Review – The Oath We Give by Monty Jay

The Oath We Give; The Hollow Boys #5
(#5 within a series)

Publication Date: October 13, 2023

Genre/Tropes: New Adult/Dark/Marriage of Convenience/Intrigue Romance

Author: Monty Jay

Review Rating: 5 Gold Stars

Review/Synopsis:

Review:
An emotional, touching, and mental health awakening I am so thankful to have read. The words to express my awe over Silas and his journey would never compare to the experience of reading the book itself. Monty Jay is exquisite in how they handled every moment from beginning to end. So, while this book is dark and certainly falls within the morally gray world, the aspects regarding mental health were, for lack of a better word, beautiful.

While Ponderosa Springs has been infected with darkness and the events that started when Silas lost Rosemary are all rolled into that same pit of evil, one would almost call it fate how all of the events have fallen into place, how each Hollow Boy has found their happiness within their life and how now fate has thrust Coraline Whittaker into Silas’ life. These two souls are now crossing into each other and this is their story.

Silas has always been the silent one. Locked in his own mind, but this boy, or let me rephrase that and say, man has been waiting to unleash his well of trust, love, and dirty, filthy, and deliciously depraved mouth on the right woman since he lost Rosemary. Oh, my lord!!! Silas is every dark, dirty fantasy wrapped up in this final book. 🔥🔥🔥

I’d love to say I knew he held a deep well of emotions behind his silence, but honestly he was a mystery and I’m not disappointed one bit with unwrapping the deep, soulful man. Silas cares deeply for anyone who fits into the small circle that means family in his life. It doesn’t mean blood related in this instance. He’s intense, but he’s forever genuine and faithful. Coraline has never had that kind of attention on her in her life and once Silas turns his attention towards her, she doesn’t know how to react.

Coraline was a victim, could have suffered the same fate as Rosemary, but instead she was a survivor. However she is now a shell of her former self, living with survivors guilt, just getting by so she can take care of her younger sister. Silas sees beyond what she’s displaying to the world. He notices most likely because of his own facade. Like notices like and he’s drawn to it.

So, yes, the underlying plot is Silas needs a wife for….reasons, but he also wants Coraline personally. There is also more going on, but for the main purpose of these two coming together that is the reason. These two have a slow burn, but they’ve also been through some pretty damaging trauma. Their story burned at the perfect pace for two people growing from dark places and once they ignited that flame…O…M…G!!! Hotness overload extreme!! Reference the paragraph above where I mentioned how dirty Silas can be 😉

For the final Hollow Boys book there are lots of moments with all four guys and also all four girls. Talk about nostalgia along with creating new memories. It was the perfect finish to the series.

Synopsis:

“𝐎𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝐈 𝐯𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐦𝐲 𝐨𝐰𝐧, 𝐭𝐨 𝐰𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐦 𝐨𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐤𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐚𝐟𝐞.”

𝐓𝐰𝐨 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬.

𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭’𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐰𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐛𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐰𝐨𝐤𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐝.

𝐖𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐢𝐜𝐞, 𝐚 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐨𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧.

𝐑𝐞𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐏𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐚 𝐒𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬. 𝐎𝐫 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐩 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬.

𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐢𝐭’𝐬 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐇𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐁𝐨𝐲𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐝𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞.

𝐈𝐭’𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐫.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐧𝐞.

𝐀 𝐦𝐢𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐚 𝐰𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐭𝐨𝐨 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐛𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐝.

𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐖𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐈 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐚 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐨𝐧 𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐦𝐲.

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬𝐧’𝐭 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐚 𝐯𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐰𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐮𝐬 𝐭𝐨𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫.

𝐈𝐭’𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭. 𝐈𝐭’𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐫𝐮𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐮𝐬.

𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐫.

𝐏𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐚 𝐒𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐢𝐬𝐧’𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐬. 𝐈’𝐥𝐥 𝐥𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 she’s 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐦𝐞. 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐈 𝐝𝐨 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐞.

𝐀 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝?

𝐍𝐨𝐭 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐆𝐨𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐦𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐦𝐲 𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐥.

Why you will love this book…

Marriage of Convenience

Forced Proximity

Morally Grey Hero

Found Family
Till Death do us Part

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