A review by ellemnope
Check & Mate by Ali Hazelwood

5.0

This woman can write just about anything and grab my attention fully. Such a fun and cute read. I know very little about chess, don't really care to learn that much by way of actually playing it myself, and yet I was wholly absorbed by this plot. Shelved as YA, but reads as New Adult. Less "spicy" than her adult fiction, but with the same romantic style and a super slow burn. The ending wasn't quite as involved as I had hoped for, but still wrapped up nicely. Hazelwood is an autoread author for me for sure...which is saying a lot since romance is one of my least read genres.