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cloudprince's review against another edition
4.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, and Transphobia
Minor: Deadnaming and Car accident
daryn's review against another edition
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders and Sexual content
Moderate: Transphobia
hazelgirl21's review against another edition
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Mental illness and Sexual content
Moderate: Transphobia
Minor: Abandonment
liferhi_inspired's review
adventurous
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
relaxing
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
5.0
📚 The Prospects
✍️ KT Hoffman
Thank you @squashgoblin & @thedialpress for this gifted ARC
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 5/5 Stars
🌶️🌶️🌶️ 3/5 Steam Rating
📝 3rd Person; Baseball Romance with Trans & Mental Health Representation
❤️ Published April 9, 2024 ❤️
This book right here is simply Trans joy and I loved every minute of reading it! It’s a story about a Trans Man finding his place (and love) while being a member of a Minor League Baseball Team in the PNW. The characters are well crafted and so incredibly lovable. You can’t help but to root for the Beaverton Beavers or for Gene & Luis as a couple!
When I say that this is a sports romance, I truly mean it! Not just the fact that the MCs play baseball, but everything about this book revolves around these characters love for baseball and their team. I had no idea how much I didn’t know about this sport before going into this book.
I enjoyed this book so much, I was easily able to overlook the fact that the MC chose the name Gene and that it’s told in 3rd Person.
✍️ KT Hoffman
Thank you @squashgoblin & @thedialpress for this gifted ARC
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 5/5 Stars
🌶️🌶️🌶️ 3/5 Steam Rating
📝 3rd Person; Baseball Romance with Trans & Mental Health Representation
❤️ Published April 9, 2024 ❤️
This book right here is simply Trans joy and I loved every minute of reading it! It’s a story about a Trans Man finding his place (and love) while being a member of a Minor League Baseball Team in the PNW. The characters are well crafted and so incredibly lovable. You can’t help but to root for the Beaverton Beavers or for Gene & Luis as a couple!
When I say that this is a sports romance, I truly mean it! Not just the fact that the MCs play baseball, but everything about this book revolves around these characters love for baseball and their team. I had no idea how much I didn’t know about this sport before going into this book.
I enjoyed this book so much, I was easily able to overlook the fact that the MC chose the name Gene and that it’s told in 3rd Person.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Sexual content
caseythereader's review
emotional
funny
hopeful
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.75
Thanks to The Dial Press for the free copy of this book.
- You’ve seen endless great reviews for this book, and let me tell you, they are all absolutely correct. What a gift of a book THE PROSPECTS is!
- Gene and Luis have my whole heart. What beautiful, soft men, learning to let themselves have what they dream of.
- The supporting cast is wonderful, too. I would gladly read whole books about Vince, Baker, or the Kyles.
- If you’re worried about the baseball, don’t. It’s a sport I feel neutral about and I was still swept along with the story.
- You’ve seen endless great reviews for this book, and let me tell you, they are all absolutely correct. What a gift of a book THE PROSPECTS is!
- Gene and Luis have my whole heart. What beautiful, soft men, learning to let themselves have what they dream of.
- The supporting cast is wonderful, too. I would gladly read whole books about Vince, Baker, or the Kyles.
- If you’re worried about the baseball, don’t. It’s a sport I feel neutral about and I was still swept along with the story.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Cursing, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Medical content, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Homophobia and Transphobia
Minor: Deadnaming, Racism, and Car accident
jennireadsmaybe's review
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
Imagine my delight when I found out there was a trans + queer baseball romance coming out where the main character is the first trans man to play professional baseball. The Prospects is everything I love about romance and sports and queer/trans identity mixed into one totally delightful, heartwarming story.
Gene is the kind of character that will stick with me for the rest of my life. He's an optimist, but he's so afraid to dream of more for himself. His romance with Luis is yearning personified. The former teammates turned rivals turned teammates want each other so badly that they don't quite know how to leave the other be. Truly, I would do anything to protect them from the world.
K.T. Hoffman isn't afraid to acknowledge the tough conversations around just how white and cis-het baseball is. But, at its heart, The Prospects is a story of hope, friendship, community, romance, dreaming, and all the different forms love that we have for people. I can't wait to see what is to come for K.T. Hoffman!!
Gene is the kind of character that will stick with me for the rest of my life. He's an optimist, but he's so afraid to dream of more for himself. His romance with Luis is yearning personified. The former teammates turned rivals turned teammates want each other so badly that they don't quite know how to leave the other be. Truly, I would do anything to protect them from the world.
K.T. Hoffman isn't afraid to acknowledge the tough conversations around just how white and cis-het baseball is. But, at its heart, The Prospects is a story of hope, friendship, community, romance, dreaming, and all the different forms love that we have for people. I can't wait to see what is to come for K.T. Hoffman!!
Content Warnings
Graphic: Homophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, and Transphobia
30something_reads's review against another edition
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
This book was pure queer joy!
I absolutely LOVED Gene and Luis as characters. They were both so heartfelt and perfect together. Their relationship felt real- the pacing, the communication, the banter, the conflict- everything! And the sheer number of happy tears I cried for them... were numerous.
Not only was this a delightful romance but it was also most definitely a baseball story with all of the nitty gritty details. (And as it turns out, I'm really into that.) I loved all of the team dynamics.
