I have just found a new amazing romance author and I’m keeping her!!!!
Oh holy hell, after reading LAVENDER MOON from Author Natalie Parker, I am as instantly smitten as the young Kaleb was when he met Luna at their first summer camp aged just 10. I loved everything about it. The angst level was high, the heat level was high and everything about the plot direction was on-point.
I can’t even say how lucky I feel to have found this author through the social media of another favourite author.
The instant and sustained connection between Kaleb and Luna was the stuff of romantic legends and even as they impulsively married young, their love was already profoundly solid. It’s written in my most favourite dual first person POV and Ms Parker didn’t cut corners in giving them the best story that they deserved.
Luna was such a trooper. She was strong and tenacious because she had to be for the boy and the man she’d always loved. She was protective, unselfish and always giving of herself until that moment arrived where she could give no more. My heart broke for them both.
Kaleb knew from that first camp that Luna made him a better person but his upbringing meant he was more reticent about revealing parts of himself that she’d so generously given. Even with his Pops giving him such a solid foundation of honour and family love, he still had so much to get past and some hard introspection to get through. The military was never meant to have been a career, but a means to better himself and gain the education that he couldn’t otherwise afford. He just had the tour of duty to fulfil first. Unfortunately for him and many others, the cost of war was too great.
The stats on US veterans are abysmal and heart-breaking. The resulting internal and external scars go unrecognised and untreated all too often, and prescription based opioid deaths are alarming across all demographics.
While Ms Parker doesn’t emphasise these scenes, I believe that she’s real about them. And they play a strong part in Kaleb and Luna’s struggle to sustain their marriage. The experience of trauma changes a person and I absolutely admired Luna’s love and loyalty that Kaleb took for granted. They both had personal demons and a parental history to overcome, and their author didn’t glorified anything about their story. It’s not harrowing by any means, but angsty was the word of the day and she did it perfectly.
But, when he hit rock bottom and his worst fears were realised, a very desperate Kaleb had to choose his direction, and I loved that he found support from an unexpected quarter. I loved his quest for retribution. Hell, I’ve already said that loved everything about this book!!!!!
Wow, LAVENDER MOON is going to be a re-read for me I can tell, especially as I’ve already read it twice so I have absolutely no qualms in highly recommending this amazing soul-filling military romance as something you need to be reading!!! All the stars!!! 🪖💔🖤
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“This was my grandmother’s,” I tell her. “And if you’re okay with my truth…” I reach out to wipe a tear away from her eye. “Then I dare you to marry me, Luna Rene.”Highlighted by 56 Kindle readers- “You touch what’s mine again, and one way or another, your life is over. Are we clear?”Highlighted by 51 Kindle readers
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If you’re looking for a story that’ll make you sob violently. This is the story! It gave me such emotional whiplash from the very beginning, but it was so worth it to read such a beautiful love story!
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- Amy ClarkeReviewed in the United Kingdom on December 4, 2023
Natalie's best yet...and that's saying something
