Release Day Review: Pole Position by Charlie Novak

06 June of 2023 by ButtonsMom2003

Pole Position By Charlie Novak

Genre: Contemporary Romance, GLBTQ, MM

Tropes: Formula 1, Sports, long-term secret relationship, teammates

Released: June 6, 2023

Publisher: Self-Published

Series: Lights Out, Book 3 (but the books can be read in any order)

Length: 258 Pages

Cover Design: Meredith Russell

Synopsis

Pole position gives a driver the best chance at winning, but can there be a winner when a long-term relationship is on the line?

Mateo Llorente was born to be Formula 1 World Champion. Charming, handsome, and incredibly talented, Mateo is everything a champion should be. Dean Williams has fought for his position in Formula 1 with everything he has, and dreams of podium finishes and championship trophies.

For the past three years, Mateo and Dean have kept their long-term relationship under wraps, but when they both find themselves driving for Cadigan Racing, they know things won’t stay simple for long.

Keeping their relationship a secret is one thing, but dealing with the demands of the season is another. As both drivers rack up points and the media scrutiny puts them under pressure, cracks start to appear in Mateo and Dean’s relationship.

Can their love survive the intensity of Formula 1? Or will winning cost Dean and Mateo everything?

This M/M romance from Charlie Novak features a steamy long-term secret relationship between teammates, and is set in the high octane world of Formula 1 featuring fast cars, driving at the limit, spectacular crashes, heated rivalries, and of course, a HEA.

Each book in the Lights Out collection is a standalone story, and the books can be read in any order

Review

Reviewed by ButtonsMom2003

I am enjoying this series so much!

Pole Position is only the second book I’ve read by Charlie Novak and I think I need to change that. The books in this series can be read in any order but I’m reading them as they are published. If you’ve read Team Orders, by RJ Scott, you’ve already met Dean and Mateo so you know at least a small part of what happens in this book. I’m not saying anything though because it would be a spoiler if you haven’t read Team Orders.

Mateo and Dean have been in a secret relationship for three years while driving for different teams. When Dean is offered a contract to drive for Cadigan they see that as a huge plus for them being able to spend mor time together. They didn’t really anticipate how much more difficult it would be for them to keep their relationship a secret.

They are both very competitive and now that they are driving for the same team it adds another level of complexity to their relationship. They both want to win but they also want the other to do well. After another driver is injured in a serious accident, they also come to realize that if that happened to either of them, they might not be able to be by the side of the one who is injured.

I love epilogues and the one for Dean and Mateo is set nine and a half years after the end of the main story answers a few questions that I had while reading the main story. It really was a perfect addition to Pole Position.

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O Factor: Scorcher

Lights Out Series

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About Author

Charlie lives in England with her husband and two cheeky dogs. She spends most of her days wrangling other people’s words in her day job and then trying to force her own onto the page in the evening.

She loves cute stories with a healthy dollop of fluff, plenty of delicious sex, and happily ever afters — because the world needs more of them. Charlie also believes that love comes in all shapes and sizes.

Charlie has very little spare time, but what she does have she fills with baking, Dungeons and Dragons, reading and many other nerdy pursuits. She also thinks that everyone should have at least one favourite dinosaur…

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