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Length: 5hrs 10mins
Narrated By: Sean Crisden
Cover Design: Meredith Russell
Blurb
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 on which he’s ever laid eyes.
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 his heart could get him into trouble again.
Review
First I’m gonna start off by saying I care nothing for Hockey in RL, and this book didn’t change that. My first time reading R.J Scott with writing partner V.L Locey.
The Story: 3.5 Pants Off
Tennant Rowe is
a superstar in the making and when he decides on an up and coming team a
few eyebrows were raised. Of course he could have gone with superstar
teams most likely to win the Stanley Cup but Ten decides on the Railers
with big disapproval from his family, but Ten is a big
boy and he’s making his own decisions. While the Raiders aren’t cloaked
in history it’s the team he wants to join and the upside is that the
team has Jared Madsen. An old family friend and someone Ten is looking
to get up close and personal with. Yeh, they have history and Mads is a
bit older but age ain’t nothing but a number after-all.
Downside,
you can’t be gay in hockey. So when Ten finds himself telling his
coaches that he’s gay he’s expecting the worst but what it gets him is a
secret relationship with Mads and
things are almost perfect. All that’s left is coming out to his family
and maybe one day even publicly. Ten’s got hockey, love, and Mads, what
more could he even want?!
First, things moved pretty fast
from the get go. Ten is the new to the team and next things he’s
sharing he’s gay, and professing his attraction to Mads. Their
relationship moves pretty fast, and most of their loving happens off
page so I sort of felt like I was filling things in. The hockey was too much of the story, and the romance felt like a backdrop but again I have no particular feelings for hockey. Ten spent most of his time dwelling on his brothers, and everyone else on the fact that he plays for a unknown team.
Throw
in some conflict involving Mads and that pretty much made the entirety
of the story. I was a bit more interested in a few side characters
actually, so the rest of the series is peaking my interest.
Overall,
an alright read. I can’t call it sexy or amazing but I can say I found
it sweet. I enjoyed Ten a lot more than I did Mads. There’s still so
much of the story that I feel needs to be explored, and I wasn’t a fan
of how it ended. Changing Lines wasn’t horrible but I fear that it’s
quite easily forgettable for me.
The Narration: 4 Pants Off
Sean Crisden
did an amazing job bringing the characters to life. I’m in love with
his take on Tennant, listening to his voice was far more enjoyable than
the story and because of his narration I enjoyed it more. I’m positive
if I’d read Changing Lines instead of listening I wouldn’t have liked it
at all.
Sean was dramatic where he needed to be and sweet in others, definitely enjoyed that. Also brought a new voice to each character which strongly made them individuals. Sean Criden does an amazing job with whatever story you give him.
Overall Rating: 3.5 Pants Off
RJ’s goal is to write stories with a heart of romance, a troubled road to reach happiness, and most importantly, that hint of a happily ever after.
RJ is the author of the over one hundred novels and discovered romance in books at a very young age. She realized that if there wasn’t romance on the page, she could create it in her head, and is a lifelong writer.
She lives and works out of her home in the beautiful English countryside, spends her spare time reading, watching films, and enjoying time with her family.
The last time she had a week’s break from writing she didn’t like it one little bit and has yet to meet a bottle of wine she couldn’t defeat.
She’s always thrilled to hear from readers, bloggers and other writers. Please contact via the following links below:
Email RJ (rj@rjscott.co.uk)
RJ is the author of the over one hundred novels and discovered romance in books at a very young age. She realized that if there wasn’t romance on the page, she could create it in her head, and is a lifelong writer.
She lives and works out of her home in the beautiful English countryside, spends her spare time reading, watching films, and enjoying time with her family.
The last time she had a week’s break from writing she didn’t like it one little bit and has yet to meet a bottle of wine she couldn’t defeat.
She’s always thrilled to hear from readers, bloggers and other writers. Please contact via the following links below:
Email RJ (rj@rjscott.co.uk)
V.L. Locey loves worn jeans, yoga, belly laughs, Dr. Who, Torchwood, 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, two Jersey steers and a flock of assorted domestic fowl.
When not writing lusty tales, she can be found enjoying her day with her menagerie in the rolling hills of Pennsylvania with a cup of fresh java in hand.
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