Review: High Balls

High Balls by Tara Lain
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

High Balls is a sweet and angsty falling in love story of the bad boy bartender and a twinky nerdy college TA. It is a wonderful, easy read. It is book six in the Balls to the Walls series, and while the cast of characters from the other stories show up here, it can be read as a standalone. But I highly recommend reading the series in order, I enjoyed the books that much. You meet the other characters, getting an in-depth look at how they arrived at their own happy ever after’s.

Theodore is gay, always known he was gay. So did his best friend Esther. But when Esther gets pregnant and dumped by her boyfriend, Theodore steps in to the daddy role, gladly. He’s not Andy’s biological dad and that’s a truth he has to keep hidden. It’s the lie that also sets up how he’s tried to live his life since the death of Esther. Doing nothing that would allow Esther’s ultra conservative parents from getting custody of Andy. But then he has a chance meeting with a tattooed bad boy bartender named Snake. And he dreams of having what his friends have, someone he and Andy can have a family with. Everything is so close, within his grasp, his PHD and tenured job, happiness with Snake and then it’s not.

Snake has a few dreams of his own. Theodore or Teddy as he calls him, fills all the check lists boxes for what he wants. And he couldn’t love Andy any more than Teddy does. But Snake has a few secrets of his own. When the time is right, hell reveal them, but kept secrets have a way of being exposed at the worst possible time. But Snake is ready to do anything he needs to, with the help of Teddy’s friends to help Teddy, Andy and give them the shot at a life together.

This is another of the author’s great location stories. It has all the elements that I love, romance, angst and splashes of humor. Andy as a seven-year-old, is a hoot with wisdom of a thirty-year-old at times. And, of course, there is the colorful cast of the guys from the previous books to liven things up. Over all, I loved this book.


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