Cat's Review of Playing It Straight by Andrew McQuinn @AndrewMcQuinn @TTCBooksandmore

This is first and foremost a coming out story told in two parts. The Before and After. Playing it out Straight is the before.

 It started with a thought. An innocent, miniscule notion, I never believed would turn into this.

 For the last two years, Kyle McKinley has been living a lie and going along with the charade he believed would make his father proud. Kyle thought he could continue playing it out straight and hide his secret. Until his family moved across country from a small coastal Maine town to Santa Monica California.

 Recently, Scotty Valentin gave up all hopes of finding a boyfriend and decided to focus on his career. He'd been taught love came with a price and that price was his loss of trust.

 By chance Kyle and Scotty met. For Scotty, he didn't want to fall for the same trap he kept getting himself into, but there was something different about Kyle. For Kyle, he's too afraid to admit Scotty may be the man who had all the answers he's been both running from and searching for. 

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Cat gives this one 5 Meows with a 2 Purr heat index...

Wow! This is the author's first book and of course my first time with this author and oh wow it won’t be the last. The book is so beautifully written, the characters compelling and the story very realistic.

Playing it Out Straight is a YA story of finding one’s sexuality, dealing with it, and coming out. Kyle and his family move to California because his dad wrote a book that has been made into a movie. He meets actor Scotty that confirms his feelings but now he has to come out to friends and family. He is afraid his dad will reject him, worse kick him out.

This is a beautiful story of what a person feels as they deal with their sexual identity and security of life.

I cannot wait for the next story!

If you like YA, coming out and a plain awesome romance this is fabulous. 

Andrew McQuinn currently lives on an island off the coast of Maine. When he's not at his day job fighting off evil germs as a janitor, he can be seen out and about exploring Acadia National Park, or at home with his cat Marty. Playing it out Straight is his debut novel.

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