AND THE REP!! Oh my god, the rep! Here we go:
I absolutely LOVED Gene and Luis as characters. They were both so heartfelt and perfect together. Their relationship felt real- the pacing, the communication, the banter, the conflict- everything! And the sheer number of happy tears I cried for them... were numerous.
Not only was this a delightful romance but it was also most definitely a baseball story with all of the nitty gritty details. (And as it turns out, I'm really into that.) I loved all of the team dynamics.
AND THE REP!! Oh my god, the rep! Here we go:
- Jewish Romanian American Transmasc Gay MC
- Mexican American Cis Gay LI
- ADHD Rep (MC)
- Anxiety Rep (LI)
- Deaf Rep (side character)
- Downs Syndrome Rep (side character)
- Multiple queer side characters- lesbian, gay, and bi
*Thank you to PRH for a free audio copy and thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for an e-ARC*
Content Warnings
Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders and Sexual content
Minor: Transphobia, Car accident, and Death of parent
obscurepages's review
emotional
funny
inspiring
reflective
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
Okay I was not prepared for how tender and hopeful this book was going to be 😭 I think this book surprised me, most of all, with the way it showed trans experience, queer love, and optimism among marginalized communities to its readers.
It might just feel dense and slow at times, but I loved the pining and romance. And I cried in one emotional scene, because one line reminded me of Ed and Stede from OFMD, well... there's nothing I can do about that 😂
This is all I will say for now! Will be posting a full review on my tour stop (Bookstagram + Blog) with Colored Pages Book Tours!
Exact rating: 4 ⭐️
CW: panic attacks, anxiety, transphobia, homophobia, misogyny, sexual content
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content
Moderate: Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, and Transphobia
Minor: Misogyny
lycangrrl's review
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders and Sexual content
Moderate: Cursing and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Medical content, Car accident, and Dysphoria
no outright homophobia/transphobia but there are discussions of how being gay and/or trans is still seen as detrimental to having a professional sports careerblakeandbooks's review against another edition
emotional
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
Thank you to Dial Press and NetGalley for a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
This book was everything!! It was equal parts soft and sexy. It was full of hope and love and dreams. Gene is an incredible main character who truly undergoes this wonderful character arc where he allows himself to want things, not just hope for them. He is the first openly transgender man to play professional baseball, and he loves his team and is ready for the season. But… when he finds out Luis Estrada who he played baseball with in college has been traded to his team, suddenly he isn’t so sure. As they are forced to figure out how to play together again, it also creates this environment where they’re able to reevaluate the other and be friends, until they start to slowly realize they’re becoming more to each other.
Luis and Gene are the absolute CUTEST, and I am obsessed with them. We must protect them at all costs!! Gene is this bubbly, hilarious, kind personality, and Luis is quiet, anxious, and introverted. They balance each other out and allow for the other to have space to be exactly who they are. As they begin to spend so much time together, it was so easy to see their attentiveness and care towards each other. I was constantly highlighting interactions and conversations between the two of them, because I could not get enough of them. I could’ve read another 200 pages of just them being together. Luis also have a therapy dog named Dodger, who I cannot fail to bring up, because he’s such a good doggo!!! He is shown multiple times to be doing a great job taking care of Luis in extremely anxiety inducing situations and when he has an on-page panic attack.
And I cannot fail to mention Vince! I love him and his friendship/mentorship to Gene. He took him under his wing, and it’s so good. They also have some disagreements/arguments in the book that felt very real to me. They were able to work through their issues and admit where they had messed up. The found family of their team was also great, and it just made my heart so warm and gooey.
I’m blown away that this is a debut novel. I feel like nothing I say or review will be even adequate enough for my love of this story and these characters. Hoffman, incredible, wonderful, brilliant job.
This book was everything!! It was equal parts soft and sexy. It was full of hope and love and dreams. Gene is an incredible main character who truly undergoes this wonderful character arc where he allows himself to want things, not just hope for them. He is the first openly transgender man to play professional baseball, and he loves his team and is ready for the season. But… when he finds out Luis Estrada who he played baseball with in college has been traded to his team, suddenly he isn’t so sure. As they are forced to figure out how to play together again, it also creates this environment where they’re able to reevaluate the other and be friends, until they start to slowly realize they’re becoming more to each other.
Luis and Gene are the absolute CUTEST, and I am obsessed with them. We must protect them at all costs!! Gene is this bubbly, hilarious, kind personality, and Luis is quiet, anxious, and introverted. They balance each other out and allow for the other to have space to be exactly who they are. As they begin to spend so much time together, it was so easy to see their attentiveness and care towards each other. I was constantly highlighting interactions and conversations between the two of them, because I could not get enough of them. I could’ve read another 200 pages of just them being together. Luis also have a therapy dog named Dodger, who I cannot fail to bring up, because he’s such a good doggo!!! He is shown multiple times to be doing a great job taking care of Luis in extremely anxiety inducing situations and when he has an on-page panic attack.
And I cannot fail to mention Vince! I love him and his friendship/mentorship to Gene. He took him under his wing, and it’s so good. They also have some disagreements/arguments in the book that felt very real to me. They were able to work through their issues and admit where they had messed up. The found family of their team was also great, and it just made my heart so warm and gooey.
I’m blown away that this is a debut novel. I feel like nothing I say or review will be even adequate enough for my love of this story and these characters. Hoffman, incredible, wonderful, brilliant job.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Cursing, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, and Transphobia