Sidelined

LSU, Book 2

De: Becca Steele

Narrado por: James Joseph, Will Watt, Stella Hunter

From USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Becca Steele comes a new standalone M/M college romance.

I've been in love with my best friend, Ander, for as long as I can remember. I've always kept my feelings to myself, knowing that I'd never have a chance because he's straight.
Until the day he does me a favor by pretending to be my boyfriend.

After that, things change. He's suddenly interested in experimenting with guys—just not with me.
It's time for me to move on, and accept that nothing between us will ever change. He only sees me as his best friend.

Except, now he's looking at me in a different way.
Does he feel something more than friendship for me, or am I just deluding myself?
I guess it's time to find out.
Sidelined is an M/M new adult college romance with best friends to lovers and bi awakening themes. It is the second book in the LSU series. Each book can be listened to as a standalone.

©2022 Becca Steele (P)2023 Becca Steele

Elliot and Ander

"𝘿𝙞𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙝𝙖𝙥𝙥𝙚𝙣, 𝙤𝙧 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙞𝙩 𝙖 𝙝𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙪𝙘𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣?"
"𝘽𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙚𝙫𝙚 𝙢𝙚, 𝙖 𝙝𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙪𝙘𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙𝙣'𝙩 𝙠𝙞𝙨𝙨 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙖𝙨 𝙜𝙤𝙤𝙙 𝙖𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙡 𝙢𝙚."

𝐒𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐄𝐃 is the second book in the LSU series by Becca Steele which is Elliot and Ander's story.

Elliot has been in love with Ander for as long as he can remember but Ander has always been his best friend but off limits the way Elliot always wanted. Until...Ander ends up kissing Elliot and pretending to be his boyfriend to stop another guy from trying to get to Elliot.

I love Elliot and Ander. My heart broke for Elliot with how much it was hurting him to pretend with Ander until Ander finally came around. They are the true meaning of best friends.

I can not wait for the next book in the LSU series as this group is so awesome to hang out with.

James Joseph and Will Watt did an amazing job with the duet narration and bringing the entire book and all the characters to life. I also loved the little cameo by Stella Hunter.

Get ready for... mm, sports (soccer), best friends, college, bi-awakening, bi for you, and dual first-person point of view.

5 Maple Leafs | 3 Flames

Best friend love

After a whole lot of pinning, a much deserved HEA. Love Becca Steele and her writing of MM romance. James Joseph and Will Watt are narrating perfection. Loving this series and all of these college house mates. now, who gets the next chance to find love? hopefully, the next book is coming soon.

Cute

Cute story. Loved the MLs and their story. Wish there was more of a backstory or just more of an awakening for Anderson but it was still a nice story

Ander made me want a redo

Wow. What a beautiful story and the performance was epic. I'm sobbing over corrected memories and wishing that men like Ander exist. Such a great love story.

Friends to lovers MM excellence!

I chose this book because the narrators are amazing, especially together in DUET. I am definitely hooked on this series. If you love college-age friends to lovers MM romance with excellent narration this series is for you!!

Too much miscommunication....

I loved that Anders was so cool about exploring his sensuality. I hated and hate when characters don't just express their feelings over and over. It gets frustrating and annoying and that was the case for e with this book. Narrators are absolute stars 🌟 and 🌶 is 3.5. Def worth the credit and gonna keep going with the series!

Best Friends to Lovers

Love this series so much and the narrators are fabulous. We know Elliot and Ander from the previous story...so good to see how they grow.

Ander + Elliott

4/5 ⭐
3/5 🌶️
4/5 🎧

Another great addition to the LSU series, this time with a friends to lovers bi-awakening story. Ander and Elliott we so cute, especially Elliott as he navigated his unrequited crush.

I loved the back and forth with these two, from the first kiss to what felt like every time things escalated between them. It was almost like a mutual unrequited feeling as each one of them felt like they liked/loved the other more and were afraid they were getting too attached.

The audio was really good, like Blindsided, there were moments when the secondary audio felt muffled or distant... But I really loved the narrators and thought they did a wonderful job.

love love love

Loved everything about this! The story, the narration, the ending, the spice, this book is perfection!

So many emotions!!

I dove right into book 2 after finishing up book 1 yesterday and listened too quickly 😭 I cannot wait for JJ and his older man in book 3, I have a feel it’s going to be steaaaaamy haha. This series is amazing, and the interconnected stories with even more cameos in this one was fantastic! We got to reconnect with our Collided guys and some of their friends (anyone else hoping a certain band member gets his own love story...maybe book 4 in the LSU world?!?!) and get glimpses of characters from other books by this author (like more Alstone alums hehe). I enjoyed the plot in this one with more soccer glimpses (I felt for both of the guys when Ander when down with his injury) but it was cute to see later Elliott cheering him on in the big game. I think I enjoyed book 1 more than book 2 but I still liked their story and was super happy with how it ended!

So for me I think there was so much miscommunication that it was too much for me. I get where the author was going but for me it was like nonstop miscommunication and the rollercoaster ride between them seemed to not flow as well as the author has done in all her other books. Might be personal preference but again I still give this 4-4.5 stars because the love story was lovely even if frustrating a lot of the time haha. I loved Elliott so much, he has this unrequited love for his bestie and things randomly happen and then his world is abruptly turned upside down. I wasn’t a huge fan of Ander in the beginning (or in the previous book) but he slowly got me on his side haha. The way he fell so hard for Elliott without even realizing it was swoonworthy. I really appreciated how he freaked out a couple times because his realization about his feelings were so daunting and new to him. It made him more relatable and less of a playboy and more of a vulnerable guy learning more about himself than he ever has. I loved their moments before things went bad, and the ending with their dates and the epilogue....so many butterflies. I also loved the dancing part hahaha.

Narration was fantastic as always but my only critique would be how the narrators portrayed JJ and his friends from the club. They made them sound like how media depicts stereotypical “femboys” and it turned me off to the narration. I understand they were trying to portray different characters and tried to portray them in a certain way but for me it made them sound very nasally/whiney and just added to that stereotype and stigma that needs to end. The rest of the narration was 5/5 for me, I will always listen to these narrators. The emotional rollercoaster these two took us on was hard to do narration-wise but these 2 did an amazing job (along with the help of Stella Hunter who I love!). I got teary-eyed with the guys tumultuous feelings and how they were hurting themselves and each other since they failed at communicating over and over again haha.

I am itching for JJ’s story, I think that is going to be explosive and a different take than we have seen from this author before. I am definitely gonna get this series in the beautiful animated covers, these love stories deserve to be on my shelf for me to revisit and show off 😍