Reviewed by Tammy
TITLE: Retrograde
SERIES: Flight HA1710, #1
AUTHOR: RJ Scott
PUBLISHER: Love Lane Books
LENGTH: 91 pages
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A standalone story about how one incident can change a life forever
Co-Pilot Lachlan Donaghue wakes up in hospital, a survivor of the crash of Flight HA1710, with memory loss and the suspicion that he could be at fault for the tragic accident. When everything becomes too much he is taken home to hide, back to the small Irish town he grew up in and to the home he once shared with Rory.
Rory Kendrick watches the news, sees every hour of the disaster unfold and somehow just knows that Lachlan was in the middle of it all. What he doesn’t know is that Lachlan will be forced to come back home to hide and to heal. Lachlan needs a friend, not a lover, but sometimes the lines are just too blurred to make any sense.
REVIEW:
Lachlan Donaghue is the Co-Pilot on Flight HA1710 when the unthinkable happens, the plane crashes. Immediately after the crash Lachlan is aware intermittently but there’s nothing he can do he can’t move, he can’t speak, he can’t do anything. Rory Kendrick is Lachlan’s ex-boyfriend and when he watches the disaster unfolding on the news he knows that somehow Lachlan is involved. So, when he finds out where the survivors were taken he packs his bag and heads for the hospital determined he’s going to be there when Lachlan wakes up.
The only thing is, Lachlan can’t remember a thing beyond a week before the crash, he has Retrograde Amnesia and this does not make for happy investigators. They question Lachlan incessantly about what happened but that only makes things worse because the more Lachlan tries to remember the more intensely his head hurts. After a week in hospital Lachlan is released so he can hide from the reporters that are constantly trying to get in. Rory decides that Lachlan is coming home with him and Lachlan is in too much pain to say no. When they get home they have a lot of talking to do.
Not only is Lachlan trying to come to terms with the fact that the Pilot and his friend died but so did six other people! He definitely has survivors’ guilt but with Rory helping him he slowly comes to terms with it, if only he could remember! He has nightmares whenever he closes his eyes but he doesn’t know if they’re actual memories or his brains way of filling in the gaps. It’s a huge weight off his shoulders when the black boxes confirm that it wasn’t pilot error to blame for the crash, now Lachlan can concentrate on trying to get his memory back and re-establishing his connection to Rory. Rory has the utmost faith in both Lachlan and their love, he never doubts they can work everything out and start again.
Retrograde is a brilliant story about how one incident the plane crash, changes the course of Lachlan and Rory’s lives. One minute they’re separated because Lachlan feels that he wants to live his life and take his career in a vastly different direction than what was possible in Ireland so he leaves Rory, a farmer who both can’t and won’t leave their farm. Neither one was able to move on but neither were they going to give in and make the first step to repair their relationship. This is one book and series I will be recommending.
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