Misplaced Affection

By: Wade Kelly

Narrated by: Chris Patton

Clichés are overrated, and loving the boy next door may not be as genuine as the love Flynn sacrifices along the way.

Knowing he's gay and acting on it were two separate notions to Flynn Brewer until he'd met Keith, his first boyfriend, in high school. Before then, being gay wasn't as real as the pain of living day-to-day. Flynn's fear of coming out to his religious best friend, Zach, in their conservative community destroyed his relationship with Keith, but Flynn rationalized his avoidance and bottled up the truth until it was regrettably too late.

Zachary Mitchell was the perfect son and role model as far as the outside world could tell. Active in his church while attending college, Zach had a personality that could sell anything, do anything, or be anything. Except, he couldn't sell the truth to himself. Just when he was ready to reveal his internal conflict to Flynn and expose the darkness lurking in his heart, and in his "perfect" family, Zach met a girl and got sucked deeper into his chasm of deception.

Caught in a living Newton's cradle of his own design, Flynn must choose between idealistic childhood fantasy and a tempestuous passion that could ignite the very air he breathes.

©2014 Wade Kelly (P)2015 Wade Kelly

Excellent Storytelling

Good Narration, good performance and overall good book. I was surprised at the simplicity the author incorporated a religious undertow into the story without being pushy in any one particulars beliefs. It was first loves hardships, lifes meaning with its senseless tragedy's and the defining of the unique (and sometimes subtle) definitions of what love, friendship and family can be in different perspectives.

Three stories, three points of view

Liked it. Was concerned that it would be the same story from three different points of view, but they run chronologically with very little overlap. Great story.

Keith drove me insane.

What made the experience of listening to Misplaced Affection the most enjoyable?

I enjoyed just about everything about this book.

Any additional comments?

I didn't like Keith's annoying jealousy. Everything else was fantastic hahah.

Long slog for minimal joy

There are 3 young men in this ponderous story, and at times I was heartily sick of all of them. It was challenging for me to understand the paralyzing fear about coming out to a conservative best friend in modern 2000s and with supportive family. The self loathing based on biblical teachings was tough to stomach poised against very descriptive sexual passages. Overall there’s just no joy in the story. I feel like I hiked for hours through brambles only to arrive at the scenic point to find heavy fog and nothing to see.

long complicated story

the time span of the story covers 4 or 5 years and the three main characters grow and have to go through a lot of issues. I remain glued listening to it throughout its entirety. the characters are flawed and things don't go perfectly but I did like the story overall.