THE PROSPECTS

Shaan Dasani gives listeners a fun listen to this contemporary queer sports romance. Former college baseball teammates Gene Ionescu and Luis Estrada are unexpectedly reunited on the Beaverton Beavers, a Triple-A minor league ball club in Oregon. While their initial friction results in discordant game performances, Dasani charts their growing chemistry during extra practices and after-hours bonding sessions with warmth, sensitivity, and plenty of spice. As the league's only openly gay transgender man, Gene faces professional hurdles his straight cisgender teammates don't. Dasani's great characterizations of teammates and friends provide emotional depth between games and during nights on the road. The local sports commentators' peppy cadences add flavor, as well. Author KT Hoffman reads his opening and closing notes. J.R.T. © AudioFile 2024, Portland, Maine [Published: MAY 2024]