Audio Review: Mr. Frosty Pants by Leta Blake, Performed by John Solo

25 November of 2019 by ButtonsMom2003

Story: 5

Narration: 5

5.0Overall score

John Solo's performance made a great book even better.

Mr. Frosty Pants By Leta Blake, Narrated By John Solo

Genre: Contemporary Romance, GLBTQ, MM

Released: November 15, 2019

Publisher: Self-Published

Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins

Performed by: John Solo

Cover Design: Dar Albert @ Wicked Smart Design

Synopsis

Can true love warm his frozen heart?

When Casey Stevens went away to college four years ago, he ghosted on his straight best friend, Joel Vreeland. He hoped time and distance would lessen the unrequited affection he felt, but all it did was make him miss Joel more. Home for the holidays, Casey hopes they might find a way to be friends again. But Joel’s frosty reception reminds Casey of just how hard he had to fight to be Joel’s friend in the first place. It’s going to take a Christmas miracle to get past that cool façade again.

Joel isn’t as straight as Casey believes, and his years of pining for Casey have left him hurting and alone, caring for his abusive father and struggling to get by. Unable to trust anyone except his rescue dog—and with no reason to believe Casey is interested in him for more than a holiday fling—Joel’s icy heart might shatter before it can thaw.

Can Casey and Joel’s love overcome mistrust, parental rejection, class differences, and four long years apart? Mr. Frosty Pants is a stand-alone, Christmas gay romance by Leta Blake featuring a virgin hero, childhood friends-to-lovers, second chance romance, and steamy mm first times.

Review

Reviewed by ButtonsMom2003

John Solo’s performance made a great book even better.

I loved this story when I first read it last year and now I loved it even more as an audio book. John Solo has become one of my top 5 favorite audio book performers. I think he has really outdone himself with this one. The various character voices he does are really fantastic and he got my emotions involved even more than they were when I read the book. I can’t say enough good things about this audio book.

Below is a copy of the review I did when I read the book last year.

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Friends to lovers is one of my most favorite romance tropes. Casey and Joel were close as kids even though they came from different social worlds. Casey knew that he was gay by the time he was a teen and that he was in love with his straight best friend Joel.

Joel would never admit that he wasn’t as straight as everyone thought; it was impossible because of his homophobic father. After Casey left for college he didn’t keep in touch with Joel and that left Joel feeling hurt and alone.

Parts of Mr. Frosty Pants were really sad – Joel’s father was absolutely horrible and Casey’s is not a whole lot better – and yet it was a very satisfying and heartwarming story. Casey had to learn to deal with his father’s disdain for anyone he deemed beneath him and Joel had to learn to trust that Casey really loved him.

The path to their HEA wasn’t easy for Casey and Joel but I trusted Leta Blake to get them there and she certainly did.