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pagesinkedinshadows's review
adventurous
challenging
emotional
hopeful
reflective
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
This was such an emotional whirlwind, Bentley is such a swoon worthy, sweet, caring guy. He falls first and he falls hard.
Kayla is a total cynic when it comes to love, so what happens when she finds her soulmate, but doesn’t want anything to do with love?
I absolutely adored Bentley! This was full of angst, hope, spice, pain, faith & healing.
Kayla is a total cynic when it comes to love, so what happens when she finds her soulmate, but doesn’t want anything to do with love?
I absolutely adored Bentley! This was full of angst, hope, spice, pain, faith & healing.
lanelane04's review
5.0
Fighting with Faith- Nikki Ash
Narrated by Auri Alden and Theo Sinclair
Rating ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Spice 🌶️🌶️🌶️
Narration 🎧🎧🎧🎧🎧
I loved this book so much. It was so angsty yet so heartwarming to see a man devote his whole self to someone so jaded by love. Bentley fell in love with Kayla the first time they met. He even tried to convince her to give them a shot, but Kayla wasn’t having any of it. She had her heart broken and told over and over again by her divorce attorney parents that love is just an emotion and certainly not a reason to be in a relationship with someone. 6 years later, they run into each other again and as much as they both want each other, she also keeps him at arms length because she knows that they can’t be together. And Bentley does everything he can to win her heart and show her exactly what a man who loves his woman does for her! Bentley is so swoony, especially when he later becomes a stay at home dad to their little girl that he named Faith. So he’s fighting with faith for her mommy’s heart! 🫠🫠🫠
Perfect narration by Auri Alden and Theo Sinclair. I don’t know how you make someone sound swoony or sound jaded but Auri and Theo freaking did it, and it was fantastic. Beautiful job!
shedevilreads's review
5.0
Fighting with Faith by Nikki Ash is a secret pregnancy romance that I listened to on audio narrated by Auri Alden and Theo Sinclair. This is the second book in the Fighting series.
I really enjoyed the relationship that bloomed between Bentley and Kayla. It was messy, but you couldn't help but root for them. I loved that we got both of their points of views throughout the book. It really brought the story to life.
I can't wait to dive into the next book in the series Fighting For Your Touch so I can get Caleb and Hayley's story.
Auri and Theo did an amazing on the narration. They both really know how to bring a story to life. I look forward to listening to more of their work in the future.
I would recommend this book if you're looking for a secret pregnancy romance, second chance romance, MMA romance, or contemporary romance.
The Flock Team
I really enjoyed the relationship that bloomed between Bentley and Kayla. It was messy, but you couldn't help but root for them. I loved that we got both of their points of views throughout the book. It really brought the story to life.
I can't wait to dive into the next book in the series Fighting For Your Touch so I can get Caleb and Hayley's story.
Auri and Theo did an amazing on the narration. They both really know how to bring a story to life. I look forward to listening to more of their work in the future.
I would recommend this book if you're looking for a secret pregnancy romance, second chance romance, MMA romance, or contemporary romance.
The Flock Team
vane_loves_2_read's review against another edition
5.0
Since book 1 I loved Kayla and Bentley. This is a wonderful book about overcoming past pain and failure and believing in true love. Bentley is such an amazing guy with so much love and patience for Kayla that yp u can help fighting right along with them!
izziede's review against another edition
Not keen on the on/off relationship, the heroine has issues so keeps pushing him away. It is handled well, a different way to deal with things.
Wasn't too keen on how he treated his current girlfriend, Sophie. It was glossed over by making her a bitch but they had been together 3 months so felt it was a bit of a cop out.
HEA for this couple and an update on the previous couple from book 1 and a cliffhanger in the extra epilogue for book 3, which comes with a warning, which I thought was original and clever.
If you liked book 1 you will want to read this.
Wasn't too keen on how he treated his current girlfriend, Sophie. It was glossed over by making her a bitch but they had been together 3 months so felt it was a bit of a cop out.
HEA for this couple and an update on the previous couple from book 1 and a cliffhanger in the extra epilogue for book 3, which comes with a warning, which I thought was original and clever.
If you liked book 1 you will want to read this.
kelcieschafer's review against another edition
3.0
meh
I wasn’t a huge fan. I felt myself getting annoyed with Kayla, I just wanted her to grow up and listen to Bentley.
I wasn’t a huge fan. I felt myself getting annoyed with Kayla, I just wanted her to grow up and listen to Bentley.
vane_loves_2_read's review against another edition
5.0
Since book 1 I loved Kayla and Bentley. This is a wonderful book about overcoming past pain and failure and believing in true love. Bentley is such an amazing guy with so much love and patience for Kayla that yp u can help fighting right along with them!
p0laris's review against another edition
2.0
I really, really wanted to love this one. Really wanted to. Sadly it didn't up. I liked both of these characters separately, but you know when there's just too much conflict and at some point you're sitting there like these guys don't belong together anymore? That was me. They just hurt each other too much in ways they didn't even apologize for.
Let's start with Bently.
He felt that she was is soulmate. SOULMATE. That's pretty huge. He pushed and pushed to have her open up to him swearing that he wouldn't hurt her and then when he gets angry the first time, he lets her believe that he slept with another woman while she was sleeping in the same house (it never shows that he ever told her the truth about this). Then gets upset that she's still pushing him away. Later when he has his "last straw" moment, he immediately starts dating someone else AND bringing her home to the same home she still lives in. This guy KNOWS Kayla likes him and is just afraid of being hurt, so he....hurts her and wonders why she closes up and moves across the country.
