Review: Katy's Best Book Yet!!!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 16, 2014
A few weeks back I wrote a review on Goodreads for another book in the form of a letter. Katy read the review and told me that I should make that my review style. So, this is for you Katy.Dear Katy,I'm sure you won't be surprised when I tell you that The Vixen and the Vet has become my very favorite of your books so far. Mostly because I say that with each new book you publish. It's with great confidence and complete honesty that I tell you that you have quickly become one of the very few authors that I will one-click each and every book that you write, without requiring any previous information/knowledge of it. Every story you write is infused with the type of details that don't just make me fall in love with fictional characters, but put me right smack dab in the middle of the city/town where they live. Their neighbors become my neighbors, their friends are my friends, their families are my families. I become a Virginia local, a Montana native, a reporter, a musician, an author. I'm not just reading a story, I'm becoming a part of a story.This story holds a particularly special meaning to me as an Army Spouse. I'm always a little leery to read a military themed story in fear of being disappointed that it's done badly or scared that it will be done too well. You, Miss Katy, have done this subject just right. You gave me all of the feels while reading Savannah and Asher's story.I laughed."This wasn't about toothpicks. It was about bionic hands.""You kids and your electronics.""Can't ride two horses with one ass, honey. Try it and you'll get hurt.""Women. Can't live with them. Bad idea to kill them though."No seriously I almost pee'd my pants when I read those lines.I swooned."This isn't the sort of love that ends," he said softly. "It's forever. It doesn't matter if you go to Phoenix and I stay here for a while. We'll find each other again. Do you know that Savannah Carmichael?""You stayed alive, Asher. I think maybe you stayed alive for me."I, well, we'll just say that I blushed.I cried.And then she knew, she realized in startling, terrifying detail, that Asher Lee had no one to come home to. After years away from Danvers, there was no one left to welcome him home. No loving parents. No friends."Something inside him was starting to hurt, and it felt strangely like it had during those first few months in San Antonio when he had to decide whether to live or die. And for a moment, when he looked at the situation and realized it was possible this entire beautiful relationship had been an act on her part, he WANTED to die.Mostly, I fell in love. I fell in love with this story of tragedy turned amazing love story, with a hero forgotten and dismissed by the very people he swore to defend and protect and with the woman who would show them all the error of their ways. I fell in love with love, and with hope, with honesty, and with forgiveness.I fell in love with YOU Katy Regnery and the way that you wrote this story. I fell in love with you because your giving back to someone else who might have been forgotten or dismissed.With great love and appreciation,Jaime, wife of soon to be medically retired, 4 time deployed, Bronze Star w/Valor recipient SFC Charles Collins, US Army Infantry (2000-2014)*I received an ARC from the author/publisher in exchange for an honest review.PLEASE NOTE:50% of everything Katy earns on "The Vixen & the Vet" in June and July 2014 will go directly to Operation Mend, a non-profit organization at the UCLA Medical Center that offers assistance to the returning wounded in our armed forces.Support Katy and support a Wounded Warrior, buy your copy of The Vixen and the Vet when it releases on June 17th. Buy a copy for your friends, tell your family. You'll get to read an awesome story AND give make a difference in someone's life.