IT'S LIVE! 
 With an emotionally captivating love story, filled with emotions and actions that bring a new definition of passion and adoration, Helena Hunting absorbs the reader's imagination and heart with such an eloquent love story that will have you tearing up for Lance and Poppy... 
 Any basic story would start off with a prologue, identifying the story behind one or both main characters. Or, it could start off with the past story in a timeline representing something that may have triggered the main character to do certain things that would affect it in the future, and come back to bight it in the ass. Helene Hunting does neither of those. In this love story of Lance and Poppy, Helena does add the idea of reencountering the first encounter of the main characters- that's when Poppy and Lance come in. Lance has a reputation- a reputation a reputation that has made him known for his unique ways of being intimate with others, a reputation that has messed up his mind emotionally and mentally. When he opened up to someone emotionally, about his past that has caused him physical and emotional pain in his present life. He cannot be touched due to his past and what his mother did, bringing a dilemma to his present life, especially when it comes down to women and being intimate with them. Poppy on the other hand is such a sweetheart and handles her situations that are problematic in a suave pace. She processes things down to the details that they should be. With lance however, she has a history with him that at first he cannot remember since he has tried to keep his bad memories packed away, even if the good ones are there as well. Everything in her life was normal until he walked in and kissed her. And it goes the same way with Lance, Poppy changes his life and his way of letting people in once again even after that one person whom he let in destroyed his trust. With Poppy, he views things differently and adores being in her presence; 
 "Poppy is nothing like the women I usually end up in bed with. She's not brazen. She's not looking to break conventions. She's the opposite, and I want to be exactly what she needs, except I'm not sure..." 
 As a hockey player, Lance has away games and whenever he was far away from Poppy, he always felt that a part of him was missing. That's when he realized that her touch is something special, something that he did not get to experience before and wants it... no, CRAVES it. Not wanting to let go of her, he comes to a conclusion that even though his past has had a major effect on him and how he has not been able to be intimately personal with someone, with Poppy it was different.But when the media takes its hold, and his past "conquest" comes back to hunt him again, Poppy comes to realize that maybe they are not meant to be. Their ups and downs are very well balanced which is what I appreciated from Helena's writing since you mostly read stories with the main characters fighting all the time, but this had an excellently balanced charisma and a sense of relationship reality to it. 
 Overall, this story was beyond compelling with a mixture of emotions, heartache, physical attraction, and the honesty of finding the one in our lives. Thank you Helena for letting me read this magnificent and tasteful love story that is part of a great series. I hope we get to read more on Abby and Rookie in the future (question mark?) **wink, wink** They would be a fun ride to read about for sure... 
 The Pucked Series: 
 Pucked (Pucked #1) Pucked Up (Pucked #2) Pucked Over (Pucked #3) Forever Pucked (Pucked #4) Pucked Off (Pucked #5) 
 Hero rating: 5.0 
 Heroine rating: 5.0 
 Sexual tension rating: 4.5 
 Sex scenes rating: 5.0 
 Sex scenes frequency: 5.0 
 Plot rating: 4.5 
 Dialogue rating: 5.0 
 Storytelling rating: 5.0 
 Story ending rating: 5.0 
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