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Heated Rivalry by Rachel Reid
4.0
- gay romance
- ice hockey players
- rivals to lovers
- very spicy, I mean, very very very spicy
- cutesttttt MCs
The first three pointers here is enough to explain why I picked this book up. When I started the book, i thought it would be just two hundred pages of smut. And it was, almost 70% of it. And the very forbidden half naked bodies on the book cover did encourage that opinion of mine. Almost 70% into the book was when the rivals-with-benefits started turning to something more. I do wish there had been more seggs-free encounters between the boys. The ones we got was extremely cute and i will tell you, they deserved more pages. Shane and Ilya had chemistry to be adored and explored more. And the author thought so too, cause there is a sequeeeeel!!! Yay!!! We didn't get to know more about the side characters but I did read an excerpt of another book in the series which I think is interesting and would be as cute and more angsty as this one.
Ilya's backstory didn't affect me much but it was a good one. It gave space to a lot of situations. I hope he would get the family life he deserved with Shane without any homophobic bastards interfering. Oh yes, Ilya is Russian. So imagine his cute English with the sexy accent. When Ilya was the intimidating, bad boy figure, Shane was the golden retriever good boy. It's quite hard to imagine Shane to be on the ice, furious and playing such a dangerous sport. He is a baby. They have plans to raise children in the future, maybe they could adopt me. But it would be hella awkward cause I just read all their spicy encounters and eww! They are my parents and I know what they like when they have****well, moving on****The book was easy to read but not beginner friendly. A smut virgin mind would blow up overwhelmed by the amount of smut in it.
Overall, it is a solid 4 star read. Yeah, i took that one out of it, cause I didn't get enough scenes to swoon over. But to conclude, i love this book.
- ice hockey players
- rivals to lovers
- very spicy, I mean, very very very spicy
- cutesttttt MCs
The first three pointers here is enough to explain why I picked this book up. When I started the book, i thought it would be just two hundred pages of smut. And it was, almost 70% of it. And the very forbidden half naked bodies on the book cover did encourage that opinion of mine. Almost 70% into the book was when the rivals-with-benefits started turning to something more. I do wish there had been more seggs-free encounters between the boys. The ones we got was extremely cute and i will tell you, they deserved more pages. Shane and Ilya had chemistry to be adored and explored more. And the author thought so too, cause there is a sequeeeeel!!! Yay!!! We didn't get to know more about the side characters but I did read an excerpt of another book in the series which I think is interesting and would be as cute and more angsty as this one.
Ilya's backstory didn't affect me much but it was a good one. It gave space to a lot of situations. I hope he would get the family life he deserved with Shane without any homophobic bastards interfering. Oh yes, Ilya is Russian. So imagine his cute English with the sexy accent. When Ilya was the intimidating, bad boy figure, Shane was the golden retriever good boy. It's quite hard to imagine Shane to be on the ice, furious and playing such a dangerous sport. He is a baby. They have plans to raise children in the future, maybe they could adopt me. But it would be hella awkward cause I just read all their spicy encounters and eww! They are my parents and I know what they like when they have****well, moving on****The book was easy to read but not beginner friendly. A smut virgin mind would blow up overwhelmed by the amount of smut in it.
Overall, it is a solid 4 star read. Yeah, i took that one out of it, cause I didn't get enough scenes to swoon over. But to conclude, i love this book.