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I Pucking Love You, by Pippa Grant


I Pucking Love You is a hilariously wrong romantic comedy about the world’s worst matchmaker, a hockey player with a problem he doesn’t want to talk about, and an awkward date-of-convenience that everyone would prefer to forget. It comes complete with a cat working his way through his nine lives, all the sexy times, fish and chips, and a swoony happily-ever-after.

Rating: 5 Stars

Review:

Muffy and Tyler. Oh, how I’ve longed for their story. And because I follow this author on FB, I knew this story was a long, painful time in the making. Apparently, our hero gave Pippa all kinds of trouble, kicking and screaming as he resisted being the lead in his own book. Well, she got her revenge. This dude went down, and he went down hard. I loved every freakin’ second of this story. I adored these characters, their interactions with each other, everything going on around them, and just life in general because I was getting to read this book.

“There’s this little flower of light struggling to poke its head out of my heart, a warmth that I don’t understand or recognize, and I think it’s because Tyler Jaeger doesn’t see me as a size fourteen disaster who still lives with her mom, has a failing matchmaker business that’s only miraculously still hanging on, and who’s in very real danger of defaulting on the student loans that she’ll never pay off. He sees me as a person worthy of being friends with.”

And later . . . 

“He knows I’m a walking disaster. He knows my biggest secrets. He knows I faked it the first time we were together, that I can be mouthy and argumentative, that I stress eat, that I’m not conventionally successful, and he’s still here, kissing me like I’m the queen of sexy lady land.”

What I love most about Pippa’s books is that her characters are so real, particularly the heroines. These are not perfect women. But they are perfectly adorable. They are the type of women we all want as friends. We see ourselves in them and have hope for great stories of our own. And Muffy definitely falls in this category.

While this book can be read as a standalone, I highly recommend that you read the whole series. These books come with what I've come to think of as the Pippa Grant guarantee, which is a swoon-worth hero (whether he’s a growly badass or fun-loving goofball) and a quirky, hot mess heroine who fight to get their HEA, and we as readers get to have a helluva lot of fun watching them get there. That fun is filled with cringe-inducing snort-worthy moments, plenty of hot flashes, and just a wee bit of angst thrown in for good measure.

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