Title: Unquiet (Resilient Love, book 3)
Author: Melanie Hansen
Publisher/GR Link: Dreamspinner, GR
Genre: MM Contemporary
Vice: Cops, Recovery, Mental Health
Rating: 4.5 Stars out of 5
Lock this book up: 3 keys, this book is hot and very sexy
Length: Novel
Satisfaction: HEA, but well earned!
Cover Impressions: Very fitting
Synopsis: Loren Smith has been in love with Eliot Devlin almost his entire
life. During their turbulent childhood and teen years, Loren didn’t always
understand Eliot, and sometimes he could be a challenge, but Eliot was the only
one to ever truly ease Loren’s deep loneliness and accept him. When Eliot’s
increasingly erratic and self-destructive behavior culminates in a suicide
attempt at seventeen, Loren is devastated.
Upon meeting again by chance nine years later, Loren is enjoying
a successful career as a police officer while Eliot’s life has been a constant
struggle for stability. In and out of mental hospitals, with a rap sheet a mile
long, he continues to be buffeted by the twin storms of mania and depression.
Loren’s love and protectiveness for Eliot are deeply ingrained in him, however,
and their feelings for each other are quickly rekindled.
Loren has issues of his own he’s dealing with, and trying to
understand and cope with Eliot’s bipolar disorder isn’t easy. They believe
they’re meant to be, and Eliot brings a fulfillment to Loren’s life that no one
else will ever match. But as they both come to realize, love by itself can’t
cure all.
Impressions: This was a wonderful book that made me work for the well earned HEA at
the end. This book was hard to read at
times, but Eliot was such a wounded and raw character, and Loren was such a
loving, but also struggling, counterpart, that I couldn’t put the story down
until I went through their challenges with them.
I really appreciate that Hansen didn’t
gloss over mental health issues, and she didn’t simplify the very real
struggles that people with mental health issues, and those who love them, go
through. Loren has his own journey to go
in this process, and I really loved that he was not a perfect cardboard cut out
of an MC that “rescued” Eliot from his disorders. Hansen didn’t shy away from the raw parts of
this love story, and it really set this novel apart from others who have
touched on these struggles.
This was a wonderful story, and even
during the challenges, I was so invested in these guys that I wanted them to
get their HEA and Hansen kept the story moving at a great pace. The epilogue us heartbreaking and uplifting,
and I think that must be how Loren’s life and Eliot’s life will be.
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