Love, Always and Forever (Sergeant Joe's Boys #3)
by Alexis
Morgan
Blurb:
Sergeant Joe's Boys are back!
Bestselling author Alexis Morgan delivers a tender and inspiring novel about
Mikhail, a battle-scarred firefighter, and the sensitive young woman who slips
inside the walls around his heart.
As
a child, Mikhail Wanjek couldn't save his drug-addled mother; as a young man,
he left a promising military career because he couldn't defend the innocent
victims of war. When Mikhail's feeling like a failure, not even the love of his
adoptive parents and loyal brothers can console him. But after he volunteers to
help his beautiful brunette neighbor install a fence around her yard, Mikhail
begins to heal. He wants to shield her pure, unabashed lust for life from the
darkness-including his own.
Successful
heart surgery has allowed Amy Short to finally set out on her own, apart from
her loving but overprotective family. Now she's experiencing new thrills with
the chiseled fireman next door, from riding on the back of Mikhail's Harley to
late nights full of passion. Still, he refuses to open up emotionally, and with
Amy's history, she's not willing to wait around for Mikhail to change. What she
needs to do is show him that together they can build something that will last
forever.
Themes: Contemporary
Rating: 4.75 stars
Heat Rating: 
Review:
The last of Sergeant Joe’s boys has finally
come home and found the woman to complete his life in this heart wrenching and amazing
story by Alexis Morgan. I have to admit that I was reluctant to begin this
series when I found it, not because I doubted I would enjoy the story, but
simply because I understand the greatness of Alexis’s writing and have been
broken-hearted in the past when the series I have fallen in love with
ended. First world problems, I know, but
it still made me second guess my choice to request ARCs, for about 15 seconds
anyway. That is the magic of Alexis Morgan though and I was unwilling to miss
the chance to experience it with her newest project. This series takes us on the journey of three
brothers, not of blood but of the heart, who were adopted in their youth by a
hard-nosed but loving military man and his sweet but strict wife, giving three
boys who so badly needed it, the love of a mother and father. In the previous two novels Mikhail’s brothers
have found the loves of their lives as well as a way to come to terms with the
loss of their beloved adopted father and their experiences in the war, and now
Mikhail is faced with a woman he doesn’t understand but cannot for the life of
him give up. Awoken early one morning by the obnoxious and unrelenting knocking
on his door, Mikhail stumbles sleepily into the path of the one woman he is
unable to resist. Amy is determined to
exert her independence and make a home for herself out from under the
overbearing protection of her family.
But when she meets her new neighbor, she quickly realizes she is in no
way ready to handle him. Mikhail brings out a playful side of her and she knows
that they could have something amazing together, if only he would accept that
he deserves a chance at love and if he would stop pushing her away. Amy was fragile in a lot of ways, but deep
inside where it counted she was a woman I was more than able to understand and
appreciate, with an iron will to live her life without barriers or
restrictions. She has been sheltered by
her family so long that when she decides to be on her own, she goes all the way
and refuses to let them interfere in her life. There is no denying she has had
some issues that could have warranted their protectiveness, but I loved seeing
her show them that she has moved past that and doesn’t need such close monitoring
anymore. Mikhail has serious issues
still to deal with and there is no denying that he is a work in progress still,
but there was no way to resist this sweet, sexy former warrior turned fireman, especially
after seeing him with his mother and new sisters-in-law. While there were certainly moments I wanted
to slap some sense into Mikhail, there was never any point I wanted to give up
on him and his chance at love. Passion
and heat run rampant in this story, even as innocent of the world as Amy was,
because when you put two people so naturally passionate about life together
there is no way they won’t kick off explosions in one another. I am interested in seeing that there might be
a fourth novel in the series about the hero's friend, also a
former warrior that was injured and is in need of the love of a good woman. But sadly after that there seems to be another
sad ending coming for Morgan fans and new readers alike. Keep dazzling us, Alexis, and I can guarantee
you at least one reader for anything you provide until the end of your time
writing.
*ebook provided by publisher (via
netgalley) for the purpose of an honest and unbiased review. No compensation was provided.
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