Jerry Cooke
4.75⭐️ - A super cute winter sapphic hockey romance, with tons of trauma healing!
"If they can't see how incredible you are, that is their failure, not yours"
JT is back in her home town following her Olympic victory for Team USA, but as the only athlete in her family of artists, nobody really seems to care about her accomplishments or show up for her. She's thankful to be able to fall back on the friendship of her best friend though.. and his cute sister, Ali.
Ali is newly divorced and despite having realised she was bi- a while ago, she's never had a chance to be with another woman and so the flirty and fun JT turns her head in a major way. Aiming to have a good time together and to beat not just Ali's ex- but also JT's siblings, the two team up for the town's holiday contest. As they get closer, it becomes clear that her childhood crush has turned into something much stronger, but can JT really stay in Hart's Landing with all this family trauma and meddling around?
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This was such a cute story and I absolutely adored the way Ali supported JT. Having spent so much of her life feeling like she had less value than her family, Ali's unflinching holding up of her worth was beautiful - seeing her for the kind and sweet friend person she truly was. I had several moments of being brought to tears by the way Ali revealed the community's love for JT's achievements, and how that love gave JT the strength to express her feelings to her family and heal those relationships.
This had so much small town charm, affirming queer growth, all the healing and finding of oneself that you could want and it made me so happy.
4.75⭐️ - A super cute winter sapphic hockey romance, with tons of trauma healing!
"If they can't see how incredible you are, that is their failure, not yours"
JT is back in her home town following her Olympic victory for Team USA, but as the only athlete in her family of artists, nobody really seems to care about her accomplishments or show up for her. She's thankful to be able to fall back on the friendship of her best friend though.. and his cute sister, Ali.
Ali is newly divorced and despite having realised she was bi- a while ago, she's never had a chance to be with another woman and so the flirty and fun JT turns her head in a major way. Aiming to have a good time together and to beat not just Ali's ex- but also JT's siblings, the two team up for the town's holiday contest. As they get closer, it becomes clear that her childhood crush has turned into something much stronger, but can JT really stay in Hart's Landing with all this family trauma and meddling around?
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This was such a cute story and I absolutely adored the way Ali supported JT. Having spent so much of her life feeling like she had less value than her family, Ali's unflinching holding up of her worth was beautiful - seeing her for the kind and sweet friend person she truly was. I had several moments of being brought to tears by the way Ali revealed the community's love for JT's achievements, and how that love gave JT the strength to express her feelings to her family and heal those relationships.
This had so much small town charm, affirming queer growth, all the healing and finding of oneself that you could want and it made me so happy.