Stephen > Recent Status Updates

Great coming out story. I'm listening to this as an audiobook rather than reading it but that MAY not be the best way to experience this story. There is only one narrator and he does a great job but it's difficult to separate the main character's near continuous "inner monologue" voice from what's actually spoken dialogue, and what's narrative.

Not a half bad start

What term covers someone who is Allosexually Straight but Demisexually gay?

Chance Kingsley small town lawyer

Tucker Goode Youngest

Eastville==>Westboro

It's relatively easy to listen to this as long as you can suspend disbelief enough and ignore the writer's "shortcuts"

It ends fairly abruptly as well, but then at under 3 hours one shouldn't expect a lot of depth

The plot depends too much on a past when they seemed completely oblivious to each other's problems and unable to communicate whatsoever

Followed by a fairly abrupt ending.

This is the 2nd Bluewater Bay series. While I'm a reluctant reader of Hollywood books, this series is at a remove.

Ari is supposed to be a successful actor, but that really plays little in this tale.

Buck and Ari are said to have such a close connection as childhood friends. We're given precious little evidence of that with major aspects of their childhood lives unknown to each other.

Nick lets some really bizarre mispronunciations go uncorrected here. Fiat pronounced like "feet" Poignant pronounced with a hard G?

This book has a number of intra-chapter breaks in the action. The narrator often tromps right over them. Even knowing the story as well as I do there were a few that were outright jarring.

And the names are bad enough but but hearing how one should close with an enemy with a soft s rather than the z sound... and someone shooting a bow with bow pronounced like the front of a boat is just wrong.

The down side is having to put up with a less than stellar narrator mispronounce things or mangle the way that I've always pronounced things in my own mind. Ashkevron has always been Ash Kev Ron to me and Mikeal has always had a Mike in it. Now Ashkevron sounds like a sneeze and Meek Keel is in no way fitting for Van's younger but beefier brother.

The audio-version has both an upside and a down side. The upside is that the narrator stresses things that I might have give short shrift to in my reading. Hearing things means being exposed to the words at a different pace and that gives one the time to imagine things a bit differently than when reading them for one's self.

Bought a copy of the audio-book version of this in the latest Audible deep discount sale. After reading umpteen times or the last two decades I still love this story. It's a tale of coming out and growing up amongst those that will never fully understand you.

Voice slips again forgetting which character has the POV

Established couples relationship building reconciliation with a father he thought had abandoned him

more narrator slippage but overall pretty good

Listening, I'm curious if its the narrator of the author that confuses amiable with amenable

The narrator has noticeably switched the tenor of his character voice for Dominic three times in three chapters. It is a bit distracting.