Title: The Quarterback
Author: Mackenzie Blair
Narrator: Greg Boudreaux
Publisher: Riptide Publishing
Run Time: 9 hours and 35 minutes
Category: Contemporary
At a Glance: Once again, Boudreaux takes a well-written romance with a well-developed plot and makes it a great adventure into a first love that could last a lifetime, if it gets nurtured.
Reviewed By: Mike
Blurb: Matt Lancaster is the star quarterback at Bodine College, a small Southern Division II school with an ultra-conservative dean of athletics. Matt is also very much in the closet, and he thinks he’s kept his secret well hidden, until his best friends take him to a happy endings massage parlor and request a male masseuse for him.
In walks Trevor Kim, a gorgeous, pierced, tattooed fellow Bodine student who does massages – without happy endings – to pay for school after his family kicked him out for being gay. Trevor takes one look at Matt and breaks all his own rules about mixing business with pleasure.
Matt needs to keep his scholarship, win the National Championship, and survive his asshole father. Instead, he falls in love. Trevor needs to accept that the football god is meant to end up with him rather than a perky cheerleader. It’s time for a “happily ever after” for both of them.
Review: Matt Lancaster seems to have it all. He is the star quarterback of his second-tier, religious southern college. He’s a star on the field, popular on campus, and has close friends on the team who only want what is best for him. So, they take him to a massage parlor where they set him up with a masseur.
Trevor Kim is a student struggling to keep his tuition paid and secure his future since being disowned by his family. The day Matt walks into his massage room, his well-ordered word tilts off its axis.
Why do these two men with so little in common find themselves so attracted to one another, and why are they even bothering to fight it? Besides the obvious, this could end college for them both. Do they stop their attraction or give into something they both not only want but need desperately?
Greg Boudreux has a way of taking the words of a given story and infusing them with love, passion, understanding and all the angst of two men on the verge of adulthood, who know they should fight their attraction but know they can’t deny that the attraction needs to be fed. Once again, Boudreaux takes a well-written romance with a well-developed plot and makes it a great adventure into a first love that could last a lifetime, if it gets nurtured.
The voices of Matt and Trevor are clear and fully realized. So are the many friends each man has. Matt’s sisters are played so well and without cliché that you can believe they are really the reason Matt has put his sexuality on the backburner. But, when Matt and Trevor start telling people who they are, you really root for them. You hope the obstacles they face can be put behind them, and you hope that the larger world they live in gives them the ending they deserve.
Buy this book for the story, buy it because the character all have their own voices, and buy it because Greg Boudreax reading Blair’s words is a very good thing.
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