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A review by brokenrecord
Hamilton's Battalion: A Trio of Romances by Courtney Milan, Alyssa Cole, Rose Lerner
4.0
Promised Land
3.5-4 stars. This was nice! It's hard for me to get super invested in a novella romance because I tend to prefer slow burns and more drawn out romances, and there's just not enough time for that in novellas typically, but Rachel and Nathan were sweet. It was just a really nice second chance romance. I liked that their marriage wasn't good the first time around, but they had both changed in the interim and were able to talk about things and realize they did want to be together. There were also some scenes that really got to me, like the one where; that was probably my favorite part of the whole novella.
In Pursuit Of...
4.5-5 stars. Like 95% of the reason I decided to read this entire collection was because of how much I love Courtney Milan's books and I was getting antsy for After the Wedding, which this is somewhat of a prequel to (and I was also intrigued to see what she'd do with an m/m romance), so what I'm saying is that it was pretty much guaranteed from the start that I'd love this. And I did. It helped that it was something of a slow burn, which I've mentioned before repeatedly is my favorite kind of the romance and the kind of romance that's most likely to get me invested, and that was definitely the case here. And okay, it's not 100% a slow burn (it is a novella, after all), but it's the kind of romance development I love, where two characters start off not really knowing or trusting each other, but then slowly becoming friends (over the course of what's essentially a road trip!!! I have a particular soft spot for road trip romances where 2 people who barely know each other become friends and then fall in love). Plus the years of letter writing between John and Henry in the aftermath was also kind of my kryptonite. Basically, Courtney Milan just threw a bunch of romance tropes that I absolutely love and mixed them all up and served them to me on a platter -- of course I was going to end up loving this.
That Could Be Enough
3 stars. This was definitely my least favorite of the three, and it was very much a, it's not you, it's me, kind of thing. It's absolutely well-written. But if In Pursuit Of... was essentially written to hit all the romance-y things I love on the head, this was the opposite. Or not quite the opposite, because I definitely didn't hate it, but there was a fair amount of instalust, which I'm never a fan of. Mercy and Andromeda were sweet, and there were some really nice moments between them, and I'm sure to some people this is the best story of the 3, but it just didn't work for me.
3.5-4 stars. This was nice! It's hard for me to get super invested in a novella romance because I tend to prefer slow burns and more drawn out romances, and there's just not enough time for that in novellas typically, but Rachel and Nathan were sweet. It was just a really nice second chance romance. I liked that their marriage wasn't good the first time around, but they had both changed in the interim and were able to talk about things and realize they did want to be together. There were also some scenes that really got to me, like the one where
Spoiler
it's revealed Rachel wears her wedding ring around her neck, and then Nathan basically tells her he understood why she had to leaveIn Pursuit Of...
4.5-5 stars. Like 95% of the reason I decided to read this entire collection was because of how much I love Courtney Milan's books and I was getting antsy for After the Wedding, which this is somewhat of a prequel to (and I was also intrigued to see what she'd do with an m/m romance), so what I'm saying is that it was pretty much guaranteed from the start that I'd love this. And I did. It helped that it was something of a slow burn, which I've mentioned before repeatedly is my favorite kind of the romance and the kind of romance that's most likely to get me invested, and that was definitely the case here. And okay, it's not 100% a slow burn (it is a novella, after all), but it's the kind of romance development I love, where two characters start off not really knowing or trusting each other, but then slowly becoming friends (over the course of what's essentially a road trip!!! I have a particular soft spot for road trip romances where 2 people who barely know each other become friends and then fall in love). Plus the years of letter writing between John and Henry in the aftermath was also kind of my kryptonite. Basically, Courtney Milan just threw a bunch of romance tropes that I absolutely love and mixed them all up and served them to me on a platter -- of course I was going to end up loving this.
That Could Be Enough
3 stars. This was definitely my least favorite of the three, and it was very much a, it's not you, it's me, kind of thing. It's absolutely well-written. But if In Pursuit Of... was essentially written to hit all the romance-y things I love on the head, this was the opposite. Or not quite the opposite, because I definitely didn't hate it, but there was a fair amount of instalust, which I'm never a fan of. Mercy and Andromeda were sweet, and there were some really nice moments between them, and I'm sure to some people this is the best story of the 3, but it just didn't work for me.