#jonny garza villa

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summer book stack

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Happy Heated Rivalry Day! 🎉🏒 Here are some book recs to tide you over until next week 💖📚 (Originally posted on my Instagram)

Top row (left to right): ⚾ The Prospects by K.T. Hoffman ⚽ Cleat Cute by Meryl Wilsner (This one is getting a TV adaptation soon! 😍) ⚽ Futbolista by Jonny Garza Villa

Bottom row (left to right): ⚾ You Should Be So Lucky by Cat Sebastian ⭐ Stars In Your Eyes by Kacen Callender (This is the only book on the list that isn't a sports romance - the main characters are both Hollywood stars. Also, please check the trigger warnings before reading!) 🤼 Hold Me Like a Grudge by Celine Ong (This one isn't out yet, unfortunately. It comes out March 2026, and I would give my firstborn for an ARC 😭)

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Day 2: JOMPBPC: Currently Reading 🩷

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Have you read Futbolista by Jonny Garza Villa (2025)?

yes

no

I didn't finish it

I've never heard of it

Voting ended onMar 8

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Inside an Anthology: This is How We Roll ed. by Rosiee Thor

Today on the site I’m delighted to give a peek inside This is How We Roll ed. by Rosiee Thor, a YA anthology out today that features queer stories about tabletop games! Here’s the gist: The magic of tabletop RPGs lives in the creativity of the players. Given the chance to explore gender, relationships, and queer existence across vast worlds with completely different sets of rules, queer players…

Inside an Anthology: This is How We Roll ed. by Rosiee Thor

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If anyone wants to re-create the actual magic and spark that Heated Rivalry has, someone needs to give money to people who actually care about art, telling a story beautifully and authentically, so they can make a limited series adaptation of Futbolista by Jonny Garza Villa-

It is a passionate love story between characters with depth and so much heart. Its about the main character Gabi discovering his bisexuality (through a friends to lovers situation with Vale), realizing what that means for his future as a Mexican soccer player, battling with potential repercussions and what it would mean if he was an out bisexual Mexican man in his sport… when all he really wants is to be able to look into the stands to see his man wearing his jacket with his name on it.

There must be a team of queer and latinx artists that could make this story have the same type of impact and wide spread reach through a film series adaptation like Jacob Tierney did with Heated Rivalry.

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Ander and Santi Were Here by Jonny Garza Villa

Finding home. Falling in love. Fighting to belong.

The Santos Vista neighborhood of San Antonio, Texas, is all Ander Lopez has ever known. The smell of pan dulce. The mixture of Spanish and English filling the streets. And, especially their job at their family’s taquería. It’s the place that has inspired Ander as a muralist, and, as they get ready to leave for art school, it’s all of these things that give them hesitancy. That give them the thought, are they ready to leave it all behind?

To keep Ander from becoming complacent during their gap year, their family fires them so they can transition from restaurant life to focusing on their murals and prepare for college. That is, until they meet Santiago Garcia, the hot new waiter. Falling for each other becomes as natural as breathing. Through Santi’s eyes, Ander starts to understand who they are and want to be as an artist, and Ander becomes Santi’s first steps toward making Santos Vista and the United States feel like home.

Until ICE agents come for Santi, and Ander realizes how fragile that sense of home is. How love can only hold on so long when the whole world is against them. And when, eventually, the world starts to win.

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this semester's reads (fall '25)