Cover Crush: It’s a Love/Skate Relationship by Carli J. Corson

Cover Crush: It’s a Love/Skate Relationship by Carli J. Corson

It’s a Love/Skate Relationship by Carli J. Corson has just the cutest artwork! I am so in love with this cover! The colors are sweet and I just love the style. I almost thought this was a graphic novel the first time I saw the cover, because it just has such a good feel. Plus I have been reading a lot of queer graphic novels, so I am probably biased there.

If you couldn’t tell from the title, this is a sports sapphic romance, enemies-to-lovers, where a hockey player strikes a deal with a figure skater to help each other after they all got into some trouble at the ice rink. The author and I share a love for the Philadelphia sports teams and that alone is enough to get me to read this one, but that wouldn’t stop me if I wasn’t, as I am a sucker for a queer sports romance!

Love/Skate releases on January 28th, and if you like your copy to be extra special, you can preorder a signed and/or personalized copy from Doylestown Bookshop which comes with a special art print and bookmark! And if you are around the greater Philly area, the book launch is taking place there on Tuesday 28th at 6pm!

It's a Love/Skate Relationship

by Carli J. Corson
Published by: HarperCollins
on January 28, 2025
Genres: Contemporary Romance, LGBTQIA+, Young Adult
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Hockey star Charlie Porter has one shot to make her dreams come true -- literally. One goal is all that stands between her and the coveted Winthrop Cup, along with a life-changing hockey scholarship that could catapult her into the big leagues. But when Charlie misses her shot -- and inadvertently starts a good ol’ fashioned brawl between rival schools -- she waves goodbye to more than just the championship title. She gets kicked off her team, suspended from school, and banished to the Worst Place on Winthrop High. Things for Charlie cannot get any worse.

Until she meets Alexa Goldstein. A prickly, perfectionist ice princess with her sights set on the Olympics, Alexa is the last person Charlie would ever want to share a rink with -- no matter how good she looks in her figure skating leotard. But when Alexa’s skating partner breaks his ankle and torpedoes her chances for a gold medal career, the two unlikely allies -- along with Alexa’s terrifying, ex-Olympian mother -- strike a Charlie will practice with Alexa until her partner heals, and Alexa’s mother will use her connections to get Charlie back in her hockey uniform.

But as the ice between Charlie and Alexa begins to melt, their partnership only gets more complicated. Charlie’s falling hard -- and not just when she’s trying to land a double axel. What happens when making Alexa’s skating dreams come true means giving up her own?

Cover Artist: Nicole Goux
Jacket Design: Julia Feingold

Thank you to HarperCollins & BookSparks for the gifted copy!

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