The Long Game

De: Rachel Reid

Narrado por: Cooper North

THE SERIES THAT INSPIRED HEATED RIVALRY • NOW A #1 STREAMING SHOW

Enter the world of Game Changers, the series behind the epic enemies-to-lovers hockey romance Heated Rivalry, streaming on Crave in Canada and on HBO Max in the U.S.

New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Rachel Reid brings you exactly what you want—more Shane and Ilya!

To the world they are rivals, but to each other they are everything.

Ten years.

That’s how long Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov have been seeing each other. How long they’ve been keeping their relationship a secret. From friends, from family…from the league. If Shane wants to stay at the top of his game, what he and Ilya share has to remain secret. He loves Ilya, but what if going public ruins everything?

Ilya is sick of secrets. Shane has gotten so good at hiding his feelings, sometimes Ilya questions if they even exist. The closeness, the intimacy, even the risk that would come with being open about their relationship…Ilya wants it all.

It’s time for them to decide what’s most important—hockey or love.

It’s time to make a call.

Game Changers

• Book 1: Game Changer
• Book 2: Heated Rivalry
• Book 3: Tough Guy
• Book 4: Common Goal
• Book 5: Role Model
• Book 6: The Long Game

Need more Rachel Reid?! Check out these other standalones from your favorite MM hockey romance writer:

• Time to Shine
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My heart!!!!

I just love this characters. The angst, the love, everything was so amazing! 🫠💜 I am so happy Ilya and Shane exist!

i absolutely love this book

This was such a great story i love every minute of it , and Cooper North was wonderful at bring these lovely characters to life .

Mixed feelings despite my 4 star rating

Content warnings From the author: "The Long Game includes mentions and descriptions of suicide and depression.” And my own addition: queerphobia and possibly an implied eating disorder Okay… so… this is going to be a long one. I found out this book was coming out a few months ago. I remember liking Ilya and Shane's story in Heated Rivalry but I was neutral about this book. After spending significant time hanging out on romance subreddits and Goodreads though, my anticipation started building. I read the next few books in the series—which I hadn't before because I was on the fence after reading some of the reviews—and was ready for this one. But I was underwhelmed by the first 30/40% of the book. I ended up speeding the audiobook up significantly for awhile because of how slowly the story was moving. It felt a little like we were rehashing Heated Rivalry. Obviously, there were differences, because Ilya and Shane were now in a committed relationship and there was more mental health issues being explored. But they were still seeing each other in secret (with the exception of a few friends knowing) and having sex then going off and being distressed because they couldn't be out to the public. So why did I change from the 3 stars that I was set on for the first of the book to 4? Because I really enjoyed the aspects of depression that were explored in this book. I loved the cute moments between Ilya and Shane (the thing with Hayden's kids, and then the candles!!!!). And once Shane's head found it's way out of his ass and he became more attentive, I loved watching them be together. Yes, Ilya should or could have been more forthcoming about his struggles, but I also feel like there were very obvious insensitive moments on Shane's part that he was just oblivious to (like the scene with the excessive texts from his mom). I don't know how I feel about how things came out. But I loved it once it did. I wish we had more time with Shane and Ilya out to the public. I would have been happy if this story stayed as it was but with longer scenes with them together after the big reveal. I almost feel a little cheated. I think this was a good and important addition to their story. But I would also have been happy leaving them in Heated Rivalry. Final thoughts: Ilya stole the show in this book. Where Heated Rivalry focused a bit more on Shane, The Long Game centered Ilya and it was the right choice. I also loved all of his cameos in previous books that contributed to the growth/character development that we can clearly see in this book. Shane's parents and the Centaurs are great. The Commissioner is unfortunately realistic but trash nonetheless. If there are more books in this series (with Haas as an MC perhaps) I hope a certain recording becomes significant. The narration by Cooper North was good though some of his accents are still wonky. And finally, I am not a fan of Rachel Reid's hockey scenes. I find them to be a bit underwhelming.

cant get enough

absolutely LOVED this, Cooper is a great narrator for this series. 5 stars seems too little to give this whole series

Book 2 is as good as book 1

This book was magnificent and the voice acting was so good. I didn’t think book 2 could be just as good as book 1 but I was wrong. The banter between these two was perfection.