Scoring Points By H.L. Day
Genre: Contemporary Romance, GLBTQ, MM
Tropes: Formula 1, Sports, Enemies-to-Lovers
Released: June 13, 2023
Publisher: Self-Published
Series: Lights Out, Book 4 (but the books can be read in any order)
Length: 280 pages
Cover Design: Meredith Russell
Can two warring team principals in the cutthroat world of F1 ever admit that there’s more to life than scoring points?
On the surface, Kurt Whitford has everything. A successful business. Good looks. Money. A famous popstar girlfriend hanging off his arm. And as the icing on the cake, he’s just been announced as Nebula’s new team principal. The downside? The opposition. It’s seventeen years since Kurt has seen the infuriating and irresistible Gio Rossi, but the man hasn’t changed a bit.
Whatever Kurt Whitford has, Giovanni Rossi can surpass. Well, except for the girlfriend. Despite needing to keep his sexuality on the down low, he’s not that far in the closet. And if Kurt thinks that Gio’s ready to let bygones be bygones, he couldn’t be more wrong. Gio hasn’t forgiven. Or forgotten.
As a long-rooted rivalry kicks off once more and sparks fly both on and off the track, can Gio and Kurt go head-to-head without the media getting wind of their true feelings? Or is their undeniable sexual chemistry about to prove their downfall?
This MM romance from H.L Day features enemies to lovers, opposing teams, secrets that go way back, and suppressed feelings. Set in the high-octane world of Formula 1, it features fast cars, spectacular crashes, heated rivalries, and of course, a HEA.
Each book in the Lights Out collection is a standalone story, and the books can be read in any order.
Reviewed by ButtonsMom2003
Another great book in this series!
Scoring Points is a bit different from the first three books in the series (the books can be read in any order) in that it’s not about two F1 drivers, instead it’s about two competing team principals.
Kurt and Gio have a long history and I liked how this book spanned the twenty years that these two had known each other. It wasn’t at all disconcerting to switch back and forth from the present to the past like happens in some books I’ve read. The chapters are clearly marked as to the time period they cover.
This is a really hot enemies-to-lovers story starting when Kurt and Gio are only eighteen. Gio knows that he’s gay but Kurt is deep in denial. Gio’s family is supportive and Kurt’s father basically ignores him. When Gio and Kurt both realize that they will not be Formula 1 drivers, Gio declares that he will become a team principal and he eventually achieves that goal.
Fast forward eighteen or so years and now Kurt has also become a team principal for a competitor’s team. Gio isn’t happy about this in part because Kurt never expressed a desire to do this job. Their rivalry heats up and tempers flare and leads to lots of hot sexy time.
I loved the epilogue set four years after the end of the story.
♥♥♥♥♥
O Factor: Scorcher
H.L Day grew up in the North of England. As a child she was an avid reader, spending lots of time at the local library or escaping into the imaginary worlds created by the books she read. Her grandmother first introduced her to the genre of romance novels, as a teenager, and all the steamy sex they entailed. Naughty Grandma! Romance novels were forgotten for a while when real life got in the way: university, clubbing, work, moving to London, and more work.
When life settled down (slightly) H.L Day stumbled upon the world of m/m romance. She remained content to read other people’s books for a while, before deciding to give it a go herself.
Now, she’s a teacher by day and a writer by night. Actually, that’s not quite true—she’s a teacher by day, procrastinates about writing at night and writes in the school holidays, when she’s not continuing to procrastinate. After all, there’s books to read, places to go, people to see, the gym to visit, films to watch. So many things to do—so few hours to do it in. Every now and again, she musters enough self-discipline to actually get some words onto paper—sometimes they even make sense and are in the right order.
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