Reviewed by Cheryl
TITLE: The Sinner and The Saint 
SERIES: Ellery Mountain #8
AUTHOR: RJ Scott
PUBLISHER: Love Lane Books
LENGTH: 148 pages
RELEASE DATE: April 23, 2018
BLURB:
Army medic Ben Rockwell is in Ellery to work with the Veterans Center creating a new specialist unit for post trauma care. Desperate to make amends for battlefield decisions he regrets, he is focused on the unit and nothing else. Until some stranger moves in next door and throws him a curveball. He’s no hero, even though everyone says he is, and the lies burn inside him.
Leaving drama and chaos in his wake, Nicholas Merrick fled London and is hiding out in his friend Jason’s house, until everything back home dies a death. The choices he made in his life were to keep his best friend safe, but as a result everyone sees him as the bad guy.
When these two meet, the attraction is instant. Can they ever be their true selves, and find love as a result?
REVIEW:
I’ve never read RJ Scott before and I have no idea why I jumped right in to the 8th book in a series. However, it was by no means as bad an idea as it seems to be. These two characters were utterly unique, with strong back stories and outside connections. No doubt the experience would have been richer had I started at Book One and worked my way through, but I didn’t feel that I was missing anything.
I love that this was one of those books where one character was British and the other American. It led to some beautiful little touches, almost an “in joke” sometimes. I think only a Brit would understand the deep trauma suffered on being offered an ancient tea bag.
The story itself was nice and simple, with a few interesting twists. The thing that brought me to the book in the first place – that one of the characters was a famous actor, turned out to be one of the least important elements of the story. There was way too much going on for that to be of any particular importance and Nick was far to normal and nice to make his status anything other than part of his back story, although of course it had some bearing on the story from a practical perspective (for example the arrival of the paparazzi).
I felt that I personally got to know quite a few of the characters in this little world and I will definitely be reading more of the series. The writing is smooth and the story arcs elegant and well executed. There’s nothing to interfere with the enjoyment of a thoroughly enjoyable story with enough going on to make it feel like more than just a generic romance novel.
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