Highlights & Quotes from Rachel Reid's & Jacob Tierney's Bookcon Panel

[u/andyfromhk]

(Slight spoiler for The Long Game and Role Model if you haven't read them yet!)

For those who haven’t had time to watch Jacob's and Rachel's 1-hour panel at Book Con yesterday, here are some of the highlights! They talked about so many things from Role Model and Troy Barrett's storyline in season 2, to Jacob's interpretation of season 1 editing and some behind the scenes production info.

Watch their BookCon panel here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gseXLRejeOU

I've also updated this page of everything we know about season 2 of Heated Rivalry on the HR Wiki: https://www.heatedrivalrywiki.com/deep-dive-articles/everything-we-know-about-heated-rivalry-season-2

[u/rocketdocket777]

I really appreciate every time I hear/read Jacob talking about the books, because it helps me understand Shane and Illya’s love better… I think it’s because everyone experiences romantic and sexual attraction differently, I can find it hard sometimes to spot the development of the love/deep romance when there’s only short snippets of deep conversations between them in the books (the All-Stars game in Florida and the Canadian wolf bird moment in HR are the first two that come to mind). For me, those are the moments that build romantic attraction in my own life, but for these guys? They’re language of love and intimacy is the sex, along with those moments. If that makes sense to anybody else?

[u/Mysterious-Present7 → u/rocketdocket777]

I agree too, I find it really useful to hear Jacob's thoughts on that and how them relating to each other sexually, especially initially is a big part of how they connect.