I downloaded this and read this the moment I saw it was available! I had already read and reviewed Cait Nary’s Season’s Change, so I just read Rachel Reid’s The Long Game sampler here. This is the first 3 chapters and starts over the summer at the start of their charity hockey camp. I want to say this starts before the events of Role Model?

But anyways, this starts off great and there’s already hilarious one-liners from Ilya. The Ilya and Hayden hate is what everyone imagines Ilya and Shane to be like, I think. lol I love that my most questioned thing this series has been finally answered - Ilya and Shane both have an agent! No longer are they vaguely agentless.

I can’t wait to read the rest of The Long Game when it comes out and I’m super excited the book will be made available in paperback!

Note to publisher: How about making the rest of the books in this series available in paperback too? 🥺

The Long Game is my most anticipated book of 2022! I’ve been so looking forward to it coming out and getting to read the sampler is such a treat since I know it’ll be hard to get approved for an arc when it’s released.

It was great to be back in Ilya and Shane’s world even just for the three chapters. Theirs is a truly heartwarming love story.

The Long Game by Rachel Reid is one of my most anticipated reads of 2022. Having just read the first three chapters, it will be agony waiting for its release. Love, love, loved it!!! So much love and laughter, but the course of true love never runs smooth. The wheels are truly in motion and we/Shane & Ilya are in for a bumpy ride - I cannot wait. Quite simply, it was awesometacular!!!

I downloaded this the SECOND I saw it because oh my GOD i am so excited for Long Game!!! The beginning tensions between Ilya and Shane are intriguing and my heart glowed at their obvious love for one another. I am little confused about the timeline and how it lines up with Role Model, but I am sure that will get more obvious further in. God I am so EXCITED for April 26.

As for Seasons Change, I am certainly interested! I've been on a sports romance kick recently, so I may have to pick it up as I wait for the end of April to come around.

I have been dying to get a peak of The Long Game so I leapt at the opportunity to read this. It only gave me the first three chapters, but it was the perfect tease for what's to come. I absolutely cannot wait to read the full book. I already have and ARC for Season's Change and am looking forward to reading it in full.

I'm so excited for both of these! I love both these authors and the first few chapters lived up to expectations. Can't wait to read the full books.

I have never raced to NetGalley faster to download this sampler of the first three chapters of The Long Game - and they did not disappoint!! Only issue is having to wait for the rest of the book - April cannot come soon enough! The seeds of tension that was placed in Role Model are there front and center in these chapters, so deftly blended with deep abiding love Ilya and Shane have. I, for one, cannot wait to continue to see Ilya and Shane's relationship evolve, and it was wonderful to see/hear about other characters so early in the book.

The first few chapters of Season Change have me hooked - and it will be interesting to see how Olly and Benji's relationship develops. Olly's struggle is immediately well-crafted, and I'm looking forward to learning more about Olly. I know this is a book that I will be reading the day it comes out.