Don’t look back. Don’t you ever look back…
Shy tattoo artist Ash has a troubled past. Years of neglect, drug abuse, and life on the streets have taken their toll, and sometimes it seems the deep, unspoken bond with his lover is the only balm for wounds he doesn’t quite understand.
Chicago paramedic Pete is warmth, love, and strength—things Ash never knew he could have, and never even knew he wanted until Pete showed him. But fate is a cruel, cruel mistress, and when nightmares collide with the present, their tentatively built world comes crashing down.
Traumatic events in Pete’s work life distance him from home, and he doesn’t realize until it’s too late that Ash has slipped away. Betrayal, secrets, and lies unfold, and when a devastating coincidence takes hold, Pete must fight with all he has to save the love of his life.
I really liked it a lot, I had very few issues with it but overall it was a very good book.
One of the things I liked the most about it was that both main characters were so far from perfect. That is something I love to read, characters who make mistakes, who struggle with self-confidence, who find it hard to trust in others. That’s one of the things I look in a book and both were really good, but it was Ash who got my heart. I loved how silence was so important and said a lot without even saying it, how every gesture, every sight and every little movement they did had an important meaning and how well they knew it.
It was very slow paced, but I didn’t really found it bothersome, it seem appropriate to the overall feeling of the book, a little bit depressive but it provide an emotion to the reader and that is always something that I appreciate.
I loved Ash and Pete’s relationship, the struggles they had, the mistakes and, most of all, how much love there was between them. Overall it was a great book. I’m really glad I’d read it.
RARE
Tattoo artist Ash Fagin is recovering from a nervous breakdown triggered by revelations about his traumatic childhood. His battle with mental illness is far from over, but with Pete by his side, he’s feeling good again, so good he doesn’t notice something missing until it walks right into his living room.
Ash believes he’s had enough coincidence in his life, but when a voice from the past comes looking for him, it takes the devastating injuries of the one he loves most to convince him to let a ghost become the family he never knew he wanted.
I’m completely in love with this characters. I loved the book. It was a great experience to read it. A thing that remain in the series, which is a particular reason to love it, is the presence of flaw characters. Ash and Pete are far from being perfect. They make mistakes, they hurt others but there’s always love in them, even in the toughest moment.
The plot was interesting. I wasn’t expecting the things they had to deal with. I sometimes forget the blurb of a book I’d decided I wanted to read for a while and that happened this time. It gave me the opportunity to read the book completely unaware of what to expect and I loved it. It is slow pace but interesting enough to keep my attention the whole time. It deals with a lot of angst, something I love. It was so easy to get in touch with Ash and Pete’s feelings. There is a lot of nice surprises in this book. The story is told from both points of view. I liked it that way because we had the opportunity to be inside two beautiful minds. It was fantastic.
There were very few things that I didn’t like about it and none of them was big enough to change my overall feeling about the book. I had a great time with it. I can’t wait to know what else is in the future for this lovely couple.
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Garrett Leigh is an award-winning British writer and book designer, currently working for Dreamspinner Press, Loose Id, Riptide Publishing, and Fox Love Press.
Garrett’s debut novel, Slide, won Best Bisexual Debut at the 2014 Rainbow Book Awards, and her polyamorous novel, Misfits was a finalist in the 2016 LAMBDA awards.
When not writing, Garrett can generally be found procrastinating on Twitter, cooking up a storm, or sitting on her behind doing as little as possible, all the while shouting at her menagerie of children and animals and attempting to tame her unruly and wonderful FOX.
Garrett is also an award winning cover artist, taking the silver medal at the Benjamin Franklin Book Awards in 2016. She designs for various publishing houses and independent authors at blackjazzdesign.com, and co-owns the specialist stock sitemoonstockphotography.com with renowned LGBTQA+ photographer Dan Burgess.
Website: http://www.garrettleigh.com/
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