The Game Changer (Audible Audio Edition) Kay Simone, Greg Tremblay Books
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A straight quarterback. A gay physical therapist. Love is out of bounds...Right?
Malcolm Rodgers loses everything in one week.
The quarterback is benched with an injury the same week his fiancée breaks off their engagement. Lost, hurting, and stuck on the sidelines, Malcolm must spend his days in physical therapy with the one person who refuses to let him get back in the game cocky Vance Coberly.
Vance is out and proud in the macho world of pro football. As the top physical therapist in his field, flirting with football players is strictly out of bounds.
But the rules of play all change when Vance meets Malcolm.
Malcolm can't deny what he feels for Vance - but Vance won't be someone's one-time fling. Can a Hail Mary gesture save the deepest love Malcolm has ever felt?
Fantasy football takes on a whole new meaning in this 100,000 word steamy out-for-you football romance, complete with lots of heat and a happily ever after ending.
The Game Changer (Audible Audio Edition) Kay Simone, Greg Tremblay Books
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The Game Changer (Audible Audio Edition) Kay Simone, Greg Tremblay Books Reviews
After reading One Giant Leap' (one of my fav reads of the year) from this author I became a fan of her writing. This book was very engaging also, but in a different way, but still there is much meaning behind the story, bringing forward topics that are very much a problem in our society, I just hate misunderstanding, they drive me nuts and these guys had them in spades. However, that aside I loved them.
The title of this book covers both Malcolm and Vance in their work lives as well as their love lives. Malcolm was sweet, caring, responsible, committed to his football career and perfect for Vance. Vance was out, dedicated to his profession, and just a little volatile to those who looked askance to his being gay. What began as physical therapy for an injury to Malcolm turned into a close friendship. From these beginnings a true and lasting love was forged through trial and error. Malcolm and Vance finally found their footing and their HEA.
I am not a football fan and I don't listen to a lot of sports romances. At least, I didn't before I listened to The Game Changer. I loved it. This is the story of two men who are such opposites not only in lifestyle but in temperament, attitude, experience and history. Malcom is a big burly football hero and Vance is a Physical Therapist and they meet after Malcom sustains an injury. They become friends as Vance walks a Malcom through some of the most difficult times of his adult life.
Though Malcom has had every success a professional football player could have his life has no depth of meaning until he meets and falls for Vance. As their relationship develops and becomes more public both of their lives change forever.
This is a tender romance sprinkled with LGBTQ politics that only add to the treasure this story holds. Both Kay Simone, the author and Greg Trembllay, the voice actor were new to me and I very much plan to seek out more of their work. Trembly does an excellent job of giving each character a nuisance of their own that I really enjoyed and appreciated.
I don’t know what Kay Simone’s intention was for The Game Changer, but what she has created here is a M/M love story that develops organically, is believable, and allows a reader to easily slip into the story as a silent and eager witness. She could have gone so many ways with the characters’ personalities, but I’m grateful that she presented them as normal, yet flawed people. What I appreciate most about this work is Simone’s willingness to present the developing relationship between Malcolm and Vance like any other and where they reveal a plethora of opposing characteristics. They were guarded, but could also be outgoing, flawed, but able to be bold, and vulnerable, but also self-assured when it mattered.
I don’t want to give away any of the particulars in the story, for that would be a disservice to new readers, but what I will say is that Simone provides plenty of twists and turns along the way that serve to keep us not only interested, but also invested in Malcolm and Vance’s relationship. At times you will root for them and at others, you will admonish them for not seeing what is plainly staring them in the face.
As a gay man, one thing in particular I appreciated is how realistic Malcolm’s awkwardness is when he experiences each new sexual adventure with Vance and the mind-blowing delight he discovers during them. Simone is masterful in not only conveying the physical, but also the emotional crescendo that sex between two men can provide ending in a climax that leaves us panting and spent. The sexual tension that builds between Malcolm and Vance is palpable and frustrating, so much so that you find yourself wanting to scream, “Just do it,†at them, because your engines have been revving so high that you can’t take it any more. This is Simone’s way of keeping us on the edge of our seats, another mark of an experienced and wise author.
The supporting characters are also believable and provide a grounded environment for the story’s backdrop. Simone does not shy away from LGBTQ issues either, and she presents completely plausible and relevant scenarios to get her point across without hitting us over the head with them. She keeps us guessing about the two lovers until the very last page, but I won’t give away the ending. You need to discover that for yourself and believe me, you’ll be glad you did.
Kory Steed
The only eyebrow raiser for me in this wonderfully beguiling gay-for-you romance is that Malcolm is not a name I would attach to the quarterback, and Vance is not a name I would attach to the physical therapist. But that's perhaps an author's trick to get you thinking--and you don't really have to do a lot of thinking in this one.
Although this book is still plagued by Kay Simone's undaunted desire to repeat things that have already happened and been decided, and even though she sort of throws in a stage whisper conceit with whole paragraphs in parentheses, you still must fall in love with the sweet natured and terribly naïve Malcolm and the somewhat cynical Vance who has a case of foot-in-mouth on occasion.
I used to be a big football fan, and I realize that Simone had to change the name of the NFL and the Jacksonville team, but I am not sure a six-foot-five quarterback anywhere weighs 250 pounds. And I was really surprised at how homophobic she set Jacksonville up to be--I would have thought it was one of the enlightened cities in Florida, but then Florida is a weird place.
You'll like this one, moves along at a steady pace, and it's eventually very believable.
(BONUS If you join her newsletter sire, Simone will send you a bonus chapter. I can only suggest that when the next edition of this book comes out--after a copy editor has been secured--that she make that bonus the beginning of the epilogue. It's nice, but it belongs in the book)
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