Rookie Recovery

Bobcat Boys, Book 1

De: Jemma Croft, Lex Easton

Narrado por: Jameson Adams, Tom North

Jamie Sullivan does not date hockey players.

As the PT for the Bringham Bobcats, he knows they're loud, cocky, and more trouble than they're worth. Not to mention painful reminders of the career ripped from his grasp a decade ago—a past he's desperate to leave behind. All he needs to do is finish his business course and open his own practice to be free of hockey forever. It's all going according to plan, until a dirty-mouthed young hotshot who won't take no for an answer waltzes into his office, and Jamie's forced to reconsider whether he's ready to give up on the game.

They call him a rising star, so why does Archie Bowman still feel like a rookie? Maybe it's the number of times he's been traded in his short career. Maybe it's the homesickness for the family, biscuits, and rugby he left behind in Britain. Or maybe it's how, despite everyone else buying his cocky act, he still isn't sure he belongs in the big leagues.

When an old shoulder injury resurfaces a few weeks before the season starts, Bowie's dream is at stake, and Jamie is just the doc to help him get it back. That is if their blossoming relationship doesn't cloud their judgment...

©2024 Jemma Croft & Lex Easton (P)2024 Podium Audio

Don’t Make it Weird

This book was good eyeball reading but this audio brought the characters so perfectly to life! I adored them and this hockey player and PT were so perfect together!!

Loved this sweet hockey romcom

I love Jemma Croft’s books and had to read this!! Archie & Jamie are too cute together! I loved their banter and how sweet they are. Jamie is just a sweet grump! The narrator was wonderful. I definitely recommend and will re-read.

Absolute stunning narration!!

Look, it’s dosnt take a whole lot to entertain me but I LOVED LOVE LOVED the humor and banter between these to!

And KITTY- oh man- not only is the reference absolute gold but it’s so fitting 😂 for Jaime.

I love their love. I love that they are such an unlikely pair and genuinely love to be with one another!!

Slow Burn and intense tension

I loved this book so much for the sports romance and slow burn. The fire of tension burns between them and had me giggling and grinning like a fool. Looking for the perfect sports romance this has got it all!!

The Narrator made it unlistenable

I really enjoyed this book.
The story was great and I really cared for the characters and wanted them to succeed and find love in each other.
However, the narrator doing Bowies voice made it unlistenable. The choices he made for the characters not being Bowie made them all sound ... there's no nice way of describing how he made them sound. I couldn't stand it.

Best hockey romance I've read all year!

Everything about this book & narration is perfection! It's now in my top 3 of hockey romances!

Bowie & Jamie

Starting off the new year with 2 new to me authors & 2 new to me narrators. And happy to say that I loved all 4! Lex & Jemma did an amazing job telling Bowie & Jamie's story. Loved them both! Excellent narration by Tom North & Jameson Adams. I really hope to hear more MM books narrated by them.

Characters seemed genuine. Good story.

Some of the narrative was drawn out a bit and repeated often. The use of “kitty” was both odd and annoying. I’d never call another person - of either sex - that name. The voices were good. Realistic.

I’ve never known anyone as beautiful and infuriating.

One thing is for certain, British food sucks. But hey whatever. Anyways, this was a pretty chill fun hockey romance. I found Bowie to be a little annoying at times, I get he puts on a facade for this whole bro popular hockey shit but come on dude if you are so into Jamie you could of probably cut that shit out real quick and all of this whole relationship thing would of worked out faster to be honest. Anyways this was fun, and I think Jamie and Bowie are pretty cute together and I enjoyed the teammates, Im really interested in Zach and Adam (friends to lovers?) but I think they will be a while since the next one is Rowan for sure.
There was some funny parts and a lot of monologuing which I dont mine. A lot of inner thought with less dialogue between characters just FYI, not a negative in my opinion Im okay with that. Just thought some of yall might wanna know it. Anyways I dont write reviews well and Im not gonna start now. Lets just say, annoying boy and grumpy man fuck and fall in love while kinda on the clock. But also that ending was just random as fuck.

A nice mental break

It’s a romance novel. There’s a little angst but it’s not unbearable, it’s medically inaccurate and it’s a lovely way to fold laundry and commute.

It’s also very amusing and the narration is good. With, to be fair, the caveat that the cross national accents are terrible. Brit sounds Australian and the American sounds like a geriatric dude from Brooklyn. I guess that’s what we sound like to them. But it’s not Shakespeare so who cares and when they’re in their own country accents they’re both excellent. Especially the Brit narrated by the Brit he is hilarious.