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THE REALITY OF EVERYTHING
(Flight & Glory #5)
by Rebecca Yarros
Release Date: August 24th
MY REVIEW
AVAILABLE NOW!!
Blurb
Two years after the man she loved was killed in Afghanistan, Morgan Bartley is trying to put the pieces of her life back together. The reno on her dilapidated beach house in the Outer Banks might be just the distraction she needs to keep her debilitating anxiety attacks at bay and begin to heal her heart...if she can ignore the ridiculously handsome guy next door.
At twenty-eight, single-dad Jackson Montgomery’s life revolves around his five-year-old daughter and his job as a search-and-rescue pilot for the coast guard. He’s no stranger to saving a damsel in distress, and though his gorgeous new neighbor is clearly in distress, she’s no damsel. She’s stubborn as hell with walls a mile thick, and the dog tags hanging from her rearview mirror give him a pretty good clue as to why.
It doesn’t matter that their attraction is undeniable—she swore she’d never fall for another pilot, let alone a military man. There are some wounds time can’t heal, and some fears too consuming to conquer.
She’s a barely breathing heartbreak on the edge of recovery.
He’s a crash waiting to happen.
Together they could have it all...if they can endure the coming storm.
At twenty-eight, single-dad Jackson Montgomery’s life revolves around his five-year-old daughter and his job as a search-and-rescue pilot for the coast guard. He’s no stranger to saving a damsel in distress, and though his gorgeous new neighbor is clearly in distress, she’s no damsel. She’s stubborn as hell with walls a mile thick, and the dog tags hanging from her rearview mirror give him a pretty good clue as to why.
It doesn’t matter that their attraction is undeniable—she swore she’d never fall for another pilot, let alone a military man. There are some wounds time can’t heal, and some fears too consuming to conquer.
She’s a barely breathing heartbreak on the edge of recovery.
He’s a crash waiting to happen.
Together they could have it all...if they can endure the coming storm.
About the Author
Rebecca is a Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author of over fifteen novels, and is always ready to bring on the emotions. She's also the recipient of the Colorado Romance Writer’s Award of Excellence for Eyes Turned Skyward from her Flight and Glory series.
She loves military heroes and has been blissfully married to hers for eighteen years. She’s the mother of six children, ranging from kindergarten to law school, and is currently surviving the teenage years with two of her four hockey-playing sons. When she’s not writing, you can find her at the hockey rink or sneaking in some guitar time. She lives in Colorado with her family, their stubborn English bulldog, and a feisty chinchilla. Having fostered then adopted their youngest daughter, Rebecca is passionate about helping children in the foster system through her nonprofit, One October.
She loves military heroes and has been blissfully married to hers for eighteen years. She’s the mother of six children, ranging from kindergarten to law school, and is currently surviving the teenage years with two of her four hockey-playing sons. When she’s not writing, you can find her at the hockey rink or sneaking in some guitar time. She lives in Colorado with her family, their stubborn English bulldog, and a feisty chinchilla. Having fostered then adopted their youngest daughter, Rebecca is passionate about helping children in the foster system through her nonprofit, One October.
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It
feels like a lifetime ago that I picked up the first Flight and Glory series
and fell in love with Rebecca Yarros's writing. And I have read every book as
she has written them. She is right at the top of my one click authors list. But for some weird, me, reason I wasn't able
to read Hallowed Ground. It had been so long since I had read the first book
and I felt like I would need to do a series re-read and I just haven't had the
emotional fortitude or alone time to do it.
But
when I found out this one was being released and I ascertained it could be read
as a standalone I was all in. And a stay in a 5 star resort with no kids and a
few cocktails absolutely helped. First I need to say that I adore Rebecca Yarros, I truly
believe that there isn't another author who gives every word the weight she
does. But oh my god does it take her long enough to write them. Seriously.
Although, now I need to do a series re-read because I HAVE to read Hallowed Ground even though I am already destroyed from the events that occurred in it
to form this one.
I guess for now I should actually address Morgan and Jackson and how absolute
beautiful, painful, devastating and awe inspiring their story was. I am lying
here at 4am after not having been able to put the book down from the second I
started it. The book gave me all the feels and then some. I am still feeling
Morgan's pain and the strength it took to put herself back together. Jackson
was beyond perfect.
