By
Eli Easton
A
Christmas novella
When physics grad
student Fielding Monroe and skirt-chaser and football player Mick Colman become
college housemates, they’re both in for a whole new education. Mick looks out
for the absent-minded genius, and he helps Fielding clean up his appearance and
discover all the silly pleasures his strict upbringing as a child prodigy
denied him. They become best friends.
It’s all well and
good until they run into a cheerleader who calls Mick the ‘best kisser on
campus.’ Fielding has never been kissed, and he decides Mick and only Mick can
teach him how it’s done. After all, the physics department’s Christmas party is
coming up with its dreaded mistletoe. Fielding wants to impress his peers and
look cool for once in his life. The thing about Fielding is, once he locks onto
an idea, it’s almost impossible to get him to change his mind. And he just
doesn't understand why his straight best friend would have a problem providing
a little demonstration.
Mick knows kissing
is a dangerous game. If he gives in, it would take a miracle for the thing not
to turn into a disaster. Then again, if the kissing lessons get out of hand
they can always blame it on the mistletoe.
I knew I was
going to love this story the moment Mick Colman said this line “Piss off,oh ye
of the cleavage-which-shall-not-be-touched.”
Truer words have never been spoken with Fielding Monroe is in the
picture. This starts out as a typical
jock/geek friendship, and then Mick
meets “The Force of Fielding” Geek boy
Fielding has NEVER been kissed and wants the “the best kisser on campus” to
show him the ropes. After many
rejections Mick gives into Fielding and kisses him.
“I fail to see your point. Are you suggesting that because I’m male, you
can’t kiss me the same way you’d kiss
a female?”
Awaken deep desires 101, what Mick feels when he kisses Fielding is
not possible, he is not gay.
“I had no clue
what I was going to do with a male, or how to do it, but I knew I was going to
do it right goddamn now or die.”
In the end does
the Geek get the Jock??
“For the first
time in my life, I was in love. I was in
love with a guy. I was in love with
Fielding Monroe.”
This is a short and fun read about two best friends living
together. One of them is Fielding Monroe, a genius but socially-awkward and
inexperienced when it comes to life. No, really. His mom had him isolated
because of him being a prodigy and he was always kept busy with classes and had
time for nothing else.
His best friend and housemate is Mick Colman, an ex-jock
with the reputation of a Casanova, practically. He has been even dubbed by the
college cheerleader squad as being ‘the best kisser on campus’. Their lives are
different but since Mick wanted to concentrate more on his studies and less on
partying and flings, he needed the different that was Fielding.
Until Fielding drops a bomb on his lap, that is.
It all starts with him asking Mick to teach him how to kiss
for Mick to start having doubts about certain things and for him to really
start analyzing his past. He gives into his best friend’s request, only to have
his doubts increase. And his frustration.
It takes him almost losing Fielding to realize how things
truly are and he gives Fielding what he had wanted: a kiss underneath the
mistletoe at the party.
Cute and short but fun read, you see and experience the
feelings, the frustration and confusion of Mick, as it’s told from his POV but
we also get glimpses of Fielding. I loved them. Really. Mick may be an ex-jock
but he’s not an arrogant and insufferable jerk. As for Fielding, he may be a
genius but he’s so cute and geeky, there’s no way for anyone to not like him.
Genius or not, he’s not conceited and he’s curious and determined to get what
he wants. And in the end, he does because what he’s wanted was Mick.
“It was completely, irrefutably,
down to the mistletoe”
I absolutely love a good nerdy character and
that is exactly what Fielding is. Not only that, but with Mick’s persistence
with being healthy he is a very well rounded nerd. He is like a cross between Sheldon Cooper and
Tom Brady. I want one for myself!!
As for Mick, he too
seems like a well rounded person, and despite his "player" ways, he
seems to have a good head on his shoulders. Making the changes necessary to
better himself, that's when he tumbles upon Fielding Monroe.
This truly was an
adorable, short, get you in a good mood for Christmas, love story and I'm glad
to have read it. I'll admit, it even brought a few tears to my eyes :) That
damn Fielding just gets to your heart ;)
I give it 4+
Mistletoe kissing stars
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