{"id":6492,"date":"2026-06-02T21:19:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T21:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/?p=6492"},"modified":"2026-06-02T21:19:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T21:19:19","slug":"the-winged-game-by-sophie-kim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/?p=6492","title":{"rendered":"The Winged Game by Sophie Kim"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Winged Game<\/strong> by Sophie Kim<\/a>
on July 2, 2026
Genres:<\/strong> Fiction \/ Fantasy \/ Romance<\/a>, Fiction \/ Romance \/ Enemies to Lovers<\/a>, Fiction \/ Romance \/ Fake Dating<\/a>, Fiction \/ Romance \/ Fantasy<\/a>, Fiction \/ Romance \/ Sports<\/a>
Pages:<\/strong> 544
Format:<\/strong> ARC<\/a>
Buy on Amazon<\/a>
Goodreads<\/a> <\/p>\n

Sophie Kim\u2019s The Winged Game<\/em> is basically what you\u2019d get if you mixed an adult version of Harry Potter<\/span><\/span> with Fourth Wing<\/span><\/span> \u2014 but made it an intense extreme fantasy sports story. And honestly? It works.<\/p>\n

This book follows Taissa Cho, a disgraced former star of Carriwitchet, a brutal rugby-esque sport played on top of winged creatures. After her rival Kion Locke destroys her career, Taissa spends years hating him and the sport that abandoned her\u2026 until she\u2019s suddenly offered a chance back into the league. The catch? She has to fake date the very man she blames for ruining her life.<\/p>\n

The enemies-to-lovers tension in this book was SO good. That\u2019s one of my favorite tropes, and Sophie Kim absolutely nailed the chemistry between Cho and Locke. Their relationship felt believable, emotional, and full of intensity. I kept waiting for the romance to fully explode into a spicy payoff, though, and that\u2019s honestly where this fell a little short for me. There are mentions of off-page spicy moments, but very little actually happens on the page. I can definitely tell this author previously wrote YA because even though this is marketed as adult fantasy romance, it still reads fairly tame outside of the language.<\/p>\n

That said, I still had a really fun time with this book. The Carriwitchet scenes were incredibly entertaining and cinematic \u2014 I genuinely want to watch this sport on the big screen someday because the action sequences were intense. On top of the romance and sports elements, there\u2019s also a mystery surrounding a strange illness affecting the winged creatures and someone potentially sabotaging the game itself, which kept the story moving at a fast pace.<\/p>\n

This is honestly unlike anything I\u2019ve read before, which makes it hard to compare to other books, but it was definitely entertaining from start to finish. If extreme fantasy sports, winged beasts, enemies-to-lovers tension, and high-intensity action sound even remotely interesting to you, I\u2019d absolutely recommend checking this one out.<\/p>\n

Thank you to NetGalley<\/span><\/span> and Del Rey<\/span><\/span> for the intense eARC!<\/p>\n

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The Winged Game by Sophie Kim on July 2, 2026 Genres: Fiction \/ Fantasy \/ Romance, Fiction \/ Romance \/ Enemies to Lovers, Fiction \/ Romance \/ Fake Dating, Fiction \/ Romance \/ Fantasy, Fiction \/ Romance \/ Sports Pages: 544 Format: ARC Buy on Amazon Goodreads Sophie Kim\u2019s The Winged Game is basically what […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6492"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}