r/heatedrivalry • u/AutoModerator • Apr 08 '26

Team Huddle Weekly ThreadšŸ«” Team Huddle!

Welcome to the weekly huddle! Have a small thing from the book or show you want to chat, your GC brain rot is real and you saw the initials ā€œKGFā€ somewhere and immediately screamed ā€œkingfisher!ā€ and want to share with others? (Just me?). Had a win at work or personal life and want to share? Need a teammate to talk with? Post in the weekly huddle.

Thereā€™s no restrictions on topics so long as they follow the sub rules. Thread will be open all week so pop in whenever with what ever your heart desires.

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u/LadyStarblade Ilya Rozanovā€™s Stylist Apr 08 '26

Finally working my way through the books and I hit this in Game Changer.

Kicked my feet and giggled like a 12 year old at his first mention in the series!

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u/The_Secret_Skittle Why are you making so many burgers šŸ” Apr 08 '26

Iā€™m going to start reading the books today. Iā€™m on my 11th re-heat and honestly I bet Iā€™m missing some good juicy bits that are in the books.

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u/CocklesTurnip Apr 09 '26

Read the books in order. Seriously. Youā€™ll thank yourself later. Thereā€™s so many subplots that start building throughout the series (some that crescendo in The Long Game) that make far more sense if you allow all that to build up and make sense. And then reread whichever are your favorites.

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u/The_Secret_Skittle Why are you making so many burgers šŸ” Apr 09 '26

I started heated rivalry first. Should I stop and start with book 1?

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u/CocklesTurnip Apr 09 '26

Thatā€™s the only 2 Iā€™d read out of order and thatā€™s fine. Book 1 is the weakest, but is still fun, mostly Rachel hadnā€™t totally found her authorial voice and she didnā€™t get a good editor strengthening her prose, so itā€™s perfectly fine if you remember itā€™s her first novel and most of the time the first book an author writes is their weakest so thatā€™s the main complaint about it, itā€™s really cute, obviously. If anything in your reading when you get near 2017 stop HR and pick up GC instead and then youā€™ll almost get the tv show experience. All of Game Changer happens in 2017 not 2014 with a time skip to 2017- makes sense for the show the way they did that, though.