Quent Jackson has followed Jason Spade’s every move in business and in poker since their first day as college freshmen. Eight years later, when Jace finally decides Quent is the one man he can’t live without, he sees no reason for that to change.

But as much as Jace believes that poker is life, no one gave Quent the same playbook. After their first passionate night, the real game of love and trust begins, and Jace has been playing alone too long to make teaching the rules easy. Jace only speaks two languages: one of them is sex, and the other one is poker. Between the two, he needs to find a way to convince himself to take a chance on love—and Quent to take a chance on him. It’s a lucky thing they’re good at reading the odds, because they’re playing for keeps, and this is one high-stakes relationship that’s definitely worth the gamble.

This was a sweet (& sometimes sexy) story about two best friends who finally act on the fact that they’ve been in love with each other for years.  The book started a little odd for me.  It felt like I was dropped into the middle of an ongoing story.  Which I guess in some ways I was since they had a relationship that had spanned many years previously.  They get together in a sexual manner at the very beginning of the story and the rest of it focuses on them developing their relationship and struggling through some growing pains.  While they struggle through some things it all felt realistic and it was pretty much angst free.  The entire story is filled with poker metaphors which I thought was an interesting plot device and really worked for these two characters.  I only know a little about playing poker but I had no problem following along and I thought it really added to the story.  Overall it was a lovely story about two average guys falling in love.

I enjoyed the narrator and thought he did a good job.  He has a really soothing voice and he did a good job on all the characters.  Both of the main characters as well as all of the side ones.

Cover Artist: DWS Photography:  The cover is ok but it not one of my favorites.  The cards are well tied into the plot.

Audible Audio, 8 pages, 7 hrs 18 mins
Published June 10th 2016 by Dreamspinner Press (first published May 6th 2012)
Original TitleGambling Men
ASINB01GUES5DI
Edition LanguageEnglish
CharactersJason “Jace” Spade, Quentin “Quent” Jackson settingSan Francisco, California (United States)
Hawaii (United States)