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Beach Balls (Balls to the Wall #3)

by Tara Lain (Goodreads Author)

3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 · rating details · 203 ratings · 41 reviews

Adam James is so far in the closet he could find Narnia. But coming out would threaten all he’s built as the lead attorney for WMA Development, and the million dollars he can get when he finishes pushing a big land remediation project through the City Council. Then on an early morning scuba dive, Adam meets a tall, lean rebreather diver named Sky who makes him want to live...more

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Jun 03, 2012 JustJen rated it 3 of 5 stars

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This was my favorite one so far. I still spent some time in the beginning trying to remember who these people were or if we met them in the previous books.

I loved in the closet Adam. He was up front about it and spent most of the book questioning his life and the reasons for doing so. Sky was fabulous. The octopus incident had me laughing out loud. He was funny and sexy, and when they got together, they sizzled.

Another good read that is keeping me hooked on the Balls books.

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Jul 04, 2012 Mary rated it 5 of 5 stars

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This book was as entertaining as the first 2. Great, sweet and fun characters. Love Adam with all his conflicts, but still a good person at heart. Sky falling for his arch enemy, but seeing pass that to the person his is. Would have like to see more of the ones from the first 2 books, but it still was a great read!

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Feb 17, 2013 Macky rated it 5 of 5 stars

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Out of the four books in this series " Beach Balls " felt like it had taken a step away from the series. I was expecting this to be Jerry's story but Tara introduced two new characters who have never been mentioned before so that's possibly why it felt different. Looking back now, to when I first read it, I remember thinking then, that it almost felt as if it could have been a standalone outside of the series. Needless to say I still really enjoyed it. Adam and Sky have great chemistry and the p...more

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Sep 16, 2012 Top 2 Bottom Reviews Interviews and More rated it 5 of 5 stars

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Beach Balls is the third book in the Balls to the Walls series and so far, it’s my favorite in the series. I loved the chemistry between the two heroes as well as their drive to do what it right. As usual, Ms. Lain did an excellent job at writing a funny, heartfelt, sexy read that lived in my heart and mind long after I finished the book.

Adam James has been going through the motions of life for a long time. As a successful lawyer, he is afraid to tell his p...more http://top2bottomreviews.wordpress.com/

Beach Balls is the third book in the Balls to the Walls series and so far, it’s my favorite in the series. I loved the chemistry between the two heroes as well as their drive to do what it right. As usual, Ms. Lain did an excellent job at writing a funny, heartfelt, sexy read that lived in my heart and mind long after I finished the book.

Adam James has been going through the motions of life for a long time. As a successful lawyer, he is afraid to tell his peers and others about his homosexuality and because of this, he’s had a run of one night stands. Once a month, Adam’s friend throws a party at his beach house and invites other gay men who are also in the same dilemma as Adam is in. Thinking he’s going to attend the party and hook up with a man or two, Adam finds himself feeling lonely, restless and wanting more in his life than what he has. As he takes a walk on the beach, a handsome man swims to shore. There is something about this man that really calls to Adam, so he finds himself approaching him to get to know him better.

Sky is an environmentalist who lives to study oceanography and to protect animal rights. As soon as he meets Adam offshore, Sky is immediately drawn to him and this confuses him. Sky is not used to feeling so strongly so quickly about other men, but there is something about Adam that intrigues him. When Adam asks Sky to attend a beach party that night, Sky surprises himself by saying yes, and that night as the two men get to know each other, Sky is startled by what he feels for Adam.

But, there is trouble on the horizon for the new lovers. When Sky and Adam find out they are working on opposites sides of a land development plan, this pulls them apart. Neither man is prepared for how much they miss one another and how important they’ve become to each other. Will they be able to work through their issues and find a way to be together?

Wow! The intense emotional connection between Adam and Sky kept me on edge throughout most of the book. I loved them together because they seemed to really bring out things in each other than no other person has ever done. Also, I couldn’t keep from hoping that they would somehow work through their differences and find a way to have a fulfilling and happy life with each other. I also appreciated how at first they seemed to be total opposites, but as the story continued they had a lot more in common than meets the eye. They really seemed to bring out each other’s strength and worked well together, once they both got on the same page about things. Each man’s determination to do what’s right and to be together really spoke to my heart and I truly hated to see the story come to an end.

