“I knew in Big Stick I would love Oli’s story, and after getting to know this sexy giant in the pages of Butt Ending, I now think I love him more than Myles… so, therefore, I claim them both!” ~ A.M. Madden USA Today Bestselling Author. Sloane has been on her share of dates. She just can’t seem to find the right guy to pop her virgin cherry. Sloane’s mother, a well-known sex guru, believes she’s … believes she’s suffering from a hostile vagina.
Poor Sloane is beginning to believe her mother’s professional diagnosis is true. Except for one small detail. . .
She’s been pining for her best friend’s brother, Oli, for the past decade.
Sloane’s heart is set on the unattainable, sexy-as-sin hockey player. She would give up on her Oli fantasy if it weren’t for those constant heated glares and that one passionate kiss that set her world on fire confirming her hostile vagina is right. Oli is the man for the job.
Problem is, Oli seems to have no intention of settling down and has clearly placed Sloane in the friend zone.
When crisis strikes, Oli and Sloane end up trapped in a car, driving to Canada with a sweet puppy and a whole lot of chemistry. But when Oli realizes she’s a virgin, he wants to run to the farthest hills to get away from her.
Sometimes happily-ever-after isn’t that easy. . .
Butt Ending is a laugh-out-loud friends-to-lovers story. Get ready for foodgasms, dirty talk, and one heck of a sexy alpha-male hockey player.
This is a full length standalone novel with an HEA.
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Oli was a hot hockey hunk but there really was no hockey in this book, I don’t even know what position he played (don’t remember it being Mentioned). I love hockey player romance, I love the connection they have as a team and I didn’t feel that in this book it seemed like it as just a job. There was lots of promise in the storyline and the flawed characters it just didn’t jell for me.
Great book! I love the fact that both characters had a past that put them in the mindset that loving someone was not the right thing, for their own reasons. Overcoming those reasons, took a long time, and they finally find love.
I think this book was a bit drawn out, but written well, great characters, and a great story. The secondary characters were good as well, this series will be a great one to follow!
Best friends brother romance. Both Oliver and Sloane have tragedy in their past that they have not yet overcome to fully function in a relationship. Their journey is arduous but eventually comes together.
Man, this book was full of unexpected twist and turns. The story is based on two people who have suffered loss in life and it has effected their ability to love.
Oliver is a famous hockey player and Sloane’s best friends brother. They have both have an attraction to each other and off the charts chemistry but Oliver thinks it’s best they remain friends. It was great to see the two of them work through their demons so they could fully love each other. You feel their story and root for them to figure it out.
I thought this was a great story. With well defined characters. Made me excited to read the other books in the series to see what’s in store for everyone.
What an emotional roller coaster ride this book was. Both Oli and Sloane had major issues from their past and both were using that as an excuse to not find relationships. This was a great read and I loved the whole thing. Seeing a guy so emotional and vulnerable was a change of pace and how he was willing to work on his issues was awesome. I look forward to reading more from this author.
Very interesting romance. Sloan has the hots for we best friends twin brother. But he won’t give her the time of day. He puts her in the friend zone. An adventure with a cute puppy, helping her with a mouse and a special delivery changes everything between Sloan and Oli. I absolutely loved this storyline. I loved watching these two fall in love and deal with the past. Well written intense gripping enjoyable.
5 star Review Butt Ending (Big Stick #2) by R C Stephens
I know most people will find this hard to believe but R.C. Stephens is a new author to me.
Although this is the second book in the series I had no issues reading as a stand alone.., although I will bow seek out book one as soon as I can.
Butt Ending is a friends to lovers story that had me enchanted from the first chapter. Sloane has had the hots for her best friend’s brother Oli for a long time. Oli is an extremely successful and hot hockey player who really has no intention of settling down any time soon.
Sloane wants Oli to be her first but when Oli finds out she is a virgin he wants to run. I fell hard and fast for both Sloane and Oli and Chance the dog is just too cute not to mention.
Butt Ending is full of great chemistry, some angst and altogether is a great read.
Full of twists and unexpected turns , Butt Ending was a forbidden love story full of loss and hot jocks.
