Reckless Faith

De: Nyssa Kathryn

Narrado por: Avery Caris, Jason Clarke

Letting him go was the hardest thing she’d ever done…until he returns, and letting him back in proves even harder.

Elle Marshal has spent most of her life pining for the same boy. A boy she’s known since she was eight. A boy with beautiful blue eyes who’s never been interested in anything more than friendship. For years he’s been away, and she’s been able to convince herself that she can live without him—until Jace returns. And every emotion she’s spent a decade and a half denying comes crashing back with a single look. All throughout high school, she watched him date everyone but her, and while she’s no longer that girl, deep down, a small part of her still doubts she’ll ever be enough for the boy she’s loved forever.

Jace Walker is the youngest of six siblings, including four military hero brothers. Following in their footsteps was a rite of passage, but leaving the small town of Misty Peak also meant leaving his best friend. A woman he’s always wanted but never allowed himself to have. Not when he had so much to prove, when Elle deserved someone better…and when he has a habit of losing people he loves. But he’s older now. Wiser. And when he realizes he can’t deny what’s between them any longer, Jace will do whatever it takes to have her.

Getting Elle to trust he’s a safe bet proves harder than Jace thought. And when his past misfortune of losing those closest to him threatens his present—including his happiness with Elle—he’ll have to speed up his timeline if he wants to keep them both safe long enough to have a future.

A Small Town, Childhood Friends to Lovers, Romantic Suspense from Bestselling author Nyssa Kathryn.

©2024 Nyssa Kathryn (P)2024 Nyssa Kathryn, Blue Nose Publishing

Extra points for characters not being stupid.

They still do some dumb things, but usually when I’m expecting a scene to play out like it usually does in these books, it doesn’t. Ie: ex is trying to get back w MMC and I expect him to console her or allow her to get him alone and be too close hence allowing the FMC to catch him being touched and being hurt…INSTEAD: he refuses to go anywhere with her, says your problems aren’t mine, keeps backing up if the ex advances, doesn’t allow her to touch him, loudly proclaims he’s with the FMC. And I think YES!!! Finally!!!!
Or when I think one of the MC will continue to withdraw and push the other away thus allowing misunderstandings and hurt to fester…. They will unexpectedly open up and be honest and resolve whatever issue is happening. It’s SO refreshing.
But the books don’t come off as very deep and involved. You like the characters, they are cute and you root for them. They are good reads but I don’t mark them as favorites. Solid but not exceptional imo, but obviously many think they are.

Narrators are great, Narration is fairly evenly split—but fine in an interesting way. Part of every chapter is MMC and part is FMC. Probably slightly more F than M but not by much and it switches often enough i wouldn’t have noticed if I wasn’t particularly sensitive to it (I hate dual POV/narration books that turn out to be 90% FMC)

Mostly interesting story. Hallmark with a mild twist.

The story didn’t make sense at the end. Things were thrown in. The FMC started off cool, but became super annoying.

Another winner in this series!

Reckless Faith is book #4 in the Reckless series. Misty Peak sees the return of the youngest Walker boy, Jace, from a 15 year Air Force career. Elle works at the visitor center coffee shop. She and Jace were best friends in high school but hid their inner feelings. Elle has tried to move on from Jace, but deep down she knows she's still got it bad for him. This is another excellent addition to this series. We get small-town, military hero, former curvy girl romance with some intrigue and smexy times! The author paints such a vivid picture of the town, the people, and the nature trails that it is very easy to lose yourself in the story. Each installment just gets better and better.

The narration was fantastic. Jason Clarke and Avery Caris are again the narrators. These two deliver the angst, the passion, the emotion...just magical. 5/5 stars!

love Jace

OVERALL: 🌟🌟🌟🌟/5
•Storyline: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5
▪︎Spice Level:  🌶🌶/ 5
•Narrators: 🎧🎧🎧🎧🎧/5 -Duet Style.
•Swoon level: 🫠🫠/5
•Angst: 🔥/5
•Re-read/Re-listen: 📚/5
•Recommend: 🤓🤓🤓
•Platform: Audiobook
•Trope: Small town, Childhood Friends, It's Always been you.

• Thoughts:
I really liked Jace and Elle's story, it was sweet, and I loved that they were friends in high school. I also love the fact that Jace has groveling to do! He left her and didn't continue their friendship. He basically went radio silent. But for reasons Elle didn't understand. Jace is back and he will do anything to be her "friend" again. But we all know.... ha.


Narrator Thoughts:
Avery Caris and Jason Clarke are the narrators. I think I'll just leave this here. Haha

Emotional Duet Performance

I keep falling for these characters!!! I love the Walker brothers so much and this one once again was a 5/5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️