All Hail the Underdogs, E.L. Massey
All Hail the Underdogs, E.L. Massey
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All Hail the Underdogs

Author: E.L. Massey

Series: Breakaway Series

Narrator: Lance West

Unabridged: 8 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/24/2026

Categories: Fiction, Romance, Lgbtq+


Synopsis

When seventeen-year-old Patrick Roman is offered a scholarship to a top hockey preparatory school, he thinks maybe his notorious bad luck has finally ended. With a hearing for his legal emancipation on the horizon, he dreams of getting scouted and securing a place on a D1 college team. There's only one problem: Roman has serious beef with his new winger on the team, Damien Bordeaux. Roman, with his buzzcut and tattoos, has nothing in common with trust-fund-kid Damien.

When eighteen-year-old Damien Bordeaux starts his senior year, he tells himself he's going to focus on hockey and school. He needs to decide what his future will look like. Does he pursue his dream of becoming an author? Or stay in his lane and do what he's good at: hockey. Regardless, he's not going to let any pretty boys distract him. Except his new center, Roman, is possibly the most beautiful boy Damien has ever seen.

But their antagonistic beginning turns into an unlikely friendship and then turns into something much scarier for them both. Navigating relationships is hard enough for normal teenagers. It's a lot harder when contending with lawyers, NHL scouts, and past trauma. Roman and Damien have to decide: What do they really want? Are they willing to fight for each other—including fighting against their own pasts and prejudices—so they can have a happy ending?

Reviews

Goodreads review by lila on September 09, 2023

oh. oh, am i speechless. i didn’t expect this to be as beautiful as it was, to impact me as much as it did. but it did. and i couldn’t have been happier. e.l. massey’s writing style is so goddamn pretty (and that is an understatement) — it reminds me of fanfics in the best ways and it’s just so clos......more

Goodreads review by Snjez on September 08, 2023

Loved the first half of the book. In terms of the storyline, it was pretty much what I expected based on the blurb. Just as in the previous books, the characters and their friendships are wonderful. The relationship between Rome and Damien is so adorable and heartwarming. The story took an unexpecte......more

Goodreads review by chan ☆ on January 23, 2026

fuck you, i'm not crying YOU'RE crying......more

Goodreads review by Marieke on November 22, 2023

You know that feeling when you want to read a book badly? And then you have to wait a loooong time. All Hail the Underdogs was one of my most anticipated 2024 reads until it suddenly got pushed forward to 2023. This introverted human being, aka me, almost danced on the table out of joy. Erica Massey......more

Goodreads review by Pauline on June 04, 2025

This book is my soulmate. These boys. These broken, wonderful boys. Rarely have I read such a soft, beautiful, tentative but fierce, all-encompassing but careful love. I had tears in my eyes throughout the entire book because of the softness of it all, the rightness, the brokenness, the utterly convi......more