It's time for them to decide what's most important-hockey or love. The closeness, the intimacy, even the risk that would come with being open about their relationship.Ilya wants it all.

Shane has gotten so good at hiding his feelings, sometimes Ilya questions if they even exist. He loves Ilya, but what if going public ruins everything? If Shane wants to stay at the top of his game, what he and Ilya share has to remain secret. How long they've been keeping their relationship a secret. That's how long Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov have been seeing each other. To the world they are rivals, but to each other they are everything. 'Everything you could want from this magnetic couple! A passionate, sexy, emotional sequel that grips your heart! Shane and Ilya forever!' -#1 NYT Bestseller Lauren Blakely, author of Hopelessly Bromantic This review is based on an ARC provided by the piblisher via NetGalley.Shane and Ilya's story, first seen in Heated Rivalry, continues in this long-awaited hockey romance from Rachel Reid. This is a series I will enjoy rereading many times. It’s a testament to how well Reid developed the characters, how deeply I felt for them, that I shed a tear when Shane texted Ilya something so seemingly bland as “I ate a Snickers bar.” Ilya is especially deftly crafted and immensely likable. The dialogue is often clever and humorous and, at turns, refreshingly straightforward without being simple. Ried’s characters, from the primaries to the passing, are accutely rendered. Shane, nescient of Ilya’s discontent, plans to keep their relationship a secret until retirement. Secrecy breeds isolation, especially for Ilya, orphaned, practically exiled from his homeland and suffering from depression. On-ice rivals Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov have been hiding their relationship for a decade. The Long Game assembles the threads gossamer and adamantine with a masterful hand in a near perfect weave. The Long Game is the sequel to Heated Rivalry, the rivals-to-lovers hockey romance that pairs Ilya, an infuriating Russian, with his hockey nemesis, sunny Shane.Heated Rivalry has a permanent home on my keeper shelf, but the book ends with a HFN. Like Avengers: Endgame of the MCU, this culmination will pack the biggest feels if you’re familiar with the stories and wider cast of characters leading up to it. In Game Changers, Reid has crafted a series of delightful books, each showcasing a different M/M couple whose worlds touch, overlap and occasionally collide, in ways both subtle and obvious.

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