What a captivating novel about a woman discovering what she wanted for herself when decisions and expectations are made for her. This story had such a fun twist of a storyline. I love how it took a modern day events like Hockey and a classic tail and brought it together. My favorite parts were the scenes with Jane Austen. Such a fun twist, she made you feel like you were right next to her. The spice was just enough. I love how they gave some mystery to it as well. What a great read!
I am rating this book 5 out of 5 stars!!

I absolutely loved this book! I was drawn in by the title and stayed for the time traveling hockey player. This book gives off outlander vibes if she traveled back to regency England instead. I loved the banter and the magic system of how the time traveling worked overall. Plus, we all love a good happy ending and this book has it. This book asked the question of what would happen if a hockey player time traveled to regency England and had to learn to survive. This whole story was a cute fast paced love story and I absolutely loved it. I highly recommend this book if you loved pride and prejudice and time travel.

Hockey romance, time travel, and one of Jane Austen’s besties? That’s all I needed to hear to know that I wanted to read this book. I figured Puck and Prejudice would be a good time, and I was right.

Is it silly at times? Absolutely. Do I think Tuck and Lizzy probably should have had some more dramatic reactions to the differences in their language and lived experience? Probably. Would I recommend the book still? 100%.

It’s a hockey player traveling to Regency England, you do have to be able to suspend disbelief a bit; but, if you can do that, Puck and Prejudice is so much fun. You get time travel, the always fun one bed trope, and a marriage of convenience. The characters are likable. The story flows well and is well written. There were parts that genuinely made me laugh out loud. It’s just plain fun.

I will say if Jane Austen is your favorite author and you take her works very seriously and are serious about Regency era accuracy, you might have a harder time enjoying the book. I love Jane Austen but also have a silly streak so I thoroughly enjoyed “meeting” her and all the references to her various works. As well as the nods to other worthwhile authors of the time.

Plus, if you like spice, there’s some good spice. I’m sure thankful we live in an era where we can read books with such things!

Thank you Avon and Harper Voyager for providing this book for review consideration via NetGalley. All opinions are my own.

This is the type of bananas romance I’m here for and mostly, I really enjoyed this. A hockey player getting sent back in time to the Regency period in England where he’s legitimately clueless worked! I loved how confused he was and how he tries to navigate being a fish out of water…sort of successfully lol the romance was sweet and spicy and really fun!

But, and this is totally a personal caveat and may not affect your reading journey or enjoyment of this book, Tucker is in remission from cancer. And while it’s not necessarily a key point in the story, I struggle with reading about cancer or characters with cancer due to hypochondriasis or health anxiety. So. Not at all the authors fault, but it’s the reason why I could not finish the book. I was too anxious! This in no way reflects my rating and I think someone without health anxiety would love this bonkers story!

A pro hockey player gets sent into the past and enters the regency era? Sign me up!

“Puck and Prejudice” was such a fun read! This is the kind of read for you if you want something light hearted that’ll boost your mood.

I didn’t feel too particularly connected to the characters in the story. I was mostly concerned with how or if the main character would be able to get home. The characters felt kind of shallow to me. The main male lead also felt almost too comfortable with being in the past. Like he accepted it too quickly. If I was put in the past, I think I would have a complete breakdown. But maybe that’s just me!

I do like how the book tackled topics that had to do with the character being in the past. It acknowledged that while there have been many improvements, there are certain aspects of society that have not moved forward for women.

Overall, “Puck and Prejudice” was a pleasant, but not overly rememberable, read!

Thank you to Avon and NetGalley for the ARC in exchange for an honest review!

What a ride. Hockey. Pride & Prejudice. What could go wrong? Austen herself makes an appearance as a side character in this (very, very) steamy time-traveling romance. A perfect quick read with a side of strong feminist male lead.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC.

I really enjoyed this book. The characters were well developed and lovable. The pacing was perfect and left you wanting to read more. I can't wait to read more by this author!

I have a lot of respect for the author giving an idea like this shot. However, I don’t know that the execution was there. It felt like the main ideas and themes were loosely connected. I appreciate a happy ever after but this one didn’t feel real. Overall, the idea was interesting but just not my favorite.

