The Goal

Because of course there is a goal to get through this series.

Song Vibe Check:

1. "WOW" By: Zara Larsson & Sabrina Carpenter

2. "Until I found you" By: Stephen Sanchez & Em Beihold

3. "If it ain't me" By: Dua Lipa

Aaaaand we're back for round 4 of the Off Campus Series. Yes, I am nearly done with this series and it's been a crazy one but I'm glad I gave this series a try. We've already read about Caveman Garrett, and Sweet Logan and Devious Dean, and now we're onto... Tender Tucker (because YES that is my first nickname that came to mind for him)

Here we go.

Short Summary: Sabrina James, a future Harvard law student breaks her no hooking up with Hockey guys with John Tucker, who will not only claim her heart but also turn her world upside down forever.

Now... this book has an entirely different pace to the other ones, reading very similarly in some ways to the first book, but also establishing very different characters. We get glimpses of Sabrina throughout the other books, and while I didn't want to immediately dislike her despite seeing her through Dean's eyes as "an insufferable woman", I wanted to wait and read her perspective to decide for myself if I'd like her or not.

Truth to be told.... I understand why she drives herself to work so hard to escape from her past. It makes a lot of sense to me and as someone who has worked two jobs before, I admire her hard working ways. That isn't to say she's my favorite because she still has some things here and there that annoy me. Like the fact that men are just for sex and then ending up pregnant because of a man.

It's a bit amusing and tragic all at once. It annoys me even more because Tucker is the sweetest, quietest and perhaps the naughtiest of them all so it adds onto my annoyance of how she just lumps him to the rest of the male population. Now, as for Tucker, I am quite grateful we get to hear from him because throughout my reading of the series, I didn't have much of an opinion about him. He just existed on the page and that was it. As we read on, the sex scenes aren't as many as in other books, but we get the painful recollection of a certain character popping up whose loss still hurts me because the author is evil like that.

It's also the first time I read the pregnancy trope and I get why some people are not fans of it. Despite that, and the slower pace of this book, it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. Tucker definitely falls into that ideal guy and Sabrina definitely won the lottery there. My favorites are still Dean and Logan though, so there is that.

Overall: 3/5 stars