#Rec me some mm sports romance

[josephqunnies]

I’m sorry but sports romance should be m/m only. Like?? Rivals to lovers? Esp when they’re teammates? Captain from two rival teams? You need to get better that this stick ball game? Let me help you practice and yup you’re so hot? Friends turn rivals turn fwb turn lovers because one lost couldn’t be captain while the other got the spot? Yes yes the opportunities are endless?

[i-will-not-be-caged]

Free Books!

It's Stuff Your Kindle Day(s), so a bunch of romance authors have stuff for freeeee today. I've read some of what's being offered, so I figured I'd give you a list of recs. And I'm even gonna put it below a cut to save your dash

The Endgame by Riley Hart When an out-and-proud Senator from California sets his sights on a beautiful man in a bar, he has no idea he's a closeted professional football player from Atlanta. Between texts, phone calls and secret meetups, the two men fall in love. The odds are stacked against them, but this is a game both men plan to win. Keywords: sports romance

My thoughts: this is one of my absolute all time faves. Seriously, I've read it so many times now. I don't even really know why, there's just something about it

Lost Touch (Mismatched Mates) by Eliot Grayson After a year of imprisonment and experimentation, Ash is finally free—but not unscathed. Amnesiac and unable to feel pleasure or pain, he’s at the mercy of his rescuer: an alpha werewolf who promises he’ll protect Ash no matter what. But if Drew can’t control himself, Ash could suffer a worse fate than the one he escaped… Keywords: M/M, alpha werewolf, knotting, no mpreg

My thoughts: I don't remember a ton about this series, much less this particular book, but that's par for the course for me. I liked it enough to read the whole series, so take that for what it's worth.

Egotistical Puckboys by Eden Finley and Saxon James Ezra and Anton are doing it "for the team" in this rivals to lovers hockey romance. With a price as cheap as our guys, see where it all starts for the PR nightmares of the NHL. Keywords: Hockey Romance, Enemies-to-Lovers, Teammates

My thoughts: if you read hockey romance, you've probably heard of this author duo. Their stuff is always fun and funny, and definitely not the most inaccurate hockey books I've read.

Devil's Dance (Rebel Kings MC, #1) by Garrett Leigh Opposites attract. The outlaw biker and the accountant. Straightlaced vs straight to hell. Strap in for this bestselling angsty MMM romance. Keywords: Biker romance, MC romance, poly romance, MMM romance, MM romance

My thoughts: I'm not often in the mood for angst, but when I am, Leigh is my go-to. While labeled MMM, most of the full triad relationship is actually in the second book, so it might be helpful to know that going in.

Pick Me (Sunday Brothers) by May Archer A laugh-out-loud rom com about a lumberjack-loving, cow-phobic human ray of sunshine who moves to small-town Vermont for a temporary gig at an apple orchard… only to find himself falling for the quirky town and a certain gorgeous, grumpy man who’s got “permanent” written all over him. Keywords: mm romance, small town romance, grumpy/sunshine, age gap

My thoughts: if you like small town shenanigans with quirky supporting characters, May Archer's Sunday Brothers series is for you. Think Stars Hollow, but gayer

Right As Raine (Aster Valley) by Lucy Lennox As the first openly gay professional football player, I can’t afford to make any mistakes, on or off the field. And the absolute biggest mistake I could make right now would be to fall for Mikey Vining, my best friend, employee and, more importantly, Coach’s baby boy. I might fantasize about Mikey at night-—every night—but actually touching him would be a serious personal foul. Keywords: mm romance, football, forbidden romance, sports romance

My thoughts: another one where I don't remember a ton of details, but I've never regretted picking up a Lucy Lennox book

The Necromancer's Light by Tavia Lark Lonely, touch-starved necromancer Shae will die without human touch. His new paladin bodyguard didn't know cuddling would be part of the job. MM High Fantasy Romance. Keywords: m/m, gay romance, hurt/comfort, huddling for warmth, grumpy/sunshine

My thoughts: I'm obnoxiously picky about gay fantasy and Tavia Lark's stuff scratches the right itch. I didn't like this series as much as her Perilous Courts series, but it was still good.

Natural Twenty (Roll for Love Book One) by Charlie Novak A gruff florist falls for an anxious bookseller with a broken heart in this low-angst contemporary MM romance featuring Dungeons & Dragons, secret flower language bouquets, steamy dreams and sofa smut, and melt in your mouth sweetness. Keywords: Contemporary M/M romance with a low-angst HEA, spice and sweetness.

My thoughts: Novak does low-angst SO WELL. This whole series is just a warm hug.

