Fisher's Light

There are two kinds of romance novel - A) two people falling in love which they wouldn’t realize/admit until half of the book and B) two people falling out of love and the whole book is about fighting for what belongs to them and finding their way back to each other.I’m a huge sucker for the latter! And Fisher’s Light is all about it. There’s something heart-warming to read about married couples which never cease to restore my faith in true love, that being said I’m madly in love with this story.It was achingly beautiful second chance romance I’ve read in very long time. I loved the main characters so very much, Fisher and Lucy were amazingly strong and their love for one another is so powerful you wish for their story to never end.This is my first book from Tara Sivec and I’ve no clue why it took me so long to read her books! Her writing is simply exquisite, descriptive and appealing. Right from the prologue till the very end I was connected to every aspect of this story, I could feel their emotions, pain, struggle as though I was with them in every step of their life.There’s this two chapters from Fisher’s POV (his journal entry), it broke my heart to read those agony filled pages. Kudos to the author for bringing out massive amount of feels in those pages!

This book I have started and completed this book, reading straight through the entire day. Honestly saying I was dreading reading this book as I had thought it would be sorta sob story but it was SO MUCH MORE AND OH SO HEART TOUCHING AND BEAUTIFUL. This book is written in such a way that you get to learn about Fisher's past and both of Fisher and Lucy's present. I really don't have words to say how beautifully written this story was and make no mistake that Fisher and Lucy's love was soft, sweet and kind. Yes it was all of that but more so about the passion they shared for each other. YOU JUST HAVE TO READ THIS ONE TO REALISE THE FEELS. 10+🌟 STARS. OH SO LOVED THIS ONE 😍

Fisher’s Light by Tara Sivec5 stars!!“War changes everyone, son, there’s no shame in that. If it doesn’t change you, you were already too effed up to begin with…”Tara, Tara, Tara what have you done to me!! As much as I love whatever Tara Sivec deems to write I do have a favourite and that is Watch Over Me. This was one of those books where Tara poured out the emotion and I had such an intense connection with the characters that I didn’t want it to end and Fisher’s Light is on the same scale, I loved it just as much, cried just as much and am sat in awe just as much. I totally and utterly loved it.Tara is one of the most versatile authors I have read, she can write funny, she can write suspense and she can also write contemporary and no matter what Tara turns her hand to, she always delivers. Fisher’s Light was such a beautiful story that I just didn’t want it to end, I wanted to stay on Fisher Island, and I didn’t want to read the last page.Fisher and Lucy’s story covers a decade, a decade of highs and lows, when there were highs it was euphoric and when there were lows it was pitiful and woeful. We are treated to the present, the past as teenagers and the past in times where they were facing their biggest battles. A time that they both wanted to forget but it was a battle that needed to be won and a time they both needed to come with terms with none the less.“I should have realised that she was my light. She was everything bright and beautiful about my life and it went to s**t after she left.”Fisher was from a privileged family, Fisher Island having been in his family for years and still owns the island and the majority of property and businesses on it. For Fisher life was never about the money, he didn’t really get on with his family that well but had an incredibly strong and loving connection with his grandfather. When Fisher grew up, he wanted to get away but do something worthwhile, so he joined the Marines. The Fisher that came back was not the same Fisher that left. With every deployment a little less of Fisher came back, until the last time, when Fisher never really came back at all.“I don’t know if I’m strong enough to get him through this. I don’t know if I’m enough to make him forget.”Lucy was a beautiful character inside and out, always putting everyone else first and trying to be the best person and wife she could be. With every deployment, Lucy could see the husband she knew fade away, being a marine’s wife she could cope with, but when your husband comes back with a severe case of PTSD and won’t let you in, makes it all the more hard to manage.“You don’t want anyone else fishing in your damn pond, but you seem to forget that YOU tossed me back in that effing water! You always said you’d find your way back to me and you EFFING LIED!”This was a truly beautiful story bringing PTSD once again to the forefront but dealt with sympathetically and empathetically. You couldn’t help but be drawn into Fisher’s plight and taken on a journey of just how hard and difficult this illness is, how it affects the person and how it affects those people around them. I am no specialist when it comes to PTSD but the way this story was written felt personal and drawn from experience rather than research. The emotions that this book drew out of me had me sobbing with tears in some instances and yet laughing, smiling and swooning in others. This book was perfectly balanced, as I said above there were highs and lows and while the lows were hard the highs more than made of for it.This is a book about forgiveness and second chances a book that screams no matter how low you are the love and support of family and friends can pull you through, a book about healing, learning to live and love again and most importantly realising that you are worthy of that love in return. No matter the past, live for the present and the future, leave the past behind you, and only look forward.“To get to the good, sometimes you have to live through the bad.”This is one of those books that will stay with you long after you have read the last word; this is one of those books that you cannot help thinking about and one that I will definitely be reading again and again and again. Tara Sivec, I salute you, I bow down to your awesomeness, you have managed to decimate me once again and I cannot wait to see what comes next. You must read this book!

