Reviewer's Rating:
4
4.0Overall score
Gut wrenching, but in a good way by the end.
Only Love By Garrett Leigh
Genre: Contemporary Romance, GLBTQ, MM
Released: October 22, 2018
Publisher: Fox Love Press
Length: 355 pages
Cover Design: Kellie Dennis @Book Cover By Design
The diagnosis of a chronic stomach condition leaves thirty-two-year-old Sergeant Jed Cooper with little choice but to call time on his Army career. Then on the dusty streets of Kirkuk, an ambush gone tragically wrong decimates his team, and he returns to the US with a shattered leg and the memory of his best friend dying in his arms.
Life in his sleepy hometown proves intolerable until he finds solace in a lakeside cabin with vivacious young carpenter, Max O’Dair. In the shadow of the epilepsy that periodically plagues Max, he and Jed form an unspoken bond. After a late night episode, Jed realizes how much Max means to him, and life has taught him not to waste time.
But the lines between contentment and complacency are blurred. Things left hidden resurface to tear through their world, and before they can repair the damage, death comes to call again. Faces, past and present, rally around them to weather the storm, but before long, they are left with only love.
Originally published by Dreamspinner Press.
Reviewed by ButtonsMom2003
Gut wrenching, but in a good way by the end.
I haven’t read a lot of books by Garrett Leigh but I have enjoyed those that I have and Only Love is no exception. This book is pretty angsty but I don’t mind that type of story at all.
Read the blurb – it’s great and tells you about the book better than I can. What I can tell you is that this is a very intense story; no light and fluffy here. The things that Jed has seen and done during his Army career shouldn’t happen to anyone. The incurable, debilitating stomach illness contracted from a virus, makes him suffer something awful and his injured leg doesn’t help matters either.
Max O’Dair has epilepsy but he tries not to let it rule his life. After he rents his spare bedroom to Jed, as a favor to his sister, he can’t help but feel drawn to him. If only the two of them would learn to communicate better with each other.
Only Love is also about family and family relationships both good and bad. Max’s sister Kim is married to Jed’s brother Nick and Nick doesn’t really get along with anyone very well. There are a couple of very charming girls in the family, Nick and Kim’s children, and their uncles both dote on them.
The author hasn’t put any warnings on the book, and I don’t always think they are necessary, but I’d like to mention that there are some fairly graphic war scenes depicted in this story as well as time spent in hospitals.
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O Factor: Scorcher
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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 site moonstockphotography.com with photographer Dan Burgess.
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