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The Last Buzzer

SCU Hockey, Book 5

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The Last Buzzer

By: J.J. Mulder
Narrated by: Liam DiCosimo, Daniel Lewis
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Summary

In the time it takes to answer a phone call, Desmond's life changes.

Suddenly, he's a single parent to his nephew, living in South Carolina, and the assistant coach for the university hockey team. Life might not be great right now, but he's handling it. And things can't possibly get worse, right?

Jack—the survivor of a horrific childhood— knows that things can always get worse. And right now, for him, worse is hockey. He loves the game and loves the friendships he's cultivated with his teammates, but that's where the good ends and the bad begins. Every time his skates touch the ice, he feels worse and worse, eaten alive by anxiety and stress.

Desmond's arrival becomes a bright spot for Jack in the otherwise bleak nightmare hockey has become for him. There is more than the surface-level attraction, though. Soon, their friendship begins to move beyond the sport that brought them together. Before they know it, Desmond and Jack's lives become intertwined in a way that neither could have expected.

Contains mature content. A complete list of content warnings can be found on the author's website.

Includes a bonus epilogue.

©2026 Podium Audio (P)2026 Podium Audio Contemporary Romance Sports Hockey
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all they needed to do was get desmond's voice actor to do his parts in jack's chapters. he didn't do a perfect aussie accent either, but at least it wasn't a 1950s outback stereotype.

accents ruined it

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I really liked this story, I love the growth of Desmond and Parker’s relationship, and Jack is a gorgeous character. Yes, the Australian accent is awful, but you get used to it

Lovely

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I really enjoyed this whole series. Lovely stories with HEA all around. My only complaint was with some of the accents. Being an Aussie, the Aussie accents in this last book were really hard to overlook. But then again, world famous movie stars rarely get it right, and it didn’t make the story any less enjoyable.

Loved this series

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As an Aussie, Daniel Lewis did an okay job (no idea if he's actually Aussie but the accent still sounds a little too put on to be real). Liam's Aussie accent was... yikes. Really bad. Really breaks the immersion when they're talking about an attractive accent and its the parody of an Aussie accent, rather than the actual hot Aussie accent.

Story-wise, I enjoyed it, very cute.

Cute Story, but Liam should not do an Aussie accent

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The SCU Hockey series was promising with the first two books very interesting. Book 3 was tepid and now book 5 - The Last Buzzer is a train wreck. Sadly it could have been good but the author chose to make the lead characters Desmond and his nephew Parker as unlikeable. The author has a preponderance for asexual characters and therefore leads to less/no/anxious spice. Jack’s character had potential but making him so insipid and characterised as a child by Desmond was not enjoyable.

My goodness Liam should never attempt an Australian accent again.

A very disappointing end to what was a promising series.

Disappointing

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