Review: A Good Read
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 6, 2014
I really enjoyed this story and found myself wanting to read to see what happened.  It is the story of some football players on the college level that play for a school on the West coast. I would guess it was based on maybe Stanford - but the actual college is not really that important. One of the players starts telling the story from his perspective but the narrator then changes depending on the focus of the story.  The initial player starts out sharing that he wants to be out in college as he is tired of being in the closet and wants to live his life honestly.  He finds out that once he gets there - he is afraid to do that because of the culture of football.  He does eventual share his feelings with one of his friends who seems to handle it well while still be straight.  As the story unfolds there are multiple twists and turns and the discovering of sex with the same sex partner.  There is some explicit sex in the story that is - at times - kind of intense - and also very honest.  I would not recommend this book for boys under 18 because of the sex scenes.  It would be an excellent book for college boys who are struggling with their feelings and identity.  Do these situations happen in college - I think they do and I think they happen more now than they used to.  I really enjoyed reading the book and was happy for the characters and what happened in their lives!