I read Fight For It when it was originally released back in 2017 and loved it. I recently finished listening to the audiobook performed by Christopher Solon and was reminded again of how much I loved this story. I don’t find any other audiobooks on Audible by Christopher Solon. His performance was way too good for a newbie narrator so perhaps he also uses another name.

In any case, he did a great job with this book. I loved the different voices he used for the characters. His pacing and vocal inflections were right on point. I’m really looking forward to listening to the next book in this series and hope that he will be narrating it as well.

Below is a copy of my original review of Fight For It from 2017:

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Fight For It is the first book in the new series from A.D. Ellis: The Blueridge Junction Boys. It has an HEA and also introduces several characters that I hope will get their own books.

Blueridge Junction (BJ) is a small town and three families are considered a kind of “royalty” for their role in founding the town and keeping it alive.

Micah Edwards’ family owns the local garage and Micah is the best mechanic for miles around. He wants to take over running the garage someday but his jerk father won’t allow any “pansy ass” to manage the business. To say that Ed Edwards is homophobic would be putting it mildly.

Micah meets Coleman (Cole) Pierce through a hook-up app. Their chemistry is off the charts but Cole insists on no exchange of names and no contact outside of the time when they hook-up.

Imagine Micah’s surprise, and Cole’s dismay, when Micah finds out that Cole is the new Social Studies teacher at the high school. Cole was kind of run out of town, and lost his last teaching job due to homophobia. He’s been working in a bank for the last two years until he finally got the courage to try teaching again. He won’t live as an out-gay man in BJ for fear of once again losing the job he loves.

Wow, this story made me feel many things. Anger – certainly – at Micah’s father and other idiots like him who want to run Cole out of town. Tears of sadness for what Micah and Cole are put through and must come to terms with if they are to find happiness with each other. Tears of joy when things finally work out. And laughter – the young-ish gay man named Jay is a hoot and manages to often inject some much-needed levity when things get too somber.

I loved the characters of Micah’s best friends, Levi and Cody, and local law enforcement officer Kennedy Marks. Fight For It doesn’t have a cliffhanger but Ms. Ellis certainly manages to leave this reader wanting to read their individual stories; I can hardly wait for her to write them.

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