Reviewed by Danielle
TITLE: A Heart Back Home
AUTHOR: Andrew Grey
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 1792kb
RELEASE DATE: October 13, 2020
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Clay Kartwell loses his job and gets a call from his estranged father asking for his help back on the family farm, all on the same day. Clay knows he has to return home, even though it’s the last thing he wants to do. Some things back home are best left unremembered.
Dell Warrington was Clay’s unrequited high school crush and the man he least wants to see. He’s everything Clay remembered and more, including the father of four-year-old Archie. But Dell hasn’t had it easy either, and not everything is as it seems.
Clay sets out to save the farm and bring in the crops with Dell’s help. Old assumptions fall to the side as the two men reconnect, and the second chance that Clay never knew he wanted seems within his grasp. But Clay left the farm for a reason, and reconciliation with his stoic father won’t be easy. When his city life offers a new opportunity, he must decide whether to accept what he knows, or follow his heart.
REVIEW:
Awwww this is author Andrew Grey at his best…at least for me it is.
I adored this sweet story. The wonderful man who starred but also the wonderful people who co-starred! I mean you can only love Archie as he is absolutely adorable. I loved grumpy dad and let’s not forget best friend Alan! I mean we are going to get his story right?
Mr Grey did an outstanding job in getting you involved in the lives of these men.
The writing flows so well that it’s easy to get pulled in to this story. I found myself wanting to continue reading not so much because of anxiousness of waiting to see what would happen but just because it was wonderful to bask in a nice comfortable small town romance.
It’s a story about coming home in more than one sense of the word.
This story has low angst. There are some minor struggles but the emphasis is on self-exploration. It’s focused on finding out what you want and settling things that have happened and never been addressed properly. This goes for both Clay and Dell as well as for Clay and Dad.
Yes there are some little issues, like the almost instant feelings that are there. Where from Clay’s perspective they have been there for a long time, it feels a bit rushed coming from Dell. I would have liked to have seen some more development there.
It doesn’t take anything away from the story though, it only says it could have been even more. I could have read definitely a couple more chapters so to speak. The development of Dell’s feelings, the interaction between Clay and his dad, even the romantic/sexual development between Clay and Dell would have been much appreciated! And hey, more Archie would have been a bonus of course.
The story starts when Clay looses his job and at almost the same time gets a call for help from his dad who he has been estranged from for 5 years. That call brings him back to his hometown and the farm, but also to the boy he loved from an early age, Dell.
Both men feel like this is a second chance in their own way and the story progresses as they find out about each other . Its about working their way through things and finding out what they want.
Overall I can definitely recommend this heartwarming novella to anyone who wants a low-angst sweet contemporary story. I definitely did.
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