One of the things I really appreciated about Beach Balls was the way the author really seems to understand and get to the heart of her characters. They really lived and breathed off of the written page and even though there were funny moments in the book, there were also sad and even bittersweet moments in the story as well. I’m looking forward to reading more books in the series and highly recommend this book and series for any person looking for an interesting, romantic and freshly written series.

Although Beach Balls is the third book in the Balls to the Wall series, it definitely could be read as a stand-alone title.

Here are the Balls to the Wall books in series order:

Volley Balls
Fire Balls
Beach Balls

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Aug 21, 2012 Sophia rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: contemporary-romance

This was the third book in a loosely tied series set in and around Laguna Beach, CA. It was an enjoyable read that was a bit different from the first two in the series though it continues with an opposite attract/one lover in the closet theme. The fun in the sun feel was enjoyable for a summer read (though it would work in the winter to remind one of the warmth of summer on the beach).

Adam is in the closet and a lawyer representing a big development group. Sky is an environmental expert who is c...more

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Jul 18, 2012 Buffy Kennedy rated it 4 of 5 stars

Sexy, sexy! The instant chemistry is blazing, and the initial anonymity adds a naughty feeling just as it adds mystery and suspense. I love the fun parts from Sky’s grand entrance on the beach to the teasing Adam gets from his friend. I was smiling and laughing right along with the characters.

When they meet again, discovering just who the other is, I was already so attached to “them” that my heart broke at the anger and distrust that evolved in that instant. Their struggle through the conflict,...more

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Jun 12, 2012 Lena Grey rated it 5 of 5 stars

It's good to have strong principles, but we need to reexamine them from time to time to make sure they are still relevant. Broad, sweeping generalizations such as all developers are crooks and all conservationists are reactionaries isn't healthy or fair. Adam and Sky of Tara Lain's book 'Beach Balls' are both very determined men with very specific attitudes toward certain things which seemingly put them on different sides of the fence. If they want to be together, they need to dig deep and decid...more It's good to have strong principles, but we need to reexamine them from time to time to make sure they are still relevant. Broad, sweeping generalizations such as all developers are crooks and all conservationists are reactionaries isn't healthy or fair. Adam and Sky of Tara Lain's book 'Beach Balls' are both very determined men with very specific attitudes toward certain things which seemingly put them on different sides of the fence. If they want to be together, they need to dig deep and decide what's important and what isn't.
Adam has trapped himself in the closet, in a life of lies which constantly keeps him from being himself. He's a handsome, charming guy and, deep down, under that tough, all-business exterior, he's sincere. People like Adam. The problem is they aren't seeing the real him. He is rich, but miserable and all the money in the world can't make up for the emptiness he feels inside. To put it from Adam's perspective: “He sat in a room he didn’t love filled with things he didn’t need that his money had bought. He had friends who weren’t really friends, and family that wasn’t really family, because they didn’t know him. He had a stake in a project he didn’t believe in that would bring him more money to buy more stuff he didn’t like.”
Adam immediately realizes that his relationship with Sky has something that goes beyond what he's ever experienced before and never knew was possible. Adam and Sky become mirrors reflecting the admirable and not so admirable traits of each of them. They're confronted with some uncomfortable facts that neither of them want to face. It shakes their worlds and causes them to question everything, to the point of wondering what they could change to be together.
Sky is his own person, he doesn't hide anything, but he has no diplomacy either. He believes in his causes which makes him admirable, but his personality borders on arrogant. His “I'm right and everyone else is wrong” attitude is obnoxious at times. He may be smart and an expert in his field, but he's not endearing. He's not comfortable with people, so he acts as if they don't matter. When Adam begins to realize that everything he has isn't worth anything without Sky, he confronts him with a desperate plea saying that he's willing to change if it will help them be together. Adam is willing to compromise, but Sky can't see beyond how things are at the moment. They both have a lot of growing to do. They need to reach the point that it isn't a compromise for either one of them, but a coming together on equal footing.
With each 'Balls' story, I fall totally in love with Tara's men and can't imagine her coming up with better ones, but then she introduces new guys and I fall in love all over again. Adam and Sky are wonderful, sexy, handsome, gay, and good at what they do. The character growth they undergo during the story is phenomenal and adds a lot of zing, along with the 'off the chart' hotness of their sexual encounters. It's not only a great story, but it's also a reminder to never forget who we really are, because true happiness lies in being true to oneself. I highly recommend this story to any of you romantics out there who, like me, love a good, sexy story, full of angst, which has a happy ending. Thanks, Tara, for another fabulous story.
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Jun 03, 2012 oceankitty rated it 5 of 5 stars

