Bases Loaded by Sean Michael
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Genre: Contemporary
Length: Full length (198 pages)
Other: M/M, Anal Play
Rating: 4 stars
Reviewed by Fern

Can they survive the off-season and keep from striking out?

Baseball player Brett must get rehabilitation for his shoulder if he wants another season in the Major Leagues. He and his partner, Benj, take off to the boonies to stay with physical therapist Ralph, a tough-talking, routine-setting guy, and Jean, Ralph’s Cajun lover, who cooks as well as he loves.
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Brett and Ralph butt heads from the beginning. Ralph wants Brett to be more in touch with his feelings; Brett wants Ralph to give him his therapy and leave him alone. Benj and Jean get along far better, with Jean showing Benj around the kitchen and reassuring him when things with Brett get strained.

Before Ralph can even begin to work on Brett’s shoulder, though, Brett faces an even more difficult physical challenge, one that does more than threaten his career. He and Benj have to work through some tough issues, making decisions that will affect the rest of their lives together. Their gradual friendship with Ralph and Jean helps them through the bad times, but even that might not be enough to pull them through.

Benj and Brett have been together for many years and are a solidly committed couple. Brett’s shoulder injury – a real threat to his baseball career – has brought the couple low, but they’re not ready to call it quits yet. Determined to try and get Brett recovered they go to a retreat to try one last ditch effort. Ralph and his lover Jean ran the retreat and were determined to do all they could to help Brett recover from his injury and subsequent surgeries. But Brett and Ralph butt heads from day one. Can the two couples work together to reach the same goal they all share?

I absolutely loved this book. I have to be honest, I was a little skeptical to begin with – sporty type of stories usually aren’t my thing, but I was both delighted and surprised by the depths in this story. I think it was a stroke of genius to have the four main characters already in two committed, solid relationships. That got a lot of the “will they/won’t they” type of drama out of the way early on. It also left plenty of room for the real meat and bones of the story to shine through. The conflict of Brett and his shoulder injury, the drama of how it had so monumentally effected his and Benj’s relationship and life together. Brett and Ralph do butt heads, but in the normal manner of two alpha men used to doing their own thing having to work together while still effectively strangers. The emotions and dynamics of the four men were interesting and grabbed my attention right from the first few pages. Each man was their own character, different and unique and I utterly loved watching them all interact and add what they could – both to the plot and the story as a whole.

There was also an abundance of emotion in this story which just thrilled me. Yes, there was plenty of passion and chemistry, but while the romance and love was clearly present it was the main situation of helping Brett heal from his injury and get back into professional form that was the main mountain that needed to be overcome. And seeing the four men interact together and finally work together as a team in a day-to-day, routine kind of way that really sold me on this. Yes, baseball and the higher goal of getting Brett back into peak form was the aim, but the “sports” side of the story wasn’t so strong that it overwhelmed the far more important (in my opinion) aspects of the two couples’ relationship, the love and devotion between them and the actual act of Brett recovering properly and getting his head back on straight. I really feel that the whole story focused on the exact right aspects and the complexities of the characters and my enjoyment of all their interactions really made this story fantastic and one I look forward to enjoying again.

Readers looking for a hurt/comfort/healing style of story should definitely find this appealing. There’s interesting and complicated characters all working together and trying to find the way they fit together best. There’s two committed couples (and some deliciously steamy sex) but best of all there’s normal and I feel, relatable emotions that just shine through every page. While there is sport central to the storyline it’s not overpowered by the things that best make up any romance novel – characters, interactions, conflict, worry and love. This is a great story I thoroughly enjoyed and can heartily recommend to others.