This is not the sort of dilemma typical young heterosexual couples ever have to go through. Always second-guessing and wondering if you let ‘the one’ get away simply because you (or they) weren’t brave enough to admit to that love. Their budding romance is soon tested by spreading rumors, the danger increasing along with their passion for each other until it pushes them to the breaking point. In other words, their relationship didn’t die of natural causes, and as a result both men spend the next twelve years wondering “what if?” It’s the sort of pondering that could send a person insane. After a not-so-accidental collision with Tim, an attractive athlete and artist, Ben is convinced that he's met his soulmate. their affair came to an abrupt and painful end because Tim was unwilling to admit his feelings for Ben and be open about his sexuality. Ben and Tim’s high school romance didn’t get to run its course. Something Like Summer The gay romance novel that inspired a movie The hot Texas nights were lonely for Ben before his heart began beating to the rhythm of. But it’s different for gay teenagers, Ben and Tim especially. Usually when a boy and girl embark on first love in high school the romance has an expiration date – it will run its course and end through nobody’s fault but moving away for college or simply outgrowing each other.
But their story is vastly different from the typical heterosexual tale of first love. 'With Something Like Summer, Jay Bell has created a space where love and romance grief, understanding and change all resonate with the reader,whether gay or straight, much in the same way Annie Proulx did in Brokeback Mountain. Tim and Ben are each other’s high school sweethearts.
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