I kept wanting to tell him to “breathe and slow down.” Most of the time he was fine, but then he would ramble through something. In addition, he rushes and mumbles through dialogue in some places to the extent that he runs out of breath by the end. Despite the references to paws, fur, tails and muzzles (better not to dwell on how kissing with tongue works with muzzles) it is basically a MM romance, complete with a lot of sex scenes Unfortunately it is not a very good MM romance and the narrator has a really annoying lisp that makes his “s” sound like “th”. First of all, the novelty of this book having animals instead of people wears off fast. Kyell Gold's fourth novel is a story of relationships, of finding oneself and learning to live with someone else, set in the contemporary fantasy world that was the setting for his acclaimed novel Waterways: joint Winner of the 2009 Rainbow Award for Best Gay Novel Winner of the 2009 Ursa Major Award for Best Novel. If only they could stop fighting long enough to break up. Going it alone would make everything easier. And if school is bad, the hyper- masculine world of professional sports that awaits Dev after graduation will be a hundred times worse. As their attraction deepens into romance, it's hard enough for them to handle each other, let alone their inquisitive friends, family, and co-workers.

He's a gay fox, an activist who never dreamed he'd fall for a football player. That's as good as it gets - until he meets Lee, a fox with a quick wit and an attractive body.

Dev is a football player at Forester University, a small liberal arts college where he and his teammates get to strut around and have their pick of the girls on Friday nights.

Out of Position by Kyell Gold