Reviewer's Rating:
5
5.0Overall score
A great beginning to a new series!
Changing Lines By RJ Scott
and V.L. Locey
Genre: Contemporary, Sports Romance, Hockey, GLBTQ, M/M
Released: July 12, 2017
Publisher: Love Lane Books Ltd.
Cover Design: Meredith Russell
Series: Harrisburg Railers, Book 1
Can Tennant show Jared that age is just a number, and that love is all that matters?
The Rowe Brothers are famous hockey hotshots, but as the youngest of the trio, Tennant has always had to play against his brothers’ reputations. To get out of their shadows, and against their advice, he accepts a trade to the Harrisburg Railers, where he runs into Jared Madsen. Mads is an old family friend and his brother’s one-time teammate. Mads is Tennant’s new coach. And Mads is the sexiest thing he’s ever laid eyes on.
Jared Madsen’s hockey career was cut short by a fault in his heart, but coaching keeps him close to the game. When Ten is traded to the team, his carefully organized world is thrown into chaos. Nine years his junior and his best friend’s brother, he knows Ten is strictly off-limits, but as soon as he sees Ten’s moves, on and off the ice, he knows that his heart could get him into trouble again.
Reviewed by ButtonsMom2003
A great beginning to a new series!
I’ve read a lot of books by RJ Scott but this is the first one for me by V.L. Locey. Just what I need, another great author to follow – lol.
Age gap stories are not something I look for, but if a favorite author writes one I will certainly read it. Actually, Tennant (Ten) and Jared (Mads) are only 9 years apart; to me this isn’t really much of an age gap given that both MCs are over 21. One of the tropes I do love though, is falling for a sibling’s best friend; so, even if I didn’t already love RJ Scott’s work, this is a story I would totally go for. Jared is the best friend of Tennant’s oldest brother.
Tennant is the youngest of three brothers – all of them professional hockey players. He loves his brothers but he also has felt a bit stifled because of always being compared to them. He accepts a trade to an expansion team and his oldest brother thinks it’s a mistake.
Jared’s a coach on Tennant’s new team and he hasn’t seen Ten in years. The two of them quickly realize their attraction for each other but Ten isn’t out and their relationship could jeopardize his career.
This story is told from alternating points of view by Jared and Tennant; it was full of feels for me. Jared has a 17-year-old son and seeing him do all he can to protect him touched my heart. Ten has to deal with coming out to his team and his family and how all of that went down moved me to tears. I won’t tell you if they were happy or sad tears, you’ll have to read the story to find out for yourself.
Changing Lines is also full of hockey jargon and it was kind of a weird thing for me…. I’m not a fan of any sports but hockey would definitely be a one that I know next to nothing about. But, none of that meant a thing to me when I read this story. To me the jargon was secondary to the story and the fact that I didn’t totally understand all of it didn’t make a bit of difference. I’m sure I’ll learn and understand a lot more about hockey before this series ends.
I loved the epilogue for Jared and Ten’s story and the teaser for book 2 that followed. I just know that Railers Hockey is going to be a great series.
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RJ Scott is the bestselling author of over one hundred romance books. She writes emotional stories of complicated characters, cowboys, millionaire, princes, and the partners who get mixed up in their lives. RJ is known for writing books that always end with a happy ever after. She lives just outside London and spends every waking minute she isn’t with family either reading or writing.
The last time she had a week’s break from writing she didn’t like it one little bit, and she has yet to meet a bottle of wine she couldn’t defeat.
V.L. Locey loves worn jeans, yoga, belly laughs, walking, reading and writing lusty tales, Greek mythology, the New York Rangers, comic books, and coffee. (Not necessarily in that order.) She shares her life with her husband, her daughter, one dog, two cats, a flock of assorted domestic fowl, and two Jersey steers.
When not writing spicy romances, she enjoys spending her day with her menagerie in the rolling hills of Pennsylvania with a cup of fresh java in hand. She can also be found online on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and GoodReads.
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Thank you so much for the lovely review! <3
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