#baseball romance

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Breakout Year by K. D. Casey

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play along by liz tomforde

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It’s finally feeling like fall outside, so it’s kind of fitting that it’s the end of September. I had a pretty decent reading month with some new favorites, a DNF, and a contender for favorite book of the year. So here’s what I read this month:

Cemetery Boys 5⭐️ {review}

In Repair 5⭐️ {review}

I’m Not Your Pet 4.5⭐️ {review}

The Wicker King -DNF @ 42%

Wild Beast Forest House vol 1 4⭐️ {review}

Dibs 4⭐️ {review}

Fangs vol 3 5⭐️ {review}

Zomromcom 3.5⭐️ {review}

One Has To Die -currently reading

My absolute favorite books this month were In Repair and Cemetery Boys. Both were so good and they’re definitely contenders for my favorite book of the year! 😊

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cr: you should be so lucky by cat sebastian

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Queer Reads: EM Lindsey

For the fifth of Wednesday’s post, we have two sports: hockey AND baseball. 

E.M. Lindsey writes a variety of topics in the romance world, and I haven’t read nearly enough of their books. Lindsey’s books are full of really well written angst, disability rep, and trauma, with a healthy side of well-communicated kinky spice. 

The hockey books are two duos, one co-written with Marina Vivancos, and the other one solo written. While I enjoyed all of them, the West Coast Sin Bin books, Breakaway and Soft Hands, have the added bonus of being set in Denver. I love a story set in my home state. 

The baseball trilogy is also set in Denver, and features a sports world where out players are a thing (which the hockey books do too). Lindsey does hurt/comfort really well, and book 3 has a fantastic redemption arc in it. Out of the 9 or 10 baseball books I read (and attempted to read) in April, these three were definitely my favorites. 

On my to-read list of basically every other book Lindsey has written, so check them out. 

Remember folks, read queer all year. 

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A home-run of a story about love on the baseball field, NO BATTER, NO BATTER by Rena Butler is funny and ready for you to read as part of Hat Trick: A Triple Play of Queer Sports Romances.

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2022 Books I’ve Read

262/75

The Change Up by Meghan Quinn

(The Brentwood Boys book 5)

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Could you imagine if you two fall in love? Friends to lovers, God that makes my little romantic heart beat faster.

I want to start this off with some bullet points of information that made it impossible not to love Maddox and Kinsley, and their bond.

•they have a standing phone date

•Kinsley has kept a list of Maddox’s booty calls, and their scheduled “days”

•the way that they (in a very not so friends way) think about each other’s bodies

• Maddox (constantly) draws her from memory, especially when they’ll on the phone

•how comfortably they are with each other, no matter the topic

•most importantly, they’ve been each other’s constant for most of their lives

Maddox and Kinsley were neighbors as kids, and have been best friends all their lives. Through the family drama, Maddox going pro, the revolving doors. For ten years, their friendship has been long distance, surviving through the phone. Until Kinsley gets her dream job close to him and he offers to let her stay with him. In his one bedroom apartment. It turns his life upside down! Now, instead of hook ups after games to fight off the adrenaline, all he needs is to spend time with Kinsley. Which he happily rushes home to do. As best friends, they never shied away from being completely open and honest about their sex lives...which carried over into them being more than friends. Nothing is off limits, not even the kitchen floor! Maddox did his damnedest to reassure her it was never just about sex. He wants to love her, and worship her. And he absolutely does. They were both so afraid that taking their relationship to the next step would threaten their bond. I’m hardwired to expect conflict around the 70% mark in a book, no matter how perfect things are going. The second it started, my stomach dropped, my heart shattered. I was a wreck until things were fixed. Maddox and Kinsley deserved their happy ending. I just wanted the universe to make it easy for them. And yes as expected, I cried during the letter.

My Favorite Quotes:

•”She’s my best friend. It’s like coming home when I talk to her.”

•”Take whatever you want of mine.”

•”Maddox? Do you want to kiss me?” “More than I’ve ever wanted anything in my life.”

•”I love you, Kinny, and I want all of you, every last inch of you.”

•”I’m not only in this for incredibly good sex. I’m in this for the good, the bad, and the naughty.”

•”Ask for it, Kin.”

•”Do whatever the f!ck you want to my body, Kin. As long as it’s you, I don’t care what happens.”

•”I always knew this is where I would end up, with you, my love, my soul...my home.”

8/10 Dirty Birdy

9/10 Friends to Lovers

7/10 Sports Romance

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The cover of my upcoming YA Fake Relationship Romance, OUT OF MY LEAGUE, is revealed!!

I absolutely LOVE it!

I’ll leave a blurb below in case you want to check it out. You can preorder it on Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B086KKPYCK/ref=dbs_a_w_dp_b086kkpyck

Out of My League: A Fake Relationship Romance - Kindle edition by Sutton, Sarah. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, pho

Or add it to your Goodreads TBR!: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52237961-out-of-my-league

Out of My League

It’s all fun and games until someone catches feelings. Sophia Wallace is convinced her life is over when her high school cuts the journa...

𝙄𝙩’𝙨 𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙛𝙪𝙣 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙜𝙖𝙢𝙚𝙨 𝙪𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙡 𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙘𝙖𝙩𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙨 𝙛𝙚𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙨.

Sophia Wallace is convinced her life is over when her high school cuts the journalism program. Without the elective, she loses her chance to intern with the biggest newspaper company in the county, and why? All because the baseball team needs more funding.

To make matters worse, her boyfriend publicly dumps her at a party, which is mortifying. But the icing on the cake is when the captain of the baseball team and the most popular guy at Bayview High, Walsh Hunter, decides to be chivalrous. He jumps in, throws his arm around Sophia, and declares his undying love for her. In front of everyone.

Suddenly, Sophia is thrown into a world of fake relationships and undercover journalism, and she realizes she’s way, way out of her league.

Good thing she’s got the team captain to teach her how to play.

But faced with choosing between saving her journalism class or her newfound feelings for Walsh, will she strike out or hit a home run?