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Today I’m super excited to participate in the Blog Tour of ‘Fighting Absolution’, an all-new standalone contemporary romance by USA Today Bestselling author Kate McCarthy. ‘Fighting Absolution’ is now LIVE!
When I saw the cover of ‘Fighting Absolution’ I was immediately intrigued by this book. And when I read the book description I knew this was a book that I wanted to read. I hadn’t read a book by Kate McCarthy before, but I’ve been wanting too. So when I received an ARC of this book I was super excited and couldn’t start reading fast enough.
Where on earth do I start?! There are books that just completely blow your mind. And let me tell you.. ‘Fighting Absolution’ did that for me. From the moment I stared reading I just couldn’t stop. Which was a problem since I had to work early the next day. But nothing could stop me. I read this book as fast as I could, for as long as I could and finished it way to fast!! Yes, ‘Fighting Absolution’ was an amazing read and definitely one of my favorite reads of 2019 and is definitely one of my favorite books of all time. This book just blew my mind and made me feel so many different things! It was thrilling, it was sexy, it was romantic, it was scary.. It made me laugh, and it definitely made me cry. Boy.. I loved it!
In ‘Fighting Absolution’ we meet Jamie Murphy. Jamie lost everything and everyone she loved. She was completely lost, but when she was sixteen she met this boy at the other side of the fence and he saved her. But before she could get to know him more, he disappeared taking her heart with him. Now years later, Jamie has enlisted to join the army. All she wants to do is save people and somehow make up for the losses she’s been through. After a lot of training Jamie is now in Afghanistan, seeing horrible things and trying to stay strong. What she didn’t expect was to find the guy she lost so many years ago in the middle of a warzone.
The funny thing is, a lot of time passes in this book. I mean years go by! Normally I’m not a big fan of a lot of time passing by in a book. It makes me feel like everything is rushed and I just don’t like it. Well in this book it just works. It works really well and didn’t bother for even a second.
I loved both main characters. I loved how strong Jamie was, and reading about her struggles. And ‘Bear’.. well he was just perfect. And I loved how we get to read this book from both their point of view.
Normally I don’t read a lot of books involving war. Somehow I just can’t seem to deal with stories about war. But in this book, although it was hard and heartbreaking at times, I felt like I needed to read it. And it was beautiful in its own way. I sometimes work with people with PTSD, and let me tell you.. I think it’s impressive that not everyone who has ever been in a warzone has PTSD. I guess you’ll just have to read this book to understand what I’m saying.
This book was just so good. The writing definitely kept me hooked from the beginning till the very end. The characters are fun and make you feel like you really know them. And the emotions.. Well, this book made me cry. And I’m not a big crier. But tears where definitely falling multiple times. And the romance.. Sigh.. I just need to read more by Kate McCarthy! It’s my new mission in life! LOL!
I’m definitely a new fan of Kate McCarthy! And I definitely recommend this book!
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I roll and flail, my air mattress squeaking like a little bitch.
Bear laughs and I turn. He’s watching me, thoroughly amused. “I’m not here for your entertainment,” I hiss, my back aching from an uncomfortable sleep.
“Someone needs her coffee.”
“Did you poke a hole in my mattress?”
“No, but there’s something poking a hole in my—”
“For the love of god!” I rise up, the knife from beneath my pillow in hand. “I’m gonna stab yours just for that.”
“No!” He laughs, half-rising from his own bed, warding me off with his massive paws. “That damn thing is probably why you woke up on the ground.”
I lunge across the tent, my knife jabbing straight into his inflatable mattress. It tears a long, deep gash in the corner. Air hisses out in a wheezy rush. “What in the actual fuck?” he shouts, falling back with a stunned laugh. “You’re such a bitch!”
The knife drops from my hand, and I double over, gasping with laughter while the airbed deflates around him, sinking him slowly to the ground.
“Now neither of us have a bed!”
“Oh well.” I tuck my knife away. “We can start on those bottles of red tonight until we can’t feel a damn thing, and then it won’t matter.”
I unzip the tent and step out, my jaw cracking from a yawn that stretches my face. “Bring me coffee!” he orders from inside the tent.
I turn my head, sneaking a glance his way. He’s standing over his duffel bag, clad in nothing but a tight pair of bright blue cotton boxer-briefs. It’s almost a physical punch. I linger a moment before I look away, back to the ocean, trying to dispel the image, but my mind won’t let it go. The wide, muscled shoulders, his tattooed arms, the thick washboard abs, his body scarred from combat and a lifetime of hard and heavy training.
I shiver with a sense of longing and have to remind myself that it’s just Bear as I start on the coffee. The same Bear who laughed his ass off when I tripped on the edge of the jetty in Broome and fell in the water. The one who snores like a freight train after one too many beers. The one slowly turning into a mountain man because he hasn’t shaved since we left.
The very same Bear who tips his head back each night in his camp chair and makes me scratch his head with my nails while he sits there and whimpers like a little girl.
This Blog Tour was organized by Social Butterfly PR.
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Maureen is a mom, wife, nurse, and Ravenclaw living in the Netherlands. She spends her days juggling mom-life, reading, blogging, planning date nights with her husband and working as a nurse. Maureen also is a big Anglophile, loves cooking, Gilmore Girls, Bridgerton and Harry Potter.. Always! Facebook | Instagram
