#mm hockey romance

[missgeevious]

Welcome to HOCKTOBER!

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Here’s the deal: @weathereyehorizon and I have decided that October should be MM Hockey Romance month. We will be reading and recommending books in this category all month long and we’d love it if our friends played along. What are your favorites, old or new?

My first recommendation is @xiaq ‘s Breakaway series. It will make your heart happy and fill you with soft feelings. It’s a ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ read for me that I’ve returned to several times. And if I run out of things to read in Hocktober I will be returning to it again.

(Kuzy, my love 😍)

Give us your recs!

[mostlyinthemorning]

Today is the day!

Stick Handling is officially out in the world and available at all of the usual places.

The hockey romance of Rachel Reid’s Game Changers meets the fashion world of The Devil Wears Prada. 

For fashion journalist Devon Waters, success brings opportunities to interview the best up-and-coming designers. His interviews showcase new trends and add a much-needed sense of refinement to the pages of Yonge Street magazine—if he does say so himself. 

When an unexpected and unwelcome assignment takes him off the fashion beat and into a world he never imagined—profiling Toronto Tigers hockey star Jamie Bennett—Devon finds himself immediately out of his depth. His inability to understand hockey slang and the play on the ice is one thing. Not knowing what Jamie wants from him is something else entirely. 

Jamie has Devon’s number from the moment they meet. As Jamie forces Devon to reveal parts of himself, he challenges everything Devon knows about what it means to truly get to know someone. But love is for other people and Devon is counting the hours until he can leave the hockey world behind and return to his beloved clothing design studios. 

If Devon hopes to return to the fashion world with his heart intact, he’s going to have to find a way to beat Jamie at his own game. Because falling in love with a hockey player—even one as kind and confident as Jamie—is not an option.

Score your copy today!

[bookswithpurride]

since making this graphic, I've read Sword Crossed and You Should Be So Lucky and they both were in my top reads for 2024. fucking slap. I own Diablo's Curse but was having a real mental block reading YA for pretty much all of 2024, so despite my excitement for it, I haven't read it yet.

((Cross posting some older posts from my insta (same username) because I’m not sure about the future of meta platforms/my use of meta platforms & I don’t want my content to be lost.))

[jennireadz]

i haven't been an active user on tumblr for like a decade and now i'm back and i am lost. i've never been in the booklr (is that even a word?) space so uhhhh i'm here to vibe and figure things out i guess.

i read queer books and have accidentally fallen into queer hockey romance (and i love it). follow me as i talk about all the little gay books i read

[curiouschlideverreviled]

soooooo, i'm curious: who are we fancasting as Shane and Ilya? i came to the realisation a couple weeks ago that i can't think of a single celibrity that reminds me of any of them.

i kinda thought about brenton thwaites for shane but he's missing the ✨half japanese✨ looks (i saw a picture of brenton with his long hair tied in a bun/ponytail, and he kind of had this soft look to him? Like a good/chill aura? The typical vibe in a person that'd make you look at them and be like "oh he seems nice! He looks like a good person!" -vibe that i don't often get from celebrities *AND* I think is Shane's fundamental essence-, and also he's bi!!!) (ugh i hope brenton is actually nice or this is going to age poorly and come back to bite me in the arse, but hey! the point here is to discuss looks i guess)

[poisindonottouch]

Queer Reads: Sarina Bowen

For day 3 of Sandi reads gay things, we have Sarina Bowen. 

Bowen writes lots of romance, both gay and straight. The four books I have in the little graphic are four of her mm hockey romance novels. The Him/Us/Epic series is co written with Elle Kennedy, and is a post-college/new adult kind of story following one couple through their early adulthood. It’s a childhood friends to lovers, second chance kind of story, and is very sweet with sides of both angst and spice. 

The Hockey Guys books, The New Guy and I’m Your Guy, have protagonists who are a little bit older and mature. Story Graph says they’re both emotional, light-hearted, and funny books.  The New Guy is a hockey player and a physical therapist who works for the team. I’m Your Guy is a hockey player and an interior decorator. I enjoyed them both quite a bit.

If you like your romance way more angsty, I also recommend Bowen’s Hello, Goodbye duo, (Goodbye Paradise & Hello Forever). 

Remember folks, read queer all year. 

[sbbarnes]

Anyway can't believe I get to publish a whole book about these idiots

[tinycupcakesstuff]

This is a cute read. But trigger warning: domestic violence B blot.

