Reviewed by Valerie

TITLE:  Saint’s Song

SERIES:  Rebel Kings MC #2

AUTHOR:  Garrett Leigh

PUBLISHER:  Fox Love Press

LENGTH:  356 pages

RELEASE DATE:  June 14, 2022

BLURB:

Cam, Alexei, and Saint have survived their battle with the devil, but with too many enemies to count, can they survive the war?

“Kill me,” I choked out. “If he’s dead, you gotta kill me too.”

One club, one heart. Three men, one soul.

Can loving someone kill you? I feel like the world is ending every time I look at them.

Cam. My brother. My president. He’s the love of my life

And then there’s Alexei. I didn’t know I could feel this way about one person, let alone two. But I think of him in every breath I breathe for Cam. Every thundering beat of my heart. Because there is no Cam without him.

There is no me. My life wasn’t worth living until I found something worth dying for.
And I’d die for them a thousand times.

Saint’s Song is the second in a hurt/comfort, biker romance, MMM duet from the world of the Rebel Kings MC. Content warnings inside the book. Expect a fragile king, a sweet-hearted henchman, an enigmatic hitman, and a fight to the death.

REVIEW:

“Saint was an army of men in ways he didn’t know. A tower of strength. And in a moment where I felt so weak I’d rather be dead, he kept me alive.”  – Alexei

Saint, Cam, and Alexei – sexy, sexy men in a hot as hell romance that nearly short-circuited my tablet. Just look at the panty-melting book cover. Gah! Saint’s Song is everything I hoped for in the second half of this love story. Devil’s Dance was Cam and Alexei’s story but in this book, they come to understand that Saint is their missing puzzle piece, the glue that holds them together. Simply put, Cam and Alexei are incomplete without him. Saint has a hard time believing they both want him. It’s more than want, though – they need him.

“He was my lover. My heart. My every-fucking-thing.”  – Cam

This book picks up the morning after Cam was shot and drugged at the end of Devil’s Dance. Saint and Alexei are with him at Cam’s seaside cottage nursing him back to health and decadently indulging in each other’s bodies. *fanning myself* As in Devil’s Dance, the romance is just one part of the plot. There’s the same action and suspense that one would expect from a one percenter MC, with violent fights to the death with the Crows and interaction with the Sambinis and a scary Russian dude from Alexei’s past. Outside forces constantly throw roadblocks in Cam’s way as he tries to take the Rebel Kings in a legitimate direction. Once again, we get to enjoy a fantastic chosen family vibe with the members of the MC council – Nash, Rubi, Embry, Mateo, and eventually Decoy – as well as Cam’s sister Orla. The interactions between our heroes and Decoy’s four-year-old daughter, Ivy, are so sweet and show us another layer of humanity in the men.

Garrett Leigh adds a rich complexity to the story by developing a unique dynamic in each couple within the triad. I love the preternatural communication Ms. Leigh gives her men. Saint and Alexei seem to be able to read each other’s thoughts and communicate without words in some kind of mind meld. Alexei recognizes Saint’s struggles with a speech disorder and encourages him to converse through texting when he gets frustrated and stumbles over words. Saint can sense what Cam is thinking, too, but can’t always determine his feelings. Alexei, however, can read Cam like a book, intuiting both thoughts and emotions. Fortunately, the book is written with a triple POV which lets us get inside their heads to understand everything, especially useful when Saint can’t express himself verbally.

Given Saint’s terrible start in life, part of me wants to wrap him up in a warm, snuggly blanket and hug him to death. Of course, the very idea would appall him. (The other part of me wants to lick all his tattoos from head to toe.) Then there’s Alexei’s horrid past. The two men seem to have an affinity for each other, perhaps built upon their emotional scars. They’re both “a product of survival.”

“I did not believe one broken soul could heal another, but as Saint brought his hand to the nape of my neck and his lips to my temple, the gnarled panic inside me retreated, sliding away like a poison tide. He didn’t speak. Didn’t kiss me. But he did not need to.”  – Alexei

They have their individual worries, though. Cam trusts that Saint will always return to his side whenever they part, but he doesn’t have the same confidence with Alexei. Alexei knows he can never leave Cam and Saint but what happens when the war with the Crows is over? A place in the Rebel Kings is not what he wants. And again, Saint knows he needs to be with the other two but continues to worry that the strong love between Cam and Alexei won’t include him.

Cam can’t define what’s happening between the three of them. He’s dreamed for years about having simple, precious moments with Saint, be it shared smiles or easy bantering. It took him loving Alexei for it to happen. Now he knows Saint reciprocates his love and loves Alexei, too. This delicious, formidable three-way love resonates throughout the book.

“Saint was hypnotic in everything he did, but like this, he was intoxicating. Kissing him dismantled me. Destroyed me.”  – Cam

I could say the same thing about reading Saint’s Song: it’s hypnotic, intoxicating, and it dismantled me. I give this book all the stars. Thank you, Ms. Leigh.

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