4,5 stars

A delicious story with reversed stereotypes - kudos to Carey, the prompt 's author - and a lot of interesting stuff about criptology and baseball slang.

Two stories from Madison Parker, two winners: definitely a new author on my watch list. ( )

I loved everything about this! I love the humour; I loved the way the characters where portrayed; most of all, I loved that Brandon was willing to work to get his man! Oh...and who knew that the language of baseball was so rife with innuendo! ;) ( )

Short sweet delightful
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This is a very cute version of the jock/nerd story, with a solitary and withdrawn nerd who is determined not to "waste time on a boyfriend", and a jock who is fed up with being Mr. Popular all the time and never being on his own, not to mention his question whether "jockdom" is actually for him. Add to that the fact the nerd is into cryptology, and the fun can most definitely begin.

Brandon plays baseball, has a scholarship on that basis, but he isn’t the typical "dumb jock". He's pretty good at math (just not the advanced bits, but then, who is?), he has doubts about his future to the extent that he isn’t even sure he wants to play baseball as a career. He loves guys with brains, but is shy about approaching them, fearing their despising him because he's dumb. Corey, his friend's roommate, proves to be irresistible though, and Brandon's tactic to lure him in is pretty damned clever!

Corey has his life planned out to the second. Well, almost, but he's known he wants to get into cryptology from the time he was a teenager, He spends every free minute on honing his skills, and if he weren't also a tutor for math, he'd never see anyone outside class and his roommate. So far, he's been pretty good at avoiding pitfalls like personal relationships and boyfriends, but when Brandon enters his life, his "luck" runs out. Not that he's very upset about that…

If you like the jock/nerd combination, if you enjoy reading about college students who have very different views of life and their future yet manage to find common ground, and if you're looking for a fun read with lots of heat and some very cute action in a dorm bed, then you will probably enjoy this free short story.
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This is a big-fun-feel-good-collage-aged-M-M-love-fest and I loved every minute! Recommended! ( )