Recent Release Review: Slow Dances Under an Orange Moon by V.L. Locey

11 March of 2020 by ButtonsMom2003

Reviewer's Rating: 5

5.0Overall score

Witty, snarky, romantic; I loved it!

Slow Dances Under an Orange Moon By V.L. Locey

Genre: Contemporary Romance, GLBTQ, MM

Released: February 19, 2020

Publisher: Self-Published

Series: Colors of Love, Book 4

Length: 222 pages

Cover Design: Designs By Sloan

Synopsis

Can the love they once shared be saved or has the pain of the past eclipsed it?

It’s been twenty years since Kye McLeod left the quaint little mountain town of Spruce Lake, Maine to play professional hockey. He’s had his share of ups and downs, but his choice to hit the big city and not look back has paid off handsomely. The future hall-of-famer is now ready to retire and come out of that dark closet he’s been sequestered in since his first secretive kiss with Davy Aguirre in high school. Now that he’s heading home to keep an eye on his feisty grandfather, there might be the chance to rekindle the flame between him and Davy.

Kye quickly learns that the boy he left behind isn’t the man he’s now knocking heads with. He always imagined grown-up Davy—who now insists on being called David—would be beyond the pain that Kye’s youthful blunder caused him, but now he’s not so sure. When the wildlife conservation officer squares off with the ex-hockey captain their connection is incendiary, and there are more than just fireworks. However, winning back the man he walked away from may not be as easy as he thought…

Review

Reviewed by ButtonsMom2003

Witty, snarky, romantic; I loved it!

V.L. Locey has done it again. She’s written a book that is wonderfully snarky and witty and totally captivated me. Second chance stories are one of my favorite romance tropes so I was pretty sure that I would love this one just from reading the blurb; I wasn’t wrong. 😊

Kye left his home in Maine to pursue his dream of playing professional hockey. When he left, he didn’t even say goodbye to his best friend and lover, Davy. When Kye returns home after 20 years away, he wants to pick things back up with Davy. Davy doesn’t want to have his heart broken all over again and he doesn’t trust that Kye is really back home to stay.

I really did love this story but I also have to say that I thought Kye was an idiot and I didn’t blame Davy for not wanting to trust him. But this is a romance, and it’s fiction, so I can forgive idiots a little more easily than I might in real life. 😊 Also, Kye does a pretty good job of groveling and showing remorse for what happened in the past.

Kye also needed to make amends with his grandfather, Dunny, and I think he did a pretty good job of that. Dunny has dementia issues and it takes a special person to be able to care for someone with this horrible illness.

The Colors of Love series is one of my favorites by V.L. Locey and I’m looking forward to more books in this series.

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About Author

V.L. Locey

USA Today Bestselling Author V.L. Locey – Penning LGBT hockey romance that skates into sinful pleasures.

V.L. Locey loves worn jeans, yoga, belly laughs, walking, reading and writing lusty tales, Greek mythology, Torchwood and Dr. Who, 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 pair of geese, far too many chickens, and two 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 one hand and a steamy romance novel in the other.

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