The Blueprint

De: S.E. Harmon

Narrado por: Alexander Cendese, Sean Crisden

Kelly Cannon is satisfied with his life. He has friends, a wonderful family, and a great job. But his love life has reached a new level of pitiful. Why? Well, his heart decided to break all the rules. Don't fall in love with a straight guy. And definitely don't fall in love with your best friend.

NFL standout Britton "Blue" Montgomery has pressure coming at him from all sides: from his father, who's only interested in Blue's football career; from his coaches, who just want him to play without getting injured again; from the fans; from his agent; and from his mother, who has popped up on the radar after leaving his family years before. And now his relationship with Kelly is on shaky ground, and that frightens Blue more than anything.

When Kelly admits he's in love with Blue, bonds are tested, and Blue has to decide what's really important. He doesn't want to lose the number-one person in his life, but the cost to keep Kelly close might be more than he's willing to pay. It's a good thing his nickname is the Blueprint - it's time to draft a new set of plans.

©2018 S. E. Harmon (P)2018 Tantor

A great love story.

it has a bit of everything! I definitely recommend. From friendship to deep love. I could listen again!

Football God Goodness!

Your ready for some GFY football God meets nerd BFF goodness?
I was so entertained by this story!
Loved it!
Their friendship, their feeling, everything!
It was hot! Seconds characters were entertaining. And their chemistry was off the charts! Blue and Kelly were great!!

Narrating wise, love Alexander, but I just couldn’t get into Sean’s narration. Would hace rather this be just one narrator.

awesome story

this was a great story, sometimes hard to follow, but the. story tellers were really good

I enjoyed it.

It is well written. The plot is enjoyable, frustrating at times, but overall good. Some parts felt too dragged out which I did have to skip a bit. Some aspects of our protagonists can seem a bit unrealistic but likable. Narrators did a fine job.

good story

Loved the narrator for Kelly, but couldn't stand Blue's narrator. Unfortunately it brought the performance down.

Let me in, sweetheart

Well, seems like my love affair with S.E. Harmon is definitely going to be a long one because I adore Blue and Kelly together. 😁❤️ Again, I’m going to say it because it’s true. 😌 One, contemporary isn’t usually my cuppa and two, I typically stay away from sports romances. But damn! S.E. Harmon is seriously making me reconsider about all my reading catnips. 😉 Listening this audio was such a delightful experience. 💚


It’s a tale as old as time, a gay man secretly, madly and deeply in love with his straight best friend. Only, there’s a small but vital twist in this story, 😉 the straight best friend is also madly, deeply in love with his gay best friend. 🥰 The only issue they have? Straight friend doesn’t even know he’s in love with his gay best friend. 😁 So it’s up to Kelly the snarky, quirky, sexy Physics professor to knock some sense into that clueless big lug, Blue the superstar NFL player. 😂 After all, there’s just something so intimate and lovely about becoming the lover of your best friend whom you’ve known for your whole life. 💜


OMG! I love Kelly!!! I first discovered S.E. Harmon with her debut book “Stay with me”. And while I soooooooo adored that book, I really wanted both POVs in it and not just Mackenzie’s. So I’m ecstatic about getting both Kelly and Blue’s POVs here. 👏 This is a very slow-burn romance with a lot of tug and pulls and many heart-wrenching tender moments. 😌 Kelly is in love with Blue but he’s tired of chasing him. And Blue is also in love with Kelly but doesn’t have an idea that he is. Even when he realized that he loved Kelly, it was a struggle for Blue to change and overturn his life upside down for the man he loves. As always, the banters were gold! 😁 It’s funny, quirky, amusing, snarky and absolutely hilarious! 😂👏 Damn, S.E. Harmon definitely has my kind of humor. 😏 And the sex? Damn! 🔥 The smut was scorching! 🔥 I do have a thing for straight men getting introduced to this side of the rainbow so popping butt cherry of Blue was definitely my catnip! 😁 I loved everything about this book. 💙 The only fault I can find with this book is the narration. Before I listened this book, I had no idea why people complained about the audio of this book because I did the sample and it was so good. The thing is although both Alexander Cendese and Sean Crisden are such amazing narrators (they both are in my favorite narrators list 🥰), this books’s narration advertising is misleading. 😑 It is not a dual narration it’s supposed to be. Instead of narrating the whole book together, the two narrators read different chapters of the books, Blue’s POV chapters and Kelly’s POV chapters. I understand that doing a true dual narration is not only difficult but also very expensive. It is very time-consuming and takes twice as long as using a single narrator plus double the cost. So doing separate chapters instead of doing the whole book together alternatively makes sense, well, financially. 🤷‍♀️ But as a reader, ideally, I wish they’d just used one narrator instead of two if they can’t do a true dual narration. 🙂 That being said, I think of these two very pleasant and sexy voices reading separate chapters as main characters doing inner dialogues of each other and that mindset really helped while listening this book. I don’t regret listening this book in audio and I’m still going to do the second book in audio. 😌 And I can’t freaking wait to get the happily ever after of Kelly and Blue. Because these two men definitely deserve each other and an epic HEA in the end. 🥰 Now, only clocks would wind faster and get to 2nd April! 😁



