Feather & Flame, the second book in The Birdsong Trilogy, is live!

An angsty, emotional and intense forbidden love story!

 

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Blurb

Darius:

“This is why I never contacted you. I still have no control around you. You want me to tell you I haven’t thought of you? That would be a damned lie. Wherever I’ve been, whatever I’ve done, I haven’t stopped thinking of you. You are always there.”

Nell:

Once, I was convinced that my feelings for Darius, my love for him, were pure and real. I fought against all his perceptions of wrongness.

But that was four years ago. If I still can’t find pleasure in even the thought of kissing another man, maybe my feelings for Darius have gotten twisted and warped. Maybe they’re obsessive.

Maybe they’re wrong.

New York Times bestselling author Nina Lane returns with the Birdsong Trilogy, a provocative romance between two people whose forbidden love will set their lives—and the world—on fire.

 

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Review

“You are the only thing that makes perfect sense in this world.”

5 stars!

Oh my God, what the hell did I just read? My heart is racing, my head is spinning, and I’m caught up in SO many feels. Nina Lane has taken me on a swoony, passionate, angsty and intense rollercoaster that is full of surprises, and it’s such a phenomenal read!

This is the second book in The Birdsong Trilogy, an angsty, emotional and intense forbidden love story between a young woman and her father’s best friend. The story is perfectly set up in the first book of the trilogy, Sparrow & Hawke, and all of those feelings and intensity are immediately recaptured as we meet up with them four years after they said their goodbyes at the end of the first book.

Nell is now a college graduate, living in NYC and looking for work. She’s not having any luck, but she’s determined to stand on her own two feet and find her way. Meanwhile, Darius has spent four years travelling the world, hurling himself into warzones and other dangerous situations in an attempt to outrun his demons, and his feelings for Nell. When they unexpectedly run into each other again, it doesn’t go well, but holy damn, the feels!

“We’re not doing this again.”
“No, we’re not doing it again because I’m a different person now.”
“I’m not.”
“Good. Because I only ever wanted the man you are.”

Nell continues to blow me away with her strength and bravery in letting Darius know what she wants. And when he brutally rejects her yet again, she pulls herself up and gets on with her life – this time travelling to embrace new opportunities. But when she finds herself in danger, Darius runs to her side to help, and the two of them end up stuck together in the last place on earth Darius wants to be, and on the edge of disaster.

I won’t say anything more than that, because you just need to jump in and experience this book and all of its wonderful twists and turns. I thought it was a fantastic direction for the story to go, and loved every moment of Nell’s new adventure, and Darius’ return to her life in such extreme circumstances.

“Even though years can pass without us talking to each other, I’m always aware of you in the world. I always know you’re here. And I will always drop everything and run to you if I think you need help, even if you don’t want me to. Maybe that’s overstepping or whatever you want to call it, but it’s the truth. I will always come to you.”

And with the two of them pretty much locked away from their real lives, away from external judgement and in completely new and intense circumstances, all of their feelings are impossible to ignore.

He presses his forehead to mine. I stare into his eyes, oceans deep. If we are given only one certainty in life, one inviolable truth, then this is mine. He is mine.

I need her, the woman whose entire life is woven into the loops of my memory. My heart can’t beat without her.

Finally, we get to see the love story that the first book hinted at. I anticipated epic, and Nina Lane delivered, with an emotional, swoony, passionate romance that absolutely owned my heart. Nell and Darius are absolutely beautiful together, and I revelled in every moment of them finally exploring their feelings for each other.

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This is what I’ve been missing, what I’ve been searching for, what I feared I would never find. But of course, he’s the one who had it all along.

They still have some issues to work through – mostly with Darius coming to terms with his feelings for Nell, how all-consuming they are, and what it means for both of their futures, but regardless of all of that, I loved watching him fall so damn hard.

“I’ve seen wrongness. I’ve done and felt more wrong things than I can count. But what I feel for you has never been one of them … It’s the most genuine, pure thing I’ve ever known.”

Nell is there for him every step of the way – supporting Darius, guiding and encouraging him, and she holds nothing back from him as she fights so hard for the man she loves.

“I’ve been loving you from a distance for the past four years. I love you still.”

But the danger that keeps Darius on edge is very real, and soon they are forced to face it head on. In scenes that had me holding my breath, the final chapters had me madly flipping pages, unable to stop reading and desperate to know what was going to happen. I cried, I ached, and felt so much, and I was completely swept up in the intensity of the story. There’s a cliffhanger, and it’s brutal, but thank God, Lane has moved up the release date of the third and final book in the trilogy so we don’t have too long to wait to see how it’s all going to end.

“The path doesn’t always stay the same. It veers off in different directions or gets blocked…or sometimes it just disappears altogether. So you have to find it again or make a new one.”

I absolutely adored this book. The characters, the setting, the romance, and the secondary storyline are fantastic, and are all woven together brilliantly to create a completely engaging read that I feel like I lived with Nell and Darius. Reading this book was an experience, and I cannot wait for more of Nell and Darius’ story.

5 phenomenal stars!

An Advanced Review Copy was generously provided by the author in exchange for an honest review.

 

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