Release Blitz, Review and Giveaway: Deliverance by Garrett Leigh

21 May of 2021 by ButtonsMom2003

Deliverance By Garrett Leigh

Genre: Contemporary Romance, GLBTQ, MM

Tropes: Second chances, found family, friends-to-lovers, hurt/comfort

Released: May 20, 2021

Publisher: Fox Love Press

Length: 321 Pages

Cover Design: Garrett Leigh @ Black Jazz Design

Synopsis

Banished gangster Benito Martell is living on the edge. An explosive hook-up in a club gifts him the relief he craves, but nothing about his life is ever so simple. Complications abound, and before long, he’s falling for the only man who can save his family from eviction.

Recovering addict Mickey Larwood has worked hard to leave his past behind. He can’t look back, not even for the beautiful Benito, the last soul on earth he expected to steal his heart—a soul who’s knee-deep in the underworld Mickey has run hundreds of miles to escape.

Benito can deny it all he wants, but Mickey can smell trouble a mile off.
And Benito is trouble with a capital T. As his desperate lies unravel, so does the fledgling love that’s grown between them. If Benito wants deliverance from his old life and a future with Mickey, old ghosts need to die.

If they don’t kill him first.

Deliverance is an angsty standalone MM romance novel, with second chances, found family, friends-to-lovers, and buckets of hurt/comfort themed loveliness. Trigger warnings for addiction and childhood trauma.

Review

Reviewed by ButtonsMom2003

A wonderful angsty story; I loved it!

When I read the first book in this series, Redemption, I didn’t know it was going to be part of a series but I sure am glad it turned out to be so. Deliverance is a fantastic story in its own right and it stands alone with no problem. But if you’d like to know what happens before this story (different main characters but connected), I highly recommend reading Redemption as it’s also a fantastic story.

Benito has left his old life behind but there are still loose ends he needs to tie up. The problem is that tying them up is dangerous, not only to him but possibly to those he loves as well.

Mickey used to lead a life similar to Benito but he left it and his addiction behind three years ago. He knows that getting close to Benito is dangerous to his ongoing recovery but he can’t seem to help himself until something happens that he just can’t ignore.

This is another Garrett Leigh book that tore me up and then put me back together again. The relationship between Benito and Mickey is HOT! They meet in a club for a one-off that neither of them can forget. Then Mickey’s day life intersects with his night life in a big way and he can’t ignore how he feels about Benito.

As Benito continues to do dangerous things my heart was pounding throughout much of the story. I kept waiting for the shoe to drop but when it did it wasn’t what I was expecting. A life-threatening situation brings things to a head for Benito and Mickey and Garrett Leigh gives them a great HEA. I also loved the epilogue for the story and I hope it was a bit of a setup for the next book in the series.