Review: The Lawyer and the Environmental Scientist - an odd couple that work well against each other.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 6, 2014
Adam is a closeted lawyer who can only let loose and be gay once per month at his friend Carl's (Carly) place in a hook-up weekend.  He came out to his family when he was younger and it went so badly he buried his gayness and his personality under his lawyer heterosexual disguise persona.  On one of these weekends he meets a man under water and they tussle over and octopus...yep and octopus.  They surface and make a connection, a really powerful and physical one.  They part but instantly want to be together again.  Adam is working on a development project that could be the making of him money-wise, he just has to get past the pesky council and the environmentalists for the project to advance.  He will also make an advance on Sky who has become very important to him after one night of passion and an interlude.  Except Sky is working on a development project of his own, or more accurately scuppering one - and guess who is on the other side?  The two are on opposing sides and Sky doesn't want anything to do with Adam who must have no scruples if he is willing to lie to make money and endanger future health in the community. Except Adam then does something that Sky doesn't expect that will make all the difference.The series is linked to other Balls stories and I have to say this one isn't as intriguing and entertaining.  I loved Fire Balls with Rodney and his Fireman, and Snow Balls was hilarious, Fast Balls with Jerry and who can forget Volley Balls with the happy threesome.  We meet some of our favorite characters from the series in this book but it is a bit more series, much less humor than the other books which is why I have given it 3 stars.  But still, I like series collections and this is rounding this one out.