The
whole story was amazing and I am so glad that I had the opportunity to read it
when I could lie in bed sobbing like a baby with no distractions. And now I
have to try get some sleep with a book hangover I'm going to be feeling for
days. This book is one of my 2020 favourite reads but I highly recommend going in with a full box of tissues and an emotional support animal.
Wow. This Book. Words could never do
justice to all the emotions and stomach clenching heartbreak I have gone
through reading this book. It is definitely one of the best books I have read
this year and the irony is that I didn’t want to read it.
Don’t get me wrong, I signed up to
review it, I loved the blurb and the promise of it being non cheating with a
HEA had me thinking I had to have it. But between then and everyday life when
it came time to sit down and read it I just felt like I NEEDED something light
and I couldn’t handle the angst I knew this would bring. That said I was
running out of time to read this so I sat at the optometrist waiting for our
daughter to get her eye tests done and I started it.
I got to 3% and I was so gone over these
characters and the way the words were written and the story that was being told
I couldn’t handle putting it down. I kept trying to explain it’s epicness to my
husband who really doesn’t care except for the fact he is happy I am so
excited. Every time I had to put it down I had to go to GoodReads and tell the
world that this book is breathtaking.
The story is told in dual POV and that
gave me a pretty good idea of who Maverick is going to end up with but it’s
also told in flashbacks and the emotion she felt for Killian made me question
everything I thought. I honestly had no idea who she was going to choose. I was
waiting for the plot twist that was going to destroy me because it honestly
didn’t matter who she chose because the importance was more on the why than the
who.
This book is a love triangle but it’s so
much more than that. It’s a heartbreaking journey through the life of a woman
torn apart by the two people she loves most in the world and the decisions she
makes as truths about their intertwined past comes to light and changes her
view on everything she thought was absolute in her life and I absolutely got
lost in every word of it.
Even now just thinking about it and
trying to put into words the perfection of this story I have tears streaming
down my face and I can’t say enough things about this book to express my love
of it. That said I think you need to experience and feel this book without any
idea of the journey it will take you on. So put aside your reservations about
love triangles or anything else and dive in. You can’t miss this book, it’s
utter perfection.
Oh my god! Best. Duet. Ever!!!!!!!!!!!!! I feel like I can’t even take a full breath
yet from all the emotions still flooding through my system. Like I need to just
sit back down and start them all over again because I am not ready to leave the
beauty and heartbreak of Aly Martinez’s Retrieval Duet.
Firstly, I can’t explain how epic Retrieval was and I was so devastated to get to that ending and hit the cliff hanger without having Transfer loaded on my kindle but thankfully I only had an hours wait before I could get into full meltdown mode. Sadly, it was 11pm and there was no way I could have gone to sleep without just reading the first few chapters to get passed the cliff hanger.
Umm yup hello 1am and 50% before I remembered I
had to get up in 5 hours. So then I spent the whole day trying to adult and not
obsess over Clare and Roman and Elisabeth. I did however think I was going to
go insane when I had to put the book down at the 70% mark with everything up in
the air.
The depth of emotion is indescribable and I know
this book will stay with me for ever. Hands down the best characters, the
infinite love and heart stopping drama had my heart stopping before it pounded
out of my chest with tears streaming down my face. But of course you always
know you are going to get perfection from Aly Martinez.
Fuck, Walter Noir was insane. That man had had it all. An amazing wife. A gorgeous daughter. A beautiful life. But, for some reason, he hadn’t been able to get his shit together enough to hold on to it. And thank God for that. Because, now, she was my woman. My girl. My life.
So I am not going to go into the story at all
because if you haven’t read the first one yet you need to one click them both
right now, seriously there is no excuse not to. And if you have read the first
one you would already be finished with this one before you could stop to look
at reviews. So I will simply tell you this is without a doubt the absolute must
read of the year.
I
don’t think I have read an Aly Martinez book that hasn’t stolen part of my
soul. So when I was awarded an ARC of Retrieval I was so excited and so
apprehensive. You see these are not books you can read for an hour here and 20
minutes there as you shuttle the kids to basketball and football and school and
soccer. These are books you need to clear a few hours of your day and find a
quiet room to hide out in as you become fully immersed in the story.
So
I had a plan. I was going to read it Saturday afternoon but then I slowly
watched the day dwindle away and when I sat down at 9pm I knew I had missed my
opportunity so I bitched to hubby and he cleared me a Sunday arvo. And now I am
sitting here with tears streaming down my face NEEDING to get my grabby hands
on Transfer.