Omg why did I wait so long to read this!?!What a beautiful story about second chance love and about to find a way back to yourself and the women you'll always love. You couldn't help but feel everything Fisher and Lucy felt, the sadness, sorrow, the love the happiness and the laughs.Fisher is a broken retired Corps Marine and what he went through on each tour broke him even further with each one,So not wanting to punish Lucy as well he divorces her and sends her away as he thinks it's for her own good,Believing it's better to deal with everything own his and not hurting Lucy any more.However, Lucy is this strong stubborn woman who wants no more than to help and understand what happened and to be the strength Fisher needs to get through this tough period of their marriage, so the divorce rips her apart.But when two people are so right for each other they fight their way back to each because they realise true love never dies and omg Fisher and Lucy are so right and good together, but sometimes when things or people are broken sometimes you just need to take a break, get help and re-evaluate. So you can make your promise to your soulmate. "Meet you at the Lighthouse"Lucy will always be Fisher's Light, it just needs communication and hearing why Fisher did what he did, breaking her heart and trust to make her come back to him wholly again.I really love second chances and this is one of my all time favourites,and even though I've just finished I want to start it all over again and read the heartbreaking story that invoked so much feelings that you go through with both Hero and Heroine. I loved both equally and Trip made me love the story even more, I wish I could live on Fisher's Island. This is truly an amazing beautifully well written story of love.

