At Lit Hub she tagged five favorite celebrity/normal person romance novels, including:
Rachel Reid, Game ChangerRead about the other entries on the list.
Scott Hunter, the star hockey player of the New York Admirals, is having a bad streak of games and steps into a smoothie place after a run where he meets Kip, a twenty five year old who works in food service while he decides what to do with his history degree. Scott wins that evening’s game and, crediting the smoothie with his changing luck, visits Kip at his smoothie shop again (this time with more flirtation), Later they meet again at a fancy gala where Kip is working as a caterer. They decide to go out for burgers after and quickly start a fun, loving relationship but have to operate completely in secret since Scott is not out as a gay hockey player. The happy scenes between Kip and Scott show that happiness and steadiness in a relationship is not boring at all and getting to know your new partner is a fascinating process.
This romance novel explores the long distance part of being in a relationship with a celebrity: there are tons of spicy scenes that involve Skype or old-school talking over the phone and reunions after many days apart. Because Kip feels a little lost in his career, there is a bit more of a Cinderella dynamic with an enormous class difference between the two men and higher stakes because of the danger in publicly outing an athlete before Scott and Kip are ready for what comes afterward. This is a really sweet love story and the first book in the Game Changers series that helped create the popular show Heated Rivalry.
--Marshal Zeringue
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