*I received a free ARC of this book from the author in exchange for my honest review.
If you haven’t already, I would highly recommend reading the Pic*I received a free ARC of this book from the author in exchange for my honest review.
If you haven’t already, I would highly recommend reading the Pictures of You series that this story sits alongside. You meet Minty in that series and I think it gives the perfect setup for his story. Also they’re amazing and it’s one of the greatest series’ I’ve ever read.
This story is incredibly gritty and raw and the author does not shy away from some incredibly dark and ugly subject matters so I wouldn’t advise anyone read this without thoroughly checking the content warnings at the start.
I have a huge amount of respect for Leta Blake because she has tackled some things in this book that are truly harrowing and yet none of it feels glamorised and none of it reads like trauma porn which is a difficult line to tread.
I knew from her Training Season series that the author has a good understanding of BDSM to write about it well and that was still the case here. I’d say the main challenge in this was that at points, the BDSM really was being used as a tool for trying to deal with past trauma and that made for some uncomfortable scenes. They were written perfectly in my opinion but were not an easy read.
In the end though, this book just gave a feeling of hopefulness that I didn’t expect. That healing is possible and everybody deserves to be loved. Although this very much feels like Minty’s book, the way Luke loved him, not always perfectly but always steadfastly was beautiful.
I’m not ashamed to say that I wept at the post script section at the end of the book.
Peter’s story was a tough act to follow but this was phenomenal writing. Leta Blake really pulls you apart before she puts you back together in this book but it was completely worth it. ...more
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