This new adult, male/male romance will capture the audience who fell in love with Nyrae Dawn's Games Trilogy.
For the love of the game.
Brandon Chase has always defined himself by one thing: football. Tough and athletic, he is a great college player who enjoys the hard hits and the sweaty grind of the gridiron. But when Brandon is injured, only one person can help him get back on track-a forbidden love he's desperately tried to put behind him.
Alec Andrews has never quite forgiven Brandon for walking away when their friendship turned into something more. But he can't deny help to one of his closest friends. As the two spend the long, hot summer working together, their old attraction comes flooding back.
Now as Alec thinks about coming out to his conservative family and Brandon considers revealing he's a gay football player, the two men must be strong to fight for a love that could be the greatest rush of their lives.
4.5 Stars by Jen Skewes
I love Nyrae Dawn’s writing and was so excited when I found
out that she was writing a m/m romance.
Rush is a beautiful story of two young men who are best friends but find themselves wanting to take their friendship to the next step. But becoming more than just
friends comes with risks which they are not sure that they are willing to
take.
Since they were fifteen years old Brandon and Alec spent
their summers together. What started out
as an innocent friendship turned into so much more. They would spend their time playing football,
hanging out and stealing kisses when no one was looking. To everyone around them they were nothing
more than best friends, which was true but they were also in
love.
Brandon is a star football player in college. Football is what defines him, it is the one thing
that he is good at. He has loved the
sport since he was little and now is that much closer to playing in the
NFL. For Brandon the only thing he knows
is football. Without football he has nothing else to fall back on. And while he loves Alec he knows that he cannot
give him what he needs and wants. He is
afraid of what coming out will do to his football career. He is afraid of being the “gay” football
player. The one who his teammates are
afraid to be around in the locker room.
So he does what he thinks is best for the both of them, and ends it with
Alec. Leaving him hurt and heart broken
and angry.
It’s been almost two years since Alec has seen Brandon. Alec
has never come out of the closet either for fear of his father hating him. His
father has always been tough on him and he has never really been able to live
up to his father’s expectations. The
only person who knows that he is gay is his best friend Charlotte and her boyfriend Nate, who also happens to be Brandon's brother. Two years
after Alec broke his heart, he gets a call from his best friend telling him
that Brandon has been in an accident.
Alec drops everything to go see him.
Despite the hurt and anger he feels he needs to be there for him. To make
sure he is ok.
Brandon is not in a good place when he gets there but he seems
to be the only one to bring him out of the current state that he is in. After spending time together, Alec realizes
that things will never change with him and Brandon. They will never be able to be more and Alec
leaves to go back home. But Brandon
soon follows and while he knows that they may only have this one last summer to
be together, right now he will take what he can get. Can these two be able to say goodbye again at
the end of the summer?
Rush is a beautiful love story between two young men who have
a love that is so real, that it will warm your heart. But
their fears prevent them from finding the happiness with each other that they
both want. Brandon and Alec were just
perfect together. Brandon was so afraid
of losing football if everyone knew he was gay. In Brandon's eyes that was the only thing that he was good at, the only thing that he had that would make his parents proud of him. He thought that football was his life and that he couldn’t live without
it. But deep down it was Alec that
he couldn’t live without. The struggles that these two went through were at times sad and heart breaking. The struggle to want to be with someone so
bad but knowing there may be consequences if they did. They were both there for each other through
the most important moments in their lives.
Alec and Brandon understood each other, they loved each other more than
anything and they were their to support each other in the end when it mattered. I loved this book so much. It is one of those books that will touch your heart. Amazing job by Ms. Dawn.
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