The Prospects by KT Hoffman
Release Date: April 9, 2024
Publisher: Dial Press
Genre: Adult LGBTQ Contemporary Romance
Pages: 384
Format Read: physical arc
Summary: The pressure cooker of minor league baseball leads to major chemistry in this exhilarating, sexy, and triumphant rivals to lovers debut romance.
Hope is familiar territory for Gene Ionescu. He has always loved baseball, a sport made for underdogs and optimists like him. He also loves his team, the minor league Beaverton Beavers, and, for the most part, he loves the career he’s built. As the first openly trans player in professional baseball, Gene has nearly everything he’s ever let himself dream of—that is, until Luis Estrada, Gene’s former teammate and current rival, gets traded to the Beavers, destroying the careful equilibrium of Gene’s life.
Gene and Luis can’t manage a civil conversation off the field or a competent play on it, but in the close confines of dugout benches and roadie buses, they begrudgingly rediscover a comfortable rhythm. As the two grow closer, the tension between them turns electric, and their chemistry spills past the confines of the stadium. For every tight double play they execute, there’s also a glance at summer-tan shoulders or a secret shared, each one a breathless moment of possibility that ignites in Gene the visceral, terrifying kind of desire he’s never allowed himself. Soon, Gene has to reconcile the quiet, minor-league-sized life he used to find fulfilling with the major-league dreams Luis makes feel possible.
A joyful, heartfelt debut rom-com revealing what’s possible when we allow ourselves to want something enough to swing for the fences.
Review:
Rating: 4/5 stars
Spice: 1/5
Review: This is a great read which is an LGBTQ sports romance that follows Gene who has a former teammate rival, Luis, but there’s tension between them and chemistry is brewing. I haven’t read a LGBTQ+ sports romance book and was excited to find out this was releasing. Hoffman is a fantastic writer and I liked how much sport was involved in this book. The overall storyline was good and exactly what was promised but I do have to say there weren’t any big conflicts. This story is only told from Gene’s pov but I really wanted Luis’s perspective as that would have been amazing.
Gene is the MC of this story and I really enjoyed his story. He’s a trans man and his story is written so well. He had a great character development and you can tell the author really devoted themselves in their MC. There were many side characters, the main one being Luis of course but there were so many others that were amazing. The romance is enemies to lovers and sports romance which was well done as the chemistry was well done. There were steamy scenes that were in this book.
The ending was well done and overall this was a great story. I really enjoyed this story and thought it was well done. I do wish there were more conflicts in the story to keep it entertaining but the romance was still great. Overall, I recommend checking this book because you won’t be disappointed.
*this arc was sent to me by the publisher to give an honest review in return*
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