Be Dazzled, Ryan La Sala
Be Dazzled, Ryan La Sala
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Be Dazzled

Author: Ryan La Sala

Narrator: Pete Cross

Unabridged: 8 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/15/2021


Synopsis

Raffy has a passion for bedazzling. Not just bedazzling, but sewing, stitching, draping, pattern making-for creation. He's always chosen his art over everything-and everyone-else and is determined to make his mark at this year's biggest cosplay competition. If he can wow there, it could lead to sponsorship, then art school, and finally earning real respect for his work. There's only one small problem...Raffy's ex-boyfriend, Luca, is his main competition. Raffy tried to make it work with Luca. They almost made the perfect team last year after serendipitously meeting in the rhinestone aisle at the local craft store-or at least Raffy thought they did. But Luca's insecurities and Raffy's insistence on crafting perfection caused their relationship to crash and burn. Now, Raffy is after the perfect comeback, one that Luca can't ruin. But when Raffy is forced to partner with Luca on his most ambitious build yet, he'll have to juggle unresolved feelings for the boy who broke his heart, and his own intense self-doubt, to get everything he's ever wanted: choosing his art, his way.

About Ryan La Sala

Ryan La Sala grew up in Connecticut, but only physically. Mentally, he spent most of his childhood in the worlds of Sailor Moon and Xena: Warrior Princess, which perhaps explains all the twirling. He studied anthropology and neuroscience at Northeastern University before becoming a project manager specialized in digital tools. He technically lives in New York City, but has actually transcended material reality and only takes up a human shell for special occasions, like brunch, and to watch anime.

About Pete Cross

Pete Cross is an award-winning audiobook narrator and engineer who earned his MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. A multiple Earphones Awards winner and Audie finalist, he was nominated for a SOVAS award for his narration of Moby Dick and received the 2022 Audie Award for Ryan La Sala’s Be Dazzled and the 2023 Odyssey Award for Ryan La Sala’s The Honeys.


Reviews

"Some kids do drugs. Some kids start fires. I embroider in the dead of night, for the attention of strangers." Be Dazzled is adorable, soul warming , plain old fun, relatable, down to earth, a fun peak into a different world with right amount of geekiness. Be dazzled alternates between two timelin......more

Goodreads review by Kai

Be Dazzled is an outrageously gay romance novel with an exorbitant dash of humour that goes unprecedented in artistic thottery and wit. Ryan La Sala has created a utopia for the crafty, the geeky and those suffering through an unrequited crush on the supposedly straight soccer jock . A queer triumph......more

Goodreads review by Ryan

5 stars. I tried really hard and I think I did a good job.......more

This book is a total delight.......more