I hate insta-love. Except when it is such a large part of the story that I just have to swallow it down and go with it. Okay, so instant attraction does happen and sometimes it turns very swiftly into love. I can certainly forgive the insta-love in Beach Balls, because the scene depicting our two MC's first meeting is just so funny and sweet and absolutely perfect. What seems like initial reluctance soon turns out to be irresistible attraction, and from there on out there is no holding back. Not...more

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Jun 27, 2012 Francesca the Fierce ~Eyelet Ecstasy~ rated it 4 of 5 stars

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I can't say I loved this more than the second book in this series, but I really liked it. We have two guys that are pretty equally matched, both physically and mentally. But they are pretty far apart in everything in between.

Adam is a developer, lots of money, cares about appearances, drives a nice fancy car, ohh and pretends to be straight. Sky is a nature loving, rebreather diver, vegetarian, and openly gay.

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Aug 04, 2012 JoAnna rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: read-in-2012

Two guys meet and fight over an octopus, that isn't the start of a joke but how Sky and Adam meet in this great story by Tara Lain. Adam is an attorney for a development company and the men he works for are anti-gay. So Adam hides his sexuality during his everyday life but treats himself to parties with other gay men where they don't use their real names. Adam meets Sky while diving and fight over an octopus. During a town council meeting over a project Adam is working on an expert witness is ca...more

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Sep 17, 2012 Gabbi rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: angst, enemies-to-lovers, etopia-publishing, favorites, gay-romance, love-at-first-sight, opposites-attract, series, top2bottom-reviews

Beach Balls is the third book in the Balls to the Walls series and so far, it’s my favorite in the series. I loved the chemistry between the two heroes as well as their drive to do what it right. As usual, Ms. Lain did an excellent job at writing a funny, heartfelt, sexy read that lived in my heart and mind long after I finished the book.

Adam James has been going through the motions of life for a long time. As a successful lawyer, he is afraid to tell his peers and others about his homosexuality...more Beach Balls is the third book in the Balls to the Walls series and so far, it’s my favorite in the series. I loved the chemistry between the two heroes as well as their drive to do what it right. As usual, Ms. Lain did an excellent job at writing a funny, heartfelt, sexy read that lived in my heart and mind long after I finished the book.

Adam James has been going through the motions of life for a long time. As a successful lawyer, he is afraid to tell his peers and others about his homosexuality and because of this, he’s had a run of one night stands. Once a month, Adam’s friend throws a party at his beach house and invites other gay men who are also in the same dilemma as Adam is in. Thinking he’s going to attend the party and hook up with a man or two, Adam finds himself feeling lonely, restless and wanting more in his life than what he has. As he takes a walk on the beach, a handsome man swims to shore. There is something about this man that really calls to Adam, so he finds himself approaching him to get to know him better.

Sky is an environmentalist who lives to study oceanography and to protect animal rights. As soon as he meets Adam offshore, Sky is immediately drawn to him and this confuses him. Sky is not used to feeling so strongly so quickly about other men, but there is something about Adam that intrigues him. When Adam asks Sky to attend a beach party that night, Sky surprises himself by saying yes, and that night as the two men get to know each other, Sky is startled by what he feels for Adam.

But, there is trouble on the horizon for the new lovers. When Sky and Adam find out they are working on opposites sides of a land development plan, this pulls them apart. Neither man is prepared for how much they miss one another and how important they’ve become to each other. Will they be able to work through their issues and find a way to be together?

Wow! The intense emotional connection between Adam and Sky kept me on edge throughout most of the book. I loved them together because they seemed to really bring out things in each other than no other person has ever done. Also, I couldn’t keep from hoping that they would somehow work through their differences and find a way to have a fulfilling and happy life with each other. I also appreciated how at first they seemed to be total opposites, but as the story continued they had a lot more in common than meets the eye. They really seemed to bring out each other’s strength and worked well together, once they both got on the same page about things. Each man’s determination to do what’s right and to be together really spoke to my heart and I truly hated to see the story come to an end.

One of the things I really appreciated about Beach Balls was the way the author really seems to understand and get to the heart of her characters. They really lived and breathed off of the written page and even though there were funny moments in the book, there were also sad and even bittersweet moments in the story as well. I’m looking forward to reading more books in the series and highly recommend this book and series for any person looking for an interesting, romantic and freshly written series.

Although Beach Balls is the third book in the Balls to the Wall series, it definitely could be read as a stand-alone title.

