I had just finished We Could Be So Good when this one crossed my path, and I couldn’t resist putting in a request for it right away.
Thanks to the author, as well as Avon via NetGalley for the review copy!
The 1960 baseball season is shaping up to be the worst year of Eddie O’Leary’s life. He can’t manage to hit the ball, his new teammates hate him, he’s living out of a suitcase, and he’s homesick. When the team’s owner orders him to give a bunch of interviews to some snobby reporter, he’s ready to call it quits. He can barely manage to behave himself for the length of a game, let alone an entire season. But he’s already on thin ice, so he has no choice but to agree.
Mark Bailey is not a sports reporter. He writes for the arts page, and these days he’s barely even managing to do that much. He’s had a rough year and just wants to be left alone in his too-empty apartment, mourning a partner he’d never been able to be public about. The last thing he needs is to spend a season writing about New York’s obnoxious new shortstop in a stunt to get the struggling newspaper more readers.
Isolated together within the crush of an anonymous city, these two lonely souls orbit each other as they slowly give in to the inevitable gravity of their attraction. But Mark has vowed that he’ll never be someone’s secret ever again, and Eddie can’t be out as a professional athlete. It’s just them against the world, and they’ll both have to decide if that’s enough.
This is the story of Eddie O’Leary, a baseball player in 1960 New York who has just been unexpectedly traded to New York and is not pleased about it. Meanwhile, Mark Bailey has been charged with reporting on Eddie’s season. As the season goes on, well, there are the feels.
I always enjoy Cat Sebastian’s work. This one is no different. I loved the Grumpy Mark Bailey and how he softened around Eddie as the book went on. I loved how just… ridiculously adorable Eddie was, especially when Mark was around.
Much like other books by the same author, outside of the romance there is a good story as well. This one follows a baseball season in 1960 and is as far as I could tell, pretty accurate in it’s description. Eddie’s team evolves just as Eddie does, and I found myself liking characters that I normally don’t think I would have.
If you like Cat Sebastian’s work, especially We Could Be So Good (as it takes place in the same universe) or like a good M/M historical romance with a New Yorky vibe, you are going to like this one! ^_^ 5/5 stars!~
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