Elisabeth
was so sweet and I loved that she was so filled with attitude and spirit, she didn’t
once do something stupid or try to punish Roman she just knew how she felt and
what she wanted and she went after it. I absolutely fell head over heels for
her. I loved knowing where she was coming from and how she got where she got in
her life and emotions.
But
damn was she one strong willed woman to walk away from the amazeballs of Roman.
Holy shit was he all that you could ever want in a book boyfriend and then just
a whole heap more. In fact I think he transcends book boyfriend by far. I just
could not get enough of him ever.
But I’d never, not once, seen Elisabeth with just my eyes. My heart was just as much a part of the way I viewed her as my retinas.
To
be completely honest, the concept of infertility is a hard one for me to grasp and
reading the absolute heartbreak Roman and Elisabeth went through in their
struggle my heart broke for them. But to continue the honesty I think most of
those emotions were pulled out of me by the amazing talent of Aly more so than
the subject. But damn did I feel their pain like a knife to my stomach.
I
can never get enough of the way Aly Martinez writes and I honestly think she
must have the map to my heart for the men that she writes have all got a piece
of it locked away. And now I am off to beg, borrow or steal to get my hands on Transfer
before I have a nervous breakdown waiting to see what is going to happen next.
This is absolutely one of the best books I have read this year, I honestly don’t
know how to put it down and continue functioning without knowing what happens
next but if you will excuse me for a bit I think I may start by going to cry in
the shower for Claire. Until I focus on the many assets of Roman to cheer
myself up that is.
OMG
OMG OMG OMG.
I have been fangirling over this series and the amazing
talent of Linda Kage since I first picked up Price of A Kiss. From that first
book I was so beyond hooked, I can’t even explain without making some weird
high pitched sound only dolphins could interpret, but I am going to try to write
a review to sum up the absolute perfection of this novel.
When I first saw that there was finally a release date I
jumped on the ARC begging line and luckily for me I think Linda felt sorry
for my patheticness and granted me one. But before I had a chance to even look
at mine one of my GR friends posted a comment stating this was different from the
rest of the series and to be prepared. Well that had me shitting my pants, I
mean why the hell would Linda change perfection? And what was I going to get if
it was different to my beloved Forbidden men?
But you know I have no patience so I tried to lock myself
in a dark room with my kindle and find out all there was to know about the new
ex-con bartender we super briefly met in A Perfect Ten.
And from the first page I was back in my happy place and to
be honest now that I have finished it I think this book was in true form to
every other book in the series.
If you are a fan of the Forbidden Men series then you are
going into this knowing all of the characters are interconnected and generally
in more ways than one, but in this one the connections aren’t ones we already
know of so that’s a little different. Also this book takes place in two time
frames which isn’t the usual but damn did that work so perfectly I can’t
imagine any other way of being told this story.
Like all the other novels in this series there is heartache
and devastation but I honestly had a near breakdown when I woke up 2 hours
early this morning to try and finish this book before we had to go out only to
get to 80% and run out of reading time. Not only was I out of time but I was
ugly crying so hard I could hardly keep my eyes open to read the next word. So
be warned read this when you have the time to sit and enjoy it.
Now don’t get me wrong this book had so much emotion it was
almost soul destroying but it also had everything we can expect from all our
favourites and then a few more twists and turns to keep us all on our toes. It
had so much love and friendship and support it was hard not to smile but it
also had Ten’s crazy comedy and a few surprises to keep us all on baited breath
for Ashers book. Which fucking hell that teaser was just plain mean Linda, so
you better have that one almost ready or I may end up camped on your lawn going
through your trash to find out what happens next.
But in all honesty this series has been perfection from
start to not quite finish so if you haven’t yet read Price of A Kiss one click
it right now and if you’re already a die hard fan of the series like I am you
really should have this pre ordered already and trust me you are going to love
Knox and City so hard.
Check Out My Reviews on some of the other Forbidden Men by clicking the pics below
I have loved Ten from the second book when we first met him
and we really got to see how far he would go for his mates and yeah he has
always been a little bit on the man whore side of things and there is no
doubting he was a little bit damaged and had a tendency to be a big bit of an
acehole but that’s all part of his charm. He is the crude joke at the funeral,
the loud voice in the library but he is also the best person to have at your
back. He is loyal to a fault and the more I saw of his rude, obnoxious man
whoring ass the more I had to know him and the deeper I fell in lust for him.
