Rating: 4🌈
Checking It Twice is a heartwarming holiday story about two long time friends getting their second chance at love in their fifties.
One of the wonderful Snowed Inn collection featuring multiple authors, much like the rest, it includes The Retreat Inn, a Colorado mountain resort also nicknamed The Rainbow Inn, a avalanche that cuts off the Inn and it’s inhabitants for a prolonged stay, and all the couples and events from all the stories.
Sutter Thompson, his longtime friend and coworker at Red Pine U, Watley, are driving a group of young boys for a regional hockey medal presentation being held at the Inn. Among the boys up for hockey honors is their sons. Sutter’s boy Zachary with his ex wife , and Watley ‘s son, Adam with his ex husband. The boys are best friends as well.
Locey’s men have a complicated past history. A deeply closeted Sutter decided to come out after his child was born. But he’s never revealed his last hidden truth. He’s always loved Watley.
Checking It Twice gives the reader a delightful depiction of a number of types of heartfelt relationships. Those of realistic loving father/son dynamics, especially as seen between both sets of parents and sons. You get the funny, too real, close knit relationship that happens with team members and their coaches (hurting stomachs, road trips, bunk bed assignments). Then there’s the one the men themselves have waited close to thirty years for. Their own romance.
It’s a halting , stumbling path full of slow revelations, first kisses, and , passion at last fulfilled. The men with their aches, trick knees, aged playlist, and glimpses of grey , are charming and engaging. It was a real joy to read their romance.
This collection is turning out to be a great way to dive into my holiday books, and I’m definitely recommending Checking It Twice as a heartwarming HEA!
Snowed Inn story Collection:
All the books can be read as standalones and in any order and all are available to buy or pre-order
• RJ Scott – Stop the Wedding – https://books2read.com/StopTheWedding
• H.L Day – Five Night Stand – https://books2read.com/FiveNightStandHL
• V.L. Locey – Checking it Twice – https://books2read.com/CheckingItTwiceVL
• LC Chase – Breakfast Included – https://books2read.com/BreakfastIncludedLCC
• Xenia Melzer – The Real Kaimana – https://books2read.com/RealKaimanaXM
• Meredith Russell – Stuck With You- https://books2read.com/StuckWithYouMR
• Eli Easton – A Changeling Christmas – https://books2read.com/ChangelingChristmasE
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Unless it’s noted, all books reviewed have been purchased by the reviewer.
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