You Should Be So Lucky (Midcentury NYC #2)

Author: Cat Sebastian
Title: You Should Be So Lucky
Publisher: Avon
Date Published: 05/07/2024

Read Dates: 04/08/2024- 04/09/2024
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

 📖 I received a gifted e-book ARC. The following is my honest review✍🏻 

You Should Be So Lucky is a dual-POV historical sports romance set in 1960s New York. It follows a rising baseball star, Eddie, who hits a near career-ending rough patch after being traded, and the reporter, Mark, assigned to cover him and bring some positive publicity. It is a stand-alone novel set in the same universe as last year’s We Could Be So Good with several recurring characters.

This book was both heartwarming and laugh-out-loud funny at times. Mark and Eddie navigating their friendship and then a fledgling relationship in a time where being together was illegal is beautifully done. I loved the grumpy/sunshine and found family aspects and how well the story was told! This is definitely a new favorite and Cat Sebastian is quickly becoming an auto-read author for me!

An emotional, slow-burn, grumpy/sunshine, queer mid-century romance for fans of Evvie Drake Starts Over, about grief and found family, between the new star shortstop stuck in a batting slump and the reporter assigned to (reluctantly) cover his first season—set in the same universe as We Could Be So Good.

The 1960 baseball season is shaping up to be the worst year of Eddie O’Leary’s life. He can’t manage to hit the ball, his new teammates hate him, he’s living out of a suitcase, and he’s homesick. When the team’s owner orders him to give a bunch of interviews to some snobby reporter, he’s ready to call it quits. He can barely manage to behave himself for the length of a game, let alone an entire season. But he’s already on thin ice, so he has no choice but to agree.

Mark Bailey is not a sports reporter. He writes for the arts page, and these days he’s barely even managing to do that much. He’s had a rough year and just wants to be left alone in his too-empty apartment, mourning a partner he’d never been able to be public about. The last thing he needs is to spend a season writing about New York’s obnoxious new shortstop in a stunt to get the struggling newspaper more readers.

Isolated together within the crush of an anonymous city, these two lonely souls orbit each other as they slowly give in to the inevitable gravity of their attraction. But Mark has vowed that he’ll never be someone’s secret ever again, and Eddie can’t be out as a professional athlete. It’s just them against the world, and they’ll both have to decide if that’s enough.