So, for me, this was mixed feelings. I'm all for the hockey-romance big guys and the intelligent sassy FMC, but the story was a bit too much.

The "revenge" plot did'nt work for me and also gave the story a kind of "lovetriange" which I don't like. However I liked the banter, the spice and the characters.

Wow!! Got an ARC from NetGalley and the author. Which i appreciate so much. Thanks! I loved this book. It was such a cute quick read. I loved it. I love sports romance so it was definitely my cup of tea. It was such a good read I loved every seconds of it. It had everything i was looking for. I will definitely read the last book in the series can't wait to start it. So far this series has been amazing. Revenge is so sweet. If you want a quick read you should check this series out. It's worth it so far. Thank you NetGalley and author for this amazing read.

⋆⁺₊⋆☽⋆ 𝐇𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐨 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐞 ⋆☾⋆⁺₊⋆
ꔫ — ∘♡༉∘ — ✩ — ∘༉♡∘ — ꔫ
౨ৎ𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 ♥ 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗲౨ৎ
౨ৎ25.05.25౨ৎ

— ∘♡༉∘ — 𝗥𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 — ∘༉♡∘ —
∘༉♡∘ 𝑆𝑝𝑖𝑐𝑒 ∘༉♡∘
🌶 = minimal/mentioned but not full detail
🌶🌶 = The heat is coming and so are they 😏
🌶🌶🌶 = The spice is spicing and now your squirming
🌶🌶🌶🌶 = Is it hot in here or is it just this book?!
🌶🌶🌶🌶🌶= HOLY MOTHER OF GOODNESS this is 🥵

∘༉♡∘ 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐵𝑢𝑟𝑛 ∘༉♡∘ (more fire the faster the burn)
🔥 = SLOW GIRL THIS IS A SLOWWWWW BURN
🔥🔥 = okay things are happening
🔥🔥🔥 = we are in full burn mode BAM its all on fire

∘༉♡∘ 𝑆𝑡𝑎𝑟 𝑅𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 ∘༉♡∘
✨ = really didn't enjoy
✨✨ = it was okay
✨✨✨ = a mid tier book could be better
✨✨✨✨ = i enjoyed it
✨✨✨✨✨ = i loved it and this will live in my head rent free forever
ꔫ — ∘♡༉∘ — 𝐌𝐲✩𝐑𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 — ∘༉♡∘ — ꔫ
🌶🌶
🔥🔥
✨✨✨✨✨
ꔫ — ∘♡༉∘ — ✩ — ∘༉♡∘ — ꔫ

ꔫ — ∘♡༉∘ — 𝗧𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝘀✩ — ∘༉♡∘ — ꔫ
🏒 𝑅𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑔𝑒 𝑝𝑎𝑐𝑡
🏒 𝐻𝑜𝑐𝑘𝑒𝑦 𝑟𝑜𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒
🏒 𝐹𝑜𝑟𝑏𝑖𝑑𝑑𝑒𝑛 𝑟𝑜𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒
🏒 𝐶𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑏𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑟𝑜𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒
🏒 𝑅𝑒𝑝𝑢𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑟𝑒𝑑𝑒𝑚𝑝𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛
ꔫ — ∘♡༉∘ — ✩ — ∘༉♡∘ — ꔫ

— ∘♡༉∘ — 𝗔𝗿𝗰 ♥ 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄 — ∘༉♡∘ —
Thank you Netgalley and Boldwood for this arc.

I honestly thoroughly enjoyed this book, devouring it in about 9hours.
Our girl Astird ends up grounded in Chicago during a snow storm, where she ends up at a small bar/dessert shop and meets 3 girls who quickly become good friends. Then the revenge pact is formulated, each one of them went through some absolute shit with their ex's and they all form a pact to dish up a little revenge on each of the guys. However it wouldnt be so simple for astrid as she's tasked with helping Sissi (Sienna) get revenge on her ex Aiden.. the problem? Aidens a twin and sparks fly for Astrid for the wrong brother.. Blake.

Blake is a 'bad boy' who really is a sweet ass pussycat on the inside but the past made him believe he was unworthy of alot of things. And there is more to the story on why Aiden and Sienna ended the way they did...

