Padme's Library: Review Tour: Save the Date by RJ Scott & VL Locey

Monday, July 8, 2019

Review Tour: Save the Date by RJ Scott & VL Locey

Title: Save the Date

Authors: RJ Scott & VL Locey

Series: Harrisburg Railers #9

Genre: M/M Romance

Release Date: June 30, 2019

Cover Design: Meredith Russell

Summary:
Ever since he first set foot in Harrisburg, Tennant’s life has been a rollercoaster. Ups and downs too numerous to mention, hard knocks and championship rings. Through all of those monumental moments, one thing has been a constant for him, Jared Madsen. Now that their wedding day is drawing nearer, Ten is seriously considering eloping. He would, if not for his mother, his father, his brothers, the wedding planner, the guests, the cake, the press, and the team. Oh, and then there’s his best friend, who is vying for the job of ringmaster of the wedding circus. Would sneaking off during the night with Jared and skipping to the honeymoon part of the festivities really be all that bad?

When Jared proposed to Ten, he imagined a quiet wedding, on a beach somewhere, with family, and maybe the team. But life gets complicated with Ten’s warring brothers, a Russian goalie with a love of sequins, and a bachelor party organized by Adler. When Trent sends them a wedding planner, every spare hour is filled with choosing invitations, cake tasting, and finding a rose in the perfect shade of green. Add in Layton organizing a press conference, and suddenly their private wedding is destined to become a media sensation. Is it wrong to think seriously about kidnapping Ten and spiriting him away to a small deserted island?

Adler organizing the bachelor party, Trent supplying the wedding planner, and Stan writing a speech. What can possibly go wrong?

From the first page Tennant and Jared appeared together way back in Changing Lines, no matter how many entries to Harrisburg Railers RJ Scott & VL Locey wrote or how many years the series spanned you just knew they would be electric, emotional, and unforgettable. Save the Date is published proof of that very prediction. Ten and Mads might be a May/December-ish type of trope but they are what held the team together, pulled them in and helped create a family not just a team. Seeing them get their HEA is lovely, fun, sexy, romantic, and everything that made this series so special.

I'm not going to say a whole lot about this story, not just the no spoiler rule I live by but also, if you've been reading Harrisburg Railers up till now, then you know how good the series is and Save the Date is just icing on the cake. From the minute Ten is weirded out over his Mom's knowledge of anal sex and Jared's uncanny ability to runaway from such convos to the couple's honeymoon destination, we get to see the team rally round the pair as the wedding of the century is brought to life. So open your invite, grab a seat, absorb everyone's contribution to the day, and feel the love.

As every wedding is bound to do, there is drama but there is also humor and romance, let'f face it, Save the Date is rom-com at its finest, Hollywood and Hallmark has nothing on Scott & Locey. At this point I think I'm pretty much repeating myself with different words so I'll end my review by saying: you'll laugh, you'll cry(happy tears), you'll laugh some more, and when that final page is turned(or swiped) you won't be ready to say goodbye to the Railers but you'll know it ended the best way possible. Truth is, even though Save the Date may be the final entry in the Harrisburg Railers series, something tells me we'll see a few of them pop up from time-to-time in the authors' upcoming spin-off series, Arizona Raptors.

One last note: if you haven't been reading the series and are wondering if this needs to be read in order my answer is yes. As each of the original entries feature a new couple, technically I suppose it could be considered a a standalone series but as the team appears in all of them, I just think everything flows better in order. Personally, I can't imagine reading it any other way than how it was released. The final three novellas "re-visit" previous couples so they definitely need to be read at the end but as I said, personally I highly recommend reading the Railers in the order they were written. However you choose to read them though, you won't be sorry because hockey lover or not, this is a must series for well written romance and character-driven drama fans.

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RJ Scott
USA Today bestselling author RJ Scott writes stories with a heart of romance, a troubled road to reach happiness, and most importantly, a happily ever after.

RJ Scott is the author of over one hundred romance books, writing emotional stories of complicated characters, cowboys, millionaire, princes, and the men 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.

She’s always thrilled to hear from readers, bloggers and other writers. Please contact via the links below.

VL 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.