This book combined some of my favorite things to read - time travel, hockey romance and regency romance. I really enjoyed Lizzy and Tucker getting to know each other and how supportive Tucker was of Lizzy's dream to be a writer. The internal struggle Tuck has with wanting to get back to his time for his sister, hockey and modern medicine while also falling for Lizzy was believable (even if the circumstances weren't). I feel like a lot of romance books follow the same plot structure and as readers we know how they're going to end and I really appreciated that in this book I didn't know exactly how it was going to end, but I really like the way the author wrapped things up! There's barely any hockey in this book so don't read it if you're in the mood for a sports romance with a focus on the sport. This book's focus is the relationship between Tuck and Lizzy!

Interesting concept for a cute book! It felt like outlander jumped into a Jane Austen novel! It kept my interest through the whole book and was easy to read. Will recommend to all my Jane Austenites.

Another re-telling of Pride and Prejudice, Puck and Prejudice by Lia Riley manages to be entertaining, but doesn't break away from the pack in any recognizable way. Multiple tropes and popular romance themes are incorporated, including time traveling, strangers to lovers, opposites attract, forced proximity, and more. It follows the precedent set by many other popular romance novels and includes a hockey-playing MMC named Tucker who is both sinfully attractive and delightfully in touch with his sensitive side (he has a sister, okay?).

Tucker ends up in the 1800s after an accident and meets the pretty Lizzie. The time travel part didn't seem to ruffle many feathers - all characters in the know were surprisingly quick to believe that the man in front of them was from the 21st century. There's very little conflict, and most of the book revolves around Tucker unapologetically being a man from the 21st century and Lizzy unable to understand him in the context of her relatively sheltered world. The two lead characters work to set up a fake marriage that will, inevitably, end when Tucker has to go "back to the future." Lizzy (who we find out is actually the namesake for one Lizzie Bennet), who will be left behind, can claim her husband's death and live happily as a "widow" without worrying about having to fall under the thumb of another husband. This works great in theory, but of course they can't deny their burgeoning affections. Spicy scenes ensue, and are actually pretty good. Tucker is v. manly! Lizzy is v. intrigued!

It is a very quick read, and the chapters are fairly short. There is a fair amount of indignation on the part of the reader when we get to Lizzy's family home in London and see just how thoroughly her needs and wants are dismissed. At the climax of the book, I wanted there to be higher stakes for the new couple. The resolution fell flat for me, and I couldn't help but think "that's it?" after all they'd been through.

One part that just did not click for me was the inclusion of the Jane Austen character. She felt contrived and was completely unnecessary to the plot. The character seemed abrasive and just incongruous with the rest of the story.

Overall, this was a solid read; I wouldn't read it again, and it's not a retelling I would recommend. If you like period, fluffy romance, this is the book for you.

This has also been reviewed on Goodreads - see link below. Thanks to NetGalley and Avon/Harper Voyager for the ARC!

....I thought I would like because I am a hockey romance girlie to my coreeeeee so I thought why not throw some regency era in there as well?

Yeah no. Not good. The plot is kind of all over the place for me and I just plain and simple was not a fan.

This story was very different from most hockey romances that I have read. We see the regency era meet hockey romance and it is so far out there that it was good. I liked that we got to see how Tucker has to adjust to the era and how there was so much the author thought about that I never would have when it came to this. I enjoyed Lizzy’s personality and how she was no nonsense and held true to her values and self. This is a dual pov, open door romance.

“Fate may bring people into our lives, but we’re the ones who choose who we refuse to part with”

After dealing with a heath scare Tucker Taylor gets thrown into 1812 England after getting into an icy accident where he comes face to face with Elizabeth (Lizzy) Wooddash. Together they must work to fulfill their own plans, Tucker with wanting to go back to his time and Lizzy, who wants to have the freedom that only a widow can achieve in Regency Era England.

This was such a fun book to read, I have been obsessed with time travel books as of late and this was right up my alley. Tucker and Lizzy have an instant connection with each other and soon come to the agreement that they should get married to help each other. I loved the dynamic between Lizzy and Tucker, you could tell Lia Riley put so much thought and preparation into this with the rules of Regency England and how someone would react to being thrown into a different time. I loved having Lizzy be friends with Jane Austen and the interactions between Tucker and Jane were hilarious. This had me chuckling like a mad woman at times and I couldn’t put it down; it’s witty and captivating.

