BOOK REVIEW: The Debt by Karina Halle

Title: The Debt

Author: Karina Halle

Genre: Contemporary Romance

B L U R B

Her life changed in an instant. 

And he's the only one who could have prevented it. 

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Pact and The Lie comes a new standalone contemporary romance about those McGregor men. 

Jessica Charles shouldn't have even been in London when the unthinkable happened. 

She should have been back at home in Edinburgh, perhaps hanging with her boyfriend, having drinks with her sister or doing yoga with her group of friends. She should have been going on in her normal, dependable life as always. 

But on that fateful day in August, when a mentally-ill ex-soldier opened fire in public, Jessica's world changed forever. 

Now single and crippled from the gunshot wounds, Jessica finds herself scared and alone, losing faith in herself and humanity with each agonizing moment that passes. 

That is until a stranger enters her life. A stranger who makes her live again. 

Keir McGregor has always been the strong, silent type. Throw in tall, dark, and handsome and you've got pretty much the perfect Scotsman. 

Except Keir is anything but perfect. He's got a past he's running away from and a guilty conscience he can't seem to shed. But the more time he spends with Jessica, the more he falls in love with her. 

And the more his secret threatens to tear them apart. 

He may have been a stranger to her. 

But she’s never been a stranger to him. 

M Y   R E V I E W 

5/5 STARS! 

We’re just two broken people picking up each other’s pieces. I’m falling to pieces. Over him. Over this.

Karina Halle is the one author who’s already unleashed every possible emotion I can have. She broke, wrecked, tore me apart with her words and fixed me up with them, too. Her attack on a book is always intense but in The Debt, a mellower, soul-stirring Karina Halle surprised me. 

He’s a big man with a big past and a big heart and I belong only with him.

Keir McGregor knew about how effective self-made monsters were. Barely surviving his own guilt and tragic experiences, he opted to slay a bigger dragon than his own past. In my opinion, Keir is the most sincere, sweetest Halle hero. He was rough around the edges and might even melt you in the sheets but the genuineness and valor of this man always resounds. 

"You’ve broke my trust, you’ve broken me. And I was already so broken.”

Jessica Charles lived her own nightmares all at once. A woman scarred with loss, she struggles to heal her wounds and start living again. Jessica is such a beautiful contradiction. Life might have attempted to strip her off of her confidence but this woman’s tough grip on herself was so admirable. She was sweet and brazen, broken and brave, timid and wild. 

"I love every broken part of you and how well it fits with every broken part of me.”

This story was constantly mesmerizing. Karina Halle’s intense prose brought a certain depth in this book that stole a part of me. Emotional, heartbreaking, and yet utterly therapeutic at the same time. The characters’ spark was sensually enthralling, seeping at every scene, feeding my anticipation as I read on. Yet again, Miss Karina steals me with her poignant words. Her capability of ridding the barrier between the reader and the book makes the experience more memorable. The wonderful way she transcends love, loss, and travel in one page-turning book never fails to amaze me. The Debt, is no doubt, Karina Halle’s strong points weaved into a one hot, steamy, emotional love story in Scotland.