Author: Edmond Manning
Book: Come Back To Me
Series: Lost and Founds #5
Publisher: Pickwick Ink Publishing
Publication Date: August 23, 2016
Length: 360 pages
Synopsis
After years of lying, scheming, and dangerous manipulation, Vin Vanbly finally gets what's coming to him: love.
How can he survive unstoppable, uncontrollable love when his very nature demands he control everything? Clues about his one true love—tantalizingly hinted at in each of the books in The Lost and Founds series—come together in four life-changing stories.
In No Kings, a sex hookup with a parking lot stranger reveals more about Vin’s life as a Lost King and his destiny than he could have dreamed. In King Fitch, Vin meets the last king in his long legacy, one final weekend before he withdraws from the world to an anonymous Latin American jungle. The Lost Ones recounts a terrifying kidnapping by street thugs from Vin’s past. In King Malcolm the Restorer, Vin’s mysterious relationship with his older brother—and the soul-crushing secret which drew them together—is finally revealed.
Through it all, Vin Vanbly struggles to survive. But what if he is destined for more than mere survival? Is he finally ready to embrace the truth and remember who he was always meant to be? Once there were a tribe where every man was the one true king and every woman the one true queen…
How can he survive unstoppable, uncontrollable love when his very nature demands he control everything? Clues about his one true love—tantalizingly hinted at in each of the books in The Lost and Founds series—come together in four life-changing stories.
In No Kings, a sex hookup with a parking lot stranger reveals more about Vin’s life as a Lost King and his destiny than he could have dreamed. In King Fitch, Vin meets the last king in his long legacy, one final weekend before he withdraws from the world to an anonymous Latin American jungle. The Lost Ones recounts a terrifying kidnapping by street thugs from Vin’s past. In King Malcolm the Restorer, Vin’s mysterious relationship with his older brother—and the soul-crushing secret which drew them together—is finally revealed.
Through it all, Vin Vanbly struggles to survive. But what if he is destined for more than mere survival? Is he finally ready to embrace the truth and remember who he was always meant to be? Once there were a tribe where every man was the one true king and every woman the one true queen…
Review
I read Come Back to Me, book 5 in Edmond Manning’s The Lost
and Founds Series, and did something I never have done before… I slept on it
before I reviewed. Normally I have to be in the moment so I write my review
immediately following the book. Not this time. This book is 100% different than
all the other Lost and Founds. There’s a Vin Vanbly kinging, yes, but then
there’s Vin’s story, Vin’s love, and yeah a question you’ve been dying to know
gets answered.
I closed my kindle with a sigh and a smile. I closed it with
a few questions but I know this isn’t the end of these books. There will be
more. I’m happy though. Not because I heard Vin’s story but because I
understand things better now. I love Vin even more than I thought possible. I
love Mark, and Malcom, and all the kings Vin has given all his love to.
As I read I highlighted a few things. Things that wouldn’t
give away the story but that I simply read over a few times just to bask in the
feeling of the moment.
“Have you ever thought about traveling somewhere amazing,
Marky?” He smiles, and his eyes are still closed, “Just did.”
And that is a pure, amazing feeling right there. I was like,
“Yes, Edmond, you get it.” It’s something when you know an author understands
what a good moment is worth.
Understanding Vin Vanbly is a journey in itself and yet he
says things, lives in seconds that just leaves us speechless.
As we’re both drifting off, he says the words I’ve been
dreading in a voice more air than sound. He says, “I love you.” I squeeze him,
but can’t say them back.
His complexity is what keeps the reader riveted. You know
when the time is right you’re going to hear his story and it’s going to turn
you inside out, it’s going to hurt. And it does.
As each book in this series passes there’s one thing that
Vin always says that gives me goosebumps, my veins tingle, my heart pumps, and
I know it’s about to begin:
“Once there was a tribe of men, a tribe populated entirely
of kings. Odd, you may think, and wonder how any work got done in such a
society with everyone making rules. But these were not those kinds of kings.”
That right there is like a starting gun at a race. I squee a
little, I wonder where this is going.
Come Back to Me, as Edmond promised, is everything you’ve been
waiting for. It’s a sexual book that touches ALL elements of sex. The good,
bad, great, important, elementary, and most important love.
It’s hard to write this review without spoilers because I
want to gush with you readers and tell you the moments that made me cry, laugh,
smile, sigh, and heal.
I adore this book and all the pieces that came together. How
important every page from book 1 until now mattered.
I can’t highly recommend a book or series more than this.
Oh wow! I know nothing about these books except your review and feel like I absolutely must read them.
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