Five f***ing stars for this one 😭😭😭😭

I was floored last year when I first read Unsteady in its indie version, and I honestly haven't stopped thinking about Sadie and Rhys since, so obviously reading parts of their story from Ro and Matt's point of view has been like coming full circle 💞

This story has meant so much to me...I really think there can't be anything better out there than Matt Fredderic.....I'm afraid my standards have now reached impossible heights. His vulnerability and need to love and be loved have been like putting a warm blanket on me and at the same time like sticking a knife in my heart 😭🥹 I need to protect him at all costs.

Ro is the most selfless and caring person and the two of them go on an incredible journey through love and grief ....learning how they want and deserve to be treated, and how to handle the other person's feelings with care.

Thank you so much Peyton for writing these characters...they are going to stay with me for a long time.

Plus....the crumbs they leave over the next stories are really something else😌😌😌😌😌😌😌😌😌😌.

Thank you so much Atria Books and NetGalley for the ARC!!!!

Thank you Netgalley for this one!

ANOTHER fantastic book from Peyton Corrine! I absolutely LOVED unsteady and her authentic take on mental health in athletes, and she really stepped it up again with Unloved.

Matty (“Freddy”) was such a lovable character! The way he was written was beautiful and the reader couldn’t help but feel everything alongside him. If you didn’t feel a shred of empathy and compassion for this guy, I worry about your heart and well-being because Jesus…I just wanted to jump in and give this guy a big bear hug and never let him go (…not even for Ro. 😉)

Rosalie was another beautifully written character! She is the complete opposite of Sadie and I think that’s what makes their friendship so authentic. While Sadie was closed off a lot, Rosalie just knew what her friend was needing from her, and never pushed her for more; which allowed for Sadie to be more “soft” around her and for Rosalie to grow into her assertiveness. Tyler didn’t get near the ass beating he deserved, but I’m just happy with how Rosalie grew into herself and let him have it.

Overall this was such a beautiful read and follow up from Unsteady! While yes, there’s spice in this “hockey romance,” the mental health, healthy boundaries and relationships, and the growth in self-confidence and self-worth took center stage; which I loved.

Highly recommend!

If you’ve ever seen my Goodreads review of Unsteady, it simply says “this is my favorite hockey book ever”. So needless to say, I had high expectations for Unloved, but was also nervous because h o w was Peyton going to follow a perfect book?

Turns out I was worried for absolutely nothing because Unloved is brilliant. It’s a story of two people begging to be seen and to be loved for who they are as they put on an act for the world. The feelings Ro and Freddy had - for each other, for everything life threw at them - were so real and so well written that it felt like I was going through it with them. Add in all the Sadie and Rhys cameos (SO many), the snippets of Bennet and Kane (I N E E D their books omg)- this book was everything I hoped for and more.

And Peyton even did the impossible- I found myself falling for a blond man!!! Matt Fredderic , the man that you are!!!!

READ IF YOU LOVE:
✨ a playboy mmc who is actually a golden retriever
✨a spunky fmc who deserves the world but doesn’t believe she does
✨ adhd / dyscalculia / dyslexia rep
✨ dual pov
✨ two characters secretly pining over each other ( T E N S I O N)
✨ “I think you could be really easy to love” 🥹
✨ crying

Thank you thank you thank you to NetGalley and atria books for the advanced copy and for not making me wait until February to read this book!!!!

There's something in Peyton Corinne's writing that lures you in and never lets go. Not us thinking it'll be hard to top her debut book: Unsteady. Darling, it's Peyton Corinne. Never ever doubt her <3

Thankyou Artia books and netgalley for the arc. All opinions are my own!

#Unloved #Netgalley

I wish I could erase this book from my memory only so I can read it again and again.

Peyton Corrine did it again! I thought it would be so hard to top her debut book “Unsteady” but this book exceeded all my expectations. The way she wrote about grief, love, and self love was so beautiful and detrimental to these characters. I will be thinking of Matt and Ro for a long time!

Truly, one of the best series! I cannot wait for the next book and the next insanely good playlist she includes in all her books!

Freddy is the star left winger and destined for the NHL. But he's struggling in classes due to dyslexia and dyscalculia and ADHD. Ro is his new tutor who is unlucky in love....

Terrific romance. It starts out slow but the pining was so terrific. Love all the relationships in this book. Really enjoy it. Love how this overlap with the other book in the series too...

Thanks to the publisher for the arc.

EMOTIONAL DEPTH we love to see it!!!

brothers they fud not get it on til like 80% through…that’s how you KNOW they fell in real genuine love first lemme tell you!

i loved them both as individual people, and seeing as this follows the same timeline of unsteady instead of continuing it, i loved how it felt more behind-the-scenes from the tidbits we saw in unsteady

they are so stinking precious and also they delivered on the angst HELLO

"Can you see me? Can you feel how lonely I am? Are you lonely, too?"

This book had me in the trenches of my feelings. Made my stomach hurt and brought tears to my eyes more than once. I loved every second of it.

