Wake up, Nat and Darcy - Mille feuilles

eBook, 352 pages

English language

Published 2024 by Penguin Books, Limited.

ISBN:: 978-1-4059-7166-9

Cut from the U.S. women’s hockey team right before her third chance at gold, Natalie Carpenter is scrambling for a plan that’ll help her avoid moving back home. The answer: a guest hosting gig on Wake Up, USA’s winter games coverage. Her co-host: Darcy LaCroix, Nat’s ex-girlfriend, one-time college teammate turned adversary. Since leaving Team Canada, Darcy has worked hard to make a name in broadcasting. If her big break requires sharing screen time with the former cocky freshman who turned her world upside down, so be it. At this point, there’s nothing between them except history.

But audiences disagree. #PuckingHotties is trending hard, and Nat and Darcy agree to lean into it...for ratings, obviously. It’s not like Nat can forget the way Darcy broke her heart or their bitter team rivalry.

Between working, traveling together, and that irresistible spark, it’s getting hard to separate what’s real and …

Cut from the U.S. women’s hockey team right before her third chance at gold, Natalie Carpenter is scrambling for a plan that’ll help her avoid moving back home. The answer: a guest hosting gig on Wake Up, USA’s winter games coverage. Her co-host: Darcy LaCroix, Nat’s ex-girlfriend, one-time college teammate turned adversary. Since leaving Team Canada, Darcy has worked hard to make a name in broadcasting. If her big break requires sharing screen time with the former cocky freshman who turned her world upside down, so be it. At this point, there’s nothing between them except history.

But audiences disagree. #PuckingHotties is trending hard, and Nat and Darcy agree to lean into it...for ratings, obviously. It’s not like Nat can forget the way Darcy broke her heart or their bitter team rivalry.

Between working, traveling together, and that irresistible spark, it’s getting hard to separate what’s real and what’s for the camera. Because somewhere underneath everything that went wrong is the sneaking suspicion that nothing will ever feel quite this right again.

3 editions

Gersande La Flèche reviewed Wake up, Nat and Darcy by Kate Cochrane (Puck Struck, #1)

Puisque tous le monde veut voir des hockeyeuses en amour...

4 stars

For what it is, it's a fun read. Some bits of Nat in particular were very well executed and compelling. Second chance romances (un peu à la Persuasion de Austen) are in particular a special interest of mine, so I could not not love to see this one.

It does, however, contain my writing technique arch-nemesis: NOOOOOOO to flashback chapters! (I don't know why but 2025 was the year I decided I really disliked almost all iterations of this technique and while it was more tolerable here than in most things, I still was very annoyed. Mon royaume pour un second chance romance sans chapitre flashback!!)

For what it is, it's a fun read. Some bits of Nat in particular were very well executed and compelling. Second chance romances (un peu à la Persuasion de Austen) are in particular a special interest of mine, so I could not not love to see this one.

It does, however, contain my writing technique arch-nemesis: NOOOOOOO to flashback chapters! (I don't know why but 2025 was the year I decided I really disliked almost all iterations of this technique and while it was more tolerable here than in most things, I still was very annoyed. Mon royaume pour un second chance romance sans chapitre flashback!!)

Subjects

Hockey
LGBT+
Lesbian
Olympics
Romance

Lists

Thwarted Jocks