![]() ![]() ![]() The men’s relationship develops over the course of a season-as both have to deal with overbearing relatives (Hudson’s micro-managing father who happens to also be his manager and Gavin’s pushy in-laws who want custody of their grandchild) and the vagaries of working for a popular sports franchise. Gavin is openly gay, a widower raising a young daughter. Instead, they reveal their identities before “anything” happens and decide it would be better not to act on their attraction. ![]() I’m glad Bowen upended the usual way this convention would play out: the guys do not have a one-nighter only to discover the next day that they work at the same place. Gavin is an athletic trainer for the Bruisers, but neither man is aware of who the other is. In his first night in town after being traded to the Brooklyn Bruisers, Hudson meets Gavin at a bar. Hudson is bi, but, after a bad experience trying to come out years before, has kept his sexuality deep in the back of the closet. ![]() In Bowen’s reliably smooth prose, we meet Hudson, a hockey player who has been traded multiple times during his career, leading to his last name, Newgate, becoming “New Guy” every time he changes teams. Sarina Bowen’s THE NEW GUY begins a new m/m hockey series called The Hockey Guys set in the same universe as her Brooklyn Hockey books. ![]()
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