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Isolation Play, OOP2 book review
15 years ago
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Warning! Spoilers likely to follow!
recently finished Kyell Gold's sequel to Out of Position, Isolation Play and as the first did a year ago when I read it IP impressed me.
The story picks up just as OOP left off in Dev's coming out press conference. Dev had just shocked the world, not to mention his friends, enemies, and boyfriend Lee by confirming that he was gay, making him the first openly gay professional football player.
The Novel sucks a reader in right away by completely pulling him/her into Dev and Lee's world. although this world is singular as they are together in love, we hear the same story from each of their point of view, as working for different football organizations each of them is in "isolation" which if a reader hadn't figured out from the title of the book is a major theme.
The two narrators alternate chapters one for one throughout almost the entire book, where the other will tell a short time line of events in their perspective, and finish the cliffhanger that the other has left off, most often because by the end of each two chapter couplet our tiger/fox pair are physically together, usually on a weekend, as that's the time they have together. Lee works for the Dragons as a college scout who is assigned to the Northeast territory, while Dev still starts on defense for the Firebirds, so Lee can usually get to Chiveli after his games, or sometimes even get to Dev's away games on sunday.
Dev constantly is dealing with stress issues which we saw him go through in the first book, where outside of football issues cause his play to suffer. Most of his stress is coming from his family rather than his partner in this case. He has grown up by leaps and bounds, however still holds the stereotypical "dumb jock" mentality when he displays is obvious inability to think too far beyond the immediate future, or that he is sometimes incapable of keeping his cool (I hope the cellphone salesman works on commission).
Lee has also grown up a lot for the sequel as his activist side seems to have been put to rest almost completely. He still has an affinity (although barely sexual) for dressing up as a vixen, but slowly he is fading out of this habit too. Lee's problem continues to be his ability to rock the boat in already rough seas. Just as any fox we all met at some point in our lives, Lee has never been able to keep his trap shut at the right times, or just leave well enough alone. This bad habit will end him up in the Hospital with a broken paw, and even in jail and some point.
Together our pair doesn't butt heads nearly as often as we saw in the first book. they seem completely happy with one another (minus a few almost tear jerking tiffs). As always we get some very passionate and descriptive love scenes from our author, and seriously who doesn't love that? but in all this book seemed much less focused on the sex than the first and rather more on the emotional relationship of our heroes. Which are more and more going out together as a couple in public despite some negative thinking from the public, members of the football team, and even family members. But for the most part Dev is still loved by his teammates for his football ability and not hated because of who he loves. Lee is even accepted by the football team members he meets during an off week party. He is able to use his fox-like slyness to keep his cool even in the presence of some of his idols from his favorite football team(for obvious reasons :p)
less drama and worry over our pair in this novel with the easily felt worry over the crap that Brian used to pull to destroy their lives. the struggles we watch our duo go through are very internal to them, which is often seen in the dialogue in "family business is not for the world" or a variation of that. But its hard not to have the public intervene in an private matter when asshole members of the TV press and tabloids keep pushing things to the world that just are not true in all cases. But just as their love is strong, the tiger fox mates overcome and keep each other happy. valuable lessons are learned about family and love. And as a reader I learned that you do not come between a tiger and his thanksgiving dinner! XD
-This is just a very quick review of the book. I tried my best to keep it vague in case some of you have not yet read it, but if you have read it, or even just the first one I would be more than happy to discuss either in more detail with you. Or if you feel like waiting I will likely be hosting a round table in-depth discussion on 1 or both of these novels at an upcoming con after being given permission from both the author, Kyell Gold and Sofawolf press back in November.
recently finished Kyell Gold's sequel to Out of Position, Isolation Play and as the first did a year ago when I read it IP impressed me.
The story picks up just as OOP left off in Dev's coming out press conference. Dev had just shocked the world, not to mention his friends, enemies, and boyfriend Lee by confirming that he was gay, making him the first openly gay professional football player.
The Novel sucks a reader in right away by completely pulling him/her into Dev and Lee's world. although this world is singular as they are together in love, we hear the same story from each of their point of view, as working for different football organizations each of them is in "isolation" which if a reader hadn't figured out from the title of the book is a major theme.
The two narrators alternate chapters one for one throughout almost the entire book, where the other will tell a short time line of events in their perspective, and finish the cliffhanger that the other has left off, most often because by the end of each two chapter couplet our tiger/fox pair are physically together, usually on a weekend, as that's the time they have together. Lee works for the Dragons as a college scout who is assigned to the Northeast territory, while Dev still starts on defense for the Firebirds, so Lee can usually get to Chiveli after his games, or sometimes even get to Dev's away games on sunday.
Dev constantly is dealing with stress issues which we saw him go through in the first book, where outside of football issues cause his play to suffer. Most of his stress is coming from his family rather than his partner in this case. He has grown up by leaps and bounds, however still holds the stereotypical "dumb jock" mentality when he displays is obvious inability to think too far beyond the immediate future, or that he is sometimes incapable of keeping his cool (I hope the cellphone salesman works on commission).
Lee has also grown up a lot for the sequel as his activist side seems to have been put to rest almost completely. He still has an affinity (although barely sexual) for dressing up as a vixen, but slowly he is fading out of this habit too. Lee's problem continues to be his ability to rock the boat in already rough seas. Just as any fox we all met at some point in our lives, Lee has never been able to keep his trap shut at the right times, or just leave well enough alone. This bad habit will end him up in the Hospital with a broken paw, and even in jail and some point.
Together our pair doesn't butt heads nearly as often as we saw in the first book. they seem completely happy with one another (minus a few almost tear jerking tiffs). As always we get some very passionate and descriptive love scenes from our author, and seriously who doesn't love that? but in all this book seemed much less focused on the sex than the first and rather more on the emotional relationship of our heroes. Which are more and more going out together as a couple in public despite some negative thinking from the public, members of the football team, and even family members. But for the most part Dev is still loved by his teammates for his football ability and not hated because of who he loves. Lee is even accepted by the football team members he meets during an off week party. He is able to use his fox-like slyness to keep his cool even in the presence of some of his idols from his favorite football team(for obvious reasons :p)
less drama and worry over our pair in this novel with the easily felt worry over the crap that Brian used to pull to destroy their lives. the struggles we watch our duo go through are very internal to them, which is often seen in the dialogue in "family business is not for the world" or a variation of that. But its hard not to have the public intervene in an private matter when asshole members of the TV press and tabloids keep pushing things to the world that just are not true in all cases. But just as their love is strong, the tiger fox mates overcome and keep each other happy. valuable lessons are learned about family and love. And as a reader I learned that you do not come between a tiger and his thanksgiving dinner! XD
-This is just a very quick review of the book. I tried my best to keep it vague in case some of you have not yet read it, but if you have read it, or even just the first one I would be more than happy to discuss either in more detail with you. Or if you feel like waiting I will likely be hosting a round table in-depth discussion on 1 or both of these novels at an upcoming con after being given permission from both the author, Kyell Gold and Sofawolf press back in November.
Enjoy the rest of the book! how far in are you?
can get both of them there.