The second book in the series, similar to the first one, this book was so bitter-sweet (heavy on the sweet). The author has the great ability of mixing sadness with love. As they say, you can't have the highs without the lows.

I absolutely adored this book. I think if you're a fan of hockey romances you should absolutely give this one a try. I find that a lot of romances are very surface level, I think this one (and the previous) tap into something more than just one dimensional romance.

This book was written soo well. I think the relationship between Rosalie and Matty was developed very nicely and it actually felt so real. They were absolutely adorable. Watching both of them grow together as they learned to love themselves more and appreciate the ones around them was the best.

Their journey through it was written very well!

Matty was breaking my heart throughout this book.
The sadness he had been holding in & the masks he put
on, were just killing me. Poor guy really needed
someone he could count on.


Enter, Ro. She had her own heartbreak to deal with.
Namely, her douchebag "boyfriend" Tyler. I wanted to
drop kick him every time his name appeared. And
sometimes, I wanted to shake Rosalie & ask her what
the hell she was doing


I am so glad these two "unlovable souls found each
other. They both deserved to be worshipped by their
partner & be with someone who had their back.

I find that for the most part, I tend to steer clear of most college romances, however Peyton Corinne time and time again has me falling in love with her college hockey romance books.

I love this world Peyton has created. These characters are flawed, but so real. They make mistakes, but we have such a deep understanding of their psyche, history and where they're coming from that you never get mad or frustrated with the characters and you cannot help but feel deeply for them. She has this way of connecting the reader to the characters in a way I don't often experience.

Peyton also has this way of handling such difficult topics with the utmost care. Whether it be mental illness, abuse, or grief, she manages to heal her characters and her readers.

There is so much love and so many types of love represented in this book that even with the heavy topics, the story still fills you up with all the cozy warm hug feels.

I love Peyton Corinne's writing and she continued to demonstrate her exemplary storytelling in Unloved.

Thank you so much to Atria books, NetGalley and Peyton Corinne for the advanced copy.

This was such a beautiful read. Freddie and Ro had a great friendship that felt genuine, and the progression into more was authentic, challenging, and so satisfying. As someone who often struggled internally, I could see myself in both of the main characters, and I felt all of their emotions both positive and negative so deeply.

Much like book One in the series, this did deal with some challenging subjects, but it was done beautifully, and I appreciated the true growth each character had, and how they worked together to open up, and move beyond their traumas.

The most satisfying aspect of this was the epilogue and bonus epilogue download because I adore when you can see characters thriving in the future.

If you're not sure what to pick up for your next read, I highly recommend you give this one a try. Happy reading!

Have tissues nearby, because you will need them.

This is the second book in the Undone series, and can be read as a standalone, but in my opinion, the books need to be read in order. The timelines between the two books overlap, and you and you can fully know and understand everything happening, if you read in order (again just my opinion!)

This was the softest book with the softest main characters, with the softest of loves. When I tell you I was emotional the entire book, I mean from chapter 1 till chapter 61. Every chapter had me tearing up for one reason or another. There is something so special about Peyton's writing style. It is so full of emotional depth and growth.

I wanted so badly to reach through my phone and give both Matt and Ro the biggest hugs. I know that I will be thinking about both of them for a long time. These are two people pleasers who just happen to find solace with each other.

I hope you read this book!

“I make a vow then to protect her, the pretty girl with butterflies in her messy curls, even if she’ll never really be *mine.”*

This book is what true pining and longing feels like! A bit of a slow burn but in the best way possible. 🦋

🦋Synopsis:

Ro (Rosalie) gets tasked with being the tutor for hot shot/bad boy hockey player Freddy (Matt Fredderic), whom she has a bit of a past with unknown to Freddy. Freddy has had many failed tutors and is in risk of not graduating due to his learning disabilities (dyslexia, dyscalculia, and ADHD). Freddy has made some mistakes in the past while he was grieving the loss of his mother and the last is coming back to haunt him a bit. Ro is struggling with missing her family and dealing with her on again/off again boyfriend Tyler especially being the hopeless romantic that she is. Ro also struggles with finding the balance between being Freddy’s tutor and friend while quite literally always running into Freddy on campus. Can Freddy and Ro work out their differences long enough to get Freddy to pass? Or will love get in the way?

🦋Thoughts:

I loved Freddy so much! There is so much more to him than meets the eye. It shows how you truly cannot judge someone from their outward appearance or how others view them. He was so 3 dimensional and had so much going on in his personal life. I loved getting the snippets of flashbacks within the chapters, it truly added to his character and back story.

Ro struggled a lot with her toxic ex. While I kept screaming at her LEAVE HIM! It truly portrayed how hard it can be to leave a toxic relationship. She also struggled with feelings of loneliness while in college even when you have friends but they have their own thing going on.

I thought it was interesting that this book follows the same timeline of ’Unsteady’, so you see those characters quite a bit throughout the book.

Overall, I really enjoyed Ro and Freddy’s love story from start to finish. He’s truly a lover boy and Ro is a hopeless romantic. Everyone’s character growth was amazing even the side characters.

