Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of gender discrimination, ableism, physical abuse, and emotional abuse.

Gather initial thoughts and broad opinions about the book.

1. Did you expect Tess and Ryan to get together? Were there any points in the novel where you thought they might not end up together?

2. Pucking Wild deals with a lot of sensitive subjects. Did you expect this out of a romance? Why or why not?

3. Did you find Tess or Ryan more relatable? Did you like either character more at the end of the novel than at the start?

Encourage readers to connect the book’s themes and characters with their personal experiences.

1. Have you ever had someone who feels like home, as Rachel does for Tess at the beginning of the novel? What made that person feel that way?

2. Has your identity ever been tied strongly to a particular job or activity, the way Ryan’s is to hockey? Do you think this level of investment is necessarily unhealthy, as the novel suggests?

3. Has there ever been a time when you chose security over happiness? How do you feel about Tess’s decisions regarding her marriage to Troy throughout the novel?