The Pucking Wrong Number by C.R. Jane
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
One text to the wrong number—mine—and everything changed.
He won’t tell me his last name, and maybe that should throw up a thousand red flags, but when I’m all alone in a new city and struggling to make ends meet, his texts are the lifeline I’ve been desperate for.
I never would have answered that text if I’d known that Lincoln Daniels—superstar hockey player extraordinaire—was the one sending it.
He’s trying to sweep me off my feet now. He says he’s obsessed.
He wants me to wear his number…permanently. But is he still the wrong number, or can this hockey god prove he’s Mr. Right?
The Pucking Wrong Number is a dark hockey romance standalone from USA Today bestselling author C.R. Jane. Lincoln Daniels is a morally grey antihero who is obsessed with his girl and will do anything to keep her.
The Pucking Wrong Number
Professional hockey player stalker romance!
The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💙❤️💚💜
Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📘📙
World building: 🌏🌍🌏🌎🌍
Character development: 😊😄🥹🙁🥰
Narration: 🎙🎙🎙🎙
Narration Type: Duet Narration
The heroine: Monroe Bardot – her mom was a drug addict and a prostitute who died when Monroe was ten years old. She was put into foster care after that and ended up moving from house to house until she finally ended up in a house she had to run away from just a month before graduation because the father was trying to get into her room at night. She moved to Dallas, got her GED and attended community college while working as many hours as she could.
The Hero: Lincoln (a.k.a. Golden Boy) – he was starting forward and highest scorer on his professional hockey team the Dallas Knights. After his rookie contract expired at the end of the season, he would be signing the largest contract in NHL history with the same team. He has some daddy issues, with his dad being quite overbearing and expecting him to date the daughter of a man he is doing business with. Lincoln is also feeling guilt because he believes he killed his brother.
The Story: Monroe was always tired from attending school and working so much. She was very pretty but she learned from her mother that being pretty wasn’t always a benefit. She was hit on quite a bit by all types of men, but her mothers’ last words to her were to tell her to never give her heart to a man. She ended up having to turn down quite a few offers and even had to get violent a few times.
Out of the blue, Monroe gets a text message from an unknown number, asking for a second chance and she didn’t know which of the guys that recently hit on her that texted her, but she replied anyway. When she found out it wasn’t either of them, they ended up texting back and forth quite a bit. After she sent him her picture to prove she wasn’t the girl he thought he was texting, he became immediately obsessed.
I really liked both characters, though I have to admit that I dislike a Hero with daddy issues, especially one that is financially stable on their own, but I did like the fact that Lincoln didn’t always do what his dad demanded of him. I also love it in books when the two main characters text back and forth. Texts can be so fun when the two people are getting to know each other. This book had some crazy surprises that I could never have predicted. It went to places that I couldn’t have expected. We knew Lincoln was a stalker from the start when he first became obsessed with Monroe, but it got strange in places.
This audiobook was told in dual points of view via duet narration and was narrated by Troy Duran and Alexis Paige. Troy is one of my all-time favorite male narrators. He has a super deep voice, and he is great at showing emotion through his voice and doing all sorts of different voices for different characters. Alexis Paige sounds young, which is age appropriate for Monroe though she does sound like she is reading more than talking naturally.
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