As feelings start feeling and as astrid learns the truth.. can she really exact revenege on Aiden for sissi? or will she only burn herself in the process of exacting karma.

ꔫ — ∘♡༉∘ — ✩ — ∘༉♡∘ — ꔫ

When I got this book I didn’t know it was part of a series but it can be read on its own without any confusion.

Just like Astrid I ended up really liking Aiden and Blake the Titan Twins known as Ice and Fury. You wanted to know more about them and see the relationships between the characters.

This was a quick read that kept my interest. There is some spice for those that are interested and the bad boy with a heart of gold trope.

Astrid and her friends make a pact to get revenge on their ex’s for making their lives miserable. Astrid’s target is Siennas ex, Aiden.
Astrid manages to infiltrates the New York Titans as a journalist writing an exclusive exposé on Aiden and his twin brother, Blake. She is all ready to get under Aiden’s skin, and is totally unprepared for the attraction with Blake.
I loved the chemistry between Astrid and Blake. Astrid kept trying to fight, but it was too strong to be ignored. Blake is a bad boy and I enjoyed watching him fall in love. They both are complex characters and I thoroughly enjoyed their HEA. Overall this was a heartfelt romance that was sassy, sweet, and oh so hot. I look forward to Sienna and Aiden’s romance.

I loved this book SO MUCH. This had everything I adore in a sports romance and I was absolutely hooked from the first page right until the very last. I am so obsessed with Astrid and Blake. I'm now going to go back and read the previous books in this series because I have a funny feeling I'm going to love them just as much.

Puck Around and Find Out
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5
🌶️🌶️/5
Releases: 6/17/25
The girls’ chaotic story swap? Hilarious. Their meet-cute? Even better. 🤭
The Puck Stops Here had me hooked from the beginning with its dual POV (a fave of mine!) and emotionally complex characters.

Astrid’s ride-or-die energy for her bestie is unmatched—but I kind of wished her attraction to Blake had simmered a bit slower. Still, Blake’s self-loathing and emotional constipation? Weirdly relatable 🫠 And don’t get me started on his banter—it had me blushing.

There’s PMDD rep, some Gilmore Girls nostalgia (shoutout to Astrid’s journalism dreams), and a scene at Blake’s mom’s that proves you don’t need spice to bring the heat 🔥

It’s a slow burn with a third-act breakup that actually made sense, and I was surprised how much I loved the emotional payoff.

If you like emotional depth, messy feelings, and best-friend revenge missions gone sideways… you’ll want this one on your TBR. 🏒💘
Thank you to NetGalley, the publisher and the author! 💚

the karma club strikes again! i’m obsessed with this series, but i think this couple was my favorite so far! i adored their friendship turned romance and maybe it’s the sport romance era im currently absorbed by, but the “bad boy” hockey guy falling for his good PR girlie really had my GOIN

I enjoyed this book so much. It took a revenge plot and twisted it into a, but I fell for the brother. I love the concept behind these books: four new friends make a pact to exact revenge on each other’s exes. I can’t wait to read the others in this series. This one has some unfinished business between the friend and the actual ex that I think must be resolved in their own book.
Blake and Astrid: the bad boy hockey star and the journalist that could fix his rep are hot. I adore the friendship they create and the way they get forced together.

As much as I loved this book’s ending I had a hard time reading this book.
I don’t like love triangles at all and the sibling/twin aspect made me feel a little sick to be honest.
As someone who dated a twin, the thought of just switching or worse being with siblings is gross.
So, I almost DNF for the majority of the book but I’m glad I pushed past that aspect.

I realize the above seems harsh for a 4 star review but I wanted other readers who have the same feelings as me to see that first in the review preview.
There is a love triangle but there also isn’t… there is nuance to it and you have to remember this is a revenge book.
The FMC is suppose to make twin A(for a**hole) fall in love with her and then leave him so he gets his karma.
Having feelings for twin B (baby bad boy) was not intentional.
So you have to keep that in mind.