Ro, with her bows and Taylor Swift friendship bracelets, and Matty, the softest boy who ever lived. I'm going to be thinking about them for a very long time.

If you want a love story that's soft and slow, but powerful and overwhelming, this one's for you. Peyton Corinne has outdone herself. I can't wait for the next one!

Thank you, NetGalley, for the ARC 🫶🏼

I have never been SO happy to receive an ARC in my life. I loved Unsteady, have read it multiple times within this last year, so I was over the moon to hear it was a series. This book was amazing. I devoured it in less than 24 hours. I am obsessed with Ro and Freddy, they have my whole heart. This book was so beautifully done. It captures raw, vulnerable feelings about grief, college life, toxic relationships, and finding your found family. I will gladly read anything Peyton Corinne writes, and I cannot wait for more in this series!! Easily 5 stars.

This book was so SWEET. The two main characters seemed so well thought out and felt so real to me, especially when it came to mental health and Freddy’s learning disabilities.

Also, this book is so The Archer by Taylor Swift coded! 🥺🫶🏼

A heads up: I was lucky enough to get approved for an ARC of this book through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. That said, all thoughts and opinions expressed here are entirely my own.

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

Okay, let me just say that I got this book when I needed it the most. I was seriously excited about Ro and Freddy’s story after catching little glimpses of them in Unsteady, and their story didn’t disappoint.

We got Freddy, the charming star hockey player that seems larger than life, but underneath that confident exterior, he's dealing with feelings of abandonment and thinking he's not worthy of love. And then there’s Ro, sweet and loyal Ro, who's been made to feel so ashamed and insecure.

Their interactions, their chemistry and how they support each other it's everything. Freddy wants to shield Ro from his reputation, all while showing her that she deserves real genuine love. And Ro? She is constantly encouraging Freddy to see his worth. You can really feel their emotional connection, and Corinne does an amazing job exploring themes like self-acceptance and vulnerability. At its core, their story is of two people battling their own insecurities, finding comfort and support in each other and their friends and family. These characters feel incredibly real.

Tropes you’ll love:
💚 college hockey romance
💚 tutor x athlete
💚 friends to lovers
💚 found family
💚 learning differences rep

Overall rating 4 ⭐️
Spice scale 🌶️🌶️

I feel like this book is perfect if you enjoyed Daydream by Hannah Grace. It’s got the perfect mix of fun and feels that makes it super hard to put down. Seriously, if you're in a reading slump, this is exactly what you need! It also has very similar vibes to Collide by Bal Khabra and Offside by Avery Keelan. So if you enjoyed any of those, you’ll want to add this one to your TBR.

Huge congrats to Peyton. I absolutely loved Ro and Freddy's story and can’t believe how long I’ll have to wait for the next one (I have a good idea of who’s next, and I’m super intrigued to read their story). Thanks to Atria Books for the eARC and this opportunity —this is my first ARC, and I truly appreciate it! Unloved comes out on Feb 4. Be sure to pre-order so you don’t miss out on Ro and Matty’s journey! 📚🏒💚

Before I begin, thank you NetGalley and Atria Books for the eARC!

Ok, now that that is taken care of....HOLY MOTHER OF BALLS. I-... I... I am speechless. I think I cried more throughout this book for Matt aka Freddy aka Matty than I have any other mmc. He is just too pure for this world 🥺

Let's start at the beginning, shall we? Ro (aka Rosalie) is hands down amazing. The way Peyton wrote her in the first book had me dying to know more, and boy did we get the good stuff. Ro is in a pretty (really) toxic relationship. Like imagine the worst ex you've had, and then probably double that. While he wasn't physically harmful to her, the mental games he played with her were awful. As much as this sucked for her, it made a super realistic story line. However, this doesn't mean that she doesn't have a backbone...because she so does. As her relationship with Freddy furthers, she becomes more confident in herself, and is able to understand Freddy better as well.

Now, Matty (Freddy, Matt, whatever you want to call him), is SO GOOD. Like, I'm not talking bedroom words (although those are top tier as well), but his demons are real. He puts off this playboy exterior, but he is really just lost on the inside. Like Ro, he's been used and manipulated. I honestly cried so much during the chapters with his pov because the flashbacks were so hard to imagine. I just want to wrap this man in a huge hug, put him in my front pocket, and never let him go.

This truly was one of the best books I have read this year, and I don't mean that lightly. I could read this book 20 more times and still feel the same way. Now, when do we get Bennett Reiner and Paloma's book Ms. Peyton??????

I have been so excited for this book since Unsteady and I binged it in one (long) sitting. I honestly wasn’t sure what to expect since Sadie and Rhys will forever be irreplaceable to me, but somehow this book still made my heart ache and had me feeling every emotion so deeply but in such a different way from the first. I really like the authors ability to tell so many different stories within an overlapping timelines but in a way that is really humanizing for all the people involved and i’m looking forward to (hopefully) Bennett’s story soon!

Thanks to Netgalley for this ARC.

I really enjoyed her debut novel, but this one was even better.

