I read it all in one afternoon and I think that’s all I need to say. Corinne never fails to deliver, and this book is literally no different. She knows how to write a couple people.

Stop, that was so cute! I really liked Unsteady but Unloved was even better. I loved how the author talk about mental health, dyslexia, dyscalculia, and ADHD. It really stood out to me, it’s not often that we see characters dealing with these issues so authentically, and I loved how Freddy’s character was portrayed, his journey felt real and his emotional growth was so impactful.

Ro’s character was another highlight, she’s one of the sweetest character I read in a while. I really enjoyed her relationship with Freddy and how they grew throughout the book. It’s always satisfying to see character evolution like this, and Unloved definitely delivered on that front. Plus, we got a little glimpse of Sadie and Rhys from the previous book, which was really great.

I won’t lie the pace felt slow at first. But honestly, the ending made it all worth it! I love seeing the evolution of the couple’s relationship, and the conclusion didn’t disappoint at all, it was emotional, rewarding and so cute.

I can’t wait for the next one!

💖 Hockey Romance
💖 Neurodivergent Representation (ADHD, dyslexia and dyscalculia)


Trigger Warnings: Grieving main character, emotional abusive ex, teacher/student relationship

The Matthew Fredderic Effect

Matthew (also known as Freddy) is struggling with keeping his grades up and off academic probation. He needs to pass his classes and graduate so he can then move on to play in the NHL. Ro (Rosalie) is the brainy tutor that’s been chosen to help.

This book was a solid 3.5/4 stars with a moderate spice level. Was I obsessed with it? No, but it’s a solid read. I found Matt to be heartwarming and Ro to be interesting as main characters. I wish Matt would have sought counseling instead of only depending on Ro and I wish Ro would have done the same. I felt like their issues were pretty heavy and it just made me sad for them more than it made me fall in love with their love story.

Thank you NetGalley for providing me with an ARC copy in exchange for my honest review.

I frankly don’t know that there are enough words in the English dictionary to properly express my feelings about this book as a whole.

If you know me, you know how much I love Peyton, as an author and as a human. You would also know, just how long I have been waiting for this book and this couple. As lucky as I was, finding Unsteady when I did, as a small indie, debut novel, I had known since the minute I finished reading, that this couple was one I knew would wreck me when the time came.

And wreck me, they did. Peyton has talent for writing these stories and characters and plot, that make you feel as if she is unraveling you at the seams and then stitching you back together. She makes her books so raw and relatable, that it’s not hard to get lost within the pages.

Freddy and Ro were two deeply broken people that I knew I could see myself relating to, no matter the circumstance. Their feelings of not being enough, or not thinking it’s in the cards for them to be loved by the right person, are things I struggle with daily, and to see them written into these characters that I already love so deeply, felt extremely personal and special in a way I can’t begin to explain.

This is one couple, I can say without a doubt, that were made wholly for each other. Their shattered edges fit together like puzzle pieces, healing each other’s jagged edges with every ounce of trust and love shared between them. I loved every second of their story so, so very much.

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<i> "My desperation to be good enough for a boy who didn't love me, who didn't deserve it, now replaced with the gentle surety that I am wholly and completely adored by Matty." </i>

<i> "There's no pressure to perform, to be what Ro wants me to be, because what she wants is <b>me</b>. With or without the sex. With or without the hockey. She think's I'm smart and kind and a good person. As hard as it is to admit, she's the first one to really see me like that."</i>

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Unloved is a romance, yes, but it is so much more than that. It’s a story about grief and belonging and healing. I knew before I even hit the halfway mark, that this was a book I will think about, probably for the rest of my life.

If you loved Unsteady, know that the found family aspect is carried through in a way I had only hoped it would be. Seeing all of my favorite fictional humans together and from different perspectives this time, had my heart filled to the brim with love. (And for all you Bennett girlies out there.. keep yours eyes peeled, this book will feed you well.)

There’s so much more I could say, but I think I’ve more than gotten my point across. This book and its sweet author are so special to me and I hope that everyone else will love them as much as I do, when it’s finally released.

Lastly, I’d like to send a big fuck you to Tyler Donaldson and Carmen Tinley. You know what you did.

Thank you Atria and Netgalley for this ARC.

I really enjoyed this book. It was such a good representation of grief and love. The characters were both so well written. It touched on a lot of important topics with Matt and his ADHD and the relationship with Dr. Tinley. I also thought Ro's relationship with Tyler was a great depiction of toxic relationships. There was a little too much sex for my personal tastes, but I really really loved this book. Matt and Ro were such wonderful characters. I also loved Bennet a lot.

