Changing Lanes
Series- Harrisburg Railers 1
Universe- Hockey Romance Universe Book 1
Author: RJ Scott and V.L. Locey
Publisher: Love Lane Book Limited
Pages: 205
Formats: Kindle
Rating: 5 stars
As the first in the series, Changing Lanes has a lot to do. It has to introduce the world that we’re playing in as well as characters that you want the reader to identify and fall in love with; especially if you create such a rich world that this novel sits in.
The short version is that this is easily achieved and blown out of the rink!
In Changing Lanes we are introduced to Tennant Rowe and the basic premise of most sports books in this particular genre- what happens when a player comes out and the aftermath of such a move. While it is such a massive trope, I have to admit it’s one of my favourites and therefore am very particular with how the storyline is handled .
The great thing about Changing Lanes is that it is literally the first novel in a massive world- as of writing this review there are 27 books (both novels and novellas) over 4 series of interconnected world building! As you can image, that’s a lot of output but the question remains of is that a rich world?
Therefore, as started earlier, Changing Lanes has a lot of pressure on it- for you have to willingly fall in love with both Tennant Rowe and Jared Madsen as well as other characters because you never know what’s going to happen to whom and when!
And it works- I devoured this novel and the rest in the Harrisburg Railers series, and I’m re-reading the series again while attempting to read the other books in the universe; thankfully there’s a PDF on the authors website with the suggested reading order thank fuck!
The magnificent thing about Changing Lanes is that thankfully I’ve fallen in love with all the “right” characters in the sense they are the ones we see explored in further novels and are all richly developed.
You’ll loose track of time, but it’s highly worth a read!