Heated Rivalry

Written By Tanya Ahmed

Heated Rivalry by Rachel Reid

Review from @tankazama:
Heated Rivalry by Rachel Reid
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It’s the 10th Jan and do you know what that means? HAPPY HEATED RIVALRY DAY! It’s OFFICIALLY come to the UK! Not that I’ve erm 🏴‍☠️ watched it or anything…

Whilst doom scrolling I kept seeing people post about #heatedrivalry, I gave in and watched all 5 episodes and whilst anxiously waiting for episode 6, I desperately needed something to fill the void so I downloaded the book!

This book was lovely and the adaptation is amazing and beautiful. It’s about two ice hockey players Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov who publicly hate each other whilst having a secret year long romance. They’re navigating their secret relationship whilst dealing with toxic male driven environments, public scrutiny, career pressures and homophobia within the sports community.

Yes it is smutty but it’s so much more than that! The yearning, the flirting is *chefs kiss* The book tackles topics like mental health, ED, challenges the LGBTQ+ athletes face in the hockey world and more featuring neurodivergent characters such as Shane. This was portrayed very well.

It’s a really sweet book. It also made me realise without sounding so cheesy how much I love, love! Lol!

If you’ve read the book or watched the series let me know what you think. And see you at the cottage iykyk!

Tanya Ahmed

Soy Tanya. I’m the youngest of the group...and I don’t really know what to say except that I find these things really awkward. When Linda first came to me with this idea of an online bookclub/review page I was 100% down, although I was a little worried and felt like backing out on many occasions as I felt like my reviews were awful - I’m not good with words at all. If anyone was to ask me a year ago how I found a book, I’d reply: “good” - that’s my review done. But being part of this club with such amazing girls has really made me a lot more confident and comfortable. So I’ll forever be grateful. It’s always a laugh when we’re together, we are guaranteed to get side-tracked but our meetings are always productive and a lot of fun. This is just the beginning for us. I like reading all kinds of books from different genres but prefer romance/YA. With work being full on I like feel-good books that are light and easy. I’m currently in the middle of reading a few books lol but sticking to The Zanzibar Wife by Rebecca Rodriquez. Reading for me is a form of escapism, just getting away from the stress of real life and getting lost in book and falling in love with characters. I can’t list my top 5 or even top 10 so here are a few of my all-time favourites: The Sicilian by Mario Puzo To all the boys I’ve loved before by Jenny Han, A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hoseeini, The Forty Rules of Love by Shafa Kelif Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith and Moonlight Over Manhattan by Sarah Morgan.

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