Reviewed by Becca

TITLE: Healing Lance

SERIES: A Warrior’s Redemption Trilogy #1

AUTHOR: M.D. Grimm

PUBLISHER: self-published

LENGTH: 293 pages

RELEASE DATE: July 28, 2020

BLURB:

A baby’s laughter.

A mind uncaged.

Lance is known as Scourge, the warrior in the black armor, the dog of the warlord Ulfr Blackwolf. He was just a boy when Ulfr found him and molded him into the perfect weapon. He slaughters and pillages on command, merciless and numb, devoid of emotions. Then a baby girl laughs at him during a raid.

And everything changes.

When Gust, a talented healer, is out deer hunting and stumbles across a magnificent horse bearing a mortally wounded rider, he has no idea that his life is about to change forever. Gust applies all his skills to his patient, determined to save the rider’s life, and is rewarded when the man opens his eyes.

As friendship, and more, bloom between warrior and healer, so does the danger over the horizon. Ulfr has not forgotten, and Lance must take his first steps on the long road to redemption.

REVIEW:

I really, really loved this story, but it reminded me of the cruelness of people at times. Not because of the warlord and what he did to make Lance his. It was when Lance was healing and many times stood for the people of the town, and when push came to shove and they found out his past, all of a sudden, he was no good. His trying to turn a new leaf was thrown in his face and he was shoved away. The one redeeming thing for me was the one person in that town who had every right to hate him, every right to want to see him dead and gone, was one who stood up for him and beside him when the time came. 

Not many knew Lance’s real name. Most knew him as Ulfr’s wardog or as Scourge. Matter of fact, most feared Scourge much more than they did Ulfr, because he was deadly and had no emotion about what he did. He didn’t rape or pillage but he killed and did it well. But this one particular raid set a course of change in Lance that he couldn’t come back from. All because of a baby. Lance no longer wanted to be Scourge, he wanted to save life. He no longer wanted to take it. So he saved the baby and her mother. And when told to go kill her, faced his own death because he was now considered a traitor. He ran the gauntlet but his horse, Brutus, got to him in time and saved him before the final blow. After many days, they run into Gust, a healer, and healing begins. Gust is also the only one who can deal with Brutus, who they learn is divine. healing speeds along, they become friends. Lance saving Gust’s life several times. But Ulfr is coming for Lance and he knows it. And he also knows that when the secret of who he is comes out, what he’s worked so hard for will all be lost.

You know, I more than anyone understands what it’s like to have a hard time forgiving or forgetting. But before life beats most of us down, it’s in our inherent nature to want to forgive and redeem the person who has wronged us. Until the wrongs keep coming, then it’s over. So I get that people have a hard time seeing Lance as anyone but Scourge if they truly know who he is. But what bothers me about this town, is while he was healing, all they knew is he was a warrior who was badly injured. Gust just wanted to save him and see where things led. And the people of the town were becoming friendly to him as he healed. He was making friends and finally happy with his life. No matter how many times he stood for this town because of what they did for him, they turned on him. And that hurts me for him. He was seriously trying to make up for his past, make up for the wrongs he had done. And Gust was the only one that seemed to see into the heart of the one man he should hate more than anyone. But he didn’t. He loved him. That for me is what made this book. Lance turned over a new leaf, no matter what anyone thought of him or his past. He truly wanted to be free of the bad. And no matter what they threw at him, he was determined to make things right. Even if that meant hunting down every warlord and bad guy the world had to offer. And for Gust to forgive him, when he didn’t have to, made all the difference to me. And then made me remember, there are still people who are determined to see the good no matter the cost.

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