This romance? It’s hard to even put into words just how cute, sweet, cozy, and emotional this m/m romance set in mid-century New York was. And the characters! This was the epitome of a golden retriever (our baseball bro) x black cat (our jaded journalist) romance. They were both adorable.

Plus the writing?? Third person present tense in an m/m (or an f/f) romance is writing on hard mode imo (way more proper nouns and present simple tense than English speakers typically use in regular speech). But when it flows this well? It’s like watching the Olympics. Of writing.

So why four stars? Well, I think I’m a bad person. Because, like the first book in this series, this tied up alll the loose ends. Teammates, managers, other journalists, friends, everyone had their chapter in the sun. Sometimes I cared (the interactions between baseball bro and his mom 😭) but sometimes I didn’t care 😅 Because I might be a heartless jerk.