Audio Review: Better Be Sure by Anyta Sunday and Andy Gallo, Performed by Nick J. Russo

Better Be Sure By Andy Gallo and Anyta Sunday , Performed By Nick J. Russo

Genre: Contemporary Romance, New Adult, GLBTQ, MM

Tropes: Fake-boyfriend, roommates-to-lovers, slow burn

Released: audio-July 16, 2020, ebook-June 1, 2020

Publisher: Self-Published

Series: Harrison Campus, Book 1

Length: 7 hrs 13 mins / 244 pages

Synopsis

Orphan Jackson Murphy just staked his legacy on a bet.
Holy shit, his impulsive ass is in trouble.

Bring a guy to the fraternity formal? Pfft. Easy. Won’t be him kicked out of the house.

So what if his luck with guys on campus has been shitty? Ed Knowles is Jack’s winning ticket.

Tall, handsome, hardworking—and he doesn’t go to Harrison.

With every stolen look, every secret kiss, every clandestine touch Ed becomes more than just an answer to a bet.

These cloak-and-dagger meetings that set Jack on fire? They mask one tiny, enormous obstacle: Ed’s not out. Can’t attend the dance.
What does Jack do now?
Hold on to his legacy… or his heart?

“Better Be Sure” is a sweet, slow burn M/M romance with a heart-pounding HEA. This New Adult, college, opposite sides of the tracks novel can be read as a standalone and in any order.

This is a previously published title, first released in 2019. The publisher has changed.

Review

Reviewed by ButtonsMom2003

Loved the story, loved the audio performance!

I loved this book when I read it back in June 2020 but now, I love it even more after listening to Nick J. Russo’s performance of the audiobook. Often when I listen to a book that I’ve already read (especially if it hasn’t been long since I read it), I don’t pay super close attention to the audiobook because I already know the story. That wasn’t the case with Better Be Sure. Nick’s voice captured and held my attention from beginning to end.

Below is what I wrote when I reviewed the book back in June.

Such a good book!

I’ve gotten behind on reading Anyta Sunday’s last few releases and I’ve never read anything by Andy Gallo. I’m so glad that Better Be Sure changed all of that. It brought me back to Anyta Sunday and also brought me to a new-to-me author, Andy Gallo.

New Adult stories have kind of become my MM romance crack lately. Maybe it’s so that I can vicariously re-live my experience of falling in love through them; who knows? Anyway, it doesn’t really matter. What matters is finding a good book to sink my teeth into and having it engage me to the point of getting lost in the story. Better Be Sure did that and more.

I felt so bad for Ed. He really wants to be with Jack but he is afraid of what will happen to his job if he comes out. Jack is still having trouble dealing with the loss of his parents and he is pleasantly surprised at how supportive Ed is when he loses control of his emotions; other boyfriends were definitely not supportive.

This story really tugged at my heart and had me in tears more than once (that means I really liked it). There is so much depth to the MCs, and the secondary characters of Jack’s best friend, Brittany, and his brother, Marcus, that I couldn’t put the book down once I started reading it.

I am so, so much looking forward to reading more books in this series.

Story: ♥♥♥♥♥

Narration: ♥♥♥♥♥

O Factor: Spicy

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About Author

Andy Gallo

Andy Gallo prefers mountains over the beach, coffee over tea, and regardless if you shake it or stir it, he isn’t drinking a martini. He remembers his “good old days” as filled with mullets, disco music, too-short shorts, and too-high socks. Thanks to good shredders and a lack of social media, there is no proof he ever descended into any of those evils.

Andy does not write about personal experiences and no living or deceased ex-boyfriends appear on the pages of his stories. He might subconsciously infuse his characters with some of their less noble qualities, but that is entirely coincidental even if their names are the same. And while Andy leaves the hard sci-fi/fantasy for his alter ego, Andrew, in his mind a touch of the supernatural never derailed a good relationship.

Married and living his own happy every after, Andy helps others find their happy endings in the pages of his stories. He and his husband of more than twenty years spend their days raising their daughter and rubbing elbows with other parents. Embracing his status as the gay dad, Andy sometimes has to remind others that one does want a hint of color even when chasing after their child.

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Anyta Sunday

A bit about me: I’m a big, BIG fan of slow-burn romances. I love to read and write stories with characters who slowly fall in love. Some of my favorite tropes to read and write are: Enemies to Lovers, Friends to Lovers, Clueless Guys, Bisexual, Pansexual, Demisexual, Oblivious MCs, Everyone (Else) Can See It, Slow Burn, Love Has No Boundaries. I write a variety of stories, Contemporary MM Romances with a good dollop of angst, Contemporary lighthearted MM Romances, and even a splash of fantasy. My books have been translated into German, Italian, French, and Thai.

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