Title: Billy (A Southern Thing #4)
Author: Sara York and Sean Crisden (Narrator)
Publisher: Self Published
Release Date: July 2nd 2015
Genre(s): M/M Contemporary
Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
Reviewed by: Belen
Heat Level: 3 flames out of 5
Rating: 2.75 stars out of 5
Blurb:
Billy Miller never thought he’d be someone’s hero. Jack had saved him when he was seven, and Dianne had encouraged him to always be true to himself. But when Billy meets Sawyer Fredericks, the game changes. Simple is no longer simple, and one plus one doesn’t equal two.
Sawyer has spent the last few years working hard to get ahead, and now it seems like his life is on track. Then Billy walks in and Sawyer realizes that plans sometimes change. The chemistry is good, and the emotions out of this world, but more than just Jack and Andrew are working to keep them apart.
Once it seem like they have it all together, fate comes in to take everything away. Surviving takes more than just hanging tough, for Billy, it’s a life altering decision.
All four book in the series:
Book 1 Pray The Gay Away
Book 2 Sending Jack Off To Jesus
Book 3 My Big Fat Southern Gay Wedding
Book 4 Billy
I’m a HUGE fan of Sean Crisden, but I didn’t care for his narration here. I can’t quite put my finger on why, I only know that while I usually love and enjoy his narration I didn’t this time.
Sometimes a story resonates with you and sometimes it doesn’t. This is one of those times where the story just didn’t work for me. If you’re interested in why, please read on.
I felt like this was two different stories packed into one book. I can say I felt like this is a “then suddenly” book.
For example: the first 75% of the story takes place over a matter of weeks, then suddenly within a matter of paragraphs it’s two years later, and then suddenly again it’s two years after that.
I’ve been a fan of Billy since the first A Southern Thing story, and after all he’s been through, and after all his brother Jack has been through for him, I didn’t buy Billy moving to New York, meeting and falling in love with some guy in days, and then literally throwing Jack and Andrew over for this near-stranger. After all Jack has done for Billy, I did not believe Billy would have treated Jack the way he does. And, I’ll admit, I was disappointed in his behavior.
There is also a mountain of miscommunication that happens time and time again in this which drove me nuts.
“Disappointed” I think is the best way I can describe how I feel about this story. I was disappointed in Billy, his choices, Sawyer, his behavior, and, most of all, the ending.
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