Driven Snow

Pennymaker Tales, Book 2

By: Tara Lain

Narrated by: Kale Williams

Young Snowden "Snow" Reynaldi is brilliant, beautiful, and alone. Though he's shy, weird, and tolerated by the NorCal University students because he's a renowned whiz at chess and helps put the school on the map, that doesn't keep him from dreaming of the object of his desires: Riley Prince, championship quarterback.

When Riley needs a physics tutor, Snow jumps at the chance, and their relationship heats up - but Riley has to come out of the jock closet to get anywhere. Meanwhile, Snow's one true friend and mentor, Professor Kingsley, marries a woman who secretly wants the chess tournament glory and money for herself. Soon after, the professor collapses and Snow finds himself underwater - literally. In a car!

Seven frat brothers from Grimm College rescue Snow just in time for his life to get even worse, and Snow discovers the one relationship he always wanted slipping away. With evil looming at every turn, Snow must survive if only to prove he's the fairest of them all and regain the trust of his handsome prince.

©2015 Tara Lain (P)2016 Dreamspinner Press

love this series

I've listened to the whole series and I'm relistening now. i can't wait to aquire all of the books. i absolutely need more fairytale gay spinoffs in my life. well written, well paced, and an awesome story i recommend this book whole heartedly.

Snow

A fairly tale with a twist! A sweet tale of Snow and his Prince with a few surprises! Keep me intrigued throughout the book! A great story.

My favorite in this series and wonderful narration

Snow is our geeky, shy, chess playing virgin. He ends up tutoring the closeted
Riley, a football star, in physics.

Both Riley and Snow have been crushing on the other and now they’ve an excuse to meet/hang out.

There’s other drama involving Snow’s chess coach and his new wife….that puts a wrinkle in things and a smear campaign surfaces.


When push comes to shove, will Riley trust Snow or the smear campaign that paints him as a prostitute? Will Riley believe Snow when he says the coach’s new wife is evil? Or will Riley go back to his easy life in the closet?

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Riley – Riley Prince is his full name – is Snow’s Prince, too. He’s practically perfect in every way.

There is a bit of tongue in cheek in this story and a lot of laughter. Snow is hysterical! His inner monologues are too funny and his nerdisms are perfect!

Riley is simply charming and with one notable exception, pure perfection for shy Snow.

The smexy times are pretty dang hot and the feels are wonderful.

If you put aside your “this is real?” doubts, and just take it for what it is – a fun, fantastical tale with a nod toward the old story – you will fully enjoy it! It’s a New Adult title, so steamy, but not over the top.

Tara Lain is a fantastic writer and this was a fun new look at the old fairy tale.

I loved it and highly recommend it.

4.5 of 5 stars

Audio

Kale Williams does a terrific job with this. He gives the villains appropriately snively type voices and handles the passion and emotions well. Highly recommended as a way to enjoy this story.

5 of 5 stars

Way to easy.

These two guys, Chess nerd and quarterback
fall in deep true love entirely too easy. That part was extremely unrealistic which is what a book like this is about.. falling in love and what continues from there.

No graphic sex… Which is what I like. Sex but not every single detail described. Leave a few things to the imagination.

Fun little fairy tale

Coming after a series of audiobooks that were less than incredible, it was a great relief and sort of a surprise that I enjoyed this fluffy fairy tale remix as much as I did. And when I say "fluffy" I don't mean it's without its trials and tribulations--Snow's low point is certainly VERY low--but it's a well-written piece of candy and doesn't pretend to be anything else.

I bought this audiobook because I like Kale Williams, and he's a wonderful narrator here as he always is. The one issue I had with his performance was that his voice for the villainess is... er, an odd choice. He makes her sound like Thurston Howell, for some unfathomable reason. His voice is so melodic and lovely that I'm more than willing to overlook that.

I'm happy to see that Williams narrates the rest of the series, and I'll definitely be picking them up. Recommended!