4.75 love has a way of falling in love before you even notice stars
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Audio rating

Story - 5 stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Narration - 4 stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Performance - 5 stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Overall - 4.75 stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️🌟

Narrated perfectly!

My favorite to date! Powered through it in three days. Blue's voice is extremely dreamy, fits the character well.

The Blueprint

~5 Stars Overall for eBook and Audiobook~

Everything about this book worked for me, even though there were times that I was slightly irritated with the characters and their actions. I equally wanted to smack them and hug them and couldn’t decide which I wanted to do more and who I wanted to do each of those things to. But we get all kinds of tropes checked off in this book, it’s amazing how much was thrown in for it all to mesh so well together. We get the best friends to lovers. First-time gay experience. Geek and Jock, opposites attracting to each other. And I really feel like I might be missing more. But I think Kelly’s snarky, sarcastic and funny banter with Blue might be my favorite part of this book.

I also think that I liked this book more in audio format than I would have if I had just read the book instead. The two narrators for this book, Sean Crisden and Alexander Cendese, did such a great job collaborating and making sure that each man had the perfect voice for their character and personality, it really added another layer to this story for me. I was completely entertained throughout the entire book and enjoyed listening to this one in audio.

Kelly and Blue have been friends basically their entire lives. Kelly has been in love with Blue just as long. And, of course, Blue is completely and totally oblivious to his feelings… I mean how does that even happen? With most of Kelly’s actions during this book, I just don’t understand how Blue didn’t actually know how Kelly felt when it seemed pretty obvious to every single other person they knew. Blue tries hard to avoid and push away his feelings for Kelly, even though he is possessive and needy with their friendship; he doesn’t quite realize how deep his feelings are. Or does he?!? I understand how Blue and Kelly are worried about bringing their relationship into the light and how it will affect Blue's NFL career. And I get that they are worried about Blue getting hurt on the field when others find out. But what I didn’t get is when they finally figure out what they both want and need is each other, why Kelly pushes so hard to keep it a secret when he was just literally doing the opposite the entire rest of the book and wanting Blue not to deny him. Ugghh. This is why I have a love/hate relationship with these men. There was a lot of back and forth that kind of made me a little crazy, but the way this book and storyline is laid out, it just totally works. It was really great. I’m glad we get a book two because I cannot wait to see what happens next since this one ends in an HFN with no sort of epilogue in sight, we just get an abrupt sort of ending. I need to know what happens and how the rest of their time and lives together play out.

loved it

loved the story. wish there was a part 2. Kelly's parents were a riot especially his mom.

I really want to love it, however...

Where to start?
First, having Alexander Cendese is a plus seeing how he's one of my favorite VO's on Audible.
The performance was great, I have very little complaints with it.
The story on the other hand... ehh...
Alcohol being a catalyst to anything is usually dry, and unfeeling. This could be bias since I'm a hopeless romantic but it sets a pretty bad precedent for any type of sexual encounter or otherwise.
It also keeps the stigma that gay people are on a crutch as if we're not drunk we're not falling for one another. Personally I feel like their development was slow and never really finished.
Characters were one note; such as Kelly's ex which is sad since a good ex can make a story more romantic.
Humor was great though out of place in say... the last chapter for one. Realization moments do better when they are serious, especially in the romance genre.
It's not a bad book, I just don't see as much romance as I did an unhealthy relationship that teetered between aggravating at best, depressing at worst.
I'd get the book for the comedy factor, if I'm honest. And to learn more about descriptive guidelines since the character descriptions are great.
But I can't recommend it as a romantic.