I didn't like this one as much as I thought I would. Was so looking forward to reading it after having checked out the four and five stars reviews. It started well; I did feel for both the husband and wife in the beginning. But at some point, my sense of connection with them wore off. I began to disengage from the issues facing them. It didn't help that I started to dislike the 'hero' in the story. He was supposed to be this husband with an unequivocal devotion to his wife. But he was always able to SHELVE her and their marriage while he volunteered for deployment FIVE times over the course of many years.Going off to fight in a war that he was passionate about in the first deployment was commendable since he believed in it. But to do it again and again when he didn't have to; and even after the last tour of duty he would have STILLl continued in this fashion, showed a distinct lack of regard for his wife. It was his shoulder injury that had ultimately brought him back home to her - to finally stay. THAT did not say much for his depth of feelings for Lucy. Bearing in mind that each time he was deployed in a war that could have snuffed out his life, I would have thought that enough was enough after the first couple of deployments - that he WOULD want to return to civilian life and be the devoted husband that he was described to be. See, I didn't get the sense that Lucy was as 'necessary' to Fisher, at least not in the same measure as Fisher was essential to Lucy.Then there was the other instance - when he was too quick to put an end to their marriage. How easy it was for him to cut the legal ties. It was an irrevocable act as far as he was concerned at the time - and yet he acted on it just the same.I also didn't like his attitude when he returned a year later. Their first coming upon one another in a bar - and Fisher, after exchanging a few words with his ex-wife, had thoughts running through his mind that she was still 'his', that he would be able to reclaim her. He was so very sure of himself. He was smug and over-confident. I didn't like that his one and only reaction to Lucy's new love interest was a snarly one. It wasn't as though the new guy had taken Lucy from him. He divorced her over a year ago! His uncharitable thoughts towards the new guy didn't go down well with me either. And then of course there was Lucy herself; the public humiliation of the new boyfriend wasn't kind. Sure, the boyfriend was a tool device - but it wasn't necessary for her to strip off her top as an act to refuse his marriage proposal. To Lucy, the poor guy was considered to be good enough as a potential new love, as staid as she knew him to be. She needn't have rebuffed him with so much haste in the way that she did, by mocking him for his 'staidness'; and by tossing his ring back at him together with the top half of her discarded clothing. Didn't like Lucy in that scene.I also felt that she should have made Fisher work to EARN her forgiveness. His war-related trauma notwithstanding, he DID put her through too many years of neglect. I never like to read a romance wherein the heroine had to do the major part of the pursuing. He was the one to throw her out, the one to divorce her; the one who wounded her with cruel words ... and what did Lucy do not long after Fisher returned to the island? She felt the need to say sorry to him because she had 'wrongly' misjudged him over a money-related issue. It is said that in any relationship, one partner loves more than the other partner. In this story it was certainly Lucy who did much of the loving and giving.While I found myself feeling for the neglect of Lucy in a way, I didn't find this book an emotional read. The only character who moved me was Fisher's grandfather. It was only he who came across as a genuinely decent character in the story. He wasn't even in too many of the scenes, so that's saying something about the two main characters, that what they said, how they acted, felt like scripted scenes that never did make any inroads to my heart strings - certainly not in the way that this book had 'moved' other readers. No Kleenex tissues were ever required to accompany the reading of this story.In too many scenes, Fisher's internal thoughts about Lucy didn't feel like those of a man who, although young, was not THAT young. Thoughts about Lucy being 'his', that she belonged to him, that the other guy was a prick and so on and so forth, were meant to depict Fisher as an alpha male marking his territory ... but considering their past history, his sense of entitlement to her was misplaced. It also didn't feel natural that he would call Lucy '"my Lucy" when he found her on the beach in the middle of a hurricane storm. He shouted to her "Lucy, my Lucy, what are you doing here?". That was one of the instances when the book felt like it was a script and the character was made to 'read from it'. In the middle of life-threatening danger, Fisher's reaction to finding Lucy there was to call attention to the fact that she was "my Lucy"? ? ?The sex scenes were hot, but they were also far too many. They took something away from the issues that mattered in the story. This was a well written book. But I struggled to believe that Lucy was indeed Fisher's light. Too many tours of war duty, too many years of being willing to risk his life on the battlefield for me to believe that she was his one and only 'light'.A minor detail; but I thought I would mention it because I am sucker for details. In the story Lucy was born when her mother was forty-five. Now Lucy was thirty ... and her mother was in her late sixties? Wasn't mathematically possible.

Omg I've had this book on my tbr for a few weeks now after buying it on the recommendation of authors and book blogs so before I decided to dive in to it I read some of the reviews on Goodreads which a lot of the time I rely on....there was a couple of 4 & 5 star reviews but there was also some bad reviews and I really don t understand why!!!This book was amazing since starting this last night I've had to put it down 3 times and it killed me to do so.....Fisher and Lucy..omg wot can I say they were such good characters I absolutely devoured it, Fisher completely tore my heart out, stomped then smashed it to pieces but I couldn't help but love him!!PTSD is a subject we all know nothing about unless you've lived it...Lucy was such a strong woman and I'm so glad they found their way back to each other I was rooting for them so much all the way through!!!This is the first book of Tara Sivec I've read but believe me I'll be reading more now after this but it's gonna take a bell of a book to beat this one.A huge 5 stars a must read if you like military romances I bloody love it....an angsty heart wrenching second chance romance!!!!

One of the best books I read in a long time. Real and very raw romance, Fisher and Lucy have been together since high school but straight after graduation Fisher joins the marines, he believes its his calling, Lucy knows he's her ever after so supports him over 14 years been the loving girlfriend and wife she is but Fisher comes back after every tour a little bit different until she doesn't recognize her Fisher anymore. Fisher and Lucy are amazing characters its hard not to love them both, Lucy is adorable and Fisher Is so broken and scared after the effects of war he loses his love. A really really sensitive subject matter which was done in a realistic but supportive way. It made me cry esp the snippets of fishers journal,the chemistry between them was so strong you felt it through the pages. An amazing and refreshing romance with a beautiful HEA.