These are two of my favorite books and both by Katy Regnery, and now both in a boxed set. Below are both of my 5* reviews.
THE VIXEN AND THE VET:
This is one of the books that make me love reading! A Beauty & the Beast story, but also two wounded souls finding each other & over coming their differences. There are always lots to overcome, but I really enjoyed their story. This was the 1st book I read by Katy Regnery & I so enjoyed her writing, that since I wrote my original review, have read several more of her books, became a big fan of her writing, but this one still remains my favorite, but having said that I find her writing gets better & better with each new release. I highly recommend The Vixen & The Vet & hope you will, too. The second book in her Modern Fairytale Series is out now & Never Let You Go might be her best book yet.
NEVER LET YOU GO:
The Vixen And The Vet was the first book I read by Katy Regnery & it was one of my very favorites of 2014. I was so excited to learn there would be a 2nd book in A Modern Fairytale Series. Each book is a stand-alone, full length, unconnected romance inspired by a classic fairytale. Never Let You Go is inspired by Hansel and Gretel, but make no mistake this is an adult version of a fairytale.
Never Let You Go is a true love story of Holden and Griselda. It is a story of fear & hope, defeat & survival, and two people who were once profoundly broken who discover that love is the only thing that can make them whole again. They endure a childhood of three years of a painful experience that one escaped & one didn't. Never really knowing what happened to the other, but even when they thought the other was gone, they still lived on in each other's heart. Together they would be whole, but separate broken.
My very favorite part of the book was at 25% into, with what I call the “Reunion Scene”. This is the reason I love to read books. Not knowing what happened to each other they are brought back together by fate, a sighting, a hope, and a prayer. They want a new beginning, a familiarity coming back to their relationship, a feeling of coming home, wanting to be together for the rest of their lives, even apart always been together. Together whole but separate broken, a marriage of past and present of eternal love.
Finding out you could love again, even when you thought you couldn't, hoping for new beginnings with happy endings, and belonging to each other heart & soul till the end of time now and forever. I jump, you jump. Keep losing each other, but we keep finding each other, too, so meant to be.
Walking a long road together, as long as they had each other anything was bearable, anything was possible, life is not nice and neat. Something terrible has happened once upon a time, but now they stood victorious in the very place of their defeat, and their happily ever after was in reach. NEVER LET ME GO!