This was a sweet and fun sports romance with two protagonists I really rooted for and wanted to know more about. I thought Mark's process as a widower was a great perspective, and the balance of secrecy vs authenticity felt optimistic but not overly so for the time period. I do think it drags on a little bit, like the first one in the series, but it's still a nice read.

I loved this book. Cat Sebastian was one of the standout discoveries for me in 2023, and this follow up to We Could Be So Good is as amazing as her other works. I loved the evolving grumpy/sunshine relationship between Mark and Eddie. I'm glad Sebastian decided to build out the characters and setting from the previous book by exploring Mark Bailey's personal life and the evolution of the Chronicle. There's a common thread of isolation continued from We Could Be So Good, showing that even someone like Mark Bailey, who seemed to have constructed a community for himself despite the hostility he faced as a gay man in the late 1950s, can be just as lonely as any of the other characters. I love seeing how Sebastian explores queer identity and relationships in different historical periods and in different settings, and moving this story slightly forward and outside of the relative safety of the Chronicle offices was a great way to ground the new events in familiarity without retreading the same ground.

I 100%, wholeheartedly recommend this book to anyone who love queer or historical romances.

This book is an absolute delight. Soft, gentle, funny, and sexy - and all the historical NYC and baseball details are fantastic. Cat Sebastian never misses, and her midcentury books are my particular favorite.

A queer historical romance about grief and second chances had me clutching the book to my chest and kicking my feet giddily from pretty much start to finish, and that about sums up the deft skill and emotional power of Cat Sebastian’s writing.

In You Should Be So Lucky, Mark and Eddie confront some pretty heavy universal struggles: we will all fail, no matter how hard we try, and death spares no one — and there’s often not a logical or fair explanation to either of those universal struggles. Here, those struggles are handled with so much care and humor at the heart of the story that it feels like a warm ember is cradled in your hands the whole time, so you aren’t bothered by the harsh reality of the world’s dreariness. While both Mark and Eddie struggle, there’s plenty of light, warmth, laughter, and love throughout their story. Most abundantly, there’s an ever present hope of a second chance, for nearly every character on the page, and each of those individual second chances are beautiful and heartwrenching in all their highs and lows. I’ve yet to find a Cat Sebastian book I didn’t love, but this one in particular is something special: it lays a foundation of hope gradually and unceasingly, until it’s something that can’t possibly be broken. I loved every minute.