Title: Shared Revelations
Author: Andrew Grey
Narrator: JJ Boyer
Genre: Historical
Length: 1 hr, 26 mins
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press (15th March 2018)
Heat Level: Low
Heart Rating: 💖💖💖💖4 Hearts
Blurb: It’s the 60s, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy to be different. Eddie Baronski spent his high school years looking out for his partially deaf friend, Jack Emmons. Now that they’ve graduated, they spend their free time at Green Bay’s newly renamed Lambeau Field, taking in the practices.
When Eddie’s crush, Johnny Grant, a new Packers team member, offers him a ride home, Eddie thinks it’s the start of a grand romance. But Johnny and Eddie may not be on the same page, and love – true love – sometimes comes from an unexpected quarter.
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Reviewer: Prime
Review: Shared Revelations is a novella by Andrew Grey, who praise in each and every review I write for his books. I’m not sure if it’s meant to take place in the same world as his Hearts Entwined series, but the epilogue made me think of Hearts Unheard.
The narrator for this quick audio (seriously, not much more than an hour!) is JJ Boyer, who was an unknown narrator to me. I really liked his tone. I think the tone really matched as someone who was reminiscing about the past, it was simply delightful.
The story is simple. This is the coming age story of Eddie, who in the 60s finds himself feeling things that he had learnt to be wrong. He has great love and affection for his best friend, Jack, who is partially deaf, but has a massive crush on baseball player, Johnny. Eddie has to carefully discover himself and sort out his feelings for Johnny, while keeping that taboo part of himself secret from everyone he loves, including Jack.
This is a sweet, no fuss story. I suspect if this had been a full-blown novel there would have been a load of angst and homophobia and terror.Since there was no room for that we are left with the bare bones – a boy growing up, discovering his desires and navigating first love. I really like the ending too, wonderful until the end!