Thank you to Peyton Corinne, Atria Books and NetGalley for an ARC copy of Unloved. •*🏒•.❄️.💙*.

Rating: 4 ⭐️

Unloved brings us the story of hopeless romantic Ro and player (on and off the ice) Freddy in a sweet tutor x jock, friends (with a little mutual yearning) to lovers story. When Ro takes Freddy on as a student to help him pass Biology to save his future in the NHL, they develop a friendship that seems to bond them together through the troubles they’ve faced. As they grow closer, their friendship turns into something deeper. Ro wants to prove Freddy is worth more than his reputation, while Freddy hopes to protect Ro from ever feeling like she’s not worth all the stars in the sky.

Very light spoilers, perhaps?

I absolutely love how they develop such a strong friendship from the start, and it’s adorable how they are the only ones to call each other by their full first name. It’s heartwarming to see how protective they are of the other’s past experiences in love and intimacy. It shows genuine respect and trust when cultivating a relationship, no matter the type. While they navigate their individual turmoils, Ro and Freddy find themselves drawing on one another’s strengths.

I’m a sucker for a compelling parallel and this one heavily influences their budding friendship; Ro has harboured a lil crush on Freddy since freshman year where he gave her a first kiss (which HE doesn’t remember). And then, Freddy hears Ro tell him that he would be easy to love at ANOTHER random party in which SHE doesn’t remember. It shows their hesitancy to put their whole heart into something more romantic, afraid of what could go wrong.

Let’a talk about the running theme (line) of “it would be easy to fall in love with you.” It’s significant in many ways, aside from just their initial attraction to one another. It also represents how emotionally seen they feel when in each others’ presence. Up until now, Ro and Freddy have seen how fickle versions of love can be. Despite this, after the turmoil and anguish, they deem each other easy to fall for and that it’s worth the risk.

Oh my god I loved this book so much. Even more than the first one 😭. Matthew and Ro’s story was perfection. I love that it overlapped in the timeline of the first book and if someone wants to put together a tandem read I wouldn’t be upset about it. Ro is such a supportive and loving FMC and Matty deserves every bit of that support. Matty even though broken and misunderstood is so loving and tender I just can’t deal. And the epilogue. Are you kidding me Peyton?! I was bawling 🥹
Pleaseeee let there be a book for Bennet!!

WOWOWOWOW!!!! FREDDY AND RO!!!

I cannot scream from the rooftops enough about how much I adored this book!! I literally went to my bookstore EARLY to try and find a copy to annotate it was THAT GOOD.

Peyton Corinne, auto buy author now!!

Freddy and Ro's friendship was absolutely the best. I loved their own inner monologues but the fact that they trusted each other enough to show up and be there in any capacity was just amazing. My heart will never recover.

The intimacy representation was 10/10!!! Top tier. Peyton, well done. I absolutely LOVED that you made Ro more comfortable with intimacy and that nothing was wrong with the big O! I really admire the book and you for this.

"He smiles, and it’s so blinding it feels like standing in the sun on a warm California beach day. Like home."

"Loving Rosalie Shariff would be the easiest thing I’ve ever done— I know, because I’m already doing it."

I literally kicked my feet in the air and screamed at so many parts in this book because it made me giddy.

Thank you Simon and Schuster for the ARC 🥺🫶🏻

"I think it's hard for people to like me. And I try really hard."

I am just a sucker for this series, TRULY. So far, both of the books hitted me SO HARD that it’s not even funny.

I love how Peyton always makes her stories and her characters have such deep development and I was so in love with this story.

Ro is undoubtedly so relatable - especially for a college girl: her feelings, her insecurities and the homesickness was something that I truly could see myself feeling a few years ago. She was so unique and peculiar and I love her. DEEPLY. It’s just one of those female main characters that we completely understand even when we don’t agree with her.

Matty. OH, MATTY - the tears you’ve made me cry!! There’s always something about the playboy, a smiling guy that down deep inside just feels lonely and misunderstood all the time. But my favorite thing about him? How he treated Rosalie and how he worshiped the ground she walked on. WHAT A BOOK MAN HE IS!!

I need to highlight, again, that one of my favorite things in this whole series is the friendships and how supportive they are of each other - I LOVE THEM.

I now need Bennett book asap because I just KNOW they will be FIRE!

Thank you Net Galley for this ARC, in exchange for an honest review!

This follows Ro and Freddy. Ro is a helpless romantic. She is in a really shitty relationship with Tyler. He makes her feel unworthy and unloved. Freddy is a playboy hockey player. There is more depth to him than most people get to see. He needs to pass his classes to graduate. He has had a rough time with his previous tutors who cant seem to be able to help him. In comes Ro as she tutors Freddy. They begin to get closer and cant help to have feelings for each other. They try to keep things platonic but things are simmering between the two.

