A Lover’s Lament will touch your soul and you will feel every emotion as you read this couple’s intense and beautiful journey. ~ Slick, Guilty Pleasures
Description:
In a matter of seconds my entire world changed, and it was in that moment that I stopped living and simply began to exist.
In my grief, I sent a letter to the first boy I ever loved. I hoped in writing it I’d find some peace from the nightmare I was living, some solace in my anger.
I didn’t expect him to write back. I wasn’t prepared for his words, and I certainly wasn’t ready for the impact this soldier would have on my life. A deep-rooted hate transformed into friendship, and then molded into a love like I’d never known before.
Sergeant Devin Ulysses Clay did what I couldn’t: he put the shattered pieces of my heart back together, restoring my faith in humanity and teaching me how to live again.
But now that I’m whole, I have a decision to make. Do I return to my life as I knew it and the fiancé I left behind, or do I walk away from it all for the only man to ever break my heart?
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I’ve been living in hell, but you won’t hear me complain.
These men depend on me, as I do them, and this brotherhood is the only family I’ve ever known.
The Army saved me from a callous mother and a life on the wrong side of the tracks that was quickly spiraling out of control. So unlike most of the men in my platoon, going home wasn’t something I longed for.
I was content overseas, spending my days defending this country that gave me my life back. Fighting became my new normal … until her.
A letter from Katie Devora—a letter that I almost didn’t open. Her words put a fire back inside of me that I didn’t know I’d lost. She gave me hope during a time when I was fighting every day just to stay alive, and now it’s time I fight for her.
I wasn’t sure what to expect from A Lover’s Lament, I have never read KL Grayson before and while 
I’ve followed BT Urruela’s fitness and modeling career I wasn’t aware he was an author, but after reading this book I look forward to reading more from both authors. This was not a pretty romance; this book deals with heart break, death, anger, war, forgiveness, anger, sadness and a forever kind of love we all hope to find. I loved this story and it was brilliantly written; told in first person from two points of view we were given a window into the lives, thoughts and emotional trauma each of these characters experienced throughout this book.
A short prologue sets up this book and then it really begins 10 years after with Katie waking up after a car accident. She is not in a good place and for several chapters we see her struggling with life and her “new” normal. When her therapist suggests she should engage with a military pen pal she finds a familiar name on the list and decides to lay it all out on the line and unleash all of her pain. She never expects to feel so much as she writes the first letter or how much Devin’s response affects her.
I loved reading their letters to each other which progressed into emails and eventually into phone calls. Ten years after Devin left; it is easy to tell from the correspondence that they both were unable to erase the other one completely from their memory and the feelings pour through their words to one another.
Watching Katie go from a very angry and closed off woman to one who wants more out of life, one that is actually living again and one that will even admit she is happy was pretty amazing to watch. I’ll admit reading Devin’s war accounts and the toll it was taking on him and his fellow soldiers was hard, but I felt very realistic. As they both being to realize that the feelings they once had were still there; they fell hard and fast and came to rely on the communication they both so desperately needed to stay connected so far away from one another.
They faced some very hard times both apart and together and through it all their love remained strong, they both believed they had some divine intervention and they never lost hope that they would finally get their chance to have the life they both wanted together.
A Lover’s Lament will touch your soul and you will feel every emotion as you read this couple’s intense and beautiful journey and it is absolutely a book you do not want to miss.
Thanks for the review Slick