3,75 ⭐️

This was a super cute read but slightly too long. I really loved Rosalie’s character. She was fun and eccentric and her style was so unique and different that I found myself wanting to be best friends with her!! She had the biggest heart and it was so easy to love her character.

Matt’s golden retriever vibes were adorable and I really enjoyed the friends to lovers trope in this book. It seemed really authentic and the build up was totally worth the wait! His reaction to finding out that he was her first kiss during freshman year was the best and really solidified how amazing and in love he already was with Ro.

The grief depiction was done so well in this book, that it really made you form a connection and emotional attachment to Matty. Over all, I enjoyed this book but just didn’t love it as much as the first.

“I think loving you would be the greatest thing in my life.”

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“To be loved is to be seen—and she’s the first person to really see him. That’s why they fall in love.”

I don’t think it was possible for Peyton to write a set of characters I loved more than Rhys and Sadie, but my GOD she did it with Freddy and Ro. This story was so heartfelt, painfully honest on an emotional level, and the most beautiful love story masquerading as a hockey romance. Peyton has a way of writing that makes you feel everything her characters feel, and I spent the entire book with my heart in my throat, wishing I could dive into the pages and give both Freddy and Ro hugs. These two perpetual people pleasers found their way to each other and through the other’s love and belief in them for exactly who they were, flaws and jagged edges and all, found a way to love themselves again. To be confident in all the things they once hated about themselves. I just…ugh. I’ll be thinking about this one for a long time.

(ad pr) Thank you to NetGalley, Atria Books & Peyton Corinne

If you are not a fan of spice in your book, then fair warning this book is not for you.
Spice off the charts and it was fantastic.
Fell in love with the characters especially for Matt aka Freddy, the heartbreak I felt not only for him but for Ro and the anger towards other characters which you will have to read for yourself to find out.
Take a chance of the seemingly bad boy and read this new hot edition.

Publication date: 4th February 2025
Read dates: 5th November 2024 – 15th November 2024

Heartbreakingly beautiful. I have no words for how incredible UNLOVED is. Ro & Freddy have forever stolen my heart.

Peyton’s writing is truly one of a kind as you feel every emotion each character is going through right to its core. I wanted to jump into the book to give Ro the biggest hug. And their love story is one I’ll never move on from.

Thank you Peyton Corrinne, Atria Books, and NetGalley for the chance to read this ARC.

When I woke up and saw the approval for this ARC I cried. Unsteady was a book that profoundly impacted me. As a therapist it is so enlightening to see mental health representation in books, especially done well. Peyton has done it again with Unloved. Even looking at the playlist I knew this book was going to be impactful. There is not only mental health representation, but neurodiversity representation, learning disability representation, and representation of the impact of psychologically abusive relationships. The slow burn of this story had me clawing at the walls, and I was HOOKED. I dreaded going to work or sleeping because it meant time away from this book. The character development was well paced. The importance of advocacy was SO impactful. The converging timelines made me giddy, and also got me excited for the next book in the series. My only critiques are that I wish there was more representation of different body types, or other minorities. It seems that almost every character in this book is thin or athletic. My other critique would be a spoiler outright, so I will say it as vague as possible. I wish there was more accountability for certain characters behaviors in the book. This could show how corrupt systems are though so if that was the goal than disregard.

All in all I was stunned by this book. Rhys and Sadie will always be my favorite due to how much I relate to Sadie’s daddy issues, but I can also relate to being a people pleaser and not wanting to upset others. This book was everything I was hoping for and more. Peyton deserves all the recognition and praise for another job well done.

Dual POV, first person
Rating: 3.75 ⭐️
Spice: 2 🌶️
Tropes: college hockey, tutor/student, sloooow burn
Trigger warnings: loss of a parent (past), people pleasing to the extreme, grief, verbally/mentally abusive partner

I enjoyed Unsteady; college sports romance will hold a forever place in my heart. So I was excited to finally get Ro & Freddy’s story. I knew underneath that playboy persona would be a lovable teddy bear and I was right.

This has everything you want from Peyton Corinne from the first book: the drama, the depth, the emotion, the tension.

Ro is so smart and the way she took the time to help Freddy adapt to his learning disabilities made me want to protect her at all cost. I loved her love for Sadie, her black cat bestie. I hurt for her while she was missing her parents in another state. I was cheering for her as she realized she had people in her corner to be there and put her first.
Freddy, my love. My heart was aching for him. His father is horrible. He has the cards stacked against him with his learning disabilities (from personal experience, dyscalculia is awful and I loved that we got some rep). His mom passed away. He had a messed up relationship with a person of power. And he was basically hanging on by a thread, but the love he had for Ro was so sweet and gentle.
I loved the two of them together and with their found family of the hockey team.

