He was even portrayed as being a welfare sponge. I wondered if perhaps there were too many stereotypes in there? In particular, shitty Ray, had absolutely no redeeming features. I had some reservations about the way Sabrina’s life was portrayed. In order to pay the rent on the house though, they need shitty Ray’s workers compensation benefit money so, as much as he’s disgusting, he’s there to stay. For reasons which weren’t quite made clear, shitty Ray and nana are now hooking up (ew ew ew). Shitty Ray, nana and Sabrina all share a run down house in a sketchy area of Boston. Then her mum married Ray (who I like to call “shitty Ray” because he so is) and then took off and left Sabrina with her nana who mostly did the raising of her and shitty Ray. Her dad knocked up her mum and then took off. Dean, for his part, is also irrationally mean to and about Sabrina. (Dean’s side of the story is told in The Score.) Sabrina and Dean had a drunken hookup way back when but after the TA/grade incident, Sabrina swore off hockey players and has ever since held grudge against Dean. She works hard for her results, while holding down two jobs to put herself through college, and seeing Dean get an A because he was, at the time, banging the TA stings and pokes at her sense of (in)justice like a swarm of angry bees. Sabrina James is an overachiever who has a tense relationship with Dean. He loves hockey but he is also using it to get the education he needs to pursue his business dreams. Garrett, Logan and Dean are all off to pro-hockey (if not immediately, then eventually) but Tucker is going to buy a business and seek his fortune there. He also doesn’t plan on having a career in hockey after college.

He’s the odd man out in some ways – he is quieter than the other guys and keeps his cards close to his chest.

He’s a big guy with auburn/brown hair who, at the start of the book, is rocking a lumberjack style beard (rowr). Tucker does the cooking and ensures everyone eats well but he’s otherwise been fairly quiet and largely unknown to series readers. John Tucker is well known in the rented house he shares with fellow Briar hockey players Garrett Graham, John Logan and Dean Di Laurentis, as being the nurturer. With Tucker’s and Sabrina’s story, The Goal, out now, the wait is finally over. Those of us who read The Score, have been waiting to find out just how it was that Tucker’s announcement (that he was to be a dad and his baby mama was Sabrina James) came about. Kaetrin B Reviews / B+ Reviews baby / Boston / Contemporary / hockey / New Adult 16 Comments

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