Title: Halo
Author: RC Stephens
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Book Description:
I fell in love with Thomas Wells and knew he was my forever.
I was sixteen when I gave him my heart.
Our love was the kind to last a lifetime.
But Thomas was broken.
The first day we met he told me he was going to become a Navy SEAL.
At nineteen he enlisted.
At twenty he married me.
At twenty five he left me pregnant and didn't turn back.
I knew he was suffering….
I also knew I couldn't save him.
He left me broken.
I was scared and alone.
Until I met Ryder St. John a wounded soldier…
He was lost.
I was lost.
Together we made sense.
I fell in love again…
What Ryder forgot to mention was that he held a secret so explosive that it could shatter both our worlds.
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Our Review:
Reviewed by Donna ~ 3.5 stars
***ARC received for an honest review***
“How can she really fall for
someone she doesn’t truly know? How can I even like myself when I don’t know
who I am.”
Halo was not what I was expecting, this was my first read by
this author and I was attracted to the cover and the synopsis in the first
instance. It is hard to say what I thought it was going to be, but this wasn’t
it, if that makes sense, but it is unexpected in a good way.
Halo and Thomas were childhood sweethearts. They met in
their teens and their relationship was not taken well by Halo’s parents. Thomas
was the boy from the wrong side of the tracks, but he was a good kid. He had a
tough home life, his dad was an alcoholic and Thomas bore the brunt of his
violent outbursts both emotionally and physically. Thomas was biding his time
though, he just wanted to get the hell out of there and the Navy Seals were his
ambition and his golden ticket.
“I will always come back to you,
Halo, even in the dark I will find you. You are my Halo.”
Halo was the normality in Thomas’s life, she gave him a
reason to wake up in the morning and they were truly inseparable. Their
relationships goes from strength to strength and they marry young. Halo and
Thomas had that soul deep connection, first love at its most powerful, a
forever love. Thomas has many deep rooted issues, mainly born from the abuse at
the hand of his dad, he feels that he is unlovable and not worthy of love in
any shape or form and it is these insecurities that cause the most issues
between them. That and the then effects of Thomas being in a war zone.
Thomas leaves Halo after a particularly horrific tour of
duty and her landing the news on him that she was pregnant was the straw that
broke the camel’s back. Now alone and pregnant Halo is on the brink of giving
birth when this book starts and their past is filtered through with flashbacks
and as the story progresses you finally begin to try and understand Thomas’s
actions and the lasting effects they have on Halo as a person.
After giving birth in the hospital Halo comes across an
injured veteran called Ryder that has been in and out of various hospitals over
the past four months. He not only has physical injuries but has amnesia too, he
was divorced and had no family so once he was released he had nowhere to go.
Struggling for money, Halo offers him her garage apartment to rent.
Both loving the company and becoming extremely comfortable
around each other the lines of friendship do eventually get a little blurry.
Ryder though is struggling to take the next step because how can he offer Halo himself
completely when he doesn’t know himself who he is. Halo struggles to take that
next step because the pain of Thomas divorcing her is still raw and she is
unsure if she has a heart to give.
“We are in a complicated
situation with our pasts dictating our present.”
Of course, the path to true love never runs smoothly and as
Ryder begins to remember snippets, will something from his past rock their
future? I loved everything about this book but I have to say I have huge
reservations about the feasibility of the plot twist that the author delivers.
I can see that she has covered her bases extremely well but there is one point
that is not addressed that in my opinion would have been a huge giveaway, so
while I enjoyed the twist I always had it in the back of my mind that I didn’t
believe it and that took something away from the impact.
Overall though, I thoroughly enjoyed it and despite my
reservations I was championing these two along from the start. As I said, RC
Stephens is a new to me author and one that I will be definitely checking out
again.
About the Author:
Her debut Novel Bitter Sweet Love is book one of the Twisted Series. Followed by Twisted Love to be released May 31st 2015.
R.C. is an avid reader, so when she isn't cooking for her clan or on her laptop writing, she's snuggled tight with her Kindle devouring any romance novel she can. Okay, with the exception of Thursday nights. She makes time for Scandal and Vampire Diaries. She's a fan of drama and suspense but she's also a sucker for a happy ending.
Her husband was her first teenage love. They live together with their three children in Toronto. Loving Canadian winters she could never think of living anywhere else.
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