Title: What Remains
Author: Garrett Leight
Publisher/GR Link: Riptide, GR
Genre: MM Contemporary
Vice: Amnesia, Angst
Rating: 5 Stars
Lock this book up: 3 Keys. The focus of this book is romance, but the sex is hot and supports their love.
Length: Novel
Satisfaction: HEA/HFN
Cover Impressions: Love it!
Best Line: “The old Jodi was gone, and Rupert would mourn him forever,
but this Jodi…Rupert loved him more than he would have ever believed possible…”
Synopsis: Web designer Jodi
Peters is a solitary creature. Lunch twice a week with his
ex-girlfriend-turned-BFF and the occasional messy venture to a dodgy gay bar is
all the company he needs, right?
Then one night he
stumbles across newly divorced firefighter Rupert O’Neil. Rupert is lost and
lonely, but just about the sweetest bloke Jodi has ever known. Add in the heady
current between them, and Jodi can’t help falling hard in love. He offers Rupert
a home within the walls of his cosy Tottenham flat—a sanctuary to nurture their
own brand of family—and for four blissful years, life is never sweeter.
Until a cruel twist of
fate snatches it all away. A moment of distraction leaves Jodi fighting for a life
he can’t remember and shatters Rupert’s heart. Jodi doesn’t know him—or want
to. With little left of the man he adores, Rupert must cling to what remains of
his shaky faith and pray that Jodi can learn to love him again.
Impressions: Garrett Leigh is becoming one of my go-to authors, and it is books like
this that make me love her work. This
book was amazing, and gave me the ability to get lost with her characters and
their lives.
This was
a great book. It was hard to read about
the loss that Rupert and Jodi experienced.
I really connected with both of them, and I loved the way that their
backstory was woven into their modern tale.
When
their relationship took such a turn, it was heartbreaking. Though it was difficult at times, I really
appreciate how Leigh wrote about the ups and downs in a realistic and moving
way. There was no magical cure or Prince
Charming kiss, but rather a love that connected and drew two men back to each
other and to the love that supported them since the first time they met.
I
strongly recommend this read. I started
it and finished it in one day because I couldn’t put it down.
