Review: Cait Nary’s SEASON’S CHANGE.

Thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for the complimentary ARC. All opinions provided are my own.

I’ve recently discovered that one of my fave sports romance tropes is rookie + the veteran 🤤 & Cait Nary’s Season’s Change offers that plus great mental health rep, sunshine & the loner, & roommates/friends falling in love.

Olly & Benji’s journey to a love declaration isn’t easy for lots of reasons, including the fact that hockey veteran Olly isn’t publicly out—he hasn’t even told his family yet—& Benji isn’t much for introspection & is overall pretty slow in recognizing/understanding his feelings for Olly.

Beyond this, Olly has experienced what I would call severe anxiety & perhaps even depression over how people associated with his previous team treated him after someone saw him trying to hookup with another man.

Needless to say, this isn’t a light read. There’s quite a lot of angst. But it is a wonderful story about friendship turning to love, about supporting someone & encouraging them through moments of emotional turmoil.

The steam doesn’t hurt (understatement); neither do the two MCs, who are sweet, well-meaning, & refreshingly “flawed” (ie human). I’m really looking forward to seeing what Cait Nary puts out into the world next.

4.5 ⭐️. Release date: 02/01.

[CWs: Olly’s dad has put a lot of pressure on him throughout his life. Severe anxiety episodes. Homophobic members of the hockey community who treat Olly horribly as well as “jokes” made by his new teammates which don’t seem meant maliciously but which do cause Olly (at least) emotional distress (ie a player might refer to another player’s close friend on the team as a “wife”). When Olly & Benji first hook up it’s in a threesome. Benji kisses & tells—at the beginning of the book he brags about a blow job he received.]

[ID: the ebook rests on a fluffy white blanket. On the left is a sparkly white ornament & on the right another sparkly white ornament is on a bright blue toboggan.]