Reviews and Comments

Came recommended by a few people, but depending on how the first few chapters go this is either going to be a fun read or a DNF because I'm impossible to please !

Still reading, just slowly, because I'm reading too many things at once. But so far super interesting.

Y a des trucs qui me replongent en 2009, mais j'ai tellement hâte de lire ce bouquin!

Petit bouquin trouvé à ma librairie. Il a l'air plutôt France-centric mais il est court.

Finished reading this in a bit of a fugue state last night. I have a lot of thoughts and I'm probably going to blog about them. What a book.

Reading this for Frankie DLC's OOYL book club this January.

A rec from mcc!

if your goal is a good all around yuri experience do NOT miss "how do we relationship" which is just so brutally real

Like most readers who end up reading at least some romance, I tend to try very hard not to worry about things like realism or historical accuracy. But this novel set in the (all white, all Christian, all conforming) American suburbs in 1969-we-can-just-taste-the-70s blew me away. I later learned the writer has a background in both history and research, so chef's kisses all around! If you know anything about the 70s and USA queer history, there are a lot of tiny details that are going to jump out at you and grip your heart.

I'm going to be rereading this book on a regular basis, that's for sure. It's just beautifully done. There are a couple of scenes that are going to live rent-free in my head, forever!

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.

For what it is, it's a fun read. Some bits of Nat in particular were very well executed and compelling. Second chance romances (un peu à la Persuasion de Austen) are in particular a special interest of mine, so I could not not love to see this one.

It does, however, contain my writing technique arch-nemesis: NOOOOOOO to flashback chapters! (I don't know why but 2025 was the year I decided I really disliked almost all iterations of this technique and while it was more tolerable here than in most things, I still was very annoyed. Mon royaume pour un second chance romance sans chapitre flashback!!)

Très recommandé, bouquin trouvé dans la newsletter Out of Your League (qui est super bon d'ailleurs)