Full of role playing card games, cosplay, atoning for past mistakes, and self discovery; Out of Character was a fairly predictable and easy to read story. ~ Slick – Simply Love Book Reviews
Synopsis:
Jasper Quigley is tired of being everyone’s favorite sidekick. He wants to become the hero of his own life, but that’s not going to happen if he agrees to help out his former best friend turned king of the jocks, Milo Lionetti. High school was miserable enough, thanks, and Jasper has no interest in dredging up painful memories of his old secret crush.
But Milo’s got nowhere else to go. His life is spiraling out of control and he’s looking to turn things back around. Step one? Replace the rare Odyssey cards he lost in an idiotic bet. Step two? Tell his ex-best-friend exactly how he feels—how he’s always felt.
Jasper may be reluctant to reopen old wounds, but he never could resist Milo. There’s a catch, though: if Milo wants his help, he’s going to have to pitch in to make the upcoming children’s hospital charity ball the best ever. But as the two don cosplay for the kids and hunt for rare cards, nostalgia for their lost friendship may turn into something even more lasting…
Out of Character is the second book in Annabeth Albert’s True Colors series and while I enjoyed it, it didn’t wow me. Childhood friends who went their separate ways in high school when one became a star soccer player and sided with his “jock” friends leaving the other, a gamer “nerd,” open to bullying are reunited when the once jock needs help from the nerd.
Milo Lionetti has made some colossal screw ups over the last year and his latest one has left him feeling desperate and sick. Not realizing the value of his older brother’s Odyssey cards he bets them and loses them to a known cheater. He heads to the local game shop hoping to find them or at least some help locating them and must face Jasper Quigley, his once best friend whom he treated horribly in high school.
I liked watching these two move past the hurt from their teen years especially given that Milo apologized for his actions over and over. I did feel that Jasper seemed to go from not trusting Milo to wanting more with him a bit quickly given the circumstances, but they also had a history of a lot of years of friendship and most importantly Milo showed great growth throughout this book.
This series reads more like a young adult series although the characters are new adult age and while there’s nothing wrong with that, fans of the author might be a bit disappointed in the mostly off the page sexy times.
As Jasper and Milo work to find the cards Milo lost, they also work to repair their friendship, learn each other as the adults they’ve become, and fall into a relationship neither one expected. It was sweet and at times a bit heartbreaking, but it was also easy to hope they’d make it together.
Full of role playing card games, cosplay, atoning for past mistakes, and self discovery; Out of Character was a fairly predictable and easy to read story.
3.5 stars
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