Reviewed by Mal
TITLE: Zero Pucks
SERIES: Punk as Puck #1
AUTHOR: E.M. Lindsey
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 324 Pages
RELEASE DATE: May 20, 2025
Sometimes what happens in Vegas shows up at your door two weeks later to tell you that he’s the guy you married while you were blackout drunk.
Tucker:
Waking up alone in a strange hotel room, missing my prosthetic legs, and no memory of what happened the night before is not how I wanted to spend my estranged twin’s bachelor party trip.
Yet there I was, legless and zero idea how I got there. Or who I spent the night with. Which is…not great.
Though I suppose that trauma lies somewhere between losing my legs in a car accident which killed my career in the NHL, and my brother running off with my fiancée.
So, in the grand scheme of things, not the worst weekend I’ve had.
But while I’m no longer a bitter, angry man, I’m also maybe—kind of, sort of—not the most well-adjusted person on the planet. And that shows when an adorable, dimpled, wild-haired man shows up at my door to tell me that the hazy night in Vegas had a very specific ending:
At some point, after several chocolate cake shots and trauma dumping, Amedeo and I found Elvis and got married.
The easy thing to do would be to make sure the marriage isn’t valid. But when have I ever made anything in my life easy? Especially since the incentive is getting to keep this man in my orbit.
We might have had the weirdest beginning of any married couple, but now I’m feeling strangely determined to give us both the happily ever after we deserve.
Zero Pucks is the first book in a rom-com, strangers to lovers, MM romance sled hockey series. It features a ride or die hockey found family, snarky best friends, the Team Dad who refuses to approve of bad decisions, why sled hockey is way more terrifying than standing hockey, awkward first dates, steaming hot first kisses, and a Golden Retriever of an Alternate Captain determined to give them both the happiest of ever afters.
REVIEW:
EM Lindsey writes addictive stories. Filled to the brim with love and found family, with struggle and victory, with swoon and sizzle, my expectations are always high when o start a book by them. Zero Pucks does not disappoint. I absolutely adore Deo and Tucker.
The book starts with the best meet cute mystery where one of them isn’t even there! Waking up solving one mystery after another just to get back his room Tucker has no idea what to think when Deo shows up on his door step and turns his world upside down.
They are both struggling in their own way, life hasn’t been fair. Tucker is still dealing with a family that doesn’t get him, the aftermath of a bad decision with unbelievably difficult repercussions and living pay check to pay check. Deo has an abusive ex to deal with and is beaten down. When these two find each other somehow they find what they need slowly but surely it’s just easy and right, no angst. Being married by mistake is just a blip.
That ending was honestly perfection, so very satisfying. I am thrilled Bryce got what was coming to him and Deo got a family. I honestly loved his sister.
The found family in this story is sublime, the cast of characters endearing, I can’t wait to read Boden’s story.
Also expect a slow burn but then dialled up to a high heat.. really high heat 🔥🔥
Excited for this start of the series, I know EM Lindsey is going to give us stories that’ll stick with us for ages.
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