DEVOTED by Lark Taylor
Hopeless Blessed #2
Genre: Paranormal MM Romance
Release: February 19, 2025
🪽Angel x Human
🪽Online Friends to Lovers
🪽OCD/Mental Health Rep
🪽 Protective MC
🪽 Touch Him and D!e
🪽 Found Family
🪽 MM Romance
Fate always has a plan.
Even if you don’t agree with it.
Ezekiel
Starting that online game was my attempt to find happiness. Something to fill my life other than the demands of Heaven and the rest of my unit.
I didn’t expect to find Sam.
Even with screens between us, Sam makes me feel more alive than I have done in millenia. I find myself counting down the minutes until I can go online and be with him.
He’s my perfect match. In any other circumstances, I’d be doing whatever it took to make him mine.
But I’m not human. And, unlike humans, I have no say over who I spend eternity with. Fate decides who my mate will be, whether it’s the person I love or not.
Sam lives in the same city as me. If he was my mate, I’d have met him by now. I’d feel a pull towards him that I couldn’t ignore.
The right thing to do would be to end this now. To put up walls between us to keep both our hearts safe.
Instead, I find myself tearing down the barriers, falling faster for him every day.
I know how this story will end, but I can’t stop myself. I don’t care what plans fate has for me.
I want to make Sam mine.
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He sounded…lonely. Dejected. I’d tried to draw him out of his head by sharing funny stories, but nothing I said had much of an effect.
Eventually, he’d fallen asleep while still on the phone to me. I’d laid there listening to his breathing for far longer than I was willing to admit.
Okay, if I was being honest, I didn’t end the call until I’d heard him stirring this morning. I’d stayed awake all night, doing nothing but listening to him sleep. Just to feel closer to him for a bit longer.
I’d never felt like this about anyone before. There was only one thing that made sense.
He had to be my mate.
It’d occurred to me approximately a thousand times last night to ask for a photo of his face. Not because I cared what he looked like, but what if I looked at it and didn’t hear my soul whisper the word I was desperate to hear?
Mate.
I was scared. It was cowardly, but I wasn’t ready to face the truth.
Now, though, after obsessing over it for hours, I knew we couldn’t continue like this. It wasn’t fair to either of us.
Besides, if Sam was my mate, this was pointless. We could be spending this time together, not agonising apart.
But what if he wasn’t? Was I prepared to walk away from him? Or should I spend his mortal lifetime as his partner, praying my mate didn’t show up before then?
Would I even be able to love my mate after loving Sam? I wasn’t saying I was there yet, of course I wasn’t.
But it was all too easy to see how fast I could fall.
Devoted by Lark Taylor
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
(Seraphim-an order of angels)
This is one of those books that explains a particular (or in this case several) mental health disorders. The author has the same disorders as Sam so I (as a reader) don’t doubt the authenticity of Sam’s debilitating life.
Ezekiel, a Seraphim and Sam, a human, fated mates, meant to be together for all eternity. They just have to work through some violent rages, a vengeful “boss”, twins who would test the power of a Saint, and crippling OCD. Just another day in the Angel-verse. (Sam’s thought…“Say what you wanted about living with OCD, but it was never effin boring, just call me Sheldon.”
I wasn’t prepared to like Ezekiel (Zeke) as much as I did. I should of known he would wiggle his way into my heart. Some action of the violent kind between the Seraphim didn’t take away from this sugary love story. Zeke turned out to be the best kind of hero for Sam and Sam calmed Zeke’s murderous tendencies.
I really feel this story was a way for the author to humanize her Angels and make them more relatable. I liked the book very much. The twins were almost my favorite part. Looking forward to Noah’s story next. Can’t wait for him to to get his story.
Review Copy requested and reviewed on behalf of OMGReads.
Lark lives with her family in southern England. An obsessive romance fan, she loves nothing more than a Happily Ever After – especially if there’s a good plot and a hefty amount of spice along the way. When she’s not reading or writing, she can be found hiding from adult life in escape rooms, travel and the MCU. As a Bi woman with OCD, Lark is a fervent supporter of the LGBTQIA+ community and an advocate for mental health awareness and support.
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