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kay-no-lies · 11 days

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I read this book earlier this year. It was cute. It draws a lot of parallels to the USWNT & NWSL. What’s been happening in the league the last few years. This has the potential to be so good if they can get it done right!

Some other wlw spot romance books I’d like to see them adapt:

-How You Get The Girl-Anita Kelly 🏀 (Julie Parker is me, I am her, but I’m also Elle.)

-Hot shot-Clare Lydon 🇺🇸⚽️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

-Catch-Kris Bryant 🏈

If you like YA/High School settings…Home Field Advantage and She Drives Me Crazy are good too, but def for more YA.

#cleat cute #meryl wilsner #needs a better title though #megan rapinoe #sue bird #nwsl #uswnt #I listen to a lot of audiobooks while I work

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just-a-girl-who-likes-sharks · 5 months

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“Lesbian is important to me. The world likes to act like it’s a porn category, not an identity. It took me a while to realize it wasn’t. I want other girls like me to know it’s a beautiful word.”

Phoebe Matthews in “Cleat Cute” by Meryl Wilsner

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pucktrek · 7 months

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honestly the one of the things that makes me the most sad about this hockey romance / booktok drama is that now so many hockey fans have a negative impression of hockey romances and sports romances. There are so, so many wonderful, queer romances out there that are doing wonderful, nuanced, and intentional things within the sports romance genre, and I hate that now people are looking down on them.

Here's some reasons that I love sports romances:

It’s a celebrity romance, but more of a niche celebrity romance. This isn’t a Hollywood super star that everyone in the world knows their name, BUT they often do have a dedicated fan base and are still in the public eye. It brings up really interesting discussions of fame and power and how much of yourself you keep private. So you get a lot of the good celebrity romance tropes and settings (like secret relationship, having to do interviews, traveling to new cities) but on a more niche and interesting scale

And bouncing off of that, with queer sports romances you get a lot of really interesting discussions of coming out, how you present your queerness to the world, how much of yourself is “owed” to the people around you vs yourself, which is very interesting when explored through a sports culture lense and I really enjoy the discussions of queer identity, culture, and community that come out of it. And particularly if it a romance between two players, there's a lot of really interesting queer nuances to explore

There are so many different pairings that can happen, but most of them kind of boil down to player/player, player/sports professional, player/normie, and each of these dynamics are interesting to me every time, especially when exploring teammate dynamics! And exploring how fame affects each of these things!

Found family! Your team is your family! And everyone has silly nicknames and rituals with each other and it makes me feel warm and fuzzy

With every romance, you pretty much know that it’s gonna end with a Happily Ever After, which is why we love the genre. But sometimes that can take the “surprise” out of a romance and its structure. Within sports romances, you don’t know how the game is going to go! They could win! They could lose! That affects the characters either way! And there’s been several sports romances that had me on the edge of my seat cause I genuinely had no idea which way the championship game was gonna go! I like that extra plot element to keep things interesting

I also like it when you can tell the author is a big fan of their sport, and even if EYE don’t know anything about the sport, they’re generally good at writing things in a makes sense and makes the action interesting and keeps me hooked. It’s also just nice to step into the world the author loves!

Genuinely I just think that queer sports romances are doing so many interesting things, and have such interesting niches and nuances to the stories they’re telling! And they should not be looked down upon by hockey fans OR romance fans who have witnessed this booktok drama go down and now don’t want to touch hockey romances with a ten foot pole.

Here are some of the queer sports romances I recommend for anyone who wants to get into the genre:

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traeumenvonbuechern · 8 months

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⚾ Books To Read If You Love "A League of Their Own" ⚾

I can’t believe Amazon canceled "A League of Their Own" 😭 Here are some books you should read if you miss this show as much as I do.

(Also, please remember that ALOTO wasn't canceled "due to the strikes". Amazon is the one to blame here, not WGA & SAG-AFTRA!)

Book titles:

Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo

You Don't Have a Shot by Racquel Marie

Cleat Cute by Meryl Wilsner (comes out September 19, 2023)

Cheer Up: Love and Pompoms by Crystal Frasier, Val Wise and Oscar O. Jupiter

Home Field Advantage by Dahlia Adler

Joy, to the World by Kai Shappley and Lisa Bunker

The Avant-Guards by Carly Usdin and Noah Hayes

Like Other Girls by Britta Lundin

The Passing Playbook by Isaac Fitzsimons

Running With Lions by Julian Winters

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lgbtqreads · 3 months

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Happy National Girls and Women in Sports Day 2024!

