The Prospects by KT Hoffman

[profiterole_reads]

The Prospects by KT Hoffman was fun. Gene Ionescu is the first trans man to play professional baseball. Things don't go well when his former teammate and current rival Luis Estrada joins his team.

This book is for people who know how baseball works in detail. France doesn't do baseball, but thankfully I watch a lot of sports anime, and baseball is Japan's #1 sport.

There are several m/m couples and a major lesbian character. Gene has ADHD and some anxiety, Luis has major anxiety and an emotional support dog, and another one of the mlm characters is deaf, has hearing aids, lip-reads and uses sign language.

Comments

[theladyscribe]

This is next up on my to-read list, and I am REALLY EXCITED to hear that it's for people who know baseball in detail. It is so rare that fiction goes there, and I am jazzed about it lol.

[profiterole_reads]

I hope you'll enjoy it too. <3

[garonne]

Je pensais acheter ce livre donc ca m’intéresse de voir ce que tu en penses ! Tu trouves que c’est vraiment impossible à lire sans connaissance du baseball ? J’en connais strictement rien, même pas comment on marque des points, mais j’ai quand même réussi à lire quelques autres Baseball Romances (ceux de KD Casey). Ca me dérange pas trop si je suis un peu perdue la moitié du temps… :D J’ai entendu que du positif de ce livre donc ca m’intéresse quand même…

[profiterole_reads]

Je n'ai pas lu ceux de KD Casey, donc je ne peux pas comparer le niveau de technicité. Tout ce que je peux te dire, c'est que contrairement aux anime de baseball, il n'y a pas de visuel, donc si tu ne connais pas les termes, tu ne sais pas ce qu'il se passe dans les parties.

Après, tu peux tenter, et si tu ne comprends pas, tu Googles les termes ou tu trouves une vidéo explicative sur YouTube. Il y a moyen.

[garonne]

Merci ! Je pense que je vais regarder quelques vidéos avant de le lire...

[megan_moonlight]

What a coincidence! I was reading a summary of this book just yesterday when I was looking at a list of books from a queer book challenge I found. I know nothing about baseball, so I don't know how much I'll actually get.

[profiterole_reads]

Good luck!

[ragnarok_08]

That sounds interesting!

[profiterole_reads]

<3