AUTHOR: Sam Kestrel GENRE: Queer Romance PAGES: 76 RELEASED: 6 December 2022 SYNOPSIS: Dee needed to get out from under her controlling parents, even if only for a couple of hours a week. She signed up for softball, clueless to that fact that the Toaster Ovens was a team of out lesbians ten years her senior. Being around the team sparked a familiar feeling inside of Dee, one that blossomed into an awaking of her true identity. Coming out to a teammate leads to sparks in the bedroom. But hurt feelings soon follow, and Dee struggles to play on a team with Sara whom she likes but can’t be with. Dee’s parents force her to make a choice, one that requires her to ask for help from the one person she doesn’t want to face. Can she reach out to Sara? And if she does, how will it be to stay, even for a night, at the home of her first crush? This book was kindly sent to me by the author in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own. A steamy and sporty Sapphic romance about becoming your true self, whatever the cost.
After not playing softball for a year, Dee is excited to be joining a new team and getting back to the thing that makes her feel the most comfortable and welcomed. Attending practice two days a week is also a chance to be free of her overbearing parents who have controlled almost every aspect of her life, and are the reason she couldn’t play softball during her senior year of high school. Turns out the softball team she’s joined, the Toaster Ovens, aren’t just all almost 10 years older than her, but they’re all lesbians. Between her extremely homophobic parents and being surrounded by queer women, Dee soon comes to realise her true identity. But her newfound sense-of-self comes crashing down when her parents reveal plans to ‘fix’ her, and Dee soon turns to her fellow teammate and crush for help, a move that has the potential to hurt her even more. There is certainly a LOT packed into the sweet and steamy novella! Dee’s story was such a rollercoaster of emotions as she came to understand her sexuality and the difficulties of living at home with her controlling and homophobic parents. But all this was evened out with her blossoming relationship with Sara. I know I’m always saying that I wish the story would never end, but I legitimately mean it this time – it felt like there was too much crammed into such a short story, and a lot of things that really would have benefited from being much more developed and stretched out through a longer book. Sam has crafted a really interesting bunch of characters and a story that has a lot of impact (and a nice dollop of spice), and it’s easy to see the potential it would have as a fully-fledged novel, rather than a novella. If you’re a lover of Sapphic romance, this is certainly a quick read you need to be adding to your TBR – what better way to cram some extra books towards your reading goal than with a steamy novella. |
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