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What do you do when the weather is absolute trash outside?? You finally dive into the show everyone is talking about!

There‘s a surprising amount of emotion packed into this. I enjoyed that the most. Ilya is so snarky; I cackled out loud over and over again. Will definitely need to finish their story.

OH MY STARS!!!! I love this book! It made me feel all the feels. I laughed, I teared up, I fell in love and I felt happy. This book has everything I want - a good plot, amazing characters, spice, steam, enemies to lovers, competition and a whole lot of laughs. I now want to dive into the whole series because I am not ready to let go of this world. Highly recommend!!

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I have entered my Hockey Era… now I need all the recommendations - books, movies, videos… whatever, 👀👀👀💙💙💙

#books #hockey #recommendations

I was completely influenced to read this after seeing the show all over my social media, and while I didn‘t really like the first third, the last bit has to be some of the sweetest romance I‘ve read, which is quite a feat considering it‘s also probably the spiciest.

I love when the internet comes together to be obsessed with something.

(Art by Gabrielle Drolet, found via Instagram)

So excited to read this! Tell me something that won‘t make sense until I read it!

#books #HeatedRivalry #WhatWontIGetUntilIReadIt #hockey

This is written like fanfiction and I don't mean that in a derogatory way. Fanfiction assumes knowledge of the material, the characters, and this is like that.

Nothing is explained or described because the assumption is that you already know. There's no sense of place.The author says this wasn't based on hockey RPF but it reads like it was.

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A spicy hockey romance that was also really sweet. I genuinely appreciate when the author skips an unnecessary second act breakup. For all the sexiness the eventual relationship felt very wholesome.

I picked this up mostly because of the new show on HBO based on this novel. Guess what I'll be watching this weekend 😎

You can't even watch the show (legally) in the UK yet 🤣

They are all available on Kindle Unlimited. I'm going the library route so I've reserved all of the books and I'll get them in February I think

I better be in the mood for hockey romance because I'll have 6 books of it

I knew this was going to blow-up since the announcement of a TV miniseries of the hockey romance. For a compelling slow burn with interesting characters, I thought it was well done for a MM romance. The show fleshes out the characters a little more and sells the chemistry but you got to give it to author Rachel Reid for giving us a spicy take on queer romance after the popularity of Red, White, and Royal Blue.

Sigh I totally get why people are obsessed with this book now❤️ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Ahhh, friends, I get so happy when I see Rachel Reid out in the wild! (Actually, I get happy when I see Anybody Reid, because I think, “Rachel!” but it‘s usually just Ava and then I‘m a bit sad.) I‘m glad to see her front and centre at my local Chapters. Also, I had no idea there was a TV adaptation in the works. (Possibly it‘s already out?) I love this book to the moon and back so I dunno how I feel about that.

I've never read this but hockey rival romance adaptation sounds fun

While waiting for my copy of Pole Position to arrive from the UK, I was looking for a rivals to lovers queer romance with a slow burn. This is exactly what I was looking for, and I loved it. 5 🌟‘s! I‘m reluctant to read the sequel in case it sours Shane and Ilya‘s story.

It‘s #ManicMonday time! H is an easy letter.

Book: Heated Rivalry by Rachel Reid

Author: Robin Hobb

Movie: Hocus Pocus

Show: The Hungry and the Hairy

Singer: Jimi Hendrix

Song: House of the Rising Sun

I know I said I‘m not running #gaymay as a Thing, but I figured I‘d do some recs posts in case any of y‘all do want to read all (or mostly, or more) queer books next month. These grids are NOT exhaustive. They don‘t even include all my faves. They‘re just a bunch of great books for you to explore.

First up: romance. Individual books highlighted in the comments. The tagged book is for weird, emotional hockey romance with a hilarious loon scene.

I was gonna read a library book next, but I‘ve read three awesome queer books in a row and I figure I might as well make it a guaranteed four with the second stop on my Rachel Reid Reread Tour.

HEATED RIVALRY is my fave. It‘s so gloriously emotional and weird. I mean, how many romances deliver hilarious loon scenes? NOT MANY.

This is another enemies to lovers mm romance with lots of spice!! 🌶🌶🌶 I‘m totally not a sport person but Rachel Reid knows her hockey. The others in the series are also good but this one is something special! And she‘s FINALLY RELEASING THE SEQUEL!! In APRIL!!! I did a reread of this one and it was just as good! I can‘t wait until this pair finally have their HEA!! @chasjjlee

All these new books and I'm sitting here re-reading a hockey romance. I'm just not feeling it with anything more demanding at the moment☹️

Part 2 of my 2019 Long List, presented in reading order rather than order of preference.

4.5-star reads are in bronze; 5-star reads are in copper. The former is my loved-the-hell-out-of-it rating; the latter means I loved it so much I‘m incoherent and/or verbose about it.

July stats time! Yeah, I know it‘s a lot. One readathon and a whole bunch of one-day-only novels bumped me up.

I‘m thrilled I had 3 5-star reads last month! I emerged from July totally obsessed with Rachel Reid‘s hockey romances (GAME CHANGER and HEATED RIVALRY) and in glorious, stressful love with RED, WHITE, & ROYAL BLUE by Casey McQuiston. 2019 remains my Year Of Awesome Romance!

I‘m mighty glad I knocked so many books off La TBR, too. Go me!

The current #24In48 challenge is all about romance—and I just so happen to be midway through an unplanned Year of Awesome Romance (and Erotica)! These twelve books are probably my faves, but they‘re far from the only great romances I‘ve read in 2019. Somehow, the genre keeps on coming through for me in a huge way. I‘m mighty glad I fought past my assumptions a few years back and started reading it.

OH MY GOD, Y‘ALL. Rachel Reid is officially on my auto-reads list. Her second book presents as a good boy/asshole enemies-to-lovers romance, but it‘s immediately obvious to the reader that Shane and Ilya don‘t actually hate each other at all. Reid ramps up the angst (and the steam) as she takes us through to the point where they realize it. It‘s a glorious blend of sexy, tense, deep, sweet, fun, & hilarious. (THE LOON SCENE.) I‘m in love. 5 stars.

I emphasized the angst earlier, but this book also made me laugh really, really hard more than once. On top of that, Ilya has totally earned Preferred status on my Queer Assholes List.

Friends, I‘ve been waiting for this alllllll day. HEATED RIVALRY is about 6000% angstier than Rachel Reid‘s first book, GAME CHANGER, but it turns out she‘s awesome at both modes. I‘m gonna wallow in my book and eat my popcorn and try not to bawl my eyes out over hockey players in looooooove.