paddlefoot55 's review for:

Steadfast by Sarina Bowen

5.0

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ARC received for an honest review

Back to Vermont I go!
We met Jude in the first book Bitterwsweet when Griff Shipley hired him to work on his farm.
We learned a little about him thorugh that book, but I knew what we had seen had only scratched the surface of the man that is Jude Nickel.

This is a more a deeper, darker story than the first book. This deals with love and loss and the demons that are addiction.

I have never been an addict (unless you count Cadbury's Dairy Milk chocolate and books an addiction) so I am not sure if Jude gives a true depiction of what addiction is like, but it sure felt real to me.

I adored Jude in Bittersweet, but while I was reading Steadfast I fell hopelessly in love with him. And I could understand why Sophie, the one that got away, felt that way too.

There was a sense of recklessness in both of them, but when they were together, both in the past and now, you could feel the undying love and passion between them, no matter how much they tried to fight it.

But what are they going to do with this second chance at love?

You will have to read to find out.

I LOVED that we got plenty of time back at the Shipley farm! They were the calm to Jude's storm.

I felt a great sense of hope whilst reading Steadfast. Hope that Jude would stay clean. Hope that Jude and Sophie could make it this time.

And I hope that readers can also walk away feeling a bit of hope with whatever is going on in their lives.

Steadfast is a sweet, sexy, heartbreaking yet heartwarming story or second chances - at life and at love.

And now I am impatiently waiting for whatever Ms Bowen brings us next.