Book guide
You Should Be So Lucky
A slumping baseball star and a grieving reporter get stuck together for a season neither of them expected.
Genre and trope pairingsRomanceFriends to loversRomanceForced proximityRomanceFound familyRomanceGrumpy x sunshineRomanceOpposites attractRomanceSlow burnRomanceSports romanceQueer RomanceFound familyQueer RomanceGrumpy x sunshineQueer RomanceSlow burnQueer RomanceLGBTQ+Queer RomanceHurt/comfortHistoricalLGBTQ+
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About You Should Be So Lucky
Eddie O’Leary’s first season with his new team is going disastrously when he is ordered to give interviews to Mark Bailey, an arts reporter reluctantly assigned to the baseball beat. Their forced proximity becomes a tender, slow-burn romance about grief, home, and being seen.
Reading signals
- Spice
- Medium
- Darkness
- Balanced
- Pacing
- Balanced
Series
Midcentury NYC · Book 2 of 2
Content warnings
- period-typical homophobia
- racism
- antisemitism
- disownment/kicked out of home
- infidelity mentioned
- alcohol consumption
- smoking/tobacco mentioned
- drug use mentioned
- hospitalisation
- grief/loss
- death of abusive parent
- alcoholism
- drunk-driving accident
- death of partner
- death of grandparent
- sexual content
