#LGBTGIA sports romance

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Review: Be My Endgame by Zarah Detand

Rating: 4.25🌈 “It was on. Number one against number three, battling it out in a tight race for the top spot in the Premier League.” — Be My Endgame: An MM Rivals-to-Lovers Sports Romance by Zarah Detand It thanks almost totally to Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney’s ‘Welcome to Wrexham’ series about buying Wrexham, a Welsh football (soccer to us in the US) team, I do know a bit about the…

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Review: The Play (Charleston Condors Book 4) by Beth Bolden

Rating: 5🌈 What a wonderful story and fantastic way to send off the series and this team. The interactions between holdover player, defensive end Deacon Harris and the new owner of the Charleston Condors, security industry billionaire Grant Green, has been a subtle but significant part of the series and team’s dynamic. It was always clear that the two men had a strong connection and attraction…

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Review: Bromantic Puckboy (Puckboys Book 6) by Eden Finley and Saxon James

Rating:3.25🌈 NHL veteran Cody Bilson, he of the many ex’s and impulsive tendencies, is next on the list for his storyline. Cody has been a character that’s been on the outskirts of the previous books and those characters romances. Honestly, Cody has never made much of a mark on this series and, in comparison with the other characters, he doesn’t come across as strong or as multifaceted as those…

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Review: Reading the Play (Watkins Glen Gladiators Book 5) by V. L. Locey

Rating: 4.5🌈 I’ve loved getting to know the latest of author V. L. Locey’s hockey team , the Watkins Glen Gladiators, and their various journeys into HEA. Reading the Play actually involves two teams and players from each team, an old misunderstanding, and a white hot chemistry. On the ice, on skates with mad skills. All of which, Locey does so beautifully. The characters of competing ice…

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Review: The Score (Charleston Condors #3) by Beth Bolden

Rating: 4.5 🌈 I may have become disillusioned with the RL game of football but not with Beth Bolden’s fantastic group of connected football series. They continue to keep me emotionally invested in each and every team and player. The Charleston Condors are the third team and series represented in the group and The Score signals the penultimate storyline as this wonderful series comes to an…

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Review: Blitzed (Rules of Possession Book 3) by S.E. Harmon

Rating: 4.5🌈 From the sharp dialogue to the layered plotting and fabulous characters, I think this is my favorite of the series. I absolutely fell in love with each man Harmon created here, whether it is the warmhearted NFL tight end Andrew McAdams or the emotionally wounded Jesse Fox, who helps to run Rainbow Harbor for LGBTGIA youth. These men have such dimensions that they vividly come alive…

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The Game (Charleston Condors Book 2) by Beth Bolden

Rating: 5🌈 I absolutely loved this story! Micah Rose was a character whose complicated journey started with the Miami Piranhas team and series . A damaged, angry man, Micah’s transformation was a side storyline that was so compelling that the reader just wanted to know why he was so hurt and broken that it almost cost him his career in Miami. In The Game, Bolden gives her readers the answers.…

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Review: Rookie Mistakes (A Lights Out Novel) by Beth Laycock

Rating: 4.75🌈 ““Anything happens in Grand Prix racing, and it usually does.”—Murray Walker” — Rookie Mistakes by Beth Laycock What an excellent read! I’m not sure what the title and the beginning of the synopsis refers to because it really doesn’t pertain to anything in this story, imo. In a multi-author series about one F1 racing season, the authors focus has been the F1 racing circuit…

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Review: Foolish Puckboy (Puckboys Book 4) by Saxon James and Eden Finley

Rating: 4.5 🌈 The Puckboys series have been such a great fun sport’s romantic romp from the beginning story! Now with Foolish Puckboy, it’s so wonderfully entertaining and appropriate that authors James and Finley bring the entire Queer Collective into the story at the very beginning, just as Alek Emerson has come out as pansexual, transferring to Seattle’s NHL team, and starting anew! “The…

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Review: Black Flagged (A Lights Out Novel) by Emma Jaye

Rating: 3.75🌈 Black Flagged (A Lights Out Novel) by Emma Jaye is a book that had me waffling over the rating because Black Flagged is actually two different novels, one that’s a tad more successful than the other. Unfortunately, the better one doesn’t really have much of anything to do with racing but rather with past murders, current murder attempts, and the mercenary brotherhood, the orta,…

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Review: Scoring Points (A Lights Out story ) by H.L Day

Rating: 2🌈 “You can’t change what happened. But you can still change what will happen. ⁃ Sebastian Vettel.” After reading Scoring Points by H.L. Day, my first thoughts were you had one job in this series , that was to write a book about Formula 1 racing and you’ve tossed the memo. How did one author go so wrong in a multi author series about specific teams with specific drivers racing on…

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Review: Pole Position (A Lights Out Novel) by Charlie Novak

Rating : 4🌈 “We win and lose together. “ -Sir Lewis Hamilton” In this series about Formula 1 racing, each author takes one racing team, a driver or two on that team , the international races in the series , and the dramatic events that occur during that season. Major events, even conversations crossover between novels. Like the other books, this story begins with a quote from a race driver…

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Review: Playing Deep (Miami Piranhas Book 5) by Beth Bolden

Rating: 4.75🌈 A finale book is a hard one to read and I imagine, extremely hard for the author to write. For a reader, especially a fan of the series, expectations are high to see how the writer can send off the characters and close down the arc in a way which satisfies us and makes sense. Much the same as it must be for the author who’s been writing and creating these characters and their…

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Review: Winning The Season (Miami Piranhas Book 4) by Beth Bolden

Review: Winning The Season (Miami Piranhas Book 4) by Beth Bolden

Rating: 5🌈 I’ve been waiting for this story since I started the series. It’s been hinted at throughout each book and Coach Asa Dawson is such a powerful person that he’s been able to help make each couple’s story and romance more interesting and real as it developed through the framework of the team and game. So the references to a past drama and a unrequited love story thread for Coach just…

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Review: Double Play (Hit and Run Book 3) by E.M. Lindsey

Review: Double Play (Hit and Run Book 3) by E.M. Lindsey

Rating: 5🌈 The finale story of the Hit and Run trilogy, Double Play brings back Herve Truffaut, the ex boyfriend of Pietro and ex best friend/employer of Thierry as a main character. Herve’s been a truly villainous person and his actions have caused enormous emotional pain as well as huge harm physically to both those men. He’s been hated and his narcissistic, self destructive personality gave…

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Review: Playing By The Rules (Miami Piranhas Book 3) by Beth Bolden

Review: Playing By The Rules (Miami Piranhas Book 3) by Beth Bolden

Rating: 4.5🌈 Playing By the Rules brings to focus a relationship that’s been referred to in the previous books, that of the obviously close connection between the highly stressed young Miami Quarterback and their new Quarterback Coach . This is their story, from beginning to a realistic HFN at the end. With a slight wobble for me at the start of the novel, where it seems to want to launch a…