Shades Of Lust (The Carnal Tower Book One) by E.M. Lindsey Stone is well aware he can’t mix business and pleasure, but when August comes to him with a proposal for a trade—seven paintings for seven nights with Lust—he can’t say no. Not when it means he’ll be able to have August exactly the way he wants him. Stone has every plan to strip August down to his very soul, but the longer the week goes on, the more Stone comes to realize that August might very well be his undoing. Keywords: Virgin Hero, Disabled Character, Bisexual Awakening, Mental Health Rep, M/M

My thoughts: not my favorite series of Lindsey's, but their disability rep is always on point and the writing is top notch

And here's the ones I'm downloading, all because I've enjoyed other stuff from the authors:

Favor (Forever Family Trilogy Book 1) by Kiki Clark Jeremy knows better than to fall for the hot guy doing renovations on his house--especially since that guy's his brother's best friend. And most likely straight. Except... why is the smokeshow of a contractor smiling at him like that? Keywords: m/m, bisexual romance, brother's best friend, blue collar character

Lacuna by N.R. Walker Lacuna is a 92,000-word MM love story of swords and sorcery, action and adventure, and fated romance. Two kings in a game of chess they were never supposed to win. Keywords: Fantasy, gay romance, fated lovers, swords and alchemy

Between the Pipes (Watkins Glen Gladiators #1) by V.L. Locey Between the Pipes is a low angst, age gap gay hockey romance that features an outgoing young goalie, a cautious older race car driver, two families who are not above meddling just a bit to see their loved ones happy, lots of on-ice and high-speed action, and a straightaway sprint to a happy-ever-after. Keywords: Hockey romance, age gap, low angst, family, M/M

Go forth and read!

[mediawhorefics]

hi, from the actual plot anon. yeah, i agree that the 1st book in the wolf series was considerably better than the rest. i think for me it was bc it had cooper formally assigned as a detective in the case using typical crime solving methods instead of him just stumbling across a corpse and asking around from friends and family. also i prefer developing relationships over established ones and there was so much time passing between the books that i feel like i missed out some things and convos i’d have wanted to see. i’d have liked if the ending of the 1st book would have been different so that cooper wouldn’t have started some sort of relationship with park already at that point and instead would have returned with his original partner and been forced to confront their wolf prejudice while meeting again with park bc some other crime. but i had tried several crime/mystery/wolves/shifters/sports/etc mm romance books where the topic is just very background stuff written in a very unconvincing way, so that wolf series def had higher quality than what i had expected. fully convinced my book finding problem wouldn’t exist if goodreads was owned by some people willing to create a proper search and filter function instead of amazon. anyway, i just started reading seven of spades by cordelia kingsbridge, which is another detective mm romance series that seems very promising at least after the first few chapters of the 1st book!

oooh hello again !!!

i def agree with a lot of what you pointed out. i'm not at all a werewolf gal so this series was very much an outlier for me: i have nothing to compare it to. i only read it cos someone i've followed on tumblr for a really really long time and whose book recs are always stellar (i got capri AND natasha pulley off of them and those are basically my two favs of all time) recced it REALLY highly. so i knew even if it wasn't necessarily my jam, it wouldn't be complete trash haha. and yeah, while pacing wise/plot wise re: the rest of the series it wasn't perfect... i did have a good time pretty much throughout and that was one was chef kiss so yeah i still rec them pretty highly too haha.

your ask is so perfectly timed though, i'm really struggling with trying to find something new to read that's gonna be gripping but won't require too much brain power rn so i'm gonna look into that seven of spades one. the title is familiar but i've never really looked into it.... so yeah, thanks :)

[bloody-wonder]

I thought about reading Captive Prince after seeing a bunch of AftG blogs i follow are into it, but once I looked into the actual plot and characters I decided it probably wasn’t for me! For whatever reason I’m more than comfortable with AftG though xD

for me it was the other way round

last summer i read the song of achilles which made me cry a lot so i wanted a similar mm book with a happy ending to console myself and some tumblr rec lists suggested captive prince so i picked it up. boy oh boy didn’t i know what i was getting into! i read the whole series over a couple of days, it was like a fever dream. at first i was like - is this? slave erotica??? but then i adopted laurent as my son and cared for nothing else. the romance certainly has its problems but i feel like the author played that slow burn like a violin and the two main characters are very well written. it’s no surprise people get so attached to this book despite it being in my opinion much more Problematic than aftg.

then after reading capri i was like omg now i’m addicted to gay books pls send help more recs and someone said well for those who like capri so much the next logical step is aftg. but i read the synopsis and didn’t understand shit. sports?? what kind of person do you think i am??? so i was reluctant to pick it up for a couple of month and instead tried reading things like carry on which i - unsurprisingly - didn’t like. so then i was like fiiiiiine, finally read aftg and ascended.

that’s my dark origin story lmao

but yeah captive prince is definitely not a book for everyone, even less so than aftg, so think about it very carefully before picking it up