Heteroflexible

Spruce Texas Romance Series, Book 3

By: Daryl Banner

Narrated by: Chris Chambers, Kirt Graves

Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins

Publisher's Summary

Jimmy Strong is one devastating son of a gun.

He's gorgeous, stubborn, a dancer, fiercely protective of his loved ones (to a fault), and intense. He can steal your heart with his infectious laughter...and break it with a single glance of his stunning, rich brown eyes.

I ought to know. He breaks mine every day.

Being his gay best friend and college roomie is, to say the least, frustrating. Especially when you've seen just about every inch of that corn-fed beauty, he's worked his way into every fantasy you can remember having, and he's as straight as they make them.

We're heading back to Spruce for the summer. He just broke things off with his latest lady-squeeze, which means I have Jimmy all to myself for three long months of relaxation, bro-time, and kicking back.

Until one night alone with Jimmy - and a reckless, unthinkable move - that changes everything.

Contains mature themes.

©2019 Daryl Banner (P)2020 Tantor

very good read

I'm a new fan of Darryl Banner. While I'm not usually an overly romantic gay reader, I've changed my mind. Seems like so many gay themed novels are written by women, how nice to read a love story between two normal southern boys. Also very little homophobia in the story line, very nice.During this covid period I listen to the books as I excercise. This makes it important that both the story and the actors reading good and believable. They are good in this book.

Fantastic Best Friends to Lovers Story

I read Football Sundae and really liked Daryl Banner's writing, so I figured that Heteroflexible would likely be good. Wow, it was awesome. I've listened to it twice already and I'll probably listen again. The first half of the book is dedicated to Character Development and kept my interest, but then the fun really starts when the boys realize they are more than best friends. Jimmy and Bobby are so destined to be together, but they have some hurdles to overcome along the way before they discover that. The story is sweet and intriguing and I was so satisfied with the ending. Although I don't listen just for the sex, it was the hottest I've ever encountered in a book. The Narrators are near perfect and I especially like the voice for Bobby. If you like a story with spunky, endearing characters that's hard to put down, with just a bit of angst and an ending that will make you smile, this is it. I feel so fortunate to have found it.

Spectacular!

This story is so romantic and sweet. I couldn’t get enough of it. It’s so well written with really life-like characters. Daryl Banner is an amazing author. His books are pure romances without the judgements and biases of the real world. Just adorable love stories you don’t want to end.

Absolutely loved it!!!

it was so full of truths and likenesses to my own coming out but not only that but it was a heart felt book that I will d3finitely be keeping I my library for years.

I am in love with Spruce Texas

I am listening to the Spruce books out of order because I had not planned on listening to all of them. I started with Spruce Rebel. And I absolutely loved it so much I had to go back to Spruce Texas again. I just finished Hetero flexible and I loved it as much as if not more than the last one. Now I am totally in love with Spruce Texas and all of it's residents. I can't wait to go back to Spruce in the next book I listen to. I think Mr Daryl Banner is truly amazing about how he gives so much detail about all of the characters you feel like you personally know them. And his stories are so vivid and detailed that I felt I could close my eyes and watch this play out like a movie in my mind. Again for the second time I had to stay up half the night to finish this amazing story. I also enjoyed the narrators. I feel they also helped bring the story to life for me. I highly recommend The Spruce Romance series. And thank you Me Daryl Banner for writing such incredible stories. I had so many emotions crying, sad, happy, smiling, laughing. I can't wait to go back to Spruce Texas. I would actually love to move there if it were an actual real place

So good

It was so good it felt almost cathartic for any queer person who crushed on a straight friend. Some moments will have you on the edge of your seat. You won’t be disappointed.

The text suffers from being in a series

On its own this is the best written Spruce Texas romance to date. Jimmy and to a lesser extent Bobby seem much more like characters than erotic fantasy place holders. For once the ending is efficient. Best of all the plot has a few narrative (minor) surprises in it. However, I could not get passed the novel's connection to the prior works. This sort of (straight) best friend to lover storyline can be fraught. It is sort of fraught here. It's not entirely clear-for example-how Jimmy contextualizes his sexual orientation. But the off-putting factor would be far less if Jimmy wasn't a minor character in the first novel (and other novels). There's a touching Platonic moment in the first novel that gets decontextualized as romance here and I wish the text left it alone. It works better as Platonic interaction. Likewise, I do not think Chambers should have played Jimmy-I'm not sure if Chambers should have been used at all. Chambers is the voice of Billy in the first novel; Billy ends up married to Jimmy's older brother (plot of book 1) earlier in the series. Chambers doesn't vary his voice all that much for Jimmy; I kept conflating the two characters. I don't think Chambers as Bobby would have been that much better but this annoyed me in this context.

so Awesome!!!

I loved this book! Wish it could have turned out this way for m me and my crush/ friend but hopefully it will for someone. Very engrossing story that draws you in and really makes you live those feelings. Brought up a lot for me, in a good way. Well written and narrated.

Sweet & Sweat

Jimmy and Bobby fall into 'like'. Which turns into love. The steps they take in between are filled with lust and fear. Instead of going underground with their teenaged hormones, Daryl Banner allows them a big dallop of grit, sweat and male determination, as the lifelong buddies bravely peel back their secret inclinations to be together 'that way'. Braver than most small-town bros dare to go, "Heteroflexible" left me wishing that I would've dared to risk everything to be together in public with my own highschool bud.

Great

Both narrators were awesome. I really like the story and the characters. Bobby annoyed me sometimes because he was insecure, whiny, and was one of those characters who talked too much when he should shut up but when it was important to talk he’d lie or give the silent treatment. Thankfully those instances weren’t too often and otherwise he was a good person.

HETERO FLEXIBLE TRULY CAPTIVATING

HETERO FLEXIBLE is beautifully written and brilliantly narrated I was sad when I came to the end. It evoked many memories of my younger years provoking moments of great joy and evocative moments when I was moved to tears.

Highly recommend both this book and it's author