REVIEWED BY CINDY

TITLE: Soul to Keep 

SERIES: Rented Heart Book 2

AUTHOR: Garrett Leigh

PUBLISHER: Fox Love Press

LENGTH: 210 Pages

RELEASE DATE: April 2, 2018

BLURB:

Recovering addict Jamie Yorke has returned to England from California. With no home or family to speak of, he sticks a pin in a map and finds a small town in the Derbyshire Peak District. Matlock Bath is a quiet place—he just needs to get there, keep his head down, and stay clean. Simple, right? Until a chance meeting on the flight home alters the course of his so-called life forever.

Ex-Army medic Marc Ramsey is recovering from life-changing combat injuries while pulling nights as a trauma specialist at the local hospital. Keeping busy is a habit he can’t quit, but when Jamie—so wild and beautiful—bursts into his life, working himself into the ground isn’t as compelling as it used to be.

Marc falls hard, but chaos lurks behind Jamie’s fragile facade. He’s winning his battle against addiction, but another old foe is slowly consuming him. Both men have weathered many storms, but the path to the peace they deserve might prove the roughest ride yet.

REVIEW:

Jamie Yorke is a character who’s easy to love. He’s a little broken and a lot scared but he’s trying his best to better his life and I was pulling for him from the beginning.

Marc is a sweetheart, someone who is building his life in his own way after a tragedy that changed he way he lived his life.

I fell hard for these guys. This story swept me away from the very beginning and I was dragged along all the ups and downs like a roller coaster.

The author has done a great job of building the world the characters live in and I could picture the town they live in perfectly.

I never read the first book in this series but I think I will be searching it out. I want to find out more about Jamie’s ex and the new life he’s made for himself.

This story is a perfect example of how your life can change in a heartbeat, how one chance meeting can be the thing that will put you on the path to your future. It’s also a great example of how you only you can fix your life. Other people can help you along the way but you have to fix you.

For once, the instant attraction between the main characters felt a little more real to me. When you’ve lived the kind of lives they have, wasting time loses it’s appeal.

The people that Jaime and Marc meet along the way made me smile. Typical small town folk, mostly kind-hearted and very familiar to me, even if they come from another continent of my own.

There is angst in this story, but it’s real and honest and I don’t feel like it’s done just for the sake of drama. I became invested in Jamie’s struggles and the author never insinuates that it’s going to be easy for them. Love doesn’t heal everything, but sometimes it makes it easier to live with the bad parts of life.

I can highly recommend this story for anyone who loves characters who need readers to cheer them on. Well done Garrett Leigh.

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