Chapter three and I am already crying, dangit Kellyn.
STOP
DONT BE MEAN TO MY MUFFJN
NOT MY MUFFIN
Chapter five and Im crying again.
This is my favorite line Ive ever read
“I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to be sad all over your sweater. Now it’s all teary.”
Ugh this family is my heart and soul
Troy is my one true love uuugghhhhhhhh
I get it, Adele, I get it kid
*screams in absolute wreckless abandon and agony*
Souls Astray?
More like
Souls… A broken!
Anyone who’s read more than one of my blog posts are aware that I really like Hope Ann’s work. Like a lot. Okay, now take my whirlwind of emotions for her stories and… make it a historical romance.
I don’t like historical books.
Or romances.
And this book destroyed me.
Soul’s Astray
Kellyn Roth
Adele has been lost for a long time now …
Adele Collier has sought a carefree lifestyle ever since her tragic childhood. Determined to never allow anyone or anything to control her life or emotions again, she consistently seeks distraction in gaiety. But shaking her ghosts isn’t as easy as she’d like.
Troy Kee has been alone in the world since the Great War took his parents and left him in care of his younger sister. When she marries, he’s left to seek after his goal of a healthy, complete family. But how can he focus on his dream when trouble plagues his family vineyard?
When Adele and Troy meet, a whirlwind romance begins—but can two lost souls have a healthy relationship?
Genre: Historical, Fiction, Romance, Novella
Read Time: 6-8 hours
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I started reading this out of half obligation, half desire. See, I had signed up to read one of Kellyn’s very first novellas (I believe it was Ivy Introspective) back a million years ago when I first published My British Bear, and I have felt bad EVER SINCE, and I mean EVER SINCE (like 3+ years now) for not finishing it, so I read this one as soon as it was offered.
I regret it because my soul has been yanked from my body and shattered into a million pieces and I am no longer a living human being.
I think I’m some form of ghoul to be perfectly honest.
I really have never liked historical romance for two reasons:
Fantasy is so much more fun and intense and I love fantasy
Sex is gross
Due to those two things being the problem with basically every fantasy and every romance (save Joshua’s Song and this one romance I read once), I never had a desire to read either, and especially not them combined. It’s like combining rap and country.
Horrendous.
However, Kellyn Roth, the orange fire-y haired goddess of border collie puppies, rubber ducks, and the snow upon the plains of Oregon, writing a historical romance sounded fantastic because she’s a really great writer and also… she thinks non-marriage sex is super duper gross too.
So it wouldn’t be boring and wouldn’t be sexy.
Setting was London and France and post-World War II but NONE OF THAT MATTERS
WHAT MATTERS IS THAT MY BABY BOY
MY ONE TRUE LOVE
TROY KEE
PUPPY-DAD OF HOLT
HAS BEEN HURT
BY LOTS OF THINGS
It took me a while to get through this book, but it was because it is loaded with the passion of writing. Kellyn Roth writes with so much passion, conviction, and depth that I can only dream of one day writing with the same kind of skill.
The book is raw. Like, really raw. It’s real, and genuine, and you care about everyone and understand the main characters, even if they’re stupid sometimes. She conveys emotions so well sometimes I wondered if she wasn’t secretly a reincarnated London-French man.
But she’s not, obviously.
Trust me when I say the novel’s good.
This baby is a solid ten out of ten.
It is emotional, riveting, driven, beautiful, and so clever. I can’t get over it.
WELL?
WHY ARE YOU HERE?
BUY IT AND WEEP WITH ME!
WE’LL SEND HER A WHOLE PACKAGE OF TEAR STAINED HATE MAIL!
No but seriously please buy it.
I received the ARC of the book in exchange for a fair review.
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