This book serves as a prequel to the next book “The Return”. It adds humanity to the somewhat directorial love scenes.

His voice is rich and melts into the ear like a warm caress.

He captured the Texas accent as well as the New York, upper-east-side accent. What about Charlie David’s performance did you like? I like to hear from major players in stories, thats just MY opinion, but thats the only reason, its a single person point of view. The only reason I'm not giving it 5 stars is because its written entirely from Ben's point of view and I would LOVED to have heard from Travis too. Each character is easily defined, making mutli person conversations easy to listen to without losing who is who. His Texas tone he uses for Travis and the other locals, is just how I imagine Texans to sounds, drawing out all the words. His (American) accent is soft, and subtle, making for easy listening.

Charlie David narrates this tale, and he does an outstanding job. Its not really an epilogue, I just thought it would have ended a little earlier. Also, it didnt end where I thought it would, that really surprised me, the added extrabits. I particularly loved how everything crept up on them both, then BOOM it all went belly up THEN finally Ben came to his senses. I also loved that with the New York boyfriend, David, and with Travis, Ben is completely different in the bedroom. The way Ben deals with Quentin, and Jason, superbly done, I doubt even a parent could deal with things like that thrown at them all at once, let alone a big brother who hasnt seen his younger brothers but once or twice last couple of years. Ben has some difficult decisions to make, and I loved that he makes sure that all FOUR of them make those decisions, and the boys are given all their options. Travis is a lovely young man, who knows more about Ben's brothers than Ben does. I loved this story! Ben is a self absorbed young litigator, and he really has a shock to the system having to deal with the aftermath of his parents death. Ben just needs to see that New York isnt the be all and end all. Travis provides much needed support for Ben, and his brothers, but something else too. Forced to leave New York and move to Austin, Texas, Ben feels overwhelmed by it all and finds a friend in Travis Atwood, a neighbour who his parents had taken under their wing before their death. **AUDIO REVIEW** Ben Walsh is faced with bringing up his three younger brothers after the death of their parents in a car crash.

The nothingness of ben by brad boney