Gasp!

By: Z. A. Maxfield

Narrated by: Gomez Pugh

Jeff Paxton came home from Afghanistan looking to put down roots. Instead his pregnant sister talks him into a job babysitting the volatile megastar Nigel Gasp. Nigel is stubborn, needy, and determined to be the center of attention everywhere he goes. Before long, Jeff realizes that something is bothering Gasp, and that keeping him out of trouble might be more difficult than he thought.

Nigel never planned on getting old. He simply assumed a hard drinking, hard partying lifestyle would take care of that. Now that he's turning 40, he's depressed and a little bit desperate. To Nigel, 40 seems like a fine age to deposit his DNA and check out while he's still on top.

The last thing Jeff needs is to fall in love with Nigel Gasp. The last thing Nigel expects is a whole new reason to live. But how can Jeff put down roots with a man who is never in the same place twice?

©2012 Z.A. Maxfield (P)2015 Z.A. Maxfield

Loved every minute!

Gasp was so moving and clever the entire way through. I usually don’t enjoy 3rd person narrative because I don’t feel a connection with the characters but in Gasp that wasn’t at all the case. I felt for Gasp and Jeff. They both were so flawed but so perfect for each other. The dialogue was hilarious and had me laughing out loud quite a bit. This was such an enjoyable read with Gomez Pugh! He’s so talented, he was able to change accents so effortlessly it honestly felt like there was an entire cast of narrators.

loved it, reread several times

I have listened to this book several times one of my favorites. I like the author and the narrator ad well. Good read would recommend it to others as well.

Not a bad gay novel

This novel was very entertaining. For a gay romance novel it had all the good stuff.

GASP, Sigh......

I remember when this book was published. I hedged on buying it because I knew by the premise that it would annoy me. When I saw that Gomez Pugh was narrating it, I decided to take a chance. I'm kinda glad I did, but boy, I could have strangled Nigel and Dierdre most of the time. I felt very sorry for Jeff and wished that he would have stopped apologizing for Nigel's childish behavior when he was the younger of the two and much more mature. I know that his sister was a new mother, but her emotions were too all over the place and she basically threw her brother to the wolves and made him responsible for a loose cannon. I'm glad her wife was more compassionate. The positive aspect was that Gomez was perfect as usual. He does such a great job with characters and I'll listen to anything that he narrates.

Gomez Pugh is the God of voices!

I discovered the 'Power of the Pugh' when reading books by Jordan Castillo Price and loving them so much I tried them in audio - life will never be the same again. think Gomez Pugh could read an ingredients list and make it fascinating. Oh. the story. It's not bad but the voices make it good.