New Military Romance!
Hallowed Ground by Rebecca Yarros is
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Blurb
There are some debts you can’t repay.
Josh Walker is loyal, reckless, and every girl’s dream. But he only has eyes for December Howard, the girl he's craved since his high school hockey days. Together they have survived grief, the military, distance, and time as they’ve fought for stolen weekends between his post at Ft. Rucker and her college at Vanderbilt. Now that Josh is a medevac pilot and Ember is headed toward graduation, they’re moving on—and in—together.
Ember never wanted the Army life, but loving Josh means accepting whatever the army dictates—even when that means saying goodbye as Josh heads to Afghanistan, a country that nearly killed him once before and that took her father. But filling their last days together with love, passion, and plans for their future doesn’t temper Ember’s fear, and if there’s one thing she’s learned from her father’s death, it’s that there are some obstacles even love can’t conquer.
Flight school is over.
This is war.
EXCERPT
I pushed my chair out and reached for her, lifting her tiny, curved frame into my lap. Her head tucked beneath my chin, and she curled into me, fitting right where she was always meant to be. My arms closed around her. “We have a month.”
“It’s not long enough.” Her fingers gripped my shirt like she could keep me here if she just held on tight enough. God, what I wouldn’t have given to stay with her.
“Forever isn’t long enough for us, December, but that’s what we’re going to have. You and I have never chosen the easy path. This is just another hurdle.” I rubbed my chin over her soft hair and tried to soak in every detail of holding her—the sweet way she smelled, the smooth texture of her skin beneath my hands.
She leaned back in my arms and cupped my face. “I can’t lose you.” Her voice broke, and tears pooled in her eyes.
I’d never hated myself more than I did in that moment. She’d made it through a nightmare no one should have to face, and I was about to ask her to chance that fire again. My breath hitched, barely passing the lump in my throat. “You won’t. It would take something a hell of a lot stronger than a war to keep me from you.”
I sealed that promise with a kiss, tasting her fear and desperation as she responded. She opened underneath me, and I fused my mouth to hers, surrendering to the heat between us to pull us through this moment. There was nothing hotter or sweeter in this world than kissing December, feeling her go soft and pliant.
We’d fought so fucking hard to get here, to be together. This wasn’t fair, and we both knew it. But we also both knew it didn’t matter. Fair wasn’t exactly in the U.S. Army vocabulary.
I retreated just enough to whisper against her lips, “I’ll come home. I swear it.”
My Review:
This will be as spoiler free as I can make it.
Hallowed Ground is the amazing conclusion to the Flight & Glory series by Rebecca Yarros. To sum it up, this book was Epic, terrifying, heartbreaking, chaoticly emotional, swoony, and a touch romantic. Yes - all that and more.
Josh and Ember thought they had time together, thought they had weathered through and could just be, but life throws another curveball at them instead. One that threatens to tear them apart again.
There's knowing what to expect and reality. Sometiems even when we think we know what can happen, or what is coming, when reality slaps us across the face, we discover we had no clue just how things would happen or just how strong we would need to be. Both Ember and Josh discover this throughout this book.
Josh and Ember have several misunderstandings throughout this story, mostly due to stress and trying to be there for one another, they always have good intentions, but the point comes across wrong in some instances. I loved this because it made their fears, their worries, and each high strung emotion palpable throughout their actions and reactions.
Josh struggles with what occured while he was at war, he's hiding his thoughts and feelings and having nightmares, and its difficutl for Ember because she wants to be there for him in every way, but she also doesn't want to push him to hard because she knows she's one of the few people he trusts and can count on.
Some scenes were so intense and the emotions so heavy that I felt sucked of air and numb. I literally felt like I was hanging by my heart strings and cringing as I turned the page, because even at the height of my emotions, when I was afraid of what was coming, I could not stop myself from continuing. That's how real, and how good Yarros writes this story.
My heart was heavy, my eyes were red, but each twist and turn of this book, each moment sweet or sorrowful, pulled me in and threatened to overwhelm me. But the key is, I was there, I was so into the story, so with the characters, that I couldn't let go, and I had to grasp on and follow through because their story wouldn't let me escape.
Yarros could not have ended this series of books on any different note, I believe each and every thing that happened had to. This story further defined Josh and Ember and showed exactly who they were and what they could be. This story gave us happy moments, sweet moments, it tore our hearts out a little and made us tear up or full on cry, but ultimately it also brought us a form of closure for the series. I will miss these characters, but I'm also looking forward to the world Yarros will bring us next.
About the Author
Rebecca Yarros is a hopeless romantic and lover of all things chocolate, coffee, and Paleo. In addition to being a mom, military wife, and blogger, she can never choose between Young Adult and New Adult fiction, so she writes both. She's a graduate of Troy University, where she studied European history and English, but still holds out hope for an acceptance letter to Hogwarts. Her blog, The Only Girl Among Boys, has been voted the Top Military Mom Blog the last two years, and celebrates the complex issues surrounding the military life she adores.
When she's not writing, she's tying on hockey skates for her kids, or sneaking in some guitar time. She is madly in love with her army-aviator husband of eleven years. They finally can call Colorado home along with their gaggle of rambunctious kiddos and snoring English Bulldog.
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