Susan’s Book Blog

  📚 Fave Reads of 2022 Countdown 📚  #4 Heated Rivalry and  The Long Game by Rachel Reid  If you don’t know Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov by now, what are you even doing with your life? Go discover Rachel Reid’s genius already. These and the other two books in the Game Changer series I’ve read so far have been the most amazing, addicting, compulsively readable spicy fluffy romances I have ever read. I NEED MORE. (I put these two together in one place because the books are an inseparable pair in my mind. They must be together. Like Shane & Ilya.)

So I recently read Rachel Reid’s gay hockey romance duo Heated Rivalry and it’s newly published sequel The Long Game. If you read my review(s) a couple posts down, you’ll know that I ABSOLUTELY LOVED THEM. And I ADORED the characters. So…  In Heated Rivalry, Shane plays for the Montreal Voyageurs and Ilya for the Boston Bears. I googled those teams to see what I could find in the way of logos and uniforms. Neither of them are actual NHL teams. The Voyageurs were an AHL team for a while but no longer exist. The Boston Bears, as far as I can tell, have never existed in any form. There is an AHL team in Hershey Pennsylvania called the Bears and of course there are the NHL’s Boston Bruins. And the Bruins, of course, are bears so that’s the team I decided to go with for Ilya’s uniform. Below are the logos I went with. I altered the Voyageurs logo slightly to remove some stylistic points on the letter M. To the Bruins logo, I merely added a bear’s head where the B usually is to make it ...