Title: Faith
Author: Elizabeth Hayes
Genre: New Adult, Contemporary Romance
Standalone Series: Hades Angels #1
Standalone Series: Hades Angels #1
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Blurb
My life changed in an
instant when I was diagnosed with breast cancer.
I was only eighteen, and suddenly my once clear path was racing a hundred miles an hour out of control. I was in the driver’s seat, but completely unable to steer my life back on course.
I lost friends and didn’t bother to make new ones.
I refused to let anyone in…
When the doctor uttered the word “remission,” my path changed yet again.
That new path led somewhere I never expected—somewhere most people would look down on—but it’s where I finally found myself, and where nobody treated me like a piece of fragile glass. It’s also where I learned other people also had scars to hide.
This is the story of how I met…him.
This is the story of how I became Faith.
I was only eighteen, and suddenly my once clear path was racing a hundred miles an hour out of control. I was in the driver’s seat, but completely unable to steer my life back on course.
I lost friends and didn’t bother to make new ones.
I refused to let anyone in…
When the doctor uttered the word “remission,” my path changed yet again.
That new path led somewhere I never expected—somewhere most people would look down on—but it’s where I finally found myself, and where nobody treated me like a piece of fragile glass. It’s also where I learned other people also had scars to hide.
This is the story of how I met…him.
This is the story of how I became Faith.
Title: Faith
Author: Elizabeth Hayes
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Genre: Contemporary Romance, New Adult
Series or Standalone: Standalone Series (Hades Angels #1)
Rating: ★★★★
Reviewer: Melyssa
This book was compelling to me for a
couple of reasons.
The first being the subject matter.
Cancer, no matter what type you write about, isn’t the easiest subject to
tackle, but it’s made even tougher when you’re writing about the way a person
may feel after hearing the words remission. I also enjoyed the aspect of the
club that Laura finds herself working at, and the way it was portrayed, never
having come across something quite like it in other works before.
I believe that the author conveyed Laura’s
struggles—or rather her fears, in a very mature and realistic way. I can’t
imagine going through what she has within this story but I can imagine feeling
quite the way she did at the start of this book. After having a double mastectomy,
and being told she can never have children she’s left to pick up the pieces,
despite hearing the remission word.
But how does one do that? How do you get
your mind and heart to come to terms with the changes your body has made and
come away with a healthy body image? It’s hard and it’s a very real thing and
Laura displayed that perfectly. She’s given up on relationships and intimacy
because of her outlook, she’s pulled away from everyone and she’s struggling to
survive when I do believe at times she just wants to give in.
She’s basically made herself believe that
because of what she’s gone through, she’s not deserving of the very things that
so many of us that do have it take for granted.
My heart felt for her through all of it. I
ached for her to see herself as more than just what she’s been through and
honestly with the help of Hades Angels and the people that work there (along
with Bryce) she does. It’s just not an easy road and I’m glad the author didn’t
make it appear as such.
Working at Hades Angels, topless dancing,
it’s not something that Laura (renamed Faith at the club) needs to do monetary
wise. She’s stable in that regard, but she does need it in other ways. She
needs it to build back her confidence. Feel good about her body and herself
again. She just doesn’t expect to be given something she had come to terms with
never having in the process.
Enter Bryce. Meeting at the club in a
chance meeting, they’re thrown together again in the days afterward as they
meet over coffee. A connection is made and it’s one that Faith, despite her
fears clings to and ultimately deserves.
He was such a good guy. His way of
thinking wasn’t at all the way she’d worked it up to be in her mind and by stories
end he shows her that what they have, what he feels for her (with his own
connection) has nothing at all to do with her body and everything to do with
her heart and her soul. It was a beautiful thing to witness, just as it was
watching Faith come into her own again. To find beauty and love past what she’s
been through and to stop running from something that might just be the best
thing for her and instead stand tall with it.
This wasn’t just a short little romance
about two people meeting in an unconventional way and falling for one another. It
was one of growth and of acceptance and loving oneself so that you can openly
love one another. It was a real treat to read and my only complaint is that it
wasn’t longer.
I would have loved to see this expanded
on just a little bit more, but what was here, I thoroughly enjoyed.
My thanks to the author, NetGalley and all
others involved in letting me read this before release.
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