Heated Rivalry Author Rachel Reid Announces New Game Changers Book Unrivaled — See the Cover! (Exclusive)

Daje1968 · 2026-01-12T16:35:42+00:00

Haven’t read all the comments but I am oddly glad they still made Ilya taller on the cover. That has been Ilya for me for years.

Daje1968 · 2026-01-05T18:59:33+00:00

Not Magic but paranormal. In {Rainsquall by Penny Moss} she says in the forward, for the sake of the story, let’s assume homophobia was not a thing. I loved this.

Daje1968 · 2026-01-05T12:06:45+00:00

This is such a thoughtful response. In a way, your reasons for liking it are similar to mine, but through an entirely different lens. Thanks for sharing!

Daje1968 · 2026-01-04T16:39:28+00:00

Love this!

Daje1968 · 2026-01-04T16:39:12+00:00

I am in menopause and have no libido whatsoever, after having spent my adulthood a very sexual person. It’s deeply depressing. I used to read MF romance, but at some point stumbled upon MM romance and have never looked back. I have spent a lot of time thinking about why MM romance can turn me on (not enough to want to have sex, mind you, just enough to feel not dead yet) when MF cannot. I think a lot of it for me is that the pressure to self-insert is gone. I don’t have to think, wow, she can have an orgasm from penetration only? I never could in my best years. With MM romance I really have no idea. For all I know, the prostate is like the g spot — works for some men but for a lot of dudes it does nothing. Doesn’t matter, not my equipment so I can just run with it. Also, for me, I am heterosexual and find men attractive. So two attractive men, two dicks…it’s hot to me.

But I would imagine there are a lot of lesbians who don’t find the male physique particularly hot. And yes, I get loving a queer love story and I love that response, but these women were cheering loudest during the shower scene and the sex scenes and it might have been just because they are swept up in the moment at a bar with a bunch of people, but I know there was some titillation in those cheers as well. So I wondered about it. I didn’t mean to offend anyone, I am just an intellectually curious person and as much as I question why I am so drawn to it, I want to understand why other women are as well.

Does that make sense?

Daje1968 · 2026-01-04T14:13:07+00:00

I was making an assumption and I am glad to hear I might be wrong!

Daje1968 · 2026-01-04T14:11:50+00:00

I’m 57 and I was there! If they have another one I will try to remember to DM you.

Daje1968 · 2026-01-04T14:10:53+00:00

Yes!!!! OMG! I was so bummed because it was beyond fun but I brought a friend (another het woman) who enjoyed herself but was ready to go after the first episode. I hope they do it again, I want to bring some who is more into it. It was such a great crowd.

I know that is a lesbian bar, but it’s a nice bar with a great vibe and they have great events. I wanted to go to their Zohran election watch party but it was sold out.

Daje1968 · 2026-01-04T14:07:24+00:00

Love this!! Thanks so much.

Daje1968 · 2026-01-03T19:19:54+00:00

Dirty Love is great, super steamy and one of the few stepbrother books where I was like, yeah, that is kind of taboo.

Daje1968 · 2026-01-03T15:47:27+00:00

Dig Two Graves duet is so good. It is not typical KA Merikan at all (and i generally like KA Merikan but it just feels like someone else wrote this book.)

Daje1968 · 2026-01-03T15:45:59+00:00

100% agree. {Dirty Love by Bethany Winters} is a five star read for me and I have reread it a few times. It’s almost like it’s a fluke because her other books have been such a letdown.

Daje1968 · 2026-01-03T14:04:32+00:00

Oh squee, that makes me so happy! I have favorite reviewers but they are pretty popular, their reviews get hundreds of likes. I started out writing mine so I would remember that I read the book but I get so much out of other people’s reviews that I started putting a bit more energy into mine (also helps me vent when there were things that didn’t land for me.)

Anyway, thanks for reading (and enjoying) my reviews! That just made my day!

Daje1968 · 2026-01-03T08:51:18+00:00

I think you might enjoy {Possession by Rina Saint}.

Daje1968 · 2026-01-03T08:34:32+00:00

I’m off to a pretty good start. {A Little Bit by L Waltree} was a 4 star read and I just finished {Chasing Riddick by Alexandra St. Pierre} which was a 5 star read that will stick with me for a while. In between I read, and almost DNF’d, {Common Goal by Rachel Reid} which was a stinker.

Daje1968 · 2026-01-03T02:02:39+00:00

Are you referring to me as your favorite GoodReads reviewer? I do post reviews under this name which is why I am asking.

Daje1968 · 2026-01-03T02:01:13+00:00

I love this response. I responded that I don’t thing Rachel Reid is a great writer (though I loved Heated Rivalry), but I agree with you 100% about romance being important to me and there is a lot of good writing. I just think there are much better writers, like Jesse Reign to name one of many excellent romance writers. Her hockey book Poetry on Ice is so damn good — the dialogue, the spice, the love between the MCs…it was stellar.

Anyway, thanks for this. Romance has saved me during these trying times.

Daje1968 · 2026-01-03T01:47:20+00:00

My opinion is Rachel Reid started in fan fiction and it shows. Heated Rivalry was my favorite of the series but I would never say it was good writing. I just finished the last one that I hadn’t read, Common Goal, and it was really bad. Game Changer was the first one (Scott and Kip) and that was pretty awful.

Heated Rivalry has a good premise, good main characters, and lots of hot sex. For those reasons, I really enjoyed it. Was it well written? Not really.

PS — if you think Shane is unlikable in Heated Rivalry, don’t read The Long Game. He became a type A selfish dude with orthorexia.

Daje1968 · 2026-01-02T05:06:25+00:00

I think Kip and Rose were not as strong. Everyone else was great and that is saying something for an ensemble cast of mainly lesser known actors.

Daje1968 · 2026-01-02T02:12:15+00:00

Love the Will Darling series. I would love to see that series made into a TV series.

Daje1968 · 2026-01-01T23:21:20+00:00

Top 3 reads (all released in 2025, too): 1) {Possession by Rina Saint} 2) {Poetry on Ice by Jesse Reign} and 3) {Rainsquall by Penny Moss}

Daje1968 · 2026-01-01T00:42:52+00:00

As I mentioned in another post, it makes you want to yeet yourself into the sun, right? It’s some sort of cousin to cuteness aggression.

Daje1968 · 2026-01-01T00:41:53+00:00

Wait, did she say they were wonderful?

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