Wrong Pucking Move by Katie Landry
by Katie Landry
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I couldn’t believe what I was seeing on my phone screen. . .
Josie thinks she’s getting surprised with an engagement at her favorite restaurant, but instead her hockey superstar boyfriend Jesse dumps her for someone he thinks will fit better into his new celebrity lifestyle. One painful year later he’s desperate to fix his mistake, but Josie’s moved on. . .
Author’s Note: This book has no physical cheating. It does have a very high level of pitiful desperate groveling. HUMBLED SUPERSTARS is my new standalone grovel series. Each novella will feature a different celebrity man. This series is about big men crying on the floor, begging for mercy, and throwing their money around to win back their women and get a HEA.
- File Name:wrong-pucking-move-by-katie-landry.epub
- Original Title:Wrong Pucking Move: An Emotional Cheating Hockey Romance
- Creator:Katie Landry
- Language:en
- Identifier:uuid:1b409353-043f-4f7a-86a4-56e2a567df75
- Date:2025-03-08T00:00:00+00:00
- File Size:2.236 MB
Table of Content
- 1. Title Page
- 2. Contents
- 3. Chapter 1
- 4. Chapter 2
- 5. Chapter 3
- 6. Chapter 4
- 7. Chapter 5
- 8. Chapter 6
- 9. Chapter 7
- 10. Chapter 8
- 11. Chapter 9
- 12. Epilogue (one year later)
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Wrong Pucking Move was about Jesse Wisnieswsi, a newly signed pro-NHL player, and Josephine "Josie" DeRosa, a fifth-grade elementary school teacher. (While the author wasn't specific on their ages, the reader was given the hint that the two main characters were in their mid-to-late 20s since they met their junior year in college and it was 5-6 years later when the story took place.)
For such a short story (it was only 9 chapters and an epilogue long), it had plenty of angst, drama, melodrama, and contention. What it did not have, however, were any spicy scenes. Only one was hinted at, and that was the aftermath and one that was more like a "wham-bam-thank you, Ma'am" scenario.
Jesse and Josie had been dating since their junior year in college five years earlier. When he asked her out on a mid-week date, she believed he was about to propose. She met him at a restaurant, only to see another woman approach him, someone she recognized from the local NHL league's PR team, with whom he had recently been signed. Believing he would brush her off, she was shocked to see the other woman comforting him. She knew something was off when their eyes met. Jesse confessed to having met someone else (although he was adamant he hadn't cheated on her) who would "fit my lifestyle" better, and that he was "doing you a favor" by breaking up with her because he didn't think she'd "fit in" with the NHL lifestyle. He told her to "take all the time you need to move out of the apartment" and that he'd even give her the money for the downpayment on a new place. However, she told him what he could do with his money and left the restaurant without saying anything else. Several weeks later, she moved out while he was at his first away game.
It took her a while, but Josie finally moved on from Jesse, going so far as to block his phone number and dating an old college friend, someone she became "friends with benefits" with. But then, about a year later, she got a text from an anonymous number. It was Jesse, asking if they could talk. When she didn't respond, another text came through stating he missed her and asking if he could call. Her response was for him to stop "drunk-texting" her, and she blocked his number yet again. The following day, the principal informed her that the elementary school had been given VIP tickets to one of the NHL games...and she couldn't get out of it, even though she knew she'd be seeing Jesse.
Almost as soon as they were taken to some of the expensive seats in the stadium, Jesse was there, begging her to look at him and talk to him, but she refused. After the game, Josie's class was given a tour of the facilities...by none other than Jesse. After the tour, she wasn't able to escape him, so he once again asked her if they could talk, so he could "explain things". But she told him he didn't get to ask her for anything, that they had nothing to say to one another...and he responded that he missed her.
As she was walking away from him, she ran into the woman who had come between them. However, he chose to ignore the other woman and persisted in asking Josie to go somewhere with him so they could talk. Another player intervened on her behalf and then asked for her number, which she gave him right in front of Jesse.
To say this guy groveled would be putting it mildly...except he was piling it on way too thick to be believable. He waxed on about how the five years they'd had together were the best years of his life, everything had been "so fun", yada, yada, yada. However, she told him that, for her, those five years had been a waste of time.
The more the MMC pleaded with the FMC to take him back, the more pathetic he became. It was sad to read, especially as none of it felt sincere. The FMC remained firm in her refusal to forgive or take him back...until ONE teensy, tiny action on his part...which didn't make sense. She did such a fast about-face that it nearly caused this reader whiplash.
There were things about the book that were disappointing, like how short it was and that there were many unresolved issues. There was also the forgiving too fast and the wimpish attitude of the MMC throughout the entirety of the book. I mean, seriously? It felt more like he'd ditched his good luck charm, realized a year later the error, and did everything he could to get it back. But it was more about saving his image than his being sincere about his feelings...at least to THIS reader.
The MMC wasn't all that well developed, he wasn't mature, and he didn't truly show any growth. On the other hand, the FMC was completely developed, and mature, and she had grown by leaps and bounds by the end of the story, only to cave to the MMCs pleading and fall back into his clutches. She should have stuck to her guns and gone with his teammate instead.
I only gave this story a two-star rating because, honestly, I didn't think these two should have ended up together. I think the best thing about the book was that the FMC had moved on with someone else and had not remained celibate like most authors tend to do with their books.
Didn't like this one. Started strong but wasn't a lot of angst or growth and then they're back together.