Release Blitz, Review Tour and Giveaway: A Soldier’s Wish by N.R. Walker

Reviewer's Rating: 5

5.0Overall score

I loved this; I grew up during this time period.

A Soldier’s Wish By N.R. Walker

Genre: Romance, GLBTQ, MM, Holiday, Christmas

Released: December 2, 2018

Publisher: Self-Published

Series: The Christmas Angel, Book 5

Length: 55,000 words approx..

Cover Design: Meredith Russell

Synopsis

The year is 1969…

Gary Fairchild is proud to be a hippie college student, and he protests the Vietnam War because he believes in love and peace. To him, it isn’t just a counterculture movement—it’s a way of life. When tickets to the Aquarium Exposition—3 Days of Peace & Music, or Woodstock, as it was better known, go on sale, there’s no way he isn’t going.

Richard Ronsman is a sheltered farm boy who lives in the shadow of his overbearing father. He’s hidden his darkest secret to earn his father’s love, but nothing is ever good enough—not even volunteering for the Vietnam War. And with just a few days left before he’s deployed, he’s invited by a striking hippie to join him at a music festival.

Three days of music, drugs, rain, mud, and love forged a bond between these two very different men that would shape the rest of their lives. They share dreams and fears, and when Richard is shipped off to war, they share letters and love. For Richard’s first Christmas home, he is gifted a special angel ornament that just might make a soldier’s wish come true.

This story is one of seven stories which can all be read and enjoyed in any order.

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Reviewed by ButtonsMom2003

I loved this; I grew up during this time period.

I have enjoyed all of the stories that I’ve read in The Christmas Angel series (I only have 2 more to go) but A Soldier’s Wish got to me in a different way from the others. The story begins in 1969 where a group of friends are going to a little thing called Woodstock. I was 13 years old that summer and so many of the things touched on in this story brought back memories of that time.

Gary is a hippie and he meets Richard in a coffee shop where he and his friends stopped on their way to Woodstock. Richard looks like he needs a friend so Gary goes over to talk to him. When he finds out that Richard is on his way to a 12-month tour in Viet Nam he invites him to come with him and his friends and enjoy the weekend before he has to report for duty.

I honestly don’t remember that much about Woodstock. I’m sure I was too young to be interested in watching the news so reading this story about things that happened there gave me at least a glimpse of what it might have been like. I do remember being nervous about draft numbers coming up. I started dating my future husband the following year and remember being nervous about his number coming up (it didn’t).

Richard confides to Gary that he likes boys and that he thinks his extremely strict and religious parents must suspect because of the way they treat him and the horrible things they say to him. Gary tells him that there is nothing wrong with how he feels and that he also likes boys and can help show him how good it can be between two men.

This story is one of the most romantic ones that I’ve read in a while. Gary and Richard stay in touch by writing each other letters and one section of the book is just the letters they write. When Richard’s letters stop coming Gary has to find out why and finally tracks him down.

They love between these two guys just poured off the pages and the depth of emotions conveyed through N.R. Walker’s writing was wonderful. This is a story that I won’t soon forget.

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Books in the Series The Christmas Angel Series

The Christmas Angel Series

In 1750, a master woodcarver poured all his unrequited love, passion, and longing into his masterpiece—a gorgeous Christmas angel for his beloved’s tree. When the man he loved tossed the angel away without a second thought, a miracle happened. The angel was found by another who brought the woodcarver True Love.

Since then, the angel has been passed down, sold, lost and found, but its magic remains. Read the romances inspired by (and perhaps nudged along by) the Christmas angel through the years. Whether it’s 1700s England (Eli Easton’s Christmas Angel), the 1880’s New York (Kim Fielding’s Summerfield’s Angel), the turn-of-the-century (Jordan L. Hawk’s Magician’s Angel), World War II (L.A. Witt’s Christmas Homecoming), Vietnam-era (N.R. Walker’s Soldier’s Wish), the 1990’s (Anyta Sunday’s Shrewd Angel), or 2018 (RJ Scott’s Christmas Prince), the Christmas angel has a way of landing on the trees of lonely men who need its blessing for a very Merry Christmas and forever HEA.

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About Author

N.R. Walker

N.R. Walker is an Australian author, who loves her genre of gay romance. She loves writing and spends far too much time doing it, but wouldn’t have it any other way.

She is many things; a mother, a wife, a sister, a writer. She has pretty, pretty boys who she gives them life with words.

She likes it when they do dirty, dirty things…but likes it even more when they fall in love. She used to think having people in her head talking to her was weird, until one day she happened across other writers who told her it was normal.

She’s been writing ever since…

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