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Title: Not a Game
Subtitle: A Contemporary Gay Romance Novel
Author: Cardeno C.
Narrator: Michael Ferraiuolo
Format: Unabridged
Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
Language: English
Release date: 11-07-16
Publisher: The Romance Authors, LLC
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 124 votes
Genres: Fiction, Gay & Lesbian
Publisher's Summary:
A new job, a new city, and hopefully a new life. When chubby gamer Oliver Barnaby receives a job offer from the best boutique game developer in the country, he leaves his family and his less than spectacular existence in Oklahoma without a second's hesitation. Determined to change more than his career and his geography, Oliver implements a plan to finally land a boyfriend. Step one is improving his skills in the bedroom.
Attractive, successful, charismatic Jaime Snow has a life other people envy. His already booming business is growing. He isn't lacking friends. And he has no trouble finding a date. But there's an emptiness in Jaime's heart and a hole in his life that only the right man can fill.
When Oliver and Jaime end up at the same bar at the same time, they each see something they want in the other. Going to bed together that first night is easy. Building the lifetime relationship they both desperately crave will require trust, time, and a little understanding.
Members Reviews:
Perfect fluffy goodness!
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I honestly didn't think I could love this story any more than I already did. Easily on my favorites shelf, this is a perfectly fluffy, low angst, feel good romance that is absolutely, impeccably captured by Michael Ferraiuolo's performance.
I loved every minute of it.
Ferraiuolo's choices for Oliver, Jaime, and Jack's voices were faultless. He precisely captures Oliver's shyness, Jaime's infatuation, and even Jack's wistfulness.
The narration is a brilliant complement to a really wonderful, lovely story.
This is a perfect romance for anyone looking for a lighter, low angst, feel good story with great characters, hot sex, and a perfect sigh-worthy HEA ending.
Highly Recommended!
So Effin' Sweet!!!! 6 stars!
Oh my goodness this is SO effin SWEET!
The blurb tells the basics: Oliver, an overweight game designer, has moved to Seattle and has decided to do a make-over with his life.. He hires an escort to teach him how to be a better lover since he was told by an ex that he lacked skill. When Jaime, a very attractive older man, comes over and notices the book hed brought in to signal the escort, Oliver assumes Jaime is the escort.
Jaime is just a man whos finally realized his passion leans toward bigger men and hes finally embracing it and he approaches Oliver out of real interest, not professional, but he realizes that Oliver needs the paying for it to overcome his shyness.
Just as can be predicted from the beginning the deception can only go so far before someone gets hurt.
But its so much more than that. There are layers, and a sad ex and growth and laughter.
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Unlike SO MANY books with overweight characters this is NOT A MAKEOVER STORY! Thank GOD! Oliver is PERFECT as he is and Jaime shows him that he can be loved exactly as he is.
Even disguised as just getting healthy, books that show the MC changing their bodies and finding love are really telling everyone that only the physically perfect can find love. Even if the author tries to show differently. Cardeno C doesnt do that and its so beautiful!
Another GORGEOUS part of this story is that there is no BIG MISUNDERSTANDING! Instead of drama and angst, we have two grown-ups having conversations about their concerns. Despite the way they met. It was so refreshing!
The writing is excellent as always.