Title: Gideon
Series: Finding Home #3
Author: Lily Morton
Narrator: Joel Leslie
Length: 9 hours, 43
minutes
Publisher: Audible
Reviewed by Sammy
Synopsis
Gideon Ramsay is so far in the closet he should be a talking faun.
A talented, mercurial, and often selfish man, Gideon has everything he should want in life. Fame, money, acting awards - he has it all. Everything but honesty. At the advice of his agent, Gideon has concealed his sexuality for years. But it’s starting to get harder to hide, and his increasingly wild behavior is threatening to destroy his career. Then, he’s laid low by a serious illness and into his life comes Eli Jones.
Eli is everything that Gideon can’t understand. He’s sunny tempered, friendly, and optimistic. Even worse, he’s unaffected by grumpiness and sarcasm, which forms 90 percent of Gideon’s body weight. And now, Gideon is trapped with him without any recourse to the drugs and alcohol that have previously eased his way through awkward situations.
However, as Gideon gets to know the other man, he finds himself wildly attracted to his lazy smiles and warm, scruffy charm that seem to fill a hole inside Gideon that’s been empty for a long time. Will he give in to this incomprehensible attraction when it could mean the end of everything that he’s worked for?
From the best-selling author of the Mixed Messages series comes a story about a man who needs to realize that being true to yourself is really just a form of finding home. This is the third book in the Finding Home series, but it can be listened to as a stand-alone.
A talented, mercurial, and often selfish man, Gideon has everything he should want in life. Fame, money, acting awards - he has it all. Everything but honesty. At the advice of his agent, Gideon has concealed his sexuality for years. But it’s starting to get harder to hide, and his increasingly wild behavior is threatening to destroy his career. Then, he’s laid low by a serious illness and into his life comes Eli Jones.
Eli is everything that Gideon can’t understand. He’s sunny tempered, friendly, and optimistic. Even worse, he’s unaffected by grumpiness and sarcasm, which forms 90 percent of Gideon’s body weight. And now, Gideon is trapped with him without any recourse to the drugs and alcohol that have previously eased his way through awkward situations.
However, as Gideon gets to know the other man, he finds himself wildly attracted to his lazy smiles and warm, scruffy charm that seem to fill a hole inside Gideon that’s been empty for a long time. Will he give in to this incomprehensible attraction when it could mean the end of everything that he’s worked for?
From the best-selling author of the Mixed Messages series comes a story about a man who needs to realize that being true to yourself is really just a form of finding home. This is the third book in the Finding Home series, but it can be listened to as a stand-alone.
Review
Gideon is drunk—again--and happily enjoying watching his
current hook-up and their third make out in the limo. Still feeling a bit
washed out from being sick during his last filming, Gideon refuses to give in
to going to the doctor like his brother would like and instead parties even
harder. But just as he is about to join the twosome who have made their way to
his hotel suite a coughing fit causes him to pass out and the next thing he
knows he’s in hospital recovering from a near deadly bout of pneumonia. His
brother has hired him a nurse, Eli, and booked them on a cruise for senior
citizens and Gideon has nothing to say about it even though his snarky moth is
still going a mile a minute.
For the first time Gideon begins to feel better—not only
physically but also mentally. Eli calms and grounds him and they enjoy a smart
banter between them. But Eli is a professional who refuses to get involved with
a client—Gideon’s agent, Frank, and his threats about trying to hook up with
Gideon notwithstanding. Eli is determined to be just friends while in Gideon’s
employ. So even though both men feel the natural spark arise between them they
don’t act on it. In fact, it will take a separation to really make Gideon see
just how much he wants Eli in his life and it will take some real assurances
from Eli to help Gideon see that the lies his agent has planted in his mind over
the years don’t add up to him having little worth as an out and proud gay man.
Lily Morton completes her Finding Home Series with Gideon’s story now in audio. While Gideon can definitely be listened to as a standalone, those
familiar with the series will see old characters crop up and remember Gideon
for being a bit of a jerk from the previous novel. Needless to say little has
changed in his personality and it is just this aspect of Gideon that the
narrator, Joel Leslie, brings off brilliantly. This narrator’s ability to carry
off a bored and snarky British accent allows him to completely embody the
essence of Gideon. It is uncanny how Joel Leslie just brings this character to
life with his vocal prowess—Gideon sounds just as you might imagine him to and
honesty it’s wonderful.
Not only Gideon but the other characters in this story are done
so well with just variations in pitch, pacing and certain affects. Happily the
different voices never bleed into one another. They are each uniquely voiced
and recognizable. The humor and romance that are present in this story are
brought to life quite well. This story and Joel Leslie’s talents are a match
made in heaven and honestly I can think of no other narrator who could pull it
off with such aplomb.
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