Thank you Celine Ong and Solaire Press for the chance to read the ARC! All opinions are honest and my own.

🏳️‍🌈 achillean romance 🤼‍♂️ queer rep 🏳️‍🌈 found family 🤼‍♂️ no wrestling knowledge required 🏳️‍🌈 ao3 enjoyers come get your food 🤼‍♂️ Fall Out Boy references (very important) 🏳️‍🌈 coming out

I LOVED THIS BOOK! Hold Me Like a Grudge is so unapologetically queer. Asher and Caleb are so cute together, with an amazing childhood crush (not that he even knows he's queer) to enemies to lovers storyline. The tension and yearning were top tier.

I swear this book was made with me in mind. If you are someone who spends way too much time on ao3 reading fanfics where every character is gay, you NEED to read this. It's fast-paced, full of swoon-worthy moments, and overall just so so good. Not to mention the Fall Out Boy and other Warped tour era pop punk band references (which is very important to me personally).

I also really enjoyed how the book explored Asher and Caleb's respective coming out stories. As a bisexual who didn't realize I was bisexual until university, so much of Asher's story resonated with me. I felt very seen 💕

I have no background in wrestling, so you don't need to know anything about it going into this book to enjoy it. All you need is an understanding of the inherent homoeroticism of grappling with a hot half-naked dude while wearing rhinestoned tights. It's basically just televised foreplay.