Reviewed by Stephen K.
TITLE: Football Sundae
SERIES: Spruce Texas #1
AUTHOR: Daryl Banner
NARRATOR: Chris Chambers and Sean Crisden
PUBLISHER: Tantor Audio
LENGTH: 8 hours and 7 minutes
RELEASE DATE: September 2018
BLURB:
Tanner, the hunky college football star, is home for the summer.
Billy, the budding dessert chef, is about to have his hot-fudge-glazed world flipped upside down.
Get ready for the “sweetest” romance you’ve ever tasted.
Contains mature themes.
REVIEW:
Billy Tucker, born and raised in rural Texas is an out gay boy whose blue-collar family runs the local diner. Tanner Strong was the football star from town’s wealthiest family has gone on to college in Oklahoma. While Billy wanted the leave small-town diner behind and become a pastry chef, he was delayed by his father’s health problems. Tanner’s coming to realize he wants something different than what his family and friends foresaw for him as well. Tanner’s having a harder time of it that he’s willing to let on in the world outside Spruce, Texas. Can the two boys explore their interests in each other without the whole town knowing? And what will happen when summer ends?
This really is one of the sweetest reads I’ve encountered in a while and I thoroughly enjoyed indulging my sweet-tooth with this book. This is genuinely low stress, high “feels” read with some hot sex between two fit and likable lads.
This audiobook was done as a dual narrator read with Chris Chambers voicing the small-town out gay boy Billy Tucker, and Sean Crisden voicing the (closeted) small town football hero, Tanner Strong.
The book has gotten mixed reviews for it’s narration. Chris’s narration is rendered in the languid drawl one might expect from a rural Texan gayboy, (Just taking a fast food order fills the first 20 minutes of the story). Conversely, Sean’s rendition of Tanner has a “6 volt monologue connected to a 12 volt battery” quality while his voice itself channels Christian Slater. Some listeners have complained that he mumbles a lot, but I was able to understand everything just fine, and am convinced that what is labeled as mumbling is just the narrator’s attempt to reflect the character questioning himself.
I very much enjoyed the audio-book version of this but am now a bit curious to read a text version it to judge for myself as how well the boys did with their narration and voice acting.
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