Title: Island Counselor
Series: Island Medics 02
Author: Sue Brown
Genre: Contemporary
Length: Novel (200 pages)
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press (20 June 2016)
Heat Level: Moderate
Heart Rating: ♥♥♥♥ 4 Hearts
Blurb: Counselor Logan Wilde has a successful therapy practice in London, but when a traumatic incident there leaves him suffering from PTSD, he takes refuge in his holiday cottage on the Isle of Wight, unable to face going back to work. Not that he’s allowed to relax. Logan’s time is taken up with helping Liam Owens, plus there’s Nick Brent, whom Logan discovers collapsed on the beach. Nick and Logan spend their time bickering with each other, but that doesn’t alter the attraction they feel.
Logan is forced to make some hard decisions about his future, which entails facing up to recent events. Only he’s not alone—Nick is with him. Unfortunately someone else makes a decision too, and now trouble is on its way to the Isle of Wight.
ISBN: 9781634773362
Product Link: https://www.dreamspinnerpress.com/books/island-counselor-by-sue-brown-7113-b
Reviewer: Prime
Review: Island Counselor is the second book in Sue Brown’s Island Medic series. I swear I have read book 1, Island Medic, the plot and even reading about the MCs of book 1 in the current installment were familiar to me. It is actually the even that happens to the titular Island counselor, Logan, that I remember reading. Though for the life of me I could not actually find said book in my ebook collection. In fact, Island Medics is a spin off series from Sue Brown’s Isle of Wight series (a series that I only just found out about and contemplating if I have the time to back to read it, I would certainly love to).
That aside, Island Counselor works as a standalone book, as do most of Sue Brown’s novels that are part of a series. However, I’m not about to say go back and read book 1 anyway since I only vaguely remember that I’ve read it. Seems a bit contradictory. 😉
Our two MCs are Counselor Logan Wilde, who had been a doctor before becoming a counselor but has escaped reality to not deal with his PTSD on the Isle of Wight, and Nick Brent, who is a native of the Isle of Wight though an accident has left him unable to work for the time being.
Their relationship starts from an odd place. They are both intent to be friends and help the other heal – both physically and metaphorically. Love just seems to come naturally to these two as they help each other. To me, that is the best kind of love story. It’s just so easy to accept them as a couple, as well as be able to see the where their passion comes from and feeling the sexual tension between them. It’s not in your face kind of sexual tension – it’s just nice and perfect for two souls who need some healing.