Here are the Balls to the Wall books in series order:

Volley Balls
Fire Balls
Beach Balls(less)

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Jan 18, 2013 Penumbra rated it 4 of 5 stars

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Adam James, alias ‘James Adamson,’ is deeply in the closet. He’s in so deep that he takes weekend vacations at his friend Carly’s where other in the closet businessmen go to have sex without worrying about anyone knowing their true names. On one of Adam’s vacations to Carly’s as ‘James,’ Adam meets an underwater diver named Sky. So taken by Sky, Adam invites him back to Carly’s place for cocktails that evening and that is followed by some of the hottest sex Adam has ever had. Adam can’t explain...more
Adam James, alias ‘James Adamson,’ is deeply in the closet. He’s in so deep that he takes weekend vacations at his friend Carly’s where other in the closet businessmen go to have sex without worrying about anyone knowing their true names. On one of Adam’s vacations to Carly’s as ‘James,’ Adam meets an underwater diver named Sky. So taken by Sky, Adam invites him back to Carly’s place for cocktails that evening and that is followed by some of the hottest sex Adam has ever had. Adam can’t explain the sudden change he feels when Sky leaves the next morning. Life is brighter and Adam even starts to contemplate coming out. Adam is working as the lead attorney for WMA Development on a very expensive remediation beach project and he’ll be making a presentation in front of the town council and the citizens. The opposition has an ace up their sleeve and his name is Dr. Sky Sea Mickeljohn, Adam’s Sky. Adam is in total shock and emotionally wrecked. He wants to meet with Sky and discuss a compromise, but Sky has closed his heart to any emotions accept hate and anger toward Adam. All Sky sees is a developer, not the kind, friendly man he had the most amazing sex and connection with over the weekend.

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I really liked how the author wrote Adam’s character. I could easily feel his desire and passion for Sky and his anguish over their separation. However Sky, was more difficult to get to know. His voice seemed withdrawn and a bit flat, but this could be part of the author’s plan to convey the type of temperament that Sky had, guarded and walled-off. I would have expected Adam’s character’s personality to be the rigid, hard-nosed developer and Sky the kind-hearted environmentalist. Instead the author switched the personalities around. We have Adam as the likeable character who is willing to look at things from all angles and make compromises. He’s the one that reaches out to Sky on numerous occasions to try and make their relationship work. Then there is Sky, the environmentalist who gets along better with fish than with people and is fueled by his hatred of developers.

Some of the characters from Fire Balls show up in this book as friends of Sky. There is Jerry, the firefighter and surfer, Roman, aka Rodney the artist and his partner Hunter, who’d been a fireman but was now a teacher. I enjoyed seeing the character tie in from the other book and look forward to them appearing again in the other books in the Balls to the Wall series.

There was one image that really was difficult for me to believe. That was the fact that both Adam’s and Sky’s cocks were rather… huge. In fact it was conveyed that they were more than huge. I believe Adam’s was eight inches long and Sky’s even longer. I realize this story is fiction, but their cock size made me laugh, it was just too much. Even if their cocks are big, it’d be nice if they were in the realistic large size range. The sex was hot and steamy, especially the underwater and kayak encounters.

I’ve never been scuba diving, but the author did a great job of conveying what it would be like underwater and the unique equipment that Sky used like the rebreathers.

Beach Balls was easy to read and I found it quite enjoyable. Adam was my favorite character with his willingness to compromise and his caring. Jerry was my second favorite character. Sky’s personality was rather bland except toward the very end. I had to suspend my belief on the size of Adam’s and Sky’s ‘equipment’ because it was just too funny. The sex was hot and passionate. I’d read this book again and give it 4 stars

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Mar 09, 2013 Suzan rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Romance readers

Another excellent addition to the series, it departed from the usual circle a little though Jerry and Rodney still made an appearance. I loved Adam and Sky, they were more different then other couples in the series but they worked it out in the end and came to a compromise. They were really good for each other and I was so happy that they got together in the end. I loved the ending where he started working things out with his parents as well as they (namely they're reaction when he came out at 1...more

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Jan 23, 2013 DaisyGirl rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: genre-romance, i-own, m-m, other-steamy, romance-contemp

3.0 Stars

Adam James is way in the closet and determined to stay there since coming out would threaten everything he’s worked for as the lead attorney for WMA Development. Adam stands to earn a cool million if he can push a big land remediation project through the City Council. On an early morning scuba dive, Adam meets a tall, lean rebreather diver named Sky who changes his life. For the first time, Adam is thinking long term and thinking of coming out. Sadly, Adam’s dreams are shattered when he...more

