REVIEWED by Jen B.
TITLE: Draw
SERIES: Overtime
AUTHOR: V.L. Locey
PUBLISHER: V.L. Locey
LENGTH: 198 Pages
RELEASE DATE: September 16, 2020
BLURB:
They say first loves never last. Jackie Blue Kalinski was about to show them—whoever they are—that the word never is not in his vocabulary.
From the time Jack Kalinski was a preschooler he had a good sense of who he was and where he wanted to go in life. His childhood was spent drawing beautiful dresses for pretty people, male and female alike. Growing up with two dads who played hockey wasn’t exactly conducive to late night talks about tulle or tailor’s chalk, but he never let that stop his dreams of becoming a fashion designer or expressing the genderqueer heart that beat in his chest. His family’s love and support helped him through some painful losses that shaped him into the strong, vivacious, and charismatic college student he is today. Life hasn’t been a smooth ride, but Jack has persevered and is about to take the fashion world by storm.
Little does he suspect that his tidy life is about to be scorched by a chance meeting with one of the men playing hockey on the gay team his father coaches. Martin McKittrick not only catches Jack’s eye, but the much older man wins his heart. The passionate affair with the captain of the Marine Unit of the BFD burns red hot until the new couple run into a few snags that might dampen the inferno: Jack’s ascent into the fashion world, Martin’s job and the inherent dangers that come with it, and the fact that the well-kept secret romance has just been exposed to the world in a rather big way.
REVIEW:
Unfortunately, this was my least favorite story of this series. This story had a few issues for me. Some that carried over and some new. Jackie is the genderfluid son of Vic and Dan, the hockey players we loved from the earlier books. Jackie is now grown up some, in college and pursuing his career in fashion design (something he has been doing since like 3 – related to one of my earlier issues). I’m not sure what I was really expecting from Jackie’s book, but falling for a guy the same age as his dads, wasn’t it.
I struggle with age gap stories of this magnitude. How could someone at the end of their career have enough in common with someone just starting out? I understand opposites attract, but these two just didn’t mesh for me. Martin was dry and boring while Jackie was colorful and full of life.
This book does contain support, understanding and acceptance in spades, so that was pretty uplifting. There are also some sweet moments thrown in, and it was nice to see the other guys again. I am most likely in the minority with my feelings on this, and as I enjoyed the other books, can definitely recommend giving this a go, especially if you are looking for a genderfluid character story with a positive outcome.
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