Why You'll Love This
She's marrying hockey's most eligible man and somehow that's the problem — her anxiety-fueled inner monologue is the real event.
- Great if you want: banter-heavy romance with a hilariously self-sabotaging heroine
- The experience: light, breezy, and laugh-out-loud — reads fast and feels like comfort food
- The writing: Hunting leans hard into absurdist internal monologue; Violet's voice is relentlessly unfiltered
- Skip if: you prefer emotional depth over comedy-driven romantic tension
About This Book
Violet Hall is head over heels for hockey superstar Alex Waters — and she's got the hives to prove it. Not because she doubts her love, but because the idea of standing in front of hundreds of people and not embarrassing herself in spectacular fashion feels about as likely as a penalty-free season. Forever Pucked takes the beloved couple from the original Pucked and plunges them into wedding-planning chaos, mining genuine emotional tension from the gap between wanting forever with someone and being utterly terrified of the moment you have to say so out loud.
Helena Hunting's real skill here is balancing laugh-out-loud humor with a surprisingly tender emotional core. Violet's voice is compulsively readable — self-deprecating, chaotic, and warm in a way that feels lived-in rather than performed. Hunting never lets the comedy undercut the sincerity of the relationship; instead, the two reinforce each other, so that the funniest scenes often carry the most heart. Readers who fell for this couple the first time will find this installment earns its emotional payoff without sacrificing a single awkward, endearing moment along the way.
