| Out of Bounds: Love of Sports book 1 |  | Author: T. A. Chase
Publisher: Samhain Publishing, Ltd.
Category: eBooks
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Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 5,412
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
ASIN: B001892DIO
Publication Date: April 22, 2008
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Product Description
Can a sexy nightclub owner convince an all star basketball player to risk it all? Love of Sports Book 1. Professional basketball player Kasey Johnson makes a point of keeping his sexual preference under guard and out of the public eye. Empty, off-season flings are all he can look forward to until he retires. He figures his secret is safe-until he meets Ingram Fletcher, a nightclub owner who ignites a passionate inferno in his body. Gram has lusted after Kasey ever since the long, tall basketball player was traded to Phoenix a year ago. But with Kasey-s twin brother running interference, up until now Gram-s been unsure if it-s safe to make a play. Then some incidental contact in the crowded club leads to a kiss that starts Gram wondering if a relationship is possible-now, and beyond March Madness. A romantic weekend together answers that question. Now the only one remaining is if Kasey is ready make a fast break out of his comfort zone. Warning: This title contains explicit sex, graphic language, nekkid man love, creative usage of chocolate, whipped cream and strawberries.
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 Interesting and Educating! September 7, 2010
shop4tracey
Okay, so as a hetero female this book was a big eye opener! I actually feel like I learned something...an insight into the male gay mind. I have read tons of "trashy" lady porn books and always found them a bit unbelievable. So I had to take it to the streets and ask my gay male friends if this was realistic. Some said yes, many parts I described happen that way. But one or two wanted details of the scenes, because they wanted to try that out! And none of them agreed with the emotional aspect written in the book. There was a lot of sex, very little in the way of emotion, and then a lot more sex. To me, that is EXACTLY what male harlequen-esque books should be! Thoroughly engaging and entertaining, and I knew exactly what I was getting by the front cover art...reminescent of an updated Fabio. So overall, I liked the book.
 Good idea, but could have been executed much better August 6, 2010
Charly T. Anchor (Texas)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Warning: This review might contain what some people consider SPOILERS.
Rating: 4/10
PROS:
- The story is filled with glamorous surroundings and people who are fun to read about. Who's not interested, on at least some level, in famous twin brothers who make People's 50 Most Beautiful People list, frequent A-list clubs, and stay in the executive suites of fancy hotels?
- I liked Kasey's brother, Garrett, quite a bit. He's flashy and flamboyant with a "devil take it" attitude, yet he also knows when to be serious and is very protective of his twin.
- Gram has a pretty serious thing for Kasey from the start of the story, and I thought it was cute that although Gram thinks he has hidden his attraction so well, so many of his employees and friends know about it and encourage it.
CONS:
- I couldn't help rolling my eyes at some of the melodramatic--and unrealistic--things the characters do. Kasey, who's not out in public, wakes up on the couch of a night club and immediately twines his fingers with Gram's...then lets Gram kiss him? Gram starts calling Kasey "baby" after their first sexual encounter? Kasey gives an impassioned coming out speech to a whole slew of reporters not 20 minutes after having said he wasn't going to tell anyone outright?
- There's practically no buildup, emotional or physical, to the first sex scene, and because there's so little development between sex scenes, they left me cold. They're lovingly described in rather minute detail, but I found them a little clinical. They have a removed, play-by-play feel to them.
- Some of the dialogue is wooden-sounding and is used to awkwardly convey plot points that would have been better placed in the exposition. For example, Kasey says this while talking to Garrett at the beginning of the story: "Add to the fact your twin brother is a starting point guard on a pro basketball team and you're a tabloid reporter's wet dream." There's some important background information here, but it just doesn't sound natural in dialogue.
- There are numerous "duh" instances throughout the story where the writing needlessly repeats itself. Here's one: "Kasey weighed in at around two hundred pounds. At one hundred and eighty pounds, Garrett was several pounds lighter."
Overall comments: I like the idea of this story: the setting is alluring, and there are several interesting minor characters with dramatic comings and goings that read rather like a soap opera. However, the story very much focuses on the sex scenes; and since I didn't find them particularly titillating, the entire novella fell flat for me.
Great Gay Romance July 17, 2010
Wendy Raden (Midwest)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I found the story of Kasey and Gram to very romantic, with a sprinkling of good sex scenes. Kasey has fallen in love for the first time; he has to decide if he will out himself and possibly derail his professional basketball career. Gram a very tasty night club owner wants to be with Kasey in any capacity he can; he loves Kasey and is willing to stay in the background to preserve his career. The sex scenes were a little tame for my tastes, but I will definitely read this again when I'm in the mood for romance. Enjoy!
I have to admit that I was more interested in Kasey's twin brother Garrett. Garrett is fun loving, dangerous, and quite a handful I've already downloaded his story "The Love of Sports Series, Book 2".
 Bad!fic Published July 15, 2010
OnlyRichard
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Why on EARTH do the majority of gay novels have to be so awful? This one, I couldn't even finish. The sex talk was ridiculous, who says that stuff? Several things were repeated in a single paragraph. The regular (non-sex) dialog was childish, in a way. Which leads me to say that this story just smacks of a bad!fic fanfiction that got the names changed, and published. Thankfully, I got it free through Kindle, so I didn't waste any money on it.
Soft gay porn July 10, 2010
Nigel C (Surrey UK)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Trite and repetitive - why do gay novels generally tend to be little more than a series of strung togther sex scenes with little narrative content ad even less literary value. Come on guys we deserve better than this. The theme of issues of being openly gay in sport is raised but the the novel closes before the consequences of being out are seen and the story developed. Mills and Boon for gay men with sex included! An hour's read at best with little characterisation or story outside the sex scenes.
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