He's sick of being used by high school football players who are too afraid to admit they like guys. When outside forces threaten to take them down, who will risk everything?Īll Jeremy Miller can think about is getting away from his abusive home life, making the wrestling team, and finally getting a real boyfriend. I've just started the 2nd book in the series and hope that by the time I'm done there will be book 3 ready to download.Two hot college wrestlers take it off the mat. This was an incidental small piece of the story but underscores the talent of the author in attending to the details.
There were many great moments in the story but I think my favorite was when the oversized wrestler (Caleb) who had been menacing Jeremy from the start and played the ever-macho fool admitted to his friend Beck that he liked Jeremy and was teasing him because of that and that he would never expose Beck's secret life. Their dance of coming together and moving apart seemed to capture the real life struggles of young people caught between what they believe are society's (or family's or friend's) expectations and their true self. His love interest was a heavily closeted senior wrestler (Beck). There was a college freshman (Jeremy) who planned to become himself at college and let everyone know he was gay. Kind of young, but mature enough for some hot man on man action. He’s so easy to listen to and I think this hits his “age level” spot on.
(I won’t say but it involves the Coach in a very bad way and Jeremy makes some decisions that are really hard to witness.) At the end we get a very satisfying HEA and our MCs manage to bring the bad guy to justice! (I loved the whole Batman/Robin switcheroo underwear thing – very clever!) Audio Well I just love Chris Patton so I loved the hell out of this narration. The second part is where (for me) it got a bit too dramatic at times, though I appreciated the overall statements that get made and the end result. The first part of the book is their push-pull of attraction, the second part is dealing with the aftermath. Jeremy is the new guy, super attracted and attractive to Becks, but having to fight against the fear of outing.
Beck’s is gay but closeted, doesn’t want to lose his wrestling scholarship. There is a lot of sex in this – so I think for groupings New Adult is more appropriate, but the angst and drama and sometimes over-the-topness sometimes felt more Young Adult. This is a complex YA/NA story about two wrestlers finding love in a sport that is fairly homophobic, but in this case their coach is dangerously homophobic. Angsty college wrestlers with great narration
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