Release Blitz, Review and Giveaway: Rebound by V.L. Locey

04 January of 2020 by ButtonsMom2003

Reviewer's Rating: 5

5.0Overall score

Victor and Dan are back!

Rebound By V.L. Locey

Genre: Contemporary Sports Romance, Hockey, GLBTQ, MM

Released: December 30, 2019

Publisher: Self-Published

Series: Overtime, Book 1

Length: 64,000 words approx.

Cover Design: Meredith Russell

Synopsis

If there’s one thing that’s a certainty in life, it’s change.

It’s taken Victor Kalinski years to settle into the kind of happiness that he thought he’d never find. The small town of Cayuga, New York, has welcomed him warmly. It’s given him a championship team to coach, a tightly-knit group of friends, a father who he has reconciled with, and a safe place to raise the son he adores. The small town has also blessed him with Dan Arou, his husband and his soulmate, and one of the most skilled forwards on the Cougars. Given Dan’s outstanding play in their recent Calder Cup win, it was inevitable that Dan’s time in the minors was about to come to an end.

When Dan is given a starting position in Boston, Victor’s serene life is thrown into complete chaos. Pride over Dan’s accomplishment fills his heart but facing a long, lonely season in Cayuga is causing no small amount of discord. Add in a wedding that will give his son a new stepfather, health issues for his dad, and Victor’s own penchant for saying things that aren’t exactly politically correct, and the impending explosion is guaranteed to blow Vic’s life to bits. Life-altering choices will have to be made. Will Victor rebound from the challenges, or will he be unable to accept the upheavals that life has dealt him?

Review

Reviewed by ButtonsMom2003

Victor and Dan are back!

Victor Kalinsky and Dan Arou were introduced in V.L. Locey’s Point Shot Trilogy and we read about them again in Coach’s Challenge, book 3 of the Cayuga Cougars series. I’ve read Coach’s Challenge but I haven’t read the entire Point Shot Trilogy. All of this is to say that even if you haven’t read any of those stories, I think you can still enjoy Rebound.

Victor is a hard person to like at times. He is brash, irreverent, caustic and kind of a dick; he’s also one of those characters that people come to love and I do love him. He’s had a hard way to go. His mother was abusive and his father left him with her and disappeared. An injury left him unable to play hockey so now he’s a coach.

The excellent blurb gives you detailed information about this story; I’ll tell you how it made me feel. I wanted to hug Victor so hard because of the things he goes through in this book. He becomes depressed because of things happening in his life and his hard-won sobriety is in jeopardy. I laughed at times when Victor was being his typically irreverent self and I cried when life kept kicking his butt.

I love how V.L. Locey has continued to keep writing Victor as the same irreverent character he was in the previous books. He knows he’s an a-hole but he just can’t seem to help himself. Rebound is told from Victor’s point of view but the next book in the series, Final Shot, will focus on Dan; I can’t wait to read it.