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Jul 04, 2012 Mandy*reads obsessively* rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: series-sequels, ebook-owned, m-m, gfy-ofy, sweet

Sweet easy story, I read it at the beach, but alas no balls, none in the story or at the beach! *sigh*
It was cute, nothing deep or really exciting, like Candice I was missing a little something 'special'.
But I enjoyed it and sort of wished Sky had grovled a bit, I didn't see Adam as all at fault in this one, and thought Sky was a bit 'holier-than -thou', but he understood better at the end!
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Dec 29, 2012 Thomaidha Papa rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Oh my, what a book, definitely my favorite of the Ball’s series.
Adam is an excellent character, very well written and I loved him. He is a lawyer working for a developer company and while he loves his job he is somehow an honest lawyer. Heh, I laughed at that in the beginning, but I soon saw how brilliant a character he was. His current case has him somehow in the blind. Not everything is revealed to him and that unnerves Adam. While his work has nearly...more 4.5
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Oh my, what a book, definitely my favorite of the Ball’s series.
Adam is an excellent character, very well written and I loved him. He is a lawyer working for a developer company and while he loves his job he is somehow an honest lawyer. Heh, I laughed at that in the beginning, but I soon saw how brilliant a character he was. His current case has him somehow in the blind. Not everything is revealed to him and that unnerves Adam. While his work has nearly drained him he finds time to go at a once-a-month weekend at a friend’s villa. You see Adam is gay, deeply in the closet and he has chosen it so in order to have the career that he dreamed. And these weekends are the only way he can get in touch with other men. Men like him that want to fill their need in absolute discretion.
While the party goes very well for Adam he’s shocked and surprised to get hooked with a stranger he met under the sea. And boy, Sky is extremely sexy and addictive. They instantly fell in an unexpected intimacy, the intensity they feel for each other leaving Adam breathless and in need to see Sky more and more and more… Just when everything feels to be heading toward a mind-blowing relationship with Adam more happy and excited he’s ever felt in his life, everything turns upside-down, his big money case flying of the window but the most painful thing of all, Sky is slipping right of his fingers.
Sky is none other than Dr. Sky Sea Mickeljohn, openly gay, lover of world peace and most of all, the environment. When he hears Adam on the developer’s side in the city-council, Sky loses it. He’s mad, mad at Adam for being a hated developer, mad at himself for falling for him, but there is no way he’s going to succumb and allow that amazing thing between them continue. No, Sky can’t love someone that stands against his biggest love of all, Earth. He will crush that developer’s case, delete him out of his mind, and continue his life just like before. It’s no big deal right?
This is such a great story. Both characters are amazing, gorgeous, sexy and lovable as hell. And oddly this is the one story in the series that is so realistically written. I loved it, Adam’s progress with his life was fantastic to read and Sky’s coming down to earth, finding it in his to actually socialize and attach himself with another human being was both beautiful and intense. And of course being written by Ms. Lane the characters did not fail being gorgeous and sexy, and their encounters scorching hot.
As I said above, this is my favorite book of them all; definitely recommended.
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Oct 05, 2012 Nikyta rated it 4 of 5 stars

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I really enjoyed this one. It was my first book by Ms. Lain and while it is third in a series, I didn't read the first two because I heard it wasn't necessary.

I really liked how Adam and Sky meet and have an instant, intense connection only to find out later on that they are on opposite sides of a major environmental project. It was sweet how they connected and how Adam was very open about being in the closet and how Sky accepted that. I LOVED how they met. It was so cute how Sky refers to Adam...more

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Jul 06, 2012 Sadonna rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: mm, pdf, contemporary

I like this story just as much as the previous story in this series, Fire Balls. I didn't think I'd like a character as much as I liked Rodney, but I really liked Sky and Adam in this one. First, I absolutely loved the blurb about Adam being so far in the closet that he could find Narnia. Right away I knew I would like this tale about a closeted lawyer and the environmental expert who meet under mysterious circumstances and really like each other only to find out they are on the opposite sides o...more

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Apr 04, 2013 Barb ~rede-2-read~ rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: challenge, favorites, part-of-a-series, read-2013, to-re-read

This was a very enjoyable addition to the Balls to the Wall series by Tara Lain. Adam, a corporate development lawyer is pitted against Sky, an environmentalist when the polluted land Adam's company wants to develop comes up for a city council vote. These two hunks had gotten together for a night of amazing sex and wanted to get together again, unitl they came face to face in the courtroom. They had not known any details about the other before that confrontation.

