People can’t get enough hockey romance. The book market is flooded with steamy novels about love on the ice. There’s “Hockey With Benefits,” “Body Check” and “Puck and Prejudice,” about a goalie who accidentally travels back in time to Regency-era England and falls for a friend of Jane Austen.
The books have a global following on TikTok, and in places without much hockey or even ice, including Australia and Spain. “Heated Rivalry,” Reid’s book about male hockey lovers, was adapted for television and has quickly become one of the most watched shows on HBO Max. Another novel in the genre is being turned into a series for Amazon’s Prime Video.
Ok, hockey players and Canadians on Stacker News. Why this?!
Haha this is funny. Many years ago I was perusing the library shelves with a female friend and we discovered there is a sub genre within romance known as ghetto romance (or hood romance or hood love).
Ok, now I think hockey romance and hood romance may just be racially coded romances that don't want to be explicit about it
I think that's a reasonable thesis.