There is also a plot twist/reveal in this book (that I won’t spoil) but it changes everything!!!!
Literally everything, I cried big time!

This book was a lot of set up for the last book and starting to round everything together but everything is so tentatively holding itself together… I’m nervous! 😂

There was soo much going on in this book! I feel most of us have had a bad break up or terrible ex we wish we could get revenge on. This was so satisfying and hilarious to read. I loved the friendship and the scheming. Even though things didn't go as planned for most of the characters, the love story was perfect. Brought some tears to my eyes towards the end!

I really enjoyed this story. I love romance and when it is so well done I cannot recommend it enough. This will definitely be one of those times. The plot was well written and the characters felt so real!

I love the concept behind these books. Four new friends are out to get revenge against the ex-boyfriends in their lives. The ex-boyfriend that Astrid meets is Aiden, but it's his twin brother Blake who she can't seem to get enough of.
I loved this romance as Astrid did her best to not get tangled up with Blake, who seems to be every bit her usual type (bad boy and heart breaker) but she soon begins to see that there's much more to him than first thought. It doesn't help that his twin Aiden also doesn't seem to be quite the heart breaker he first appeared to be.
I thought that Blake and Astrid made a great couple and worked so well together. Seeing Astrid trying to resist him, while still convincing him that he was just as much of a good guy as his twin brother was great.
I've already got the next book in this series lined up and ready to go. I'm just a bit sad I haven't read the first two yet, but I plan to change that soon.
I received a complimentary copy of this book through NetGalley. The opinions expressed in this review are completely my own and given voluntarily.

My first book by Rachael Stewart and now I want to go back and read the previous from the series! The premise is so good and different. When you read as much as I do you love for something new to come along.

🏒 Revenge Pact
🏒Hockey Romance
🏒Forbidden Romance
🏒Workplace Romance
🏒 John Tucker Must Die meets The Hating Game


Astrid is a journalist who has been scorned by a man. While snowed in at the airport she meets 3 other women who turn into her ride-or-dies as they bond over the men that hurt them. It’s during this drunken experience that they make a pact to hurt the exes of one another. Astrid gets pro hockey player Aiden Carter. Aiden broke Astrid’s new bestie when he left her behind and now he must be punished. Astrid’s way in? Aiden’s twin brother Blake. The problem? Blake might be just what she needs. Can she accomplish her mission without breaking her own heart?

The immediate mention of PMDD made me know I’d love this because YES PMDD IS REAL.

Thank you to Boldwood Books and NetGalley for the ARC.

This Karma Club installment had a lot of serious topics as well as lots of yearning between the two main characters. One golden boy twin along with his bad boy brother and fellow hockey teammate are the subjects of Astrid’s next journalism story. She is using her time interviewing them as her means to getting revenge for the way Sienna was treated 10 years ago. It has realistic portrayal of alcoholism, domestic violence, as well as PMDD.

This series keeps weaving an intricate web and I am here for it. The timelines overlap in each and are best read in order. Only one more story until we see karmic fall out in its entirety for this group of women.

Thank you Boldwood Books for providing this book for review consideration via NetGalley.

Thanks to boldwood books and NetGalley for this arc.

Hockey romances are my fave, and this is no exception. I love Astrid and Blake together! This book is spicy and funny! I love the revenge pact but I love Blake and Astrid together more.

You know that magical feeling — curling up in a cozy bed, rain tapping on the window, book in hand, and the world just starts to melt away? That’s exactly what "The Puck Stops Here" felt like. Warm, funny, swoony perfection.

The romance? Heart-fluttering and knee-wobbling. The spice? Just the right amount to make you blush. The POV shifts were seamless, and every character — even the coach — felt real and lovable.

But the humor. Oh my goodness . I expected a few giggles, maybe a snort or two. What I got? Full-on cackling, until I was gasping for air. Rachael Stewart is a comic genius — she seriously needs to consider stand-up on the side.

From the outrageous revenge mission to the fierce, ride-or-die friendships and the banter that made my heart ache in the best way — I was obsessed. And Blake and Astrid? Their chemistry crackled off the page from the first moment. I couldn’t get enough.

