Scott Graham
Rachel Reid’s Game Changers series continues the story of gay hockey players and their partners, Troy Barrett and Harris Drover, respectively on Role Model. Troy has been recently traded to Ottawa as the hockey version of a Siberian exile due to a recent public accusation toward a teammate. He personifies cognitive dissonance as a toxically masculine player hiding his homosexuality until he runs into his emotional counterpoint in Harris, the Ottawa team’s openly gay social media PR person. For me, the best part of the series (apart from the expected happy ending) is how many of the previous novel’s characters are woven in like a tapestry (well, maybe more like a needlepoint), with Ilya Rosenov returning as an all seeing and knowing presence, dropping wisdom and support where needed, but always standing apart just a little, even when he’s the center of attention, with his trademarked sang-froid.
Rachel Reid’s Game Changers series continues the story of gay hockey players and their partners, Troy Barrett and Harris Drover, respectively on Role Model. Troy has been recently traded to Ottawa as the hockey version of a Siberian exile due to a recent public accusation toward a teammate. He personifies cognitive dissonance as a toxically masculine player hiding his homosexuality until he runs into his emotional counterpoint in Harris, the Ottawa team’s openly gay social media PR person. For me, the best part of the series (apart from the expected happy ending) is how many of the previous novel’s characters are woven in like a tapestry (well, maybe more like a needlepoint), with Ilya Rosenov returning as an all seeing and knowing presence, dropping wisdom and support where needed, but always standing apart just a little, even when he’s the center of attention, with his trademarked sang-froid.