Yours for the Season - Mille feuilles

eBook, 336 pages

English language

Published by Harper Collins.

ISBN:: 978-1-335-08192-6

Making the yuletide gay

JT Cox never quite fit into Hart’s Landing. Playing on the boys’ hockey team and coming out young didn’t help. Now, thanks to an Olympic gold medal, JT’s name is on a sign greeting visitors to her hometown. Her family of artists and creatives still treat her as an odd duck, but elsewhere there’s a warm welcome. Especially from her best friend’s older sister, newly divorced Ali Porter.

Single for the first time since high school, Ali is ready to take the reins of her own life. She’s never had the chance to date another woman, and JT is an irresistible force of nature. When they team up for the town’s holiday contest, cocoa tasting and gingerbread decorating give way to snow-melting chemistry.

If teenage JT thought Ali was the prettiest girl on the planet, adult JT is completely smitten. But JT can’t …

Making the yuletide gay

JT Cox never quite fit into Hart’s Landing. Playing on the boys’ hockey team and coming out young didn’t help. Now, thanks to an Olympic gold medal, JT’s name is on a sign greeting visitors to her hometown. Her family of artists and creatives still treat her as an odd duck, but elsewhere there’s a warm welcome. Especially from her best friend’s older sister, newly divorced Ali Porter.

Single for the first time since high school, Ali is ready to take the reins of her own life. She’s never had the chance to date another woman, and JT is an irresistible force of nature. When they team up for the town’s holiday contest, cocoa tasting and gingerbread decorating give way to snow-melting chemistry.

If teenage JT thought Ali was the prettiest girl on the planet, adult JT is completely smitten. But JT can’t see herself living in Hart’s Landing again and Ali can’t imagine leaving her job and her newly purchased home. And with Ali’s mom trying to plot a reconciliation with her ex, this holiday season might be bittersweet…or the start of something magical.

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Gersande La Flèche reviewed Yours for the Season by Kate Cochrane (Puck Struck, #2)

A really entertaining heartfelt read

5 stars

As I wrote about the first book in this series, everyone wants to see love stories about gay hockey players and I am so here for the masc representation this book is giving me.

Especially compared to the first book, I found the circumstances surrounding JT (who has a very memorable but small part in the first book) really well done and compelling. It's really hard to return to the small town you grew up in when you're visibly queer and gender non-conforming and Cochrane does a really good job of painting the feel of rural New Hampshire.

While Yours for the Season is reasonably tropey (I mean, to start, it's set around the holidays!), the mechanics feel less obvious than in the first novel and it was easier to turn off my brain and just enjoy the ride. For example, I'm usually not into "Hallmark Christmas …

As I wrote about the first book in this series, everyone wants to see love stories about gay hockey players and I am so here for the masc representation this book is giving me.

Especially compared to the first book, I found the circumstances surrounding JT (who has a very memorable but small part in the first book) really well done and compelling. It's really hard to return to the small town you grew up in when you're visibly queer and gender non-conforming and Cochrane does a really good job of painting the feel of rural New Hampshire.

While Yours for the Season is reasonably tropey (I mean, to start, it's set around the holidays!), the mechanics feel less obvious than in the first novel and it was easier to turn off my brain and just enjoy the ride. For example, I'm usually not into "Hallmark Christmas Movie" type films or books, but I got on board with this one from pretty much the first page of the first chapter, because Cochrane figures out how to mix just enough bitter with the sweet without everything getting either melodramatic or treacly-sweet.

Subjects

LGBTQ+
Lesbian
Holiday
Sports