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He gets no sympathy because his trauma is painted over by his parents and himself; ultimately his trauma is painted over by the author.
As someone else here commented, the sex scenes were great. That's all that can be said about this book. Boooooo!
#RachelReid
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Kyle survived a major traumatic experience as a teenager, which explains his attraction to older men due to his abuser and his plush financial situation due to his parents sending him away. None of this is fair to Kyle, but Kyle does absolutely nothing to heal from it, and no other people […]
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If pro hockey is as retirement-phobic as it is homophobic, then we readers need an explanation via the plot. Whether or not this is the case, there still is possibility of conversations with retired players and near-retired players and conversations about post-retirement opportunities. It's […]
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On the side of hockey, we get barely any hockey action that describes his acceptance of the reality of retirement. There's really only Eric describing once to Kyle about hating to face his last away game, his last home game, his last flight with his team between away cities. We don't […]
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In this book, Eric ends up being with Kyle (happily ever after?) and retiring from hockey, so what's the problem? On the side of Kyle, we get no dialog between the two or between Eric and his friends about dealing with his own concept. There's not even any internal dialog that tells us how […]
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One problem is that his concept of being in love with someone who is almost a generation younger than him (but seriously, a 15-year gap in age is not insurmountable, and it's also not a generational gap, unless you think people regularly have kids when they're 15 years old). The second […]
🧵 1/ Here's a more detailed thing I wrote for Reddit.
I just finished reading the book. I wanted to like Eric, as his proclaimed bisexuality and desire to explore men after being freed in a heterosexual divorce seems like something worth digging deeper into. He is also nearing retirement from […]
youtu.be/gseXLRejeOU?...
#BookCon #JacobTierney #RachelReid Popverse for the win (again!)!! #HeatedRivalry
_Common Goal_ by Rachel Reid. I liked this book least of the first four in the Game Changers series.
sex scenes: really good
hockey: not enough
plot: repetitive
characters: unlikable
character development: nonexistent
dialog: okay
inner dialog: repetitive
#RachelReid
Up next, #TheThursdayMurderClub 🔪!
Anyone out there a fan of the book series? Need some comments or opinions on the first novel...
I've seen the film on #Netflix naturally 🙌🏻.
#MyNextRead📖 #RichardOsman #QuirkyCrime #LetsGo #CrimeRead #BookLover #BookWorm #ToughGuy #GameChangerSeries #RachelReid
Decision made 👏🏻!
Side Note - @bsky.app when are you going to start doing 24-hour voting polls 🤔?
#MyNextRead📖 #BookLover #RachelReid #CharlaineHarris #BookVotes #LoveIt #BookWorm
Crossing of cannons... _Common Goal_ name dropped Diego Luna, the actor of Cassian Andor.
"Well, you know. I was young and had dreams of marrying Diego Luna."
#RachelReid
8.- I read Rachel Reid's _Tough Guy_, the third in her Game Changers series of contemporary hockey romances.
#2026Reading #RomBkBlog #RachelReid
Back to reading the Game Changers (aka Heated Rivalry) series by Rachel Reid. I'm in the middle of the fourth book, _Common Goal_. Check out this choice quote.
"He looked absolutely stunning, like a fallen angel who was only on this planet to teach mortals how to fuck."
#RachelReid
Finished #TimeToShine by #RachelReid today!! So good!! I loved it and Casey and Landon so much!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️🏒🏒🎄🎄
Cada uno de los libros de la serie #GameChangers ha sido un placer literario para mí.
El estilo e ingenio de #RachelReid podrá no se del agrado de muchos, sin embargo, conmigo encontró un fan: descomplicado, picante y directo al punto.
The decision is made 👀...
#MyNextRead is #TheThursdayMurderClub 🔪!
Looking forward to it once I've completed #ToughGuy 👏🏻📚🏳️🌈📖!
#Bookworm #BookLover #ReadingLife #RichardOsman #RachelReid #GameChangerSeries
Additional/Follow up post as I need help with #MyNextRead after I've finished #ToughGuy...
Help me out in the comments section!
Leave your opinions on what I should go for & why or the #ProsAndCons of both books 📚🙌🏻🏒🔪!
#GameChangerSeries #TheThursdayMurderClub #RachelReid #RichardOsman #BookLover
& its onto #MyNextRead 🙌🏻...
Absolutely adored #ProjectHailMary 🌌✊🏻🚀👾!
Back to the #GameChangerSeries with the #3rdNovel, #ToughGuy 👏🏻🏳️🌈🤩.
Opinions needed on the next book after this:
Common Goal?
The Thursday Murder Club?
#BookLover #Bookworm #ReadingTime #FistMyBump #AndyWeir #RachelReid
_Common Goal_ rambling: Does it have to be this confusing? Kip just got a full ride admission to grad school to study art history. Kip is engaged to Scott. Kyle who met Kip through their mutual friend Maria, is already studying art history but does not really care for it. Kyle has a crush on Kip […]
A collection of doodles etc. I did while reading ROLE MODEL from #RachelReid 's book line... which my 3rd re-read I finished a while back.
I dare say Troy x Harris has now topped my ranking for my most fave GameChangers pairings 🥰 They are way too adorbs~
#troybarrett #harrisdrover #MOP687
Tonight I begin reading _Common Goal_, the fourth book in the _Game Changers_ series.
Uh oh, is this book gonna hit closer to home for me? Eric Bennet, goalie for the NY Admirals, was recently divorced from his wife. According to the back-cover text, he gets hooked up with a man, who becomes a […]
If I had to choose a sex scene from the Game Changers series I would want to draw, it'd be this one. Tough Guy page 185. It's cute and earnest.
I want to draw a silly SFW version as well that uses the dialogue though. Time to start brainstorming. #toughguy #rachelreid #hockey #gay #mmromance
“Do you want the problem to go away?”
“No,” Ilya said seriously, looking Shane dead in the eye. “I do not want the problem to ever go away".
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A little homage to Heated Rivalry ♥️
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#heatedrivalry #ilyarozanov #shanehollander #hudcon #hollanov
#connorstorrie #hudsonwilliams #rachelreid
Reid über Heated Rivalry - Autorin Reid verrät Details zu den schwulen Eishockeyspielern #HeatedRivalry #RachelReid #Eishockey #SchwuleEishockeyspieler #Bücherliebe
Finished my Game Changers painting after enjoying #heatedrivalry - maybe hockey IS a fun sport? #RachelReid says this is what the NHL could be if we chose love and understanding. If you like it my print is available in my Etsy shop Summer #booksky summerinphilly.etsy.com/listing/4475...
Spoilers for Tough Guy Chapter 12! What if Ryan stayed at Fabian's instead of leaving during the rainstorm?
#art #toughguy #ryanprice #hockey #art #cute #gay #rachelreid
