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Pole Position
275 pages, Kindle Edition
Published February 10, 2026
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June 7, 2026
3,2 stars. It was not a bad book, in fact I enjoyed it but it really wasn't special either. I know pretty much nothing about Formula 1, so some of the talk was just ??? for me and I can't really give an opinion on whether it's accurate or not, but it did not take over the story in such a way that it was unendurable to me.
The two main characters are Declan and Jax. Declan is an established Formula 1 driver He's steady and does good numbers but never really won that trophy he wants, mainly because he is too steady. They call him the Iceman and he's calm and professional and really not a people person.
Jax on the other hand is young, wild and reckless. He's good at what he does - otherwise he would not have joined Declan's team - and the tension between them is there from the start. He gets along well with everyone and we get told pretty quickly that while part of that is a mask, it's also who he is as a person.
The story was marked as rivals to lovers, but it really did not feel like that to me. While there were some tensions at first as they figure out how they could work together, it never really felt like serious rivals? More like people who have a difference in opinion but just deal with it.
The romance was fine. I honestly think that the tension and the first spark between them was very well done. Their interactions and the emotional beats did not come out of nowhere and it was believable the way it was. I also liked the ambiguity of it at first. As a reader of course we know this is a romance between them, but the characters did not know this, so the question of what this extra tension between them was kept floating in the background in a way that I think worked really well. However.... the problem here is that there is a lot of tell don't show. We get some good scenes between them, but we get told most of the buildup, which I think is why this book remained in the 3 star category for me.
The sex is there, it's not really standout or especially hot, but it also does not feel gratuitous or everything that story is about. We have drama, but it's predictable and does not drag out unnecessarily - it also didn't really touch me as the reader, which is both good and bad. Good, because it did not stress me out and made me dislike the story and bad... because that's basically the whole book. It was fine, but it did not affect my emotions at all.
The side characters fall into the same category. They are nice and fine and okay. But nothing really special. They do feel like they didn't just exist to have more speaking roles though, so that's good.
The only point about the novel that made me go urg was the reporter Sandra something. She was the looming enemy in the background writing think b´pieces and intrusive articles and basically stalking them all the time. And somehow she was considered respectable? Maybe that's just me, cause I really don't get this whole parasocial voyeurism and only swoon about fiction characters, but it felt really uncomfortable and way too much. Maybe that's how it it? I really wouldn't know.
She was the cause for most of the drama as our leads were pretty self-aware and steady. Thankfully the drama did not drag out forever and while it was really predictable it did not feel like it was just added for the sake of it, it worked with the way the characters had been established.
So while I probably won't think back to it all the time - it just didn't stick out - I will definitely read more novels by this author, because sometimes this kind of story is just what you need. It wasn't great or especially satisfying, but it was steady and sure.
The two main characters are Declan and Jax. Declan is an established Formula 1 driver He's steady and does good numbers but never really won that trophy he wants, mainly because he is too steady. They call him the Iceman and he's calm and professional and really not a people person.
Jax on the other hand is young, wild and reckless. He's good at what he does - otherwise he would not have joined Declan's team - and the tension between them is there from the start. He gets along well with everyone and we get told pretty quickly that while part of that is a mask, it's also who he is as a person.
The story was marked as rivals to lovers, but it really did not feel like that to me. While there were some tensions at first as they figure out how they could work together, it never really felt like serious rivals? More like people who have a difference in opinion but just deal with it.
The romance was fine. I honestly think that the tension and the first spark between them was very well done. Their interactions and the emotional beats did not come out of nowhere and it was believable the way it was. I also liked the ambiguity of it at first. As a reader of course we know this is a romance between them, but the characters did not know this, so the question of what this extra tension between them was kept floating in the background in a way that I think worked really well. However.... the problem here is that there is a lot of tell don't show. We get some good scenes between them, but we get told most of the buildup, which I think is why this book remained in the 3 star category for me.
The sex is there, it's not really standout or especially hot, but it also does not feel gratuitous or everything that story is about. We have drama, but it's predictable and does not drag out unnecessarily - it also didn't really touch me as the reader, which is both good and bad. Good, because it did not stress me out and made me dislike the story and bad... because that's basically the whole book. It was fine, but it did not affect my emotions at all.
The side characters fall into the same category. They are nice and fine and okay. But nothing really special. They do feel like they didn't just exist to have more speaking roles though, so that's good.
The only point about the novel that made me go urg was the reporter Sandra something. She was the looming enemy in the background writing think b´pieces and intrusive articles and basically stalking them all the time. And somehow she was considered respectable? Maybe that's just me, cause I really don't get this whole parasocial voyeurism and only swoon about fiction characters, but it felt really uncomfortable and way too much. Maybe that's how it it? I really wouldn't know.
She was the cause for most of the drama as our leads were pretty self-aware and steady. Thankfully the drama did not drag out forever and while it was really predictable it did not feel like it was just added for the sake of it, it worked with the way the characters had been established.
So while I probably won't think back to it all the time - it just didn't stick out - I will definitely read more novels by this author, because sometimes this kind of story is just what you need. It wasn't great or especially satisfying, but it was steady and sure.
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