It’s happened again… I enjoyed this book very much when I read it last year and it got 4 stars from me. After listening to the fantastic performance by Hamish Long I’m upping that rating to 5 stars across the board.

Rainbow Place is the first book I’ve listened to performed by him and I’m a fan now. I don’t find many audiobooks by him on Audible so perhaps he also uses another name. I think he’s too good to be a newbie narrator. His British accent was very pleasing and easy for this American listener to understand. The various voices he uses for the characters are perfect and his pacing and vocal inflections are absolutely on point.

I was particularly happy to learn the correct pronunciation of several words that I had pronounced differently in my head while I read the book. I just can’t say enough good things about this new-to-me narrator and this story by Jay Northcote.

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Below is my original review when I read the book last year:

I love to read books by non-US authors. I love reading about different countries and I love reading the stories they write, written the way they speak English. Jay Northcote is one of those writers whose stories I really enjoy. He sometimes challenges me with the British terms he uses but I love looking things up and building my “non-US” vocabulary. 😊

Rainbow Place is the beginning of a new series of standalone books set in the same world and it’s off to a great start. Seb moves to a small town in Cornwall for a variety of reasons and he’s happy there but he misses the community feeling and queer spaces of the city. His dream is to start an LGBT-friendly café/bar where all are welcome.

Seb hires Jason to build out the leased space where his café will be. There’s a spark between the two of them but Seb’s unsure if Jason is even gay or bi. Jason is deep in the closet and wants no part of being “out” until his feelings for Seb make him want more.

Rainbow Place is a story that made me feel lots of things and I enjoyed it a lot. Jason feels like he has a lot to lose if he comes out. Men in his line of work don’t usually react well to gays and he definitely doesn’t like drawing attention to himself. He’s also afraid of what his daughter will think.

Seb is OK with Jason staying out of the light for now but he knows that he won’t be OK with it long-term. When something awful happens, Jason lets Seb down in a big way and their relationship may never recover from it.

Just the right amount of tension/angst along with a lot of hot sexy time between Seb and Jason and a nice HFN (happy for now). I’m looking forward to more books in this series.

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