Later, when he finds out she's carrying his child, he stays with the other woman for a week even though she annoys him until he finally lets her go, and he's immediately flying back to Kayla to tell her that she's going to be his and she'll see that he won't ever break her heart. Please make up your mind, dude.
He keeps pushing and pushing and pushing and she finally (after way too long) decides to give them a chance, and this guy starts going to mommy and me groups while she's working, getting to know these married and single mothers, and never once telling her. She finds out by finding him with them all at the pool, after she's just had to listen to them talking in the locker room about the single dad they're all into because apparently they don't know he's taken. And he sees no problem with this until he realizes that she's hurt by him keeping it from her. The apology for this part is...ok I guess?
Later on, he sees a prenup her mother sent her that she hadn't planned to do anything with and he flips. I get his anger here, but he doesn't even listen to her--the girl he's sworn he'll never hurt, never leave, never give up on--before packing a bag and leaving her and blaming her for never giving them a chance. I just can't with this, so let's move on to:
Kayla.
This girl does. not. care. who she hurts. She pushed him away so many times while also being jealous when it seemed like he slept with another woman, and then later when he gave up and got into a relationship with another woman. She wouldn't give herself to him but blamed him for not staying, idk, celibate maybe for her? He tells her he won't sleep with her until she's all in and after a few weeks she makes him think she's all in so they sleep together, only to immediately tell him before they're even dressed that she can't do it and they'll never be together. Wow sis.
When that little encounter results in a pregnancy, she goes to tell him only to find him meeting another woman (who later becomes his girlfriend for 3 months) and chickens out. Instead she hurts her best friend by leaving her for the first time in their lives, and moves back home all the way across the country. It's only by chance that anyone finds out she's pregnant at all, and then it's drama (including annoying other woman drama) for days.
She spends the majority of the book pushing Bentley away even though he is endlessly patient with her (most of the time), and even after she decides she wants to give it a try, she lets him go on believing she doesn't for a few more weeks, including hearing her deny it publicly to anyone who comments, because she want's to let him know "romantically." Girl wtf? You've already hurt him so many times, just let him know. I already talked about the prenup thing above, but she really should have told her mother not to send the prenup in the first place because if she was all in she should have been all in.
Anyway, even at the end when they were getting married by eloping a few days after prenup gate, it just felt like two people doing anything they could to salvage a dying relationship. They still didn't trust each other. They were both obviously still hurt and reactive. Their friends and family were still tiptoeing around their relationship because it was so fragile. This is not the love story I signed up for, and I lost a lot of respect for both characters.
Let's start with Bently.
He felt that she was is soulmate. SOULMATE. That's pretty huge. He pushed and pushed to have her open up to him swearing that he wouldn't hurt her and then when he gets angry the first time, he lets her believe that he slept with another woman while she was sleeping in the same house (it never shows that he ever told her the truth about this). Then gets upset that she's still pushing him away. Later when he has his "last straw" moment, he immediately starts dating someone else AND bringing her home to the same home she still lives in. This guy KNOWS Kayla likes him and is just afraid of being hurt, so he....hurts her and wonders why she closes up and moves across the country.
Later, when he finds out she's carrying his child, he stays with the other woman for a week even though she annoys him until he finally lets her go, and he's immediately flying back to Kayla to tell her that she's going to be his and she'll see that he won't ever break her heart. Please make up your mind, dude.
He keeps pushing and pushing and pushing and she finally (after way too long) decides to give them a chance, and this guy starts going to mommy and me groups while she's working, getting to know these married and single mothers, and never once telling her. She finds out by finding him with them all at the pool, after she's just had to listen to them talking in the locker room about the single dad they're all into because apparently they don't know he's taken. And he sees no problem with this until he realizes that she's hurt by him keeping it from her. The apology for this part is...ok I guess?
Later on, he sees a prenup her mother sent her that she hadn't planned to do anything with and he flips. I get his anger here, but he doesn't even listen to her--the girl he's sworn he'll never hurt, never leave, never give up on--before packing a bag and leaving her and blaming her for never giving them a chance. I just can't with this, so let's move on to:
Kayla.
This girl does. not. care. who she hurts. She pushed him away so many times while also being jealous when it seemed like he slept with another woman, and then later when he gave up and got into a relationship with another woman. She wouldn't give herself to him but blamed him for not staying, idk, celibate maybe for her? He tells her he won't sleep with her until she's all in and after a few weeks she makes him think she's all in so they sleep together, only to immediately tell him before they're even dressed that she can't do it and they'll never be together. Wow sis.
When that little encounter results in a pregnancy, she goes to tell him only to find him meeting another woman (who later becomes his girlfriend for 3 months) and chickens out. Instead she hurts her best friend by leaving her for the first time in their lives, and moves back home all the way across the country. It's only by chance that anyone finds out she's pregnant at all, and then it's drama (including annoying other woman drama) for days.
She spends the majority of the book pushing Bentley away even though he is endlessly patient with her (most of the time), and even after she decides she wants to give it a try, she lets him go on believing she doesn't for a few more weeks, including hearing her deny it publicly to anyone who comments, because she want's to let him know "romantically." Girl wtf? You've already hurt him so many times, just let him know. I already talked about the prenup thing above, but she really should have told her mother not to send the prenup in the first place because if she was all in she should have been all in.
Anyway, even at the end when they were getting married by eloping a few days after prenup gate, it just felt like two people doing anything they could to salvage a dying relationship. They still didn't trust each other. They were both obviously still hurt and reactive. Their friends and family were still tiptoeing around their relationship because it was so fragile. This is not the love story I signed up for, and I lost a lot of respect for both characters.
shanbreads's review against another edition
4.0
Another good read book by this author I so very much liked the main characters and side characters and simply cannot wait to read more from this author must read from me