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A review by xoxotawnydee
Healing the Soldier's Heart by Lily George
4.0
3.5 stars
I received this book from the GoodReads First Reads giveaways.
This book started quick for me and I was extremely excited to begin reading it. The idea that this man had such a strong case of PTSD that he had trouble speaking to but three people in his acquaintance was right up my alley for kinds of troubled characters I liked. It was about halfway through however that it began to slow down. I'm not sure if it was because I knew exactly what would happen, it is a Harlequin novel after all, or what but I was easily distracted in the middle of the book.
I've never read any other books from Lily George so I didn't know the background of the characters that you can apparently gather from the other books in the series, but as someone who didn't even know that there were other books in the series until I finished the book and read the author's note in the back I can affirm that this book can be read as a stand alone. Perhaps it would have drawn me in more if I had known the characters from the beginning.
James had a lot to overcome to forgive himself and to move on from what had transpired during the war and it was sweet to see Lucy helping him overcome everything simply because none of it bothered her. She didn't care about what he'd done or that he had a stutter, what mattered to her was who he was now. It was a very sweet romance, not one of those romances that are all about sex which was nice to read about for a change. There are so many books that start physical relationships right from the beginning that it was nice to just read about the romance between the two characters.
Overall it was a sweet little read, though not exactly my tastes because I'm not usually very big on historical novels.
I received this book from the GoodReads First Reads giveaways.
This book started quick for me and I was extremely excited to begin reading it. The idea that this man had such a strong case of PTSD that he had trouble speaking to but three people in his acquaintance was right up my alley for kinds of troubled characters I liked. It was about halfway through however that it began to slow down. I'm not sure if it was because I knew exactly what would happen, it is a Harlequin novel after all, or what but I was easily distracted in the middle of the book.
I've never read any other books from Lily George so I didn't know the background of the characters that you can apparently gather from the other books in the series, but as someone who didn't even know that there were other books in the series until I finished the book and read the author's note in the back I can affirm that this book can be read as a stand alone. Perhaps it would have drawn me in more if I had known the characters from the beginning.
James had a lot to overcome to forgive himself and to move on from what had transpired during the war and it was sweet to see Lucy helping him overcome everything simply because none of it bothered her. She didn't care about what he'd done or that he had a stutter, what mattered to her was who he was now. It was a very sweet romance, not one of those romances that are all about sex which was nice to read about for a change. There are so many books that start physical relationships right from the beginning that it was nice to just read about the romance between the two characters.
Overall it was a sweet little read, though not exactly my tastes because I'm not usually very big on historical novels.