A review by unusablebooklore
Pole Position by Rebecca J. Caffery

medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.0

MCs 25/33 
Team mates/adversary to lovers 
Secret relationship 
Bisexual rep 
Medium Salsa level spice 
 
TLDR: If you’re a big F1 fan this may not be the book for you. If you know nothing about the sport you’ll like it. 
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I’m a F1 fan…I know a ridiculous amount about the sport and this book wasn’t written for someone like me. 
 
I wish this was a hockey romance situation where things are different enough, names are changed to protect the innocent yada yada yada. But instead there’s name dropping in this book, so it’s meant to be our current existence, but so many inaccuracies and tiny give aways that highlight that the author may not know as much about the sport as they think they do. It feels like the author saw the hubhub surrounding F1 at the moment and said…”I can work with that”. 
 
So much sport content... I don’t really care about qualifying I watch real F1 for that. I wan’t to know about the dudes falling in love. 
 
Around 75% it starts to pick up. Maybe because it focuses more on the characters rather than racing? 
 
CW: Parkinson’s, death of a parent, homophobia 
 
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**Harsher critiques** 
 
3% and there is a foundation story line with disability rep that doesn’t track with the very first Google result…🤦‍♀️ 
 
Also dude is a 4 time F1 world champion but his sister is the full time carer for their mum…hire someone to do the job so your sister can enjoy not working working while spending time with her mum. Plus the author has suggested that his mum was/is a famous pop star. Let’s not pretend money is an obstacle for these people. 
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