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3.65 AVERAGE
3.65 AVERAGE
I just love Garett Leigh's brand of romance. A little heavy at times, but there is so much substance I can't help but gorge on her words.
We first meet Cash at the end of Lucky as the guy that got hired on at the garage where Lucky worked. Cash was a bit mysterious, quiet, and a really good guy and he became Lucky's housemate. We see plenty of Lucky and Dom in Cash, too, and I could not be happier for it. I always enjoy visiting with previous MC's whom I already love, while getting to know a new pair.
Rae and Cash first meet purely by chance and they have a night of passion that neither could forget, as much as they both tried. They had no idea that one's past is so very aligned with the other's present. That is until Rae is sent to find Ciaran Walsh and finds his one-time hookup, Cash, instead, making sure that past and present collide.
Cash is a bit jumpy and distrustful, at first, having not only been burned by his last relationship, but also having lost his taste for the fight. He still cares what happens to the foxes, but he can no longer let the fight consume him - because that's what it did, and he nearly didn't survive it the first time. Cash isn't sure he can do it again.
Rae's whole life revolves around his work as a saboteur. He sleeps rough most of the time, he uses his journalism degree to run a blog about the work they do, and every weekend he's out in the field trying to save the animals savagely being hunted by those that think they are above the law.
While many of this author's characters have traumatic or tragic backgrounds, that really isn't the case in Cash. Instead, the trauma is all in what the MC's are trying to stop -- illegal fox hunting. I could not help but hurt for foxes as I read about the saboteurs risking all to stop the hunts.
This picture that Garett Leigh paints is vivid, without being graphic. It is storytelling at its finest, letting us as readers fill in the missing bits, and I am very glad for that because my imagination is vivid enough. And while I don't necessarily agree with activist terrorism, I can empathize with what drives them.
Cash is a bit heavy, but not all that angsty. The heaviness comes from the subject of blood sports, rather than tragic pasts and trauma not healed. Still, the story shows the toll that such activism takes on a person's trust and spirit. The price is high, but fear not, we do get a happy ending.
Recommended.
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ARC of Cash was generously provided by the author, in exchange for an honest review.
We first meet Cash at the end of Lucky as the guy that got hired on at the garage where Lucky worked. Cash was a bit mysterious, quiet, and a really good guy and he became Lucky's housemate. We see plenty of Lucky and Dom in Cash, too, and I could not be happier for it. I always enjoy visiting with previous MC's whom I already love, while getting to know a new pair.
Rae and Cash first meet purely by chance and they have a night of passion that neither could forget, as much as they both tried. They had no idea that one's past is so very aligned with the other's present. That is until Rae is sent to find Ciaran Walsh and finds his one-time hookup, Cash, instead, making sure that past and present collide.
Cash is a bit jumpy and distrustful, at first, having not only been burned by his last relationship, but also having lost his taste for the fight. He still cares what happens to the foxes, but he can no longer let the fight consume him - because that's what it did, and he nearly didn't survive it the first time. Cash isn't sure he can do it again.
Rae's whole life revolves around his work as a saboteur. He sleeps rough most of the time, he uses his journalism degree to run a blog about the work they do, and every weekend he's out in the field trying to save the animals savagely being hunted by those that think they are above the law.
While many of this author's characters have traumatic or tragic backgrounds, that really isn't the case in Cash. Instead, the trauma is all in what the MC's are trying to stop -- illegal fox hunting. I could not help but hurt for foxes as I read about the saboteurs risking all to stop the hunts.
This picture that Garett Leigh paints is vivid, without being graphic. It is storytelling at its finest, letting us as readers fill in the missing bits, and I am very glad for that because my imagination is vivid enough. And while I don't necessarily agree with activist terrorism, I can empathize with what drives them.
Cash is a bit heavy, but not all that angsty. The heaviness comes from the subject of blood sports, rather than tragic pasts and trauma not healed. Still, the story shows the toll that such activism takes on a person's trust and spirit. The price is high, but fear not, we do get a happy ending.
Recommended.
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ARC of Cash was generously provided by the author, in exchange for an honest review.
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
3.5/5 I really enjoyed the characters, but I wanted a little more between the two of them. It was nice to see more of Lucky and Dom from the first book.
dark
emotional
hopeful
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
As a romance it failed to convince me. Learning about fox hunting and the saboteur movement was interesting though.
DNF @ 56%
I'm not going to rate it because I feel like this is definitely a matter of personal taste. I couldn't really connect with the hunters vs. saboteur theme. Looking at it from across a wide ocean, the whole thing seemed extreme to me. Then, when Cash decided It didn't seem logical to me. Since I was already struggling, it seemed like a good time to call it quits.
🤷 I usually love be GL's stories. This is just a rare exception.
I'm not going to rate it because I feel like this is definitely a matter of personal taste. I couldn't really connect with the hunters vs. saboteur theme. Looking at it from across a wide ocean, the whole thing seemed extreme to me. Then, when Cash decided
Spoiler
he'd go back to that life but not pursue a relationship with Rae, I couldn't make any sense out of that.🤷 I usually love be GL's stories. This is just a rare exception.
3.5 Star
This book was heavy on the social justice/political message side and light on the romance. I liked Cash and Rae, but never felt heavily invested in getting to know them. I kinda felt like they were inevitably going to get together while we had a bunch of angsty, "me man, can't talk about what I'm feeling," moments in between. Most of the real descriptive parts of the book were about the impact of the illegal fox hunting on these two men and how passionate they were about being sab's and putting themselves into the line of fire between the hunters and the foxes. It was an interesting story from that perspective, and never got to over the top in the description of the horrible ends those hunts can end up in.
While I enjoyed the education I felt like I was getting about fox hunting in England, I felt a bit disappointed in the story of the romance between Cash and Rae. I wanted to be more invested in them as individuals and instead a just felt a general like that carried me through the story. I'm happy for these two, but they wouldn't be the reason I came back for more.
This book was heavy on the social justice/political message side and light on the romance. I liked Cash and Rae, but never felt heavily invested in getting to know them. I kinda felt like they were inevitably going to get together while we had a bunch of angsty, "me man, can't talk about what I'm feeling," moments in between. Most of the real descriptive parts of the book were about the impact of the illegal fox hunting on these two men and how passionate they were about being sab's and putting themselves into the line of fire between the hunters and the foxes. It was an interesting story from that perspective, and never got to over the top in the description of the horrible ends those hunts can end up in.
While I enjoyed the education I felt like I was getting about fox hunting in England, I felt a bit disappointed in the story of the romance between Cash and Rae. I wanted to be more invested in them as individuals and instead a just felt a general like that carried me through the story. I'm happy for these two, but they wouldn't be the reason I came back for more.