Letters to a War Zone by Lucy Felthouse

91RkIRoc8yL._SL1500_Title: Letters to a War Zone
Author: Lucy Felthouse
Genre: Contemporary/Military
Length: Short (47 pages)
Publisher: Totally Bound (March 27th, 2014)
Heat Level: Low
Heart Rating: ♥♥♥♥3.5Hearts
Blurb: When lonely insurance broker, Bailey, gets himself a new hobby, he ends up exchanging letters with a war zone. But he’s not expecting what happens next…

Bailey Hodgkiss is lonely and dissatisfied with his boring life as an insurance broker. In an attempt to insert some variety, he signs up to a website to write to serving soldiers. He’s put in touch with Corporal Nick Rock, and over the course of a couple of letters, the two of them strike up a friendship. They begin to divulge their secrets, including their preference for men.

Nick encourages Bailey to add more interests to his life. As a result, Bailey picks up his forgotten hobby, photography, and quickly decides to team it up with his other preferred interest, travel.
Booking a holiday to Rome is his biggest gesture toward a more exciting existence, and he eagerly looks forward to the trip. That is, until Nick says he’s coming home on leave, and it looks as though their respective trips will prevent them from meeting in person.

Is there enough of a spark between them to push them to meet, or will their relationship remain on paper only?

Reader Advisory: This story has been previously released as part of the Stand to Attention anthology by Totally Bound Publishing.

ISBN: 978-1-78184-995-8

Product Link: https://www.totallybound.com/letters-to-a-war-zone

Reviewer: Prime

Review: I can never resist a book that involves military men, so I naturally gravitated towards this one. This is an excellent story, particularly those into the brooding loners and solider type books.

The loneliness that Bailey exhibits, that drives him to sign up to become pen pal to a random soldier serving overseas, is something that everyone can sympathise with and most likely felt at one time or another in life. Bailey is intelligent, quiet and introverted, making the loneliness somewhat easier to accept on my behalf and certainly feels realistic.

We find out the facts from Nick in the letters to Nick, which are used to tell the story but don’t actually “meet” him until halfway through. He a tough army guy but a total teddy bear – I found myself falling for him just a little too!

The story isn’t big on action. It’s a more intimate look at an evolving relationship, albeit a rapid one. I only wish that it could be longer because I really, really, really want to know more about Bailey and Nick!

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