The Quirky Vet
Vet Shop Boys Down Under, Book 2
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The Quirky Vet
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Narrated by:
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Rupert Channing
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By:
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Casey Cox
About this listen
Muir
Fitz and I have done some wild things, but waking up as newlyweds? Total disaster. It threatens to expose the one secret I've kept buried for years, the only secret I've ever kept from my best friend—that despite us both being straight, I think I'm in love with him.
When Gramps needs me to stay married to lock in my inheritance, I'm terrified my feelings for Fitz could destroy everything we have.
Fitz
To the world, I'm the glitter-bearded, onesie-loving quirky vet. Sure, that's part of who I am, but it's not the whole picture. Only one person truly knows me—Muir. When he tells me he needs us to stay married so he can keep his grandfather's house, it's a no-brainer. Of course I'll help him out.
The real question is: why does staying married to my best friend feel so right?
Contains mature themes.
©2024 Casey Cox (P)2025 Tantor MediaListeners also enjoyed...
Interestingly, they decide not to rush to get a divorce/annulment - especially as Muir's grandfather has a clause in his will that means he can inherit his house without his estranged mother being able to contest it. (I have no idea if that's real, but it's actually not a massive plot-point and seems just thrown in at random, as though it IS going to be major... and then isn't.)
The story is mostly about their coming to terms with their changing feelings for one another / realising that the feelings they've always had for one another denote more than friendship, and about their accepting their new reality as a queer couple. Neither of them freaks out, their friends are all "oh, you guys always acted like an old married couple anyway", gramps is delirious with joy and the people of the small outback town of Scuttlebutt are all supportive. Which is exactly the way life should be, but sometimes isn't.
Rupert Channing delivers a good performance, although sometimes I was hard pressed to work out whose PoV I was in (the story is told in alternating PoV chapters) because his voices for Fitz and Muir were so similar, and I often had to rely on dialogue tags to work out who was speaking in their scenes together. But his delivery of the humour and emotions in the story is good, and he clearly differentiates between the secondary characters - it's a good performance, but I'd have liked there to have been more distinctive voices for the leads.
If you're up for a low-conflict story in which the leads communicate well, and are usually on the same page about their relationship (they've known each other for twenty years and have been practically in each other's pockets for most of that time, so you'd expect them to know each other well!), set somewhere other than the US, then The Quirky Vet might be right up your alley. It's funny and warm, but I have to admit that I was kinda bored on and off.
Cute, but a bit dull
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