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My Review:Title: Dance With Me (Dancing, #1)
Author: Heidi Cullinan
Series: Dancing #1
Published by: Indie
Release Date: July 26, 2011
Format: Audiobook
Narrator: Iggy Toma
Pages: 418
Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
Genres: LGBT, Sports Romance
Source: Audible
Reading Challenges: CC's Goodreads Reading Challenge
Find it: Goodreads ✩ Amazon
My rating:
Blurb:Sometimes life requires a partner.
Ed Maurer has bounced back, more or less, from the neck injury that permanently benched his semipro football career. He hates his soul-killing office job, but he loves volunteering at a local community center. The only fly in his ointment is the dance instructor, Laurie Parker, who can’t seem to stay out of his way.
Laurie was once one of the most celebrated ballet dancers in the world, but now he volunteers at Halcyon Center to avoid his society mother’s machinations. It would be a perfect escape, except for the oaf of a football player cutting him glares from across the room.
When Laurie has a ballroom dancing emergency and Ed stands in as his partner, their perceptions of each other turn upside down. Dancing leads to friendship, being friends leads to becoming lovers, but most important of all, their partnership shows them how to heal the pain of their pasts. Because with every turn across the floor, Ed and Laurie realize the only escape from their personal demons is to keep dancing—together.
This novel has been previously published and has been revised from its original release.
I LOVED this story but the AUDIO made it the best audiobook I’ve ever had the pleasure of listening to.
Iggy Toma is a master at inflection and depth. He played the females voices so well I thought it was two people! I really loved it, so much so that I’m gonna try to find all his other narrations and I don’t even care what the book is at this point. LOL, crazy right? He hypnotized me, and I loved every minute of it.
Now on to the story, it was pretty fantastic in itself.
Laurie was privileged and he knew it. He had talent, money and had lots of family support. What more could a guy ask for? Still, he struggled. I enjoyed Laurie’s search for himself and the difficulties he faced with his feelings and expressing himself. He was very much afraid of rejection and a bit neurotic, he was wound a bit too tight and knew that too. Which made the romance between him and Ed so damn appealing to listen too.
Ed was a man’s man. He played semi-pro football and was immensely proud of it. He loved it so much that he had a super hard time dealing with life after football because of his injury. To put it shortly, he was living in denial and was a grouchy ass because of it. I think that Ed’s issues could have gone deeper in this story because it was hinted that he may have some depression issues that he wasn’t dealing with but we never really got the full story. I would have liked to hear more about his struggle with that and how Laurie dealt with it as well.
They were a total opposites attract romance, which is one of my favorites because my husband and I are complete opposites so I can totally relate to their story.
Their dancing was just icing on top of a already delicious cake. It was like each time they danced together life just took a break and they were able to reset and come back to each other. I can’t even explain it better than that, it was just wonderful.
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