He has been a major background character for a while now
but even so he managed to make himself known and from the second he saw
Caroline we all knew they were meant to be.
We met Caroline just as she breaks and then we got to watch
her pull herself back together and grow into her own strength. There were so
many times I wanted her to realise her self-worth and give Ten a huge reality check and move on
without him but she never once doubted what she wanted and I think that made me
love her more.
Caroline was the perfect mix of vulnerable naïve virgin and
seductress. And having watched the covert foreplay between her and Ten in the
last book it was hard to see them still no closer to being together at the
start of this book.
From the get go Ten knows she is out of reach, there is no
way Noel will let his man whore mate date his damaged sister but add
to that Ten’s complete belief he will never be good enough for her I was sure
this book would kill me from angst overload but it didn’t happen.
Ten spent a lot of time trying to prove he was unworthy of
Caroline then apologising for upsetting her when he succeeded. I could feel his
desperation for the one thing he knew he couldn’t have as she became the one
thing he couldn’t live without and I spent the first half of the book trying to
guess when the sky was going to fall on these two and Noel was going to clue in
that his beautiful baby sister was madly in love with his best mate that I
think I was almost sick with nerves.
But of course Linda didn’t get me stalking her windows at
night by writing the predictable over played angst and her Forbidden Men aren’t
just sexy they are also strong, loyal, sweet, amazing men so the sky didn’t
fall when and where and how I expected and the things I thought I knew about
these characters was just slightly left of centre so I ended up even more
besotted with them all and even more anxious for the next instalment.
But as Linda is so good at once they finally did get
together the sexual chemistry was panty soaking and the complete love was heart-warming.
So well played Linda, you had me laughing, you had me
crying, you had me shell shocked and devastated, you had me waking my husband at 2am and
jumping him and then waking him at 9am trying to explain to him why the book
was so epic. You have had me in a book coma for the entire day as I continually
obsess over everything that happened in A Perfect Ten, And now you have me
writing a review at 11pm cause I can’t get it out of my head long enough to do
anything productive.
This series has got the absolute best characters and the
angst and drama are so superbly written it’s actually hard to put into words
how perfect they all have been in entirely different ways but all as equally
epic as each other. They all had the smoking hot, panties dripping sex scenes
perfectly mixed with all of the heart and love and sweetness you could want.
For a NA book they are an amazing blend of romance and Erotica.
I was expecting
Asher’s story to blow us away next but I am only slightly disappointed to see we
have to wait on that as we are getting a new man at Forbidden before Asher
man’s up and tells us his tale.
So until next round I guess we will have to re-read.
Wow, just
wow.
It was always a given that Ally's story would be amazing. From the minute we met her she was this bright light of sweet and caring and she looked out for everyone regardless of their failings and faults with complete love and no judgement and having met her beautiful parents you could see why.
When it was announced that we had already met her partner speculation was that it would be Molly's old flame from England.And I figured that could work. I mean I wasn't a huge fan but he could warm up a little and we didn't know much of him so sweet, books written. Ummm wrong.
Elpi could not have been further from him. And realizing it was Axel and having seen all he had done and where he was coming from I just couldn't reconcile him with our beautiful Ally.
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I mean don't get me wrong I knew Ally wouldn't judge and I knew if anyone could see passed the obvious negatives to the heart beneath it would be Ally I just wanted so much more, so much better. Knowing her this long and seeing how truly pure of soul she was I wanted epic for her.
But of course as is par for the series the asshole is never set in marble (see what I did there? huh did ya?) and as Tillie peeled away at his layers and showed us his side of his past sins my heart broke and I couldn't help but love him.
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The depth of character here was astounding and seeing things in past tense from Axel's point of view after we had seen how it affected his brothers and other previous characters just made this book go from perfect to epic.
Although I am devastated to see this series finish I don't think it could have been better. And I will forever bow at the feet of Tillie Cole for giving us the stories of Rome and Molly, Cassie and Jimmy-Don, Lexi and Austin. And for also giving us perfection at every turn with this series.
So until I get the balls up to read her other books I guess I will continue to rant over this Sweet series.
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