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Something Like Summer

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Something Like Summer

By: Jay Bell
Narrated by: Kevin R. Free
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The best-selling gay romance novel that will leave your heart shaken!

Love, like everything in the universe, cannot be destroyed. But over time it can change.

The hot Texas nights were lonely for Ben before his heart began beating to the rhythm of two words; Tim Wyman. By all appearances, Tim had the perfect body and ideal life, but when a not-so-accidental collision brings them together, Ben discovers that the truth is rarely so simple. If winning Tim’s heart was an impossible quest, keeping it would prove even harder as family, society, and emotion threaten to tear them apart.

Something like Summer is a love story spanning a decade and beyond as two young men discover what it means to be friends, lovers, and sometimes even enemies.

©2011 Jay Bell (P)2025 Jay Bell Coming of Age Contemporary Genre Fiction Literature & Fiction Romance
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Great storytelling, lovely set of characters and the most amazing narrator. Made me fall for the author and the Something Like Series right away. Thanks Jay :)

All time genre favorite!

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Although a bit generic, the story somehow manages to keep you in suspense, making you want to keep listening.

The slightly archetypal characters are fairly relatable in their struggle for identity, bearing mind that the story begins in the 80s and expands over the course of about 20 years.
I quite liked the trope of two lovers forever bound by fate that runs as a major thread throughout the story.

With the enjoyable/positive bits out of the way, this is where the wheels come off the story’s wagon: the ending… rarely have I seen an author f**k up an ending in quite a spectacular fashion. This was by far the most far-fetched, most disgraceful display of “I need to make the story come full circle” that I’ve come across in … well forever really.
Pity…

Kind of sweet except for the poor excuse for an ending…

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a real good Book. I cried a Lot dringend the end! I Loved how the IT was structured intolerant three parts.

great Book!

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Eine wirklich schön erzählte, komplexe und vielseitige Liebesgeschichte. Für alle schwer zu empfehlen, aber man muss darauf gefasst sein etwa drei Tage lang nichts anderes mehr tun zu wollen als weiter zu hören.

Herzenssache

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Ziemlich schlecht geschriebene, meistens langweilige Lovestory. Der Schreibstil ist eher eine Aufzählung von Ereignissen, Handlungen, Gefühlen: der Hörer darf und könnte sich auch kein eigenes Bild der Emotionen der eindimensionalen Protagonisten machen, weil alles erklärt wird : " Telling, not showing". Dadurch kann kein Kopfkino entstehen.
Das Buch bedient alle Klischees eines Liebesdramas wie Love against all odds, Trennung, Verrat, Treue, Verlust, was eigentlich eine tolle Sache ist. Leider ist es in diesem Buch extrem schlecht umgesetzt. Am Ende der Geschichte hab ich nur mit den Augen gerollt, war stolz durchgehalten zu haben und war erleichtert, dass es vorbei war.

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