Book Review: Heated Rivalry by Rachel Reid

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Heated Rivalry - Rachel Reid


I stumbled across this book as I do so many of my books these days, our fellow tank mate Elley told me about it. A m/m hockey romance with an enemies to lovers subplot? Yes please!
Literally all I did this morning was read this book and make an enormous pot of soup, which I then ate while continuing to read this book.
It was deeeelightful.

Him by Sarina Bowen & Elle Kennedy is always going to be the quintessential hockey boys falling in love novel for me, because it's so damn perfect, but Heated  Rivalry comes in a very close second now.
It's book 2 in the Game Changers series. Book one (aptly called  Game Changer) seems to be about a hockey player (Scott Hunter - he makes very brief appearances in this book) who falls in love with a barista, but they have to keep it on the DL because of "hockey-is-homophobic' reasons. This one doesn't appeal to me much because it sounds like the MCs are in love right away and the only thing stopping them is people being dicks.
In this one, however, the main thing stopping them is the fact that they have an intense rivalry, on and off the ice.

Our two hunky hockey players are Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov, captains of rival teams, who have a burning hatred for one another, but also apparently enjoy lots of hate sex on the side.
Does that hate sex turn into begrudging love? You bet your ass it does.
The driving force of the novel is entirely the "Will they/won't they" aspect of their relationship, no overarching evil to defend against. I'm okay with that. I was in the mood to read enemies shagging, and that is what this book delivered.  I actually paid money for this book because the libraries didn't own it, and I'm glad I did.

It has a high heat level, so buckle up.
Would definitely recommend to anyone who loves m/m romances, hockey romances, enemies to lovers stories, or anyone with eyeballs.

You can find the book here: Goodreads | Amazon 

Love,
Lady P.

Comments

  1. Elley OtterApril 15, 2019 at 3:16 PM

    Dayummmmmmmn you read that so fast!! LOL I'm so glad you liked it so much (even though you had to pay money for it). I am waffling about buying Game Changing, mostly because lending is turned OFF. If it was lending enabled I'd buy it in a heartbeat, so I could share it with you. :)

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