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Jeff Erno
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Jeff Irwin is short, timid, and studious. A bit of a social outcast, he lives quietly in the shadows of the popular kids at his school, his life ruled by his ever-present fear of rejection or failure.
Enter high school football hero Brett Willson and the chance for Jeff to embark upon the challenge of educating the world's dumbest jock.
But what develops between Brett and Jeff proves far more challenging than any tutoring session. In 1983, rural Michigan isn't ready to embrace love between two men, never mind two teenage boys. If they're going to make a go of it, Jeff will have to come out of his shell - and Brett will have to prove he's more than just a dumb jock.
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I lost 20 lbs of crying!
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Great story
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Pulled on my heartstrings
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Adequate but sad
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Love vs the enforcers of HS heterosexist normativity
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The main characters here are Jeff Irwin and Brett Wilson, teenagers who live in different social stratospheres in school. Jeff is the stereotypical nerd and Brett the quintessential jock and they have very little in common, or so they believe.
Jeff and Brett meet and become friends when Jeff is basically blackmailed by the coach into tutoring Jeff in English. Jeff knows he’s gay but doesn’t tell anyone and he develops a major crush on Brett. He doesn’t think Brett could ever feel the same way, despite how close they become.
Jeff is thrilled when Brett admits he has feelings for Jeff and has messed around with guys before, despite posing as the straight jock at school. They begin a sexual and romantic relationship and this is where I had some issues with the story.
Brett doesn’t treat Jeff all that great in the big scheme of things. Several times, Jeff performs oral sex on Brett and there isn’t a reciprocation. It felt more like Brett was using Jeff for sexual gratification and there were times I wondered exactly if Brett was just using him.
The use of the pup as Brett’s nickname for Jeff was shown as a cute appellation, but I didn’t see it that way. Following a guy around like a puppy dog, doing whatever he asks, and going along with whatever he says is not a good thing and certainly isn’t true love. Yes, these are teenagers who tend to do this sort of things and that’s why I didn’t focus on it too much.
By the time Brett bails on Jeff despite promising a romantic night alone I was convinced there was no way they could be an HEA, which would’ve been realistic. However, the author does give the characters their HEA and while I loved Brett’s public proclamation of live, I wasn’t 100 % convinced they could make it long term.
There’s an epilogue that shows the boys years later that I believe could’ve been left out, though some readers might enjoy that sort of things. The chances of a 14 year old boy finding the love of his life AND staying with him forever is extremely slim.
Despite my reservations, I enjoyed Dumb Jock a great deal. Not only did the author create two fresh characters in Brett and Jeff, he also portrayed several interesting supporting characters, including Jeff’s friends and family.
I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend to this book to anyone looking for a fresh, sweet young adult tale.
Narration Review:
Tommy O’Brien did a great job with Jeff, from whose perspective the book is written. Jeff’s inner voice felt like that of an actual teenager and never once did he feel older than 14 years old.
O’Brien did very well with Brett, as well as all the supporting characters, of which there are many. With many male narrators I cringe when they do female voices because they rely on attempting higher voices and it comes off as fake. That was not the case here. O’Brien is a talented narrator and I won’t hesitate listening books performed by him in the future.
Pretty good
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Enjoyed it for what it is
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Couldn’t put this down!!
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Anyway, enough about what the book is not. What it IS is a very sweet book about a couple of kids with issues. It's a nerd/jock romance, with Jeff being the nerd and Brett the jock. It could easily be cliché (and if it had been written a few years later it would have been), but it isn't. Too often in romances between two men of differing degrees of masculinity, the less masculine one is super "sassy" and the jock ends up having to grovel and apologize constantly. I think the women who write them simply write their own fantasy relationship and then plug in a not-very-masculine male character to stand in for themselves. But here, Jeff is not "sassy." He starts out as a wallflower with a case of hero worship and largely stays that way. He has endless capacity for forgiveness and that's a good character trait, even though it allows Brett to walk all over him sometimes. Brett, our jock, is mostly a good guy but makes a lot of mistakes. They're two very realistic characters who find themselves in a sweet and mostly realistic book (a couple idealistic parts notwithstanding).
There is one section where the romantic plot is derailed for a few chapters to focus on a tragedy that occurs, and normally I would be irritated at this but it's so well-written and so genuine that I found myself as rapt as I was for the rest of the book. The book is written in first person from Jeff's point of view only (another point in its favor, I hate the POV switches that pervade modern romance novels). There is a VERY light dom/sub element to their relationship which is ten thousand times more realistic than the very bizarre books being written in recent years. Once again Heather's review is hilarious to me, because she states that she's super into dom/sub books but was uncomfortable with this one because the characters are so young. Look, modern dom/sub books involve the characters calling each other "daddy" and changing each others' diapers, so I'm sorry if you think the idea that two high schoolers might have a very vaguely-defined control thing is... whatever you think it is.
Anyway, I'm aware this is less a review of this book than it is a lament for the state of m/m literature (god forbid I refer to it as "gay" literature because what about all the straight men in m/m relationships??), but the fact remains, this is a fantastic book with characters that are recognizable as gay teenagers and a romantic plot that is compelling, if occasionally meandering. The narrator is fantastic too, particularly when he sings a few hymns about halfway through the story. That could have been really bad, as it comes at a very important and emotional point, but he acquits himself nicely. So if you like your gay romances to be between a straight or bisexual jock and a sassy gay moron with more snappy dialogue than substance, you might want to avoid this one. If you want to know what gay teenagers actually act like and think like, then buy the book, and please write more like it.
A story for gay men
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I think there was a lot of “fantasy” type stuff in here – meaning, that people didn’t necessarily act like I think they would IRL. But… that being said – they could act that way… especially since this is only one perspective- Jeff’s.
I appreciated the lengths the author went to really get inside Jeff’s head and let this story out as one of hope for all those bullied along in high school.
There are some interesting components to this – as a YA book. 1) Off page sex – both are underage and it fits, but it’s there. 2) a bit of a Dom/sub thing – not overworked or “inappropriate” per se – interesting setting for it, though.
Audio
Tommy O’Brien is not my favorite narrator but he did a nice job with the narration, neither really adding nor detracting from the overall experience.
I think my overall impression was one of “good”. It was good. It didn’t “wow” me or make me think “how awful”. It was good. Certainly enough to make me consider more from the series when I’m in a YA mood.
Nice YA story
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