I admit that I fall in love with books easily. I’ve been reading all these amazing stories lately and it seems like I keep doling out 5 stars like it’s nobody’s business. But it’s not every day that I come across a book that well and truly captures my heart and my mind that 5 measly stars isn’t enough to express how much I loved it.
I just found another one of those 5+++ kind of books in Katy Regnery’s The Vixen and the Vet.
Rating: (Right, you guessed it) Above and beyond 5 out of 5 stars!
Synopsis:
I just found another one of those 5+++ kind of books in Katy Regnery’s The Vixen and the Vet.
Rating: (Right, you guessed it) Above and beyond 5 out of 5 stars!
Synopsis:
Burned by an unreliable source, Savannah Carmichael, returns to her hometown of Danvers, Virginia with her once-promising journalism career in ruins. Given the opportunity to get her skin back in the game by writing a patriotic human interest piece, Savannah turns her attention to the town hermit, Asher Lee, a wounded veteran who returned to Danvers eight years ago, and hasn’t been seen since.
After an IED explosion in Afghanistan took Asher’s hand and disfigured half of his face, he's lived a quiet life on the outskirts of Danvers where the locals respect his privacy…that is, until Savannah Carmichael comes calling in a borrowed sundress and a plate of homemade brownies. When Asher agrees to be interviewed by Savannah, he starts feeling things for the beautiful reporter that he hasn’t felt in years.
Misfits in small-town Danvers, Savannah and Asher create a bond right away, touching each other’s hearts in ways neither thought possible. When a terrible mistake threatens to drive them apart, they’ll have to decide if the love they found in one another’s arms is strong enough to fight for their hard-won happily ever after.
Asher Lee is not your typical, run-of-the-mill, romance novel hero. He’s a hero alright, but not like the ones you meet in most romance books. Asher is a war vet. A disastrous tour left him disfigured, so much so that he has resigned himself to a life that is not really a life. He has sequestered himself away in his home among the hills of Danvers, Virginia, earning him the Hermit in the Hills title among his townspeople. The same townspeople he grew up with and shared most of his life with now barely acknowledges his existence.
It’s a lonely life for this broken man. Eight years is a very long time for a person to have barely any contact with another living soul. And no, his pseudo-grandmother/housekeeper does not count. So it’s no wonder how baffled Asher was when young and beautiful Savannah Carmichael came knocking on his door one sunny afternoon with a plate of brownies and wearing her sister’s sundress.
It’s a lonely life for this broken man. Eight years is a very long time for a person to have barely any contact with another living soul. And no, his pseudo-grandmother/housekeeper does not count. So it’s no wonder how baffled Asher was when young and beautiful Savannah Carmichael came knocking on his door one sunny afternoon with a plate of brownies and wearing her sister’s sundress.
Savannah Carmichael is the picture of a bright, young woman on her road to something great. At least, that’s what she wants the people of sleepy Danvers, Virginia to think. Little do they know that Savannah just hit rock-bottom career-wise. After her failed stint at her dream job, she’s desperate to get back on her feet. Savannah is as lost as the reclusive Asher Lee. So when she’s given the opportunity to restart her career, she takes it. After all, an interview with the town hermit can’t be so bad, right?
It was really interesting to see how this unlikely pair would mesh together. The eight-year age difference is one thing, but more than that, it seemed very unlikely that their lives would ever cross and intertwine to that degree. So it was certainly a pleasure to see how electric their connection was right from the very beginning. The way Katy Regnery described the way their eyes met, and only their eyes, that first time? Well, color me convinced. It erased every thought I had about Savannah and Asher being anything but perfect for each other.
I’ve never met two characters that fit together more perfectly than they do. And trust me, I’ve read quite a lot of contemporary romance novels. I think what made Savannah and Asher so easy to fall in love with as a couple is that they’re made perfect by all their imperfections. They’ve been shunned and wronged; maybe not in the same way, but still shunned and wronged all the same. They understood each other in such a profound and soul-altering way I can’t help but feel altered, as well. You see, their instant attraction is not based merely on the physical. And that is the thing I loved most about them.
Disfigured and one-handed, Asher had no illusions about what he looks like. He doesn’t believe a face like his is a face a sane woman could ever learn to love. Then Savannah comes a-knocing and destroys every shred of his self-pity. Savannah showed Asher the kind of love that transcends beyond the physical realm. What they felt for each other thrummed on a more visceral level and that’s exactly what readers are made while reading their story. An exquisite, visceral, gut-twisting love.
It was really interesting to see how this unlikely pair would mesh together. The eight-year age difference is one thing, but more than that, it seemed very unlikely that their lives would ever cross and intertwine to that degree. So it was certainly a pleasure to see how electric their connection was right from the very beginning. The way Katy Regnery described the way their eyes met, and only their eyes, that first time? Well, color me convinced. It erased every thought I had about Savannah and Asher being anything but perfect for each other.
I’ve never met two characters that fit together more perfectly than they do. And trust me, I’ve read quite a lot of contemporary romance novels. I think what made Savannah and Asher so easy to fall in love with as a couple is that they’re made perfect by all their imperfections. They’ve been shunned and wronged; maybe not in the same way, but still shunned and wronged all the same. They understood each other in such a profound and soul-altering way I can’t help but feel altered, as well. You see, their instant attraction is not based merely on the physical. And that is the thing I loved most about them.
Disfigured and one-handed, Asher had no illusions about what he looks like. He doesn’t believe a face like his is a face a sane woman could ever learn to love. Then Savannah comes a-knocing and destroys every shred of his self-pity. Savannah showed Asher the kind of love that transcends beyond the physical realm. What they felt for each other thrummed on a more visceral level and that’s exactly what readers are made while reading their story. An exquisite, visceral, gut-twisting love.
Katy Regnery is a master storyteller. Just like a master swordsman would wield a sword, Katy Regnery strikes into readers hearts' with her words. She takes readers on a sweet and heartfelt journey. I love how honest it all was. You know how telling a story in the first-person kind of makes a story feel more personal, like reading a journal? Katy Regnery was able to achieve a deeper and more insightful account of Savannah and Asher’s journey from a third-person perspective. I don’t know what it is with her writing. I can’t exactly pinpoint it but I felt every. Single. Emotion. she was trying to convey. Each moment was electrifying. I’ve got tingles and goosebumps running up and down my arms. She even brought me to the point of tears. The Vixen and the Vet was an emotional ride, one that I didn’t fully expect to be as heart-rending as it was. It made me hyperventilate in happiness about as much as it left me breathless and broken.
With The Vixen and the Vet, Katy Regnery speaks to readers and shows them that she isn’t afraid to get down to the grisly, and seldomly told, side of love stories. Asher is not your handsome knight in shining armor. An IED left his face a mess and his armor dirty and dented. And neither is Savannah your typical damsel-in-distress. She’s driven and willful and unafraid to defend the man she loves. Their circumstances and the initial nature of their relationship, that of subject and interviewer, bring obstacles that would make them question how they feel for each other down the story. Despite of that, both Asher and Savannah love each other fiercely and completely. And at the end of the day, they can’t deny that they’ve found their missing halves in each other.
If you're looking for a captivating love story that will stick with you well after you finish it, look no further. Pick up Katy Regnery's The Vixen and the Vet and fall head over heels for Asher and Savannah.
If you're looking for a captivating love story that will stick with you well after you finish it, look no further. Pick up Katy Regnery's The Vixen and the Vet and fall head over heels for Asher and Savannah.
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