Reviewed by Cindy

TITLE: Devoted

SERIES: Hopelessly Blessed #2

AUTHOR: Lark Taylor

PUBLISHER: Self Published

LENGTH: 502 Pages

RELEASE DATE: February 19, 2025

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Fate always has a plan.

Even if you don’t agree with it.

Ezekiel

Starting that online game was my attempt to find happiness. Something to fill my life other than the demands of Heaven and the rest of my unit.

I didn’t expect to find Sam.

Even with screens between us, Sam makes me feel more alive than I have in millennia. I find myself counting down the minutes until I can go online and be with him.

He’s my perfect match. In any other circumstances, I’d be doing whatever it took to make him mine.

But I’m not human. And, unlike humans, I have no say over who I spend eternity with. Fate decides who my mate will be, whether it’s the person I love or not.

Sam lives in the same city as me. If he were my mate, I’d have met him by now. I’d feel a pull towards him that I couldn’t ignore.

The right thing to do would be to end this. To put up walls between us to keep both our hearts safe. Instead, I find myself tearing down the barriers, falling faster for him every day.

I know how this story will end, but I can’t stop myself. I don’t care what plans fate has for me.

I want to make Sam mine.

Devoted is a gripping, hurt/comfort, angel x human, MM PNR romance. The second in the Hopeless Blessed series, each book follows a different couple with a guaranteed HEA.

REVIEW:

Sam believes he’s unlovable. He’s convinced that no one will want to put up with all the ways that Sam has to help him cope with his neurodivergent brain. Sure, Zeke likes him now but there’s no way he will stick around right?

Ezekiel think’s he’s a monster. His dad made sure of it. When his friends and found family tell him he’s wrong, he doesn’t believe them, but Sam seems to think that Zeke is amazing.

I’m really loving this series from Lark Taylor. My favorite thing is that even though some of the MC’s are Angels or Demons or some other kind of supernatural being, it doesn’t automatically fix everything. So, Angels have anxiety and suffer from PTSD. Demon’s struggle with self-esteem. And human’s are different brained and finding their fated mate don’t change that.

Sam does go on a healing journey, but it’s more about learning to not hate himself for who he is. His struggle is heartbreaking and I love how Zeke and his brother’s help Sam on that journey.

As for Zeke? He’s on a healing journey of his own. Lord knows (ha!) that living an eternal life will take it’s toll but nothing has marked him more than his relationship with the person who should have loved him the most.

Lark Taylor is really good at writing characters that are relatable and easy to love. They are also excellent at writing banter and portraying the struggles of just existing. Sam broke my heart a couple of times, and I don’t mind saying that I was in tears, on both Sam’s and Zeke’s behalf.

I’m looking forward to the next book in this series. It’s fun learning more about Micah’s rowdy bunch of Angels in every book and I think Noah and Jerimiah’s story is going to be even more anguished than what we’ve had so far.

I can happily give this story 4 and a half hearts!

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