley, Saxon James

Narrado por: Alexander Cendese, Iggy Toma

Westly:

The fall from NHL superstar to domestic disaster was swift and painful. When I became the legal guardian of my five younger siblings, I had no idea what I was doing.

One year later, I'm still lost. Coaching CU's hockey team might be the only thing I'm excelling at. But when our star forward is failing math, I have to do what it takes to keep him on the team. Even if it's going head-to-head with Jasper Eckstein.

One minute I'm confronting the notorious hockey-hating professor, and the next I'm agreeing to be his date to his twenty-year high school reunion. I don't know how that happened.

Jasper:

My rules are simple. I don't give extra credit. Ever. No matter how entitled jocks think they are, I refuse to give them special treatment.

But when Westly Dalton bursts into my office like a hurricane, all my principles fly out the window. Suddenly I'm giving extra credit. And I have a date to my reunion.

After one explosive night together, I want more, but his home life is a mess, and I don't want to get in the way. If all we can have is quick thrills, I'm okay with that. It's not like I could ever fall for a jock.

Contains mature themes.

©2021 Eden Finley & Saxon James (P)2022 Tantor

Great conclusion

I enjoyed this entire series of interconnected standalones. I really like how Jasper was able to connect with each of the siblings and be able to be the calm in the storm for West. After everything, I’m glad west got his own love story. It was so sweet but also spicy. These books were so good!

Reading it was like skating on ice

Another joyous story with just the right amount of twists and turns and family conflict. Sweet loving family drama! Jasper and West were hot and had a loving friendship. Lots of hot sex that went both ways.

Great series

I really enjoyed every single book. Great stories, great story telling. Hope to find another series by these authors.

An Absolutely Awesome Ending

I'm gonna gush about this story so there will be spoilers ahead

So in here we have Westly, the former NHL player whose parents died and he was made the guardian of all of his siblings. We met him in book three, as Asher is his younger brother. He is drowning as he tries to take care of his family, work, and everything else that goes along with being a young parent.

Because Asher is doing badly in a class, Westly goes to confront the meanest professor, Jasper, who has good reasons to not like hockey players. These two have an instant connection but Jasper refuses to help Asher until he finds out about the parents dying.

Jasper wants to go to his high school reunion to show his bullies that he was successful and no longer an ugly duckling, and we find out they beat him so much his nose was broken often.

Westly goes as his date and they hook up. I loved that Jasper was the one in charge while Westly was submissive.

What was supposed to be a one time thing ends with them falling in love and becoming a family, even though Asher dislikes Jasper.

And while I loved these mcs, man that epilogue. I was so happy to get to see what happened with all the guys from the series.

Iggy and Alexander did another excellent job, though parts of this audio file made it sound like they were very far away from the microphone. It was very noticeable at the beginning of the chapters when the narrators changed.

Amazing Finish!

Jasper and Westly are a great couple, though not my favorite (Jacobs and Beck are my favorite!) I still enjoyed their journey to their HEA - as usual there were some smokin' 🔥 scenes! Alexander Cendese and Iggy Toma are awesome team...but I have to admit that Cendese is probably the better half during scenes where there is a match going on...he's like the best sportscaster ever! When he projects excitement I get excited...when his voice is low and disappointed in a loss I am right there with him. This is book 5 in this series but I just realized it's connected to The Puckboy series! Ezra - The main character in the first book is Westly's best friend...lol. He was such a mess in this one I am curious about his story with Anton. I loved the last 15 min of the book was spent showing us where everyone in the series is 5 years into the future! Definitely the sign of a good writer is when one of their books gets you hooked you are suddenly interested in other books they've written - especially in the series. Eden Finley and Saxon James are awesome on their own but they have proven together they are a powerhouse.

4 stars - worthy of a repeat listen

Like the ending

The best book of the collection, it give that amazing feeling that almost all the love of each character has been told n can be add to later.

Love love love

Love iggy toma as a narrator, have loved him since Blindside by Eden Finley. It’s so great to have this story come alive with the two narrators’ performance.

I'm a sucker for this dynamic

I love this dynamic so much between Jasper and West.

Bittersweet since this is the end of the CU series.

Best out of four

This is definitely the best out of the four book series. The MLs we’re great together. I didn’t realize I already read the continuation series. Overall, I really did enjoy this series.

Another winner!

After putting this series off forever because I'm not a fan of college stories, I'm so glad I finally caved because I adored it!!! The entire series is a winner!