The Boy At The Back Of The Class

I like to have short audio as a back up for when I can't read on my commute. Today I chose this. What did it have going for it? It was the right price, the length was commute perfect, and Nick J. Russo was one of the narrators along with John Solo What's not to like? Well ... the story is ...

Cam is an accountant who comes to a resort in Rio to get over having been dumped. While sitting at the resort bar he's picked up by a tattooed, long haired, walking Adonis. Said man turns out to be Brandon Bullet of the band Bullet Proof, an arena filling hard rock band. Brandon is spending some down time while on tour and hoping to be anonymous and he's in luck because Brandon doesn't know who he is or even heard of the band. Boring accountant. In any case they hook up and have life altering sex.

I wasn't mad at any of this. I didn't go into this expecting high lit or anything close to that. The insta-lust was totally fine because it's the raison d'être of a book like this. What got a bit annoying was this back and forth struggle between the MCs to determine who was dominant in any particular encounter and somehow equating bottoming as being submissive but at the same time having Cam be a super dominant/bossy bottom etc. I became exhausting. Also I kind of didn't love Cam. Yes, he's a guy who lives a pretty square life having his first big adventure and I liked that in spite of being the “civilian” in the couple he asserted himself sexually, but I just didn't love him.

I liked this for what it was: a sex romp. I also loved that apparently most of the band is gay and it's not something anyone feels compelled to comment about. Just normal. It got cheesy at times, the last encounter could've skipped the food foreplay, and I didn't believe a word of it. I'm pretty sure I would've liked it less if I'd read it but as an AB it did it's job. Do I want to read the next book? Not immediately.