REVIEWED by Jen B.

TITLE: Slow Dances Under An Orange Moon

SERIES: Colors of Love

AUTHOR: V.L. Locey

PUBLISHER: V.L. Locey

LENGTH: 222 Pages

RELEASE DATE: February 19, 2020

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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:

This is one of those series that just delivers a solid story every time. This one only has a hint of hockey in it in that Ky McLeod is freshly retired from the NHL and has returned home (20 years later) to the town he left as a teen. While he is returning to take care of his grandfather, his main objective is to rekindle the relationship he had with his teenage love, David (aka Davy) whom he left rather coldly when he got the chance to escape the small town and play hockey.

Ky has never forgotten about Davy, but his fear of losing hockey should he come out kept him away. Now that he has retired however, all bets are off. But, Davy isn’t so quick to forgive and clearly hasn’t forgotten. He makes Ky prove his intentions of returning home needing to see him putting down some actual roots and get his head on straight before he will take the plunge again. One thing that hasn’t changed is the chemistry they shared – although they are both much more experienced now than when they were exploring teens.

Throw in a cantankerous grandfather, a cranky goose and some unsavory homophobic incidents, and you have an interesting but very enjoyable story to add to your collection. Ms. Locey has the writing down to a science, so the reading is smooth and the pacing is on-point. She doesn’t rehash things over and over, but, at the same time, she doesn’t make things too easy for the characters either. Ky is funny and quirky, bound and determined, and you knew it was only a matter of time before Davy would give in. As with the previous installments, I’m already looking forward to seeing what’s next.

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