I liked We Could Be So Good a lot, so I held off on listening to this, thinking I couldn’t like it as much. Also I don’t really care about baseball.
After listening to it, I think I might like this even more than We Could Be So Good. It covers some of the same ground in terms of the reality of being gay in that time period, but also grief and failure, and all of it in a way that’s kind of gentle without feeling like it’s ignoring anything.
Joel Leslie’s narration is great as usual, though I might not listen to the two books back to back because he does such a good job of creating distinct voices for characters so I attach a character to a voice – but then he reuses them (because even Joel Leslie doesn’t actually have an infinite number of voices he can do), and I can get confused between books. 😆 It’s really not a complaint about his narration – I think he’s my favorite narrator.
I never write reviews, so I don’t know what else to say here, except that this book seems like something special to me.