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Jun 01, 2012 Candice rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: cute, light-easy, enjoyable

3.5 stars

This book was a light and easy read. I liked both Adam and Sky and thought the story on how they met with the octopus was kinda cute. Unfortunately there just seemed to be something missing with the way the storyline was set up. I felt that as the reader I was given just enough information to move the story along, but never enough to feel connected with what was happening or with the characters completely. Still it was an enjoyable read.

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Jun 16, 2012 Diane rated it 5 of 5 stars

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I loved this book! I think this is my favorite in the series (well, at least for now!), in part because it is more about overcoming your own perceived bias than those that can be imposed on you by society, although there is that too! But mostly, it's about Sky and Adam deciding if they can look beyond their own fear and judgement to take a chance on being more, and maybe finding love.

Very hot scenes of course, but I really enjoyed the quiet moments - for the leads on their time together are defi...more

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Jun 02, 2012 Christy Duke rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: on-my-kindle, m-m, reviewed

The 3rd book in Tara Lain's amazing Balls to the Wall series, Beach Balls has more than lived up to the first two books in terms of fabulous story-telling.
Adam James is a CA developer. Sky Sea Mickeljohn is an environmentalist. Hmmm - need I say more?
The sparks and love that fly between the two makes for a romantic and VERY sexy story. I thoroughly enjoyed this installment and am anxious for the next.

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Jun 03, 2012 Cassandra Carr rated it 5 of 5 stars

Another winner in the "Balls to the Wall" line from Tara Lain. Ms. Lain writes believable gay characters with real-world problems, but doesn't skimp on the heat factor either. And I love how we see characters from other books in the series popping up again. If you like m/m romance that pulls at the heartstrings but still manages to be hot, give Ms. Lain a try!

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Sep 11, 2012 Andrea rated it 3 of 5 stars

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I was worried when I first started reading because Beach Balls appeared to be a drawn out version of porn without plot. There is a lot of sex in the beginning and middle of the book. It was too much for me and I considered not reading any farther. All that descriptive sex wasn't doing much to advance the story so I skimmed over most of it trying to get to something meaningful. I eventually found it and once I got into the meat of the story it was good.

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Jun 06, 2012 Embry Carlysle rated it 4 of 5 stars

I Loved this book....only thing I wanted was more time with the boys from the other two books..........but other than that this book was really, really good. The way Tara brought her main character out of the closet was done in a sensitive and believable manner.........Great job Ms. Lain ;)

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Aug 01, 2012 Plainbrownwrapper rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: mm, read-again-maybe

I'm not quite sure why I enjoy these "Balls" books, but I do. Perhaps it's because of the strongly individual characters -- no cookie cutouts here. The books are too short to really develop everything to its full potential, but they are entertaining nonetheless.

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May 31, 2012 Vio rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: cute-mc-s, likeable, recommended, wanted-more

3.5 stars
Not sure how to review Beach Balls it didn't hit every button for me some of it was enjoyable and funny but there was a missing element in the relationship between Adam and Sky it wasn't as sexy or as dreamy as I would have liked. That sizzling attraction that made Fire Balls so good was not there or I just didn't feel it. Still it was a nice light easy read with a few cute moments.

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Jun 03, 2012 Chris rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2012, gay, ebook, romance, done

2.5 stars. Ok m/m romance about a closeted lawyer who heads to a friend's beach house on weekends to hook up with anonymous guys... and then while diving, he meets someone he doesn't want to be anonymous with.

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Jul 10, 2012 Jess rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: hawtness, slow-build-up, shmexy

My favourite of the series, this story is longer which allows for more character development. I felt more invested in the two MCs and I loved how opposite they were.

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Aug 27, 2012 Lori K rated it 4 of 5 stars

3.5

I liked the environmental details and the yoga bit made me remember that I am a lazy butt and I got up and exercised.

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Tara Lain never met a beautiful boy she didn’t love – at least on paper. A writer of erotic romance, mostly ménage and male/male, Tara loves all her characters, but especially her handsome heroes. A lifelong writer of serious non-fiction, Tara only fell in love with EROM in 2009 and, through perseverance and lots of workshops, had the first novel she ever wrote accepted for publication in 2010. Sh...more

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