I’ve read a lot of hockey romances, but this one? It makes me want to bundle up, grab some cocoa, and sit rink-side with the fictional Titans — because this team? Adorable, chaotic, and completely irresistible.

10/10. Unputdownable. Unforgettable.

I received a free Advanced Reader Copy (ARC) of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

Thank you to the author, publisher, and NetGalley for sending me an ARC of this book! While this could read as a standalone, this is the third book in a series focusing on one of the main characters. Because all of the characters/storylines are interconnected, it's a more satisfying read if you read the entire series. And what I will say is clever about this series: each FMC's story is written by a different author. As such, each book/FMC has a unique voice even though the books themselves tend to follow a storyline formula.

This book followed Astrid's story, which you get glimpses of in the other books, but really delve into here. I thought this book read the clunkiest of the three so far. While the main character is British, the story and other characters are all set in NY. Knowing that, I was constantly thrown while reading because all the characters spoke as if they were from the UK. The NY characters were using phrases and words that New Yorkers would never use and it made for awkward reading. This book also used multiple POVs, which I don't mind, but they would switch mid chapter and sometimes I found myself having to go back and reread to understand whose POV I was reading. Overall it was a sweet, predictable, feel good read, and as the other books do, it set up the final book #4 very well.

I had such a great time reading this book. It was a mix of some serious topics but also a really fun time. The relationships in this book were written so well. I love Astrid's relationship with her karma club girls, even though their friendship started as revenge against their exes it blossoms into something more and deeper. Blake and Aiden have such a great sibling relationship. I also enjoyed Blake and Aiden's relationship with their mom as well as Astrid's relationship with her mom. Astrid's relationship with Aiden started off as one thing but evolved when he saw the good she could do for his brother and that was really sweet. I really loved Blake in this book, he is not a perfect character and really had growth throughout the book.

Thank you to NetGalley and Boldwood Books for providing this book, with my honest review below:
After reading an extremely complicated historical (war based) fiction book, I desperately needed an easy to digest and fun read. The Puck Stops Here fit that bill in spades. I never can resist a hockey romance book - and Astrid and Blake's story did not disappoint. The plot was easy enough to follow - love scorned women looking to dish back a little karma to the men that did them wrong...but will the plan succeed or backfire in the most delicious way imaginable? Delicious in the sense that I devoured the entire book in less than 24 hours - and as a sleep deprived mom of 5, staying up till all hours of the night to keep reading 'just one more chapter' is saying something. It had just the right amount of spice and slow burn to keep pulling me along to see how the story would unfold, The author does a great job developing characters that are relatable, flaws and all, that make you want to root for everyone to have a good ending. I love a book that makes me feel lighter and not like I had to really focus in order to understand and the Puck Stops Here was just that. My few minor complaints were the following: The story follows characters born and raised in the United States, but the words they use are frequently not how, at least in my experience, Americans speak. A few examples are referring to boarding an airplane as 'the coach this morn', or sleeping in as 'lie-in', or to walk up to something is to 'rock up', or going to someone's home as 'calling' on them, or a French press is called a 'cafetiere', saying 'aye' for yes, calling a young boy a 'lad' etc... While none of these things kept me from enjoying the book, it did distract me a bit and made the story feel a little less authentic due to the fact it was happening during the times Americans were supposed to be speaking or at least from their point of view. Also, much of the writing is put together in a way that I had to reread sentences here and there to see if there might have been a typo or if it was simply said in a way that is more palatable for the British and not as understood by an American. "Blake looked back to the exit. To where she'd been stood...feeling her presence even though she was gone" To where she'd been stood made me pause to realize this wasn't a typo, it just simply meant 'to where she had last been standing.' Also, many colloquialisms I was not aware of that had me stopping to google- journalists are referred to as journos, foo foo was slang for vagina, calling air-condiditoning 'aircon'. There were many times throughout the book that I was just slightly distracted by these little things. In the overall scheme of things, very unimportant, but for some reason it stuck out for me. Just the same, I very much enjoyed this easy and fun read, and am intrigued by the dangling carrot the author leaves at the end.