The relationship between Ro and Matt was so sweet, supportive, and tender. The story includes the tutor x playboy athlete trope, but nothing about it felt cliche. The slow burn of their friends to lovers while healing each other’s inner wounds was perfect. Can’t wait to read to next in the series.

I LOVED THIS BOOK. I really enjoyed the first book but this one exceeded all of my expectations. The characters were so lovable and relatable through their insecurities and I love the glimpses we get of Rhys and Sadie in this book. My heart broke for Ro and Matty’s insecurities but love how they lifted each other up and found a strong and respectful relationship out of it. 10/10 stars!

Unloved steps into the stories of Ro, a sweet college tutor, and Freddy, a popular college hockey player who struggles with several learning disabilities. Combined, the two face many obstacles - self confidence and reputation issues, destructive past relationships, difficult family lives. Together, they form a friendship and learn to lean on each other as they grow and redeem past hurts.

This book was like Elle Kennedy’s The Deal and Chloe Walsh’s Taming 7 had a love child. The beginning was awesome! I was immediately sucked into the story. Tyler was such a raging douche bag. What a narcissistic villain. The awful tutoring group, Freddy’s dad, Dr. Carmen... So many horrible people working against the main characters. It’s ironic that the title is Unloved, when both main characters are incredibly lovable. Though we quickly learn much of his personality is performative, Freddy’s confidence, warmth, and charm made me care about him immediately. I really liked how Ro was devoted to Freddy’s success in school. She was truly kind to him without expecting anything in return.

An area of weakness for me were the first intimate scenes. I found myself being like, “What the heck do you want, Ro?” I wished there had been more dialogue showing what was going through her mind - “He’s my friend, but I want him. I was seriously shamed in my past relationship, but I trust him so I want this.” Their kissing and first hookups felt kind of random. Blown off as drunken slip ups. Not enough tension for me. The “Will we? Won’t we? Should we?” tipping point of friends-to-lovers relationships was blurry and felt clumsy. A lot of avoidance and sweeping it all under the rug for no reason other than “But we’re friends!” Moreover, after Ro stands up for Freddy at the conference, I wanted that to be a definitive turning point for both of them. I felt like we kept waffling back into weakness. I would’ve rather seen a steady path of growth and change with fewer moments of backsliding at that point in the story.

I also feel like we were missing a strong ending to the Dr. Carmen storyline with Freddy. I wanted absolute mic drop moments from Freddy and Ro as they confidently faced each of their demons.

All that being said, this was a heartfelt, solid college romance. Compared to Unsteady (which I had trouble getting into), Unloved kept me engaged until the end. I liked that it was a bit of a slow burn. I liked how much Ro and Freddy cared about each other. A lot of sweetness between the two. I liked how the author portrayed college life well - lots of phone calls home, campus life, etc. Overall, I would recommend for an emotional but still uplifting college sports romance.

Also — super intrigued by Kane and Bennet’s story lines. I will definitely be keeping my eye out for those books (hopefully!) in the future.

Freddy and Ro's journey towards each other reflect a deeper story of being seen, known, and understood. There was messiness underneath the sunshine nature of both of their personalities, and the growth it took for those vulnerabilities to be revealed was natural, soft, and hard-earned. This book felt like a love letter to the unseen grief that get tucked away in smiles and to those whose bleeding hearts need a bit of a hug. The pace, the depth of the characters, and the heart of this book will certainly draw in any fan of a story that is all about human connection, romantic or platonic.

Peyton Corinne's ability to meld a sweet, romantic, and sensual story with the realistic emotional journeys to being a more healthy, authentic version of yourself shines even brighter in Unloved.

Freddy was EVERYTHING!! The way Peyton has the ability to rip my heart out, stomp all over it and then put it back together. Many tears were had throughout this whole book and i loved every second of it!!!!

Wow. I really loved this book. I’ve been salivating for it since I read Unsteady earlier this year and it did not disappoint. Yes, it’s a hockey romance, but it’s so so much more. I’m not sure if I ever related to two characters so much; just with their struggles, second guessing with themselves and with others, their internal monologue. I think this book is going to really resonate with a lot of people.
Ro and Freddy/Matt’s relationship flowed beautifully from page 1 from friends to lovers, it didn’t feel rushed or forced and just felt so easy….
Both of them honestly ripped my heart out the entire time, but made me feel warm, fuzzy and giddy all at the same time. It’s honestly the ultimate cozy book for all the feels. I didn’t want it to end.
Peyton has really created a world where all these characters feel like your friends. I want to go back and reread Unsteady because I feel like I’ll appreciate Sadie/Rhys and Ro/Freddy even more now.
Now, ma’am, Bennett and Toren books is not a want, it’s a need 😫

Thank you Atria, NetGalley, and Peyton Corinne for this ARC!!

Everyone go preorder the book now!

Hockey season is just around the corner what better way to spend it with “Unloved” by Peyton Corinne. My biggest crime was not reading the first book Peyton Corinne this is such an amazing book I love the characters. Although I did feel personally attack in some parts in the story due to an extremely similar situation I had none of the less I really enjoyed this book hopefully I can read her first book “ Unsteady”.