Review: Charming as Puck

Charming as Puck by Pippa Grant
My rating: 5 of 5 stars



Warning! The subject of the following review contains moments of absolute hilarity, a cow-dog, two spiders, seven clowns, an escape room full of Wanker's and Johnson-Wankers, three dogs, a kitten, mentions of stolen chickens, animal (and parental) cockblocking, and some very steamy sexy times. If you are prepared to laugh so hard you pull muscles, spit your morning caffeine all over yourself (and your laptop keyboard but you didn't need to type up that proposal anyway, did you?), and turn in to a ball of fluffy love over an asshole hockey player and the sweetest veterinarian with very naughty prankster instincts, then this book is definitely for you!!!

This year just keeps getting better! Wanna know why? No? I'm gonna tell you anyway because this is my review and you're here because you know you want to know. I was fortunate enough to receive an ARC of this funny as hell story!



If you know me, you know that I have been waiting for Nick Murphy to find his forever love since the moment we really got to know him in Beauty and the Beefcake. Sure, he was around before (and a hilarious prankster) but you just knew that he was going to have this come to Jesus moment about commitments and settling down. He's a big, badass hockey player who seems like an asshole but he's got a heart of gold… If you can get him to stop joking around long enough for you to see it!



I've been wanting to hear the stories that made him the way he is (you get some of those) and I've been wanting to see him be more than a fighting, pranking, love 'em and leave 'em kind of man. Who knew that this moment would come in the form of a forgotten birthday, a prank gone wrong, and the loss of his FWB who actually owned his heart all along? Obviously, Pippa Grant knew but she didn't give us any hints until The Hero and the Hacktivist with that teaser. (… and I really was scared that she was going to hook him up with the charm school teacher (yeah, way back then) when I just knew that Kami would be perfect for him and fall into the Best Friend's Brother trope I love so much!!)



Even I figured out that he forgot her birthday and seriously Nick how did you not get that? Not only does Kami decide she's done with him in that teaser, but she decides to go to war.



And seeing sweet, loveable Kami go to war and show her more devious side? It proved to me that they were a match made in heaven! Or the shower, or the bed, or the front seat of his Jeep…



The cow, I mean dog, I mean Sugarbear may be the unwitting pawn in Nick and Zeus Berger's prank war (YES IT IS A WAR AND YES IT IS GLORIOUS!!!!), but she becomes something oh so much more! She becomes a catalyst for change - an amazing, wonderful change that leads to an I love you moment that had me blubbering almost as badly as Ares' voicemail message to Felicity and their I love you moment. The fact that Nick's I love you moment is fighting me for top position is a lot for me to handle because Ares Berger is my boy. He will always be my favourite book boyfriend so this should tell you a lot about this moment! Sugarbear is a catalyst for change in the way the Thrusters players play their pranks - and now that living animals are no longer allowed, and Nick has a new cow-dog baby to play with, it means that things are about to get a lot more interesting -- and a lot more sparkly!

There are so many things I could tell you about this story - but I won't!



I know better - KNOW BETTER - and yet, I still managed to make the mistake of drinking coffee while reading the bonus epilogues (I love you Pippa for always doing that!!!!!) so that I wore it! As did my laptop - and I think it's working ok, do you think it's working okay??? I also know better than to read anything this funny after I've put my son to bed because my laugh is LOUD… AND I WOKE HIM UP!!!!!! laughed so hard at the ridiculousness of the pranks, of the situations after the date (sweet Jesus save the kittens from the aliens -- IN SPACE!!!!), the garden shed escapade and the resulting birds and the bees talk, and just EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!



Favourite Lines -

And Felicity's in a custom Thrusters T-shirt with the rocket bratwurst logo - yes, rocket bratwurst, and yes, there's a story there - and the phrase "I'm carrying Ares Berger's Baby" printed across her chest and arrows pointing to her small but growing baby bump.

And while I stand there gaping, my cow-dog peeing a river down the sidewalk, he turns and strolls away.

"My mom has a crush on Hulk Hogan," Zeus offers.

"You mean you do," Ares says. They're still laughing when I head for the elevator.

I have to dodge the monkey, who’s been sent to sic my phone.

She beat me to my own I block the shots on the ice, but I score all the goals here.

"My bratwurst need to mortify you."

"If we lose, it's the Johnson-Wankers' fault."

"I'm supposed to talk to you about where babies come from. Your mother says you were doing it wrong."

"Muff Matchers, how can we match your muff today?"

If you want to know the name of the kitten, just how many times Ares Berger dangles his teammates by their ankles for being bad males to their ladies, well then… You just have to read the book and see how fabulous it is for yourself!



But I think you know my vote. ;)

You want to one click this one. You don't know it yet, but you NEED Kami and Nick in your life! Read it… I dare you!!!! I double cow-dog dare you!!!!! If you make it through the second chapter without laughing once, I'm afraid it's already too late for you. If you almost piss yourself laughing like I did? Then you know you're going to have an awesome year addicted to everything in the Pippaverse!

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