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A review by kaje_harper
Tigers on the Run by Sean Kennedy
4.0
This book is great fun for those of us who fell in love with Simon and Declan in the first book, and adored them in the second. In this book, it's eight years since Dec kissed Simon and started them on their path together, and they've built a solid life together. Dec has retired from the intense public crucible of professional sport and moved into broadcasting, and youth sports. Simon is also in televised production, with a new assistant and new problems. And he's still the same charmingly arty wanker - the same funny, literate, melodramatic, silly, loving, accident-prone and good-hearted narrator as ever.
They've done well balancing their lives, but more than one old nemesis is moving into the limelight, and turning attention their way again. On top of that, Micah, a young, out, gay 17-year-old player whom Dec is mentoring, is facing challenges at school and in the media. Micah responds as rationally and calmly as you would expect from an angry and hurt teenager. In other words, not at all.
Dec and Simon have to balance their own lives and career goals, the renewed scrutiny of reporters, lies and half-truths, and the responsibility they feel for Micah.
The most wonderful things about these books are the warm tone and the real, human, flawed but appealing characters the author creates. There is fun and joy and there is pain, there are moments I wanted to smack every single person in here, but their issues feel plausible and I sympathized through it all. The plots are good - interesting but not dramatic, the events workable, pushing the edges for humor, but never going beyond them. And the love between the MCs, and their friends and families, suffused the story with warmth. Warmly recommended for fans of the series.
They've done well balancing their lives, but more than one old nemesis is moving into the limelight, and turning attention their way again. On top of that, Micah, a young, out, gay 17-year-old player whom Dec is mentoring, is facing challenges at school and in the media. Micah responds as rationally and calmly as you would expect from an angry and hurt teenager. In other words, not at all.
Dec and Simon have to balance their own lives and career goals, the renewed scrutiny of reporters, lies and half-truths, and the responsibility they feel for Micah.
The most wonderful things about these books are the warm tone and the real, human, flawed but appealing characters the author creates. There is fun and joy and there is pain, there are moments I wanted to smack every single person in here, but their issues feel plausible and I sympathized through it all. The plots are good - interesting but not dramatic, the events workable, pushing the edges for humor, but never going beyond them. And the love between the MCs, and their friends and families, suffused the story with warmth. Warmly recommended for fans of the series.