I found it a bit repetitive. I did not feel the chemistry between Ro and Freddy. I also found her relationship with Tyler a bit unrealistic. Tyler did some things that most people would walk away from. Ro stayed with him and I did not feel that she was extremely insecure or broken to walk away from him. I would have liked if Tyler’s actions were more subtle, so it would be believable as to why she would stay with him. Tyler had no redeeming qualities. Most people in toxic relationships, will tell you that their perpetrator would at least present themselves as likable to other people. Tyler would be HORRIBLE to her in front of everyone. Ro came off as a doormat.

I did like Freddy’s character more. There was representation for people with learning disabilities. I loved the depth to his character. He had many facets and it beautiful to see his character grow and evolve. I think he is the reason I did not DNF this book.

Freddy and Ro's story was absolutely beautiful. I loved these characters so much. Ro deserved so much more than Tyler, and her journey in this book was everything. I adored her in Book One, and the same goes for Freddie—I couldn’t get enough of him. When I found out Peyton Corinne was writing a second book about them, I was giddy, and it did not disappoint!

It’s a bit of a slow burn, but sometimes those are the most rewarding. Peyton Corinne’s writing style is incredible—she creates characters with such depth that it goes beyond just romance. The friendship, family dynamics, and grief woven into the story made it even more powerful. That’s what I love most about her books—they feel real and full.

That being said, I wasn’t a fan of the teacher, Carmen. Her presence in the story didn’t do much for me, and by the end, I felt like something was missing—I’m not quite sure what, but I was left wanting just a little more. Still, I really enjoyed this book and give it four stars. Peyton Corinne is quickly becoming an author I love, and I can’t wait to read more from her!

I love when an author will continue building it's characters and worlds from book to book. Peyton Corrine did such a great job of bringing us life from Ro and Freddy's point of views. The story was both entertaining and emotional, bringing us two characters who are finding their happiness and confidence, together.

“i think you’d be really easy to love”

right from the start of meeting Ro & Freddy in Unsteady I knew I was going to be obsessed with their story. the slow burn of their relationship from being strangers, to friends to lovers I thought was executed very well. their tension & banter was insanely perfect & i loved every part of their journey. I loved how they both were there for each other through their struggles. the communication in this was amazing we love to see it!!! i loved both Ro & Freddy equally as the main characters & going with them through all of their personal trials made me so much more connected to them 🫶🏼. they both deserve the world & so much more 😭.

Ro is definitely the perfect fmc for us hopeless romantic book girlies. my heart ached for her in the beginning & everything she went through. i loved how Freddy helped her grow in her confidence & how she learned to unapologetically be herself 🦋.
Freddy was a delightful mmc!! he was so thoughtful, caring & loyal i was so happy to see him find safety in Ro. he was going through so much & hiding it behind a smile. seeing him heal & process his grief was so important to his character arc!!

overall i had such a fun time reading this book!
my only issues with this book are i felt like the ending dragged on a bit & the spicy scenes were just kind of a lot for my personal preferences.
i am looking forward to continuing the series & getting to read all of the other stories to come! i can already see the foreshadowing of some characters & i just can’t wait to see where this series goes!

You guys. MY HEART!! This wrecked me in the best of ways. Seriously, I can't even put into words all the feelings I had while reading this one. Matty and Ro were so freakin' cute and I just wanted to hug them both, but also shove them together so many times!!!

The pining between these two had ME nearly blushing every time they were blushing!! Matty and Ro had more in common than they appear to. Both struggling with their own longing and grief, which by the way felt so real, it was heart-wrenching. They are both used to putting on masks when dealing with certain people in their lives, but when they're together, they truly SEE each other. These two came into each other's lives (again) at just the right time and I loved how their relationship grew from tutor/student to friends to more.

They brought out the best in each other and I loved seeing the progression from two people who settled for less because they didn't think they deserved more to two people who found the best kind of love together.

Thank you to Peyton and Atria Books for the ARC!

This is the first story I’ve read by Peyton Corinne. I’m surprised about how much emotional and mental trauma/healing was discussed throughout this story. I went in thinking this would be a lite hearted sports romance. I was highly wrong but she did it poetic justice.

Ro was an absolute sweetheart, it was impossible to not feel for her character. Matty just broke my heart. I wanted to cry for him and just give him a hug.

Definitely enjoyed Ro and Matty’s story!

I received an advanced readers copy for free from NetGalley and the author, for my honest opinion on the book.

“Loving him is the easiest thing I’ve ever done.”

I received an arc in exchange for my honest review!!!
This book broke me and healed me with everything these characters went through emotionally, add it the spice and it was the perfect love story. Way to go Peyton Corinne!!!

Unloved by Peyton Corinne was an epic story.
The cover drew me to the book, but the characters and setting made me stay engrossed in every page. I loved it.

This book was wonderful. It pulled on all my heart strings and made me just want to hug both Ro and Matty. The characters were both so lovable and so broken. Watching them come together and support each other was the best part. I loved the slow build of their relationship, it was not forced at all. Getting to see into both of their heads and see their self doubt and self negative talk was heartbreaking. I loved how they both lifted the other up and fought for the other when no else did.

I want both Bennett and Kane's stories next and I hoping we get them.