Thanks to NetGalley for providing an Ebook ARC of this story. Time-travel romance, certainly not a new genre but this time an American hockey player bro mysteriously travels back to Jane Austen's England and accidentally falls in love. For an 1812 lady, Elizabeth was remarkably quick to accept the concept of time travel. Nice incorporation of Jane Austen as one of the book's characters, she didn't overshadow the other characters or events of the book. There's a nice feminist thread running through the book, as Elizabeth is especially forward-thinking for her time. Open-door romance with an instant-attraction marriage of convenience, I suppose we could also call it opposites-attract since they're from different times, with the just-one-bed trope was thrown in for good measure. I wasn't a huge fan of Tuck in the beginning, he came off as pretty dim but thankfully he seemed to evolve over the course of the book. (One note: can we please stop with having mmcs in romance novels casually use the phrase "good girl" as a term of endearment when it's outside of a consensual sexual dominance situation? It was done several times in this book and it yanked me out of the story each time. I'm not saying it can't be said with love, but even saying it with fondness or affection can subtly communicate a power disparity.) Overall this was an enjoyable read, a little predictable although there were also parts I didn't see coming. Publishes 11-12-24.

Usually hockey and time traveling are enough for me to love a book. Throw in some Jane Austen references and, typically, I'm sold. This book didn't quite get there for me. I enjoyed the premise but felt that it fell flat. Lizzy and Tuck both seemed too quick to accept what was happening a little too quickly for me. I did enjoy how independent Lizzie was, but Tuck felt too good to be true at times.

This book was not at all what I expected but I really enjoyed it! Tucker is benched due to health concerns and he gets in a car accident which ends up sending him back in time. He meets Lizzy in 1812 and they hatch a plan together to both get what they want in life. Tucker to go back to his life, and Lizzy to be a widow to escape the pressure of society. The two of them plan of getting married so that way when Tucker goes back to his own time the world will think Lizzy is a widow and Tucker will get to go back to his life like nothing happened. Will they be able to pull it off?

I really enjoyed this read and while it did touch on some heavier topics (cancer currently in remission) it was still a light hearted and fun read that I really liked.

I received a copy of this for my honest review

In this story our MMC is a professional hockey player, but has been on medical leave since he was diagnosed with cancer. While benched his visits his sister in England and ends up on a car accident after leaving a pub one night. But I stead of a disaster from him ending up in a pond, he wakes up to see our FMC. But she is dressed in full regency attire, as he woke up in 1812. Our FMC dreams of being a widow. It would give her freedom and standing in society, which she desperately craves. So as the two try and figure out what has happened they come up with the plan. They will get married and then when he goes back to his time, she can claim he's died and she will get her dream of widowhood. This all sounds great, but will it play out how they want? Will he actually be able to go back? Will he want to?

Temporarily benched due to medical reasons, Tucker Taylor is an American pro hockey player visiting his sister, who attends the University of Bath in England. An accident sends Tuck across time and into the year 1812, where he meets Elizabeth Wooddash, a a young woman who yearns to live a life of freedom without being tied to a husband. The only way to do that in Regency England is to be a widow, so Lizzy and Tuck make a deal: they’ll marry and figure out how to get him back to his time, and she’ll tell everyone that he died. Sounds simple, right?

TW: mentions of cancer (currently in remission)

𝗠𝗮𝗻𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗸𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗔𝘃𝗼𝗻 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗥𝗖! 𝗪𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗯𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝗻 𝗡𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟭𝟮, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰.
When I saw on Instagram that someone was reading the ARC of this book, I was instantly sold, and I knew I had to request it myself. I love historical romances, athletic love interests, and time travel, and this book contains all three elements. Overall, this was such a cute read that really kept me interested until the end, and I am actually sorry it’s over.
Tuck really stood out to me with his personality. The thing I loved most about him was how he saw Lizzy, defended her, and when it came to it, put her best interests first.
Lizzy was also a great character that stood out to me with her spitfire personality, which is significant when you consider the views toward women in the time period she’s from. She and Tuck had great chemistry, and their banter was top notch.
And I of course loved how the time travel storyline was handled. The period of adjustment to living in an unfamiliar era was how I imagined it would be, and the moments of confusion on both Tuck and Lizzy’s parts made me giggle.

Historical meets hockey, yes please! This was so good and everything I had no clue I needed in a book. It unlocked a new genre I had no clue I was into. I thing this author is onto something and I hope they do this with more sports because SIGN ME UP!