5 Smooches!
Synopsis
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.
REVIEW
I’m going to start this spoiler-free review by saying that I really don’t want to give away anything about this story at all, so there will be no quotes, no teasers, no discussions of the plot or the characters in this review. My instincts just told me that it would be best to experience Halo organically, so I was careful to avoid anything with spoilers. I’m glad I did, and I believe it’s how I think everyone should approach this particular story.
Halo story hooked me from the very beginning. This story was so emotional and gripping, there were times where I had a hard time putting it down. I love reading stories about young love, and this is one of the great ones. But it’s so much more than that, too. It’s a story of life’s challenges and painful real-world realities and rising up to overcome them. My heart often physically ached for these characters, and I found my emotions swinging from gut-wrenching devastation to heart-racing elation. The story was exciting, riveting, fresh, and I was positively enthralled by it. It was so uplifting and hopeful in parts yet heart-breaking and gut-churning in others. Stephens seriously ran me through the emotional wringer here, but in the best possible way.
This is the first novel I’ve read by R.C. Stephens, but it won’t be the last. I was impressed! Well written, interesting, emotional and sexy, this is not a story that I will soon forget. I’m taking an entirely new respect for military families and spouses away from this reading experience. Halo is unlike anything I’ve ever read before, and I’m looking forward to reading more from R.C. Stephens in the future. Five smooches from me!
~ Danielle Palumbo
