Heated Rivalry

⚠️ spoilers littered throughout ⚠️



[4.7] brethren, sistren, and compeers beyond the binary: stash away your pitchforks and extinguish your torches for i have officially boarded the Shane & Ilya train strikes a pose with gymnastics-level flourish

i like to go into books as blind as possible, even if it means forgoing the blurb, so when this book was first recommended to me back in the day, i didn't have much to go on besides: (1) the odd comment or two of “eURgh bLEurgH ILyA haVe mY BAbiEs,” (2) the cover's disembodied bare chests of the male species, (3) the vague idea that we're talking NHL, and (4) the title which sprung up images of rival hockey players going into heat on the ice (clear evidence of my indulgent forays into the omegaverse but i'd fork over cold hard cash to read a book with this premise #somebodymakeithappen winkwinknudgenudge