Review: B rating...
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 22, 2014
My Review:This is the opening segment for a 4 novella series and as that, it definitely worked.Angel is a freshman majoring in film. He earned a full scholarship based on his videos. Angel is not your typical college freshman. He comes from a very poor family and the pictures Daisy Harris drew of him made me picture a gang-banger type...really tough with an angry facade. He's also deeply in the closet...has never really even admitted to himself that he's gay, much less someone else. So when Shane begins to affect him, Angel lashes out before any other type of reaction. It's his natural defense instinct.Shane knows that he probably shouldn't get involved with Angel. Shane is 6 years older than Angel and the TA in one of Angel's classes, but Angel has a vulnerability and neediness about him that Shane can't ignore. He tries...at first, but that doesn't work out so well for him in the long run.Like I said, this is set up as a 4 book series that follows Angel through his four years of college. I'm anxious to see how it plays out. In this first book, Angel is simply so unsure and vulnerable when it comes to all this sexual stuff that simply scares him. I know there is going to be a great character arc for him over the series and I think it's going to be really good. This is also set up with a HUGE difference where these two guys are at in their lives. I'm interested to see how Daisy Harris works that part of the story.The nice thing is that all the novellas are fairly short so I can slide them into my normal reading without taking too much time away from the books that I need to read.