Talker

I really enjoyed this book. It will be one of my re-reads/relistens.

I always enjoy books that shows how folks learn to communicate with each other.

You really felt what the characters were feeling. He did a great job.

I liked both MC's, they were both struggling with growing up and loving.

I really enjoy all of Amy Lane's books.

I am a mature gay man and not a pedophile. I listen to this kind of fiction with an ear toward what I wish was available when I was growing up gay. I have mixed feeling about the graphic sexual conduct. A straight version of this story, while including the sex would hardly be as explicit, making it more acceptable to parents to recommend it as a coming of age story that would speak to the universality love. But it is what it is, and I wish it were available 40 years ago.

Length, plot development, stronger characters, better plot...

Probably something from Josh Lanyon. He really is the best at gay fiction!

he was ok. He was probably the reason i listened all the way through.

Meh, Amy Lane can do better

Yes. Parts of it are hard to follow and it seems to jump around from place to place and from this timeline to that timeline.

Probably Brian. I think I identified with him more than I did with Talker.

He mispronounces some words but other than that, he is a very good reader.

If it had been a longer book, possibly with a greater antagonist it would have faired better in my eyes.

A good listen, but a bit short and hard to follow at first.

More cute moments, there were a few in their past and I liked their past interactions. It is the melodramatic climax I have issues with. I realize it would have been a 'flat' endning if they had just sat down and talked, but that would probably have made my rating go up.

It hasn't turned me off from the teenage/coming of age genre, but it has made me a bit more cautios in what I pick.

While Kaplan has a nice voice it is often difficult to distinguish whether it is talk, speech or thoughts he is reading. The book isn’t chronological, the changes are marked as ‘then’ and ‘now’, but this isn’t expressed thoroughly enough in either tone or pause. If you are aware of it and make sure to pay close attention it doesn’t matter, but otherwise it might be somewhat confusing in the beginning. I had to sit afterwards and piece the two different timelines together.

I would cut the present characters and just keep the story of the past ones.

It is a cute story, but overly dramatic in the end. The narration experience doesn't add much to the experience but can cause some confusion.

Yes

Talker I seam to connect with him!

Loved them all

Laugh and Cried, I was listen to it at work and keep getting wierd looks when I randomly Laugh

More Details in some of the sex scens

I thought this was a great love story...until the end. Then the bubble burst. Amy Lane is not trying to write a man love story, but a female romance story with male characters. Men don't use terms like "Dream-boy." One last word: Don't impose feminine characteristics on men.