Think twice if…
- Content warnings: Sexual content, Poverty, Abandonment, Child abuse, Child neglect, Captivity, Childhood trauma
Kicked
by C.M. Stunich, Violet Blaze
This is for the mood where subtle will not do: old best-friend damage, college football pressure, and a hero who has to stop treating love like a career-ending injury.
Goodreads 4.0/5 1,149 ratings
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Length306 pages
Story statusStandalone
Spice4/5 · Passionate / intense
PacingFast
Story profile
What the story promises
The strongest reviewed signals about romance, fantasy, and the reading experience.
Romance promise
- Childhood friends
- Male/female pairing (M/F)
- Rekindled
- High
- Passionate / intense
- The angst delivered
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- Athlete
- Friends to lovers
- Rough / primal
- Tension finally satisfied
- Possessive alpha
- Push and pull
- Desperate / urgent
- Romantic fulfillment
- Dark/tortured soul
- Love/hate tension
- Public / risky style
- Class difference
- Against the wall
- Possessive love interest
- First time / discovery
- Possessive / claiming
- Wall pinning
- Dirty talk (sweet/playful)
- Possessive/protective
- Longing glances
- Rough/aggressive intimacy
- Possessive
- Public play
Fantasy promise
- Sports romance
- Childhood sweethearts reunited
- Sports world / training facility
- Contemporary
- Humans only
- Second chance
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- Academy / campus
- Athlete romance
- The one that got away
- Forbidden love
- College romance
Reading experience
- Dual POV
- Fast
- Angsty
- Raw
- Moderate
- Medium
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- Survivor
- Working class
- Steamy
- Emotional
- Dramatic
- Yearning
- Fast-paced
- Page turner
- Addictive pacing
- Binge read
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Book details
- Length
- 306 pages
- Language
- English
- Format
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