Reviewed by Amber
TITLE: More Than
AUTHOR: Brandon Redstone
PUBLISHER: Self Pub
LENGTH: 232 pages
RELEASE DATE: February 11th, 2016
BLURB:
What happens when one experimental night in college turns into years of regret about opportunities lost?
Best friends and college roommates, Dev Bandi and Elliot Gates spent most of their time together in college hanging out, drinking, and being teammates in their NCAA soccer team. But before they parted ways, they spent one experimental night together, becoming more than just friends.
Now, just a few years later, out and proud Dev is a promising young director who is asked to do a feature on his old soccer coach and mentor, a man he greatly admired. The only thing is, taking the job would mean interviewing many of his old teammates – including the now professional player, Elliot Gates. It’s been years since they last spoke, but that doesn’t mean he’d forgotten his former best friend. Or their steamy time together.
Elliot is living in London, playing for the Spurs, when he gets a surprising email from Dev asking him to participate in the documentary. Despite how long it’s been since they’d spoken, he certainly hasn’t forgotten about his handsome college friend, either. Still, Elliot lives with his girlfriend Jemma now, and isn’t sure meeting Dev again would be such a good idea.
But the memory of their final encounter has never left his head, and remembering it now is bringing some of his old feelings back to the surface. Could it be that Elliot had run from something for all the wrong reasons, and chosen a path in his life that has kept him from true happiness?
It might be time to find out.
REVIEW:
This was a pretty good book. There was nothing that stood out for me as exceptional and nothing that I absolutely hated. I am unfamiliar with this author but I enjoyed the writing style. There were a few minor editing issues and some name switch ups here and there that caught me off guard but nothing I absolutely could not deal with.
Dev Bandi and Elliot Gates lived as roommates for 4 years during their time in college. Growing extremely close with each other personal space has all but vanished. So much so that they don’t even realize how close and comfortable they are with each other until a night a pot and porn sends their relationship in a whole other direction.
Years pass, Dev and Elliot lose contact until Dev is offered an opportunity to direct and create an independent film about his old soccer coach in college. This opportunity puts him back into close contact with Elliot and the heat between them has not diminished in the slightest.
Elliott is a professional soccer player so he finds coming out and being open with Dev extremely difficult. There’s a lot of push pull and Dev allows Elliot a lot of leeway when it comes to being upfront about his feelings. When Dev and Elliot are together, they’re smokin’ hot and you never get a sense for how much Elliot is struggling when it is just those two.
The end really pushed this into “good” book status for me. It is just too damn sweet and cute for words. I absolutely adored the end, way to redeem yourself Elliot!!!
Like I said, good book. I’d be interested in other books by this author.
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