Oliver Russell friend-zoned Sloane Carmichael. First, because she was his twin sister’s best friend and second, because he just didn’t do relationships. Having lost both of his parents at a young age, he was determined to live his life carefree and unattached. He didn’t want to leave anyone behind, mourning him, in the off chance something happened to him.
What he didn’t count on was Sloane Carmichael. The tiny woman who consumes his thoughts and makes him crazy.
Sloane had a major crush on Oliver Russell. Actually lots of women did, considering he played for the NHL, but unlike the rest of the female population, she personally knew Oli. Take that!! No one said her crush was rational. Oliver was her best friends twin brother and she’d had it for near a decade, it didn’t mean she didn’t turn into a horny mess around him, but still she never acted on it. Or perhaps Oliver just ignored her, but whatever. He was unattainable and that made him even sexier, somehow.
After a road trip, stuck in a car with Oliver, things take a turn. Suddenly Oliver seems to take notice but Sloane is looking for more than a one-night stand and Oliver isn’t known for more than just a hookup. Monogamy and Oliver don’t exactly go together, but Sloane isn’t going to give up on her future just because he won’t change.
Asking to be friends, Oliver can’t seem to stay away. Unable to stay away from each other they grow closer, until the attraction they’ve been feeling bursts at the seams and they can no longer stay away from each other. Unfortunately, the dark clouds of their past come rolling in and until they face them neither will be able to have the future they want. Whether that is alone or together.
In this story of loss and love, both Sloane and Oliver have issues to work out, demons to escape, and neither can face a future until they figure out their past.
I loved this story packed full of family and friends. Even though this is the second book in the series, I did not read the first book. Butt Ending can be read as a complete standalone.
Oli, he’s caring, protective, lovable, and definitely swoon worthy. I love him and Sloan’s chemistry and the fight they try to put up against it. Butt Ending is a great book, and I’m excited to see what’s to come in this series.
Great read.
I love a really good book with sexy Hockey players, a Forbidden Romance between characters and Butt Ending had both of these, so it was a Win Win for me.
I really enjoyed Oliver and Sloanes story who have known eachother for 10 years and are obviously Attracted to eachother. So much so that Oli’s Sister Flynn tries to push them together by forcing them to go on a short road trip together, a trip that would change the dynamics of their relationship forever. Being in close proximity on the trip evokes feeling within them both mostly naughty feelings at first, as the chemistry crackles with a passion between them. But they both hold back, talking themselves out of trying to be together and making excuses, as they both have baggage from their pasts that needs to be resolved,before a future of any kind could happen.
This is a fantastic story, it was Funny, sexy and emotional and I was totally engrossed within the pages, I relished every chapter I Loved it and I highly recommend it.
4 Pucks
I loved the emotional roller coaster that is Sloane and Oli’s relationship. The we-have-a-mutual-friend to friends to lovers romance kept me on my toes and their histories are so heartbreaking that you just feel for them. Without knowing it, they’re perfect for each other because they want to heal themselves to be together. It’s a beautiful, wonderful thing.
I definitely recommend this book.
R. C. Stephens’ Butt Ending is the follow up to Big Stick. Mind you that they are stand alone books with common characters. This is the story of Oli and Sloan and what a story it is. Hold on for a wild ride with this sexy hockey player and the one girl that he can’t get out of his mind.
The lives of Oli and Sloan are so intertwined that it is hard to imagine that they are not a couple and if Flynn, Oli’s sister who happens to be Sloan’s best friend, has anything to do with it…they will be a couple. After catching them in an impassioned kiss a few years ago, Flynn has decided to find ways to help them along which explains the road trip from Chicago to Oli and Flynn’s hometown in Canada. Oli and Sloan have chemistry in spades so that is not the problem. The problem is that Oli is broken. He has issues and his carefree, non-committal lifestyle of sleeping with a different puck bunny (or two) every night was all he ever wanted…until Sloan made him want more.
I went back and forth between loving and hating Oli and Sloan for that matter. I wanted to shake Sloan and tell her to free the bunny chaser and find a man that deserves her. Oli needed a dad to sit him down and tell him to not let the best thing that has ever happened to him get away. R. C. Stephens had me all up in my feelings. I laughed. I cried. I wanted to slap Oli. I got a little hot and bothered. I cheered but most of all, I could not put the book down. Butt Ending definitely deserves 5 out of 5 propellers!