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Reviewed by Golder Hazelton for Readers' Favorite
As the title suggests, The Outfielders by Robert P. Rowe is a baseball story woven around the troubled courtship and eventual coupling of its two main characters, Tony and Alex, both trapped in a town seemingly too small for their desires. The Outfielders is infused with angst-ridden M/M romance from page one. Tony’s longing for Alex is palpable, so much so that the reader feels the drive for them to connect almost as keenly as Tony himself. All would be well in Tony’s world if only Alex wasn’t straight … or is he? Wondering about the answer to that all-important question keeps the reader turning pages, just as it keeps Tony up at night. The Outfielders is an effortless and thoroughly enjoyable read, thanks to Rowe’s well-honed ear for accessible and natural-sounding dialogue. The narrative is neither heavy-handed nor overly simplistic. Readers will enjoy a well-crafted story and some fine writing.
One value-added feature of The Outfielders is a nifty book-within-a-book construct where Tony is reading an M/M romance called The Outfielders while the story takes place. The events and characters of the book-within-a-book mirror Tony and Alex’s story in complex and fascinating ways, with the similarities revealing themselves masterfully at precisely the right moments in Tony’s trajectory to add an extra level of reader engagement. Tony is mortified when Alex discovers the nature of his reading material, but the outcome is not what he or anyone else might have expected. The Outfielders by Robert P. Rowe is a superbly crafted M/M love story, the perfect antidote for cynicism and a marvelous escape from the cares of the real world.
