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After a push successful publication date, Heated Rivalry writer Rachel Reid is sharing a advancement update connected nan caller Game Changers installment continuing Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov’s story: Unrivaled.
In a caller Q&A pinch Entertainment Weekly, Reid previewed that she was steadily moving done crippled specifications for nan lucky romance sequel and is “very happy” pinch nan draught frankincense far.
“I’ve been penning it for astir a twelvemonth now,” she said. “I was moving connected it secretly correct up until January, erstwhile it was announced. I for illustration it. I’m very happy pinch it. I’m giving myself immoderate clip coming up successful nan adjacent fewer months to conscionable really attraction connected that and thing other to make it arsenic bully arsenic it tin perchance beryllium earlier it goes to my editor, because it’s really important.”
She continued, “I consciousness for illustration much than immoderate different book I’ve written, this 1 needs to beryllium really good. I dream I’m giving group what they want retired of this. I dream what I want is what different group want. I still americium making decisions astir nan crippled pinch immoderate things. I rewrite a lot. There’s parts of nan book I’ve rewritten and changed truthful galore times. But hopefully I’ve made nan correct decisions and, generally, it’s going well.”
Unrivaled is arsenic a nonstop sequel to The Long Game, nan sixth book successful nan series, which serves arsenic nan root worldly for nan currently in-progress Season 2 of nan Crave Canada show adaptation. The caller book will prime up pursuing Shane and Ilya’s wedding and their advancement connected nan aforesaid lucky team. Public pinch their narration for nan first clip aft a decade-long trumpeted rivalry, they must contend pinch some adoration and animosity.
“[Unrivaled] is really wherever nan world’s gonna judge them, right? ‘Cause now they’re connected nan aforesaid team, it’s successful people’s faces, they person to determine really they consciousness astir this. And they’re gonna beryllium large astir it. I deliberation it’s 2 sides. There’s gonna beryllium group that are highly excited and supportive of it — immoderate of it successful possibly a parasocial way, which isn’t astatine each based connected reality. And location will besides beryllium nan different side: conscionable blatantly homophobic and bigoted and terrible,” Reid said.
Reid added that nan book will besides trace nan realities of a narration entwined pinch work.
“Even though they had their happy ending, it’s a analyzable happy ending, and there’s still a batch of things that they’re gonna person to woody with. That’s why I decided to constitute nan book — because I felt for illustration there’s still much communicative to tell,” she concluded.
As for nan show, which is projected to return to HBO Max sometime successful April 2027 and will trace nan couple’s early improvement successful a committed relationship, creator Jacob Tierney precocious teased astatine BookCon that nan sophomore play will tie from “much much superior territory. There’s still tons of flirting, and there’s tons of sex, but it’s this benignant of danger. This benignant of ‘hotel room, teen sex’ worldly is mostly gone.”
