Tough Guy

304 pages

English language

Published 2024 by Harlequin Enterprises ULC.

ISBN:
978-1-335-53459-0
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reviewed Tough Guy by Rachel Reid (Game Changers, #3)

Worth the detour if you finished Heated Rivalry and plan to read The Long Game

Read this after reading Heated Rivalry and Game Changer. After two books of hockey players doing everything they can to avoid get outed as gay including avoiding gay bars, clubs, community, etc, it was kind of hilarious to find out that Ryan Price (this book's protagonist) has spent the same time period casually going to gay events and living in the gay village, and coming out to his teammates, and nobody outed him to the public because that would be fucking rude. 😂

(Yes, I know Ryan isn't as big a star as Scott, Ilya, or Shane, but still. 😂)

Ryan's romance with Fabian is cute and I kinda wish we'd had more on how athletes and musicians actually have a lot in common - I've heard musicians say they are "athletes of the fine motor system".

I initially skipped this book, going straight to The Long …

Subjects

  • Fiction, romance, sports
  • Fiction, romance, contemporary
  • Fiction, sports
  • Fiction, romance, lgbtq+, gay