Now to my least favorite parts… which might be a little spoilery but I’ll try my best.

I HATED Tyler. I hated we had so much time with him. I hated (as a fellow people pleaser) how many times Ro kept going back to him or calling him her boyfriend when he was doing such awful things to her. This is a slooooow burn (well over half the book? Maybe even about 70% in) which was nice in a sense of we got a solid friendship for Ro and Freddy. But the amount of time that was a slow burn simply because she was holding onto this empty relationship with Tyler had me banging my head against the kindle.
Which brings me to the fact that we deserved more in the end for his character and the teacher. As in they should have at least been brought the school board for the things they were doing! Instead there’s not enough closure.

We spend a lot of time with the back and forth with Tyler and Ro that it took up a good majority of the book. Unloved is on the bigger side and you really feel the extra 100 or so pages after awhile because the first half dragged with their storyline.

Who was the girl in the car with Freddy when Ro is stood up? I felt like there was more to that?

Why didn’t we get a scene with Ro finding out he kept the butterfly hair clips?

I honestly just keep thinking about my hatred for Tyler at this point.


I do think this was a good “continuation” of the series. I don’t recommend reading as a stand alone simply because it does follow the same timeline as book one and, while I have read it, it has been a hot minute and I felt kinda rushed in some scenes that ended up being the other side of ones from Unsteady.
I’m excited to see where she takes the rest of the series.

*ARC REVIEW*

One of the best hockey romances. I was a bit skeptical of Freddy based on his characterization in Unsteady, but he really is just this fun ball of sunshine. Could there be a sweeter fmc than Ro. I just love this couple and I love this series.

4.5★

This was so endearingly sweet. Ro and Freddy gave me that giddy feeling throughout this entire book. I loved how gentle they were with each other. How they communicated, despite their insecurities and self doubt.

I really felt for both of these characters. They both endured abuse from others that no one should ever have to experience. The way they slowly healed each other was so satisfying though.
Their love was emotional and insanely heartwarming, I couldn’t get enough of them.

I also really enjoyed seeing Ro’s side of her and Sadie’s friendship. They were both fiercely protective of one another. Same for Freddy and Rhys. Really, I love all of the friendships in this series. And the way the team rallied around Freddy when his dad was giving him trouble?! It made me so happy.

I’m already dying for the next book in this series. I need more of Bennett, of course, but I might actually cry if I don’t get more of Toren.

Thank you to NetGalley and Atria Books for the ARC.

I knew this book would destroy me then put me back together again & oh boy did it deliver. What a rollercoaster of emotions.

It was beautifully written. Ro & Freddie’s story was so relatable but most importantly they show each other that those who love you don’t need to be begged to do so.

It has all the feels & I cannot stop talking about it to everyone & anyone who will listen.

Can’t wait for it to drop to grab my own physical copy.

Peyton has done it again! I love love loved this book! While the plot follows the classic athlete x tutor trope, there is so much more to these characters. With kindness, tenderness, and love, these two characters are able to break past the tutor/student relationship and help each other heal from past pain. This book does such a beautiful job of showing the lasting effects and insecurities of previous relationships and experiences, while also maintaining an undercurrent of hope throughout. I can’t wait for the rest of this must read series!

I already knew going in that I was going to love this-
And i was right! Theres something so special and so RIGHT about the way Peyton writes romance that hits you right
In the feels. If you loved Unsteady…buckle up because you may just love UNloved even more

This book was EVERYTHING

Peyton Corinne can take my money any day of the week. I was put into a reading slump after this!!!!

There were some chronology errors or little things I think an editor taking a look at one more time could fix up but otherwise this was perfect. I cried yet again!

In the epilogue when matty was like "that's my wife" I cried

I loved everyhting about this!!!

Shed many, many tears for and with Freddy and Ro. This book was truly perfect. It captured the grief and subsequent loneliness that both of these characters experienced in different ways. As Ro stated that she thought loving Freddy was easy, she was right. Loving both of these characters was easy. They felt very rooted and real. I haven't cried this much reading a romance book in a while.

Absolutely amazing! I couldn’t stop reading it which I’m not a hockey fan but reading it is a whole other story!

had to dnf halfway into the prologue or whatever because the writing was already too slow for me which makes me sad because i was so looking forward to reading this book and have heard so many good reviews :(