Saving Sparrow WILL break you and fix you in the most beautiful way.
I picked up this book for the emotional damage and I was not disappointed. But fair warning… prepare yourself. It does have a HEA, but the journey is anything but easy.
Why I Picked Up This Book
So, other than the emotional damage part, I have read some of CP Harris’s other books which I could not put down. That includes “Only the Small Bones” which, is technically the book that precedes “Saving Sparrow” in a series or duet or whatever you’d like to call it. But they are in no way connected except for vibes.
I love CP Harris’s work and was, once again, not disappointed.
Quick Book Details
This is an MMM romance, friends to lovers, stepbrothers, found family and other things that I really don’t want to mention because I feel like it will spoil the story. I want to write this post in a way that I would have liked before reading the book and nothing more.
But be cautious and read the trigger warnings to protect your mental health.
What Saving Sparrow Is About
So, Elliot, Quentin and Miguel are married, but one day Miguel wakes up in a hospital bed. Both his husbands gone, with only one missing.
He sets out to find the missing one in Alaska, but is captured by someone both familiar and unfamiliar.
Soon he learns things about his husband and his past and he realises that he didn’t know his husband quite as well as he thought.
Eventually the polar night comes to an end and it is up to Miguel to decide what will happen next, but if there is one thing that is true it is that there is no going back to what life was before.
What Kept Me Reading
I was hooked by Saving Sparrow and couldn’t put it down.
It is told in parallel timelines that creates mystery because when reading the parts about now, you don’t really know what happened before. And the past part each time gives you just enough to keep you at the edge of your seat.
The mystery keeps the tension up because you don’t know what will happen next.
Let’s Talk About the Characters
The now is told by Miguel and Sparrow and you don’t know where Elliot and Quentin are.
Sparrow is a mystery and it takes some time to figure him out, but the mystery makes him intriguing. You constantly want to find out more about him.
Elliot, Quinton and Miguel are married, but the past storyline begins before they are married.
Both Quinton and Elliot are only prominently featured in the past.
Elliot is portrayed as a soft boy who likes wearing dresses and playing football with Quintin. To me he felt like the friend that I just wanted to keep close and protect.
Quintin, on the other hand, is a football star and has quite a bit of a strong personality. He feels like the protector, the one who makes sure that no one harms what’s his.
Miguel is the only one that we initially see in both the past and the present. I related a lot with him and I think it is written to be that way. He is the glue keeping them together and his logical, but caring side makes him the perfect character to search for the missing husband and deal with Sparrow.
Sparrow is a strange character and the mystery surrounding makes the book unputdownable. He is not really relatable, he is written for us to try and figure him out and accept him for who he is.
My Favourite Part
The thing I loved most about this book?
The emotional wreck it left me in. But also the way it stitched me back together.
And that is exactly why I would recommend it to you.
Crazy right?
But I think that is one thing many readers have in common. We like books that wreck us, but we also like the healing process and that is why we put ourselves through it.
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