Happy National Girls and Women in Sports Day! In celebration of this day, here are a whole bunch of books that center queer girls and women in sports! (For even more recs, check out 2022‘s post!) Fiction You Don’t Have a Shot by Racquel Marie Valentina “Vale” Castillo-Green’s life revolves around soccer. Her friends, her future, and her father’s intense expectations are all wrapped up in the…

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youwillfindilluminating · 5 months

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if this isn't genderswapped roy/jamie I'll eat my hat

#roy x jamie #royjamie #ted lasso #it even says in the description for fans of ted lasso #get your money I guess! 😆#I happened upon a free copy so I will be skimming it at some point #cleat cute

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wlwbookshelf · 6 months

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CLEAT CUTE - MERYL WILSNER Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Lesbians and soccer, a pairing as old as time. A cute read in a world cup year. This book has Meryl’s trademark spice (so a lot of it, and it’s good), plus lovable main characters Phoebe and Grace are so compelling that I rushed through the book in a day.

Many thanks to St Martin’s Press for an eARC via Netgalley in exchange for my honest review.

#books #cleat cute #meryl wilsner #book review #sapphic lit #booklr #litedit #wlwbooks #wlwlit #wlw literature #bookedit #storyseekers #book creation

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avocadosockz · 11 days

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WHAT AN ABSOLUTE WIN FOR THE SAPPHICS ARE YOU KIDDING ME THIS IS EVERYTHING

#i’m so happy rn #cleat cute #grace henderson #phoebe matthews #LOVE

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starrynight0612 · 7 months

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*squeals* I love these two 🥰

#cleat cute #meryl wilsner #pheobe x grace #they are so cute and I love them #sapphic #lgbtq #lesbian #lesbian books #sapphic books #spoilers

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runninginduckshorts · 7 months

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I’m half way through Cleat Cute by Meryl Wilsner and these two really are the definition of ADHD/Autistic girlfriends, I love it

#Cleat Cute #Meryl Wilsner #Phoebe Matthews #Grace Henderson

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aelin9 · 4 months

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Do buff women owe it to the world to cut the sleeves off all their shirts? I would argue yes it's a public service to sapphics

We can have a little flexing, as a treat 😏

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justme-victoria · 6 months

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When you get to work up a sweat on and off the field...

sports romance

sapphic

teammates-with-benefits

locker room

grumpy/sunshine

alternating perspectives

This was one of my most anticipated releases for the year and Meryl certainly did not disappoint! Ya’ll know I can’t get enough of sports romances, and I’ve been absolutely loving sapphic romances, so combining my two favourites was just fabulous!

#cleat cute #meryl wilsner #sapphic romance #sapphic #queer romance #sports romance #romance books #best books of 2023 #book review #book blogger #blogger #influencer #aussieblogger #blogging #australianblogger

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alessiasfreckles · 4 months

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i’m reading cleat cute and why did no one tell me how smutty it is!!! i would have read it a lot sooner if i’d have known

#like omg #what if i wrote a fanfic for someone based off of cleat cute #what then #hannah writes #cleat cute

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justapayneaway · 6 months

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#cleat cute #meryl wilsner #women's football #rita's book club #book #bookclub #Youtube

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lgbtqreads · 1 year

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Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Romance of 2023

Love love, at least in bookish form? Here’s a list to keep you in brand-new queer romance novels all year long… Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute by Talia Hibbert (January 3rd) Bradley Graeme is pretty much perfect. He’s a star football player, manages his OCD well (enough), and comes out on top in all his classes . . . except the ones he shares with his ex-best friend, Celine. Celine…

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hedghost · 6 months

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a few of you asked for a review of cleat cute and i finished it today so thought i’d just post my thoughts!

overall i gave it like a 3.75 - it’s enjoyable but not much past that. if you’re into casual reading, or want a lighthearted, easy to read romance, it’s a great book. there’s not a considerable amount of substance, but it’s a romance novel so i wouldn’t expect there to be. it’s not groundbreaking, emotionally devastating, or lifechanging - but it’s an enjoyable read if you want something fun. that being said the sex scenes are very good.

in terms of football content, some of it feels a little unrealistic/wattpad fanfic (ie. getting a national call up before playing a pro/ncaa game, just deciding which player you want to replace out of ALL the positions, shit like that) but half of it could be bc i don’t know anything about the nwsl so maybe it’s accurate to it? idk. but despite this it doesn’t really take away from the book.

one thing i will say is the plot is sort of… nonexistent? like there is a plot, but it felt a little like they set up this whole plot and conflict and then every time it should have caused conflict it just didn’t? like *sort of spoiler* it sets up that the main conflict is the two of them battling for the same position - but that’s just kind of resolved and the actual conflict is like completely different and just comes massively out of left field - and then that gets solved like ridiculously quickly too?

but anyway, overall it was enjoyable, it’s your standard romance, the characters are fairly well developed for the plot, and so pretty likeable, the romance itself is good (including 🌶️), and it’s about sapphic footballers so who can complain really

tldr: it’s nothing too special but it’s decent if you’re after a chill romance - your classic beach read

hope this helps!

#feel free to disagree or send me thoughts i’d like to hear them?#sapphic book recs #meryl wilsner #cleat cute

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