I’m normally not into series in which there are a ton of mm couples within the same universe, but this final installment in the Rules of the Game series was really well done. I loved both MCs. The premise is so similar to Breakfast with Scot. Retired NHL player-turned-agent (Wade) out after spending his whole career in the closet has sparks flying with baddie D-man (Trevor). They’re both a bad boy/tough guy type with a soft side. **Chefs kiss**

The cherry on top of the Breakfast with Scot sundae is Wade is a single dad to his 11 year old son Braden, who is a well fleshed out character in his own right.

✅formerly closeted nhl tough guy

✅ sleeping with your client

✅cheeky tween boy

It’s on Kindle Unlimited. Enjoy!

[kelliealtogether]

This beaut is out today and you should go buy it.

Gil Roussin's been traded. From one of the best teams in the league to the worst: the San Francisco Sea Lions. It's not the best situation, and Gil wants to get out of San Francisco as soon as possible, but the move puts him back on the same team as his first boyfriend, the one that got away, Sebastian Martin.

Except Sebastian's not playing anymore. He's one of Gil's coaches. And through a mix-up at the hotel the Sea Lions put them up in, they end up sharing a room.

With only one bed.

Now that they're thrown back together, can they put the past ten years behind them and be friends again? Can they keep things "professional" at the rink after the Sea Lions find out they once dated? And though Gil thinks he's over Sebastian, is he?

(Hint: He's not.)

Ten years is a long time. Gil and Sebastian aren't the same people they were when Gil got drafted and left Sebastian behind at college. Now that Gil has the chance to get Sebastian back, he's not going to give up that opportunity.

But is Sebastian enough to make Gil stay in San Francisco, a place he doesn't want to be?

Light Up the Lamp is a second chance romance chock full of great stuff: friends-to-lovers, mutual pining, there's only one bed, a hint of forbidden romance, and, of course, hockey.

Give it a read. I think you'll enjoy it. 😌

[mostlyinthemorning]

It's almost here!

In three days, Stick Handling goes out into the world. If you love opposites attract MM romance, hockey puns, road trips, and excessive hand-holding, this might be the story for you.

Coming December 3 to bookstores across the internet.

[bookswithpurride]

📖 currently reading 📖

despite having a wickedly busy week, I am almost 200 pages into Textbook Defense by Ashlyn Kane and Morgan James. I love this series so much (no really, I’m 75 pages away from finishing annotating my physical of Winging It & halfway through my first listen of Unrivaled.) there’s a lot going on right now, both in my own life and *gestures broadly*, but comfort books are good 🥰

also, you can see how Cleo changes my page every time he stretches… which is pretty frequently because he can’t sit still while getting pets. if only I could harness the power of his paw stretches so I never had to turn my own page 😂😂

[jennireadz]

i have no idea what i’m doing and what people want so i thought i’d ask? i have multiple people interested in my journey to booklr from booksta & booktok and i still can’t grasp what posts people are interested in so plz help me

not sure if it helps but like… for gay books. any queer books under the sun. what kinda posts are we doing? 😂

[curiouschlideverreviled]

help i've read every shane hollander/ilya rozanov fanfic there is on ao3 THRICE and even published a few ones myself and i neeed more please please please if you read this either drop recs of where else to find some fics or better yet write and post your own please i encourage you (please im begging you)

[hussyknee]

The power of the ice hockey mm romance genre has me comparing the power play and penalty kill unit configurations of different NHL teams to decide the efficacy of different combinations using player stats. To be clear I have never been interested in any sports before six weeks ago and I have still not watched an ice hockey game because they look stupid

[sbbarnes]

A long shot if there ever was one, but one of the main characters in the current draft I am writing is a Russian Tatar and a Muslim playing in the NHL. Anyone out there up for a sensitivity read?

[tinycupcakesstuff]

✨new chapters up✨

Eric McNally’s NHL career was spinning out of control, crushed by the secrecy of living a double life. Sam Miller’s life was empty, the perennial people-pleaser, always overextended with nothing left for himself. When Eric sustained a hit from his archrival, ending his NHL career and pitting him against the entire Maple Leafs organization, it put both of their lives on a collision course toward finding themselves— and finding love. Will Eric accept love and come out of the closet? And can Sam finally learn how to put himself first so he can claim his hardwon chance at happily ever after?

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This is my take on the Eric/Sam origin story told as an alternating POV m/m hockey romance novel. This is a 70k completed work that I am going to need a bit of time to finish posting as it is my first fic!

There will be more parts to this series within the Breakaway Universe, I have another fic set during and after the movie that is almost done!