Foolish Puckboy Special Edition

3.5 stars

Not my favourite of the series, but still very enjoyable. Just like with the connecting CU Hockey series, reading any book in the Foolish Puckboys series feels like coming back home; I love seeing glimpses and moments of the previous books' characters from both these series. These are more comfort books for me than anything else.

That said, while there was definitely good chemistry between Aleks and Gabe, I couldn't find anything special about it. The first half—the way Gabe is introduced to the Queer Collective members, including Aleks was HILARIOUS and arguably my favourite part of the whole story.

After that, I started getting a bit bored because there wasn't much about these two that kept me eager binge the book. Aleks' personality meshed too similarly with other characters in the previous book from the jokes he makes, to the way he speaks or goes about flirting with Gabe. He just wasn't unique enough for me to love him as much as other characters in the series.

Gabe was a really fresh perspective to read from. Not a favourite love interest of mine in this series, but his profession as a firefighter and his background was great to read about; it brought along plenty of believable hurdles between his and Aleks' blossoming relationship, so none of their relationship problems felt contrived.

Still, this a pretty good entry in the Puckboys series, and I'm excited to read the next instalment once it's released :D