Title: Sweet Soul
Series: Sweet Home #4
Author: Tillie Cole
Age group: New adult
Age group: New adult
Genre: Contemporary romance
One shy lost soul.
One silent lonely heart.
One love to save them both.
Life has never been easy for twenty-year-old Levi Carillo. The youngest of the Carillo boys, Levi is nothing like his older brothers. He isn’t dark in looks or intimidating to everyone he meets. In fact, he’s quite the opposite. Haunted by a crippling shyness and the tragic events of his past, Levi spends his days with his head buried in his books, or training hard for his college football team. Too timid to talk to girls, Levi stays as far away as possible and completely on his own… until he saves the life of a troubled pretty blonde, a troubled pretty blonde that might just be the exception to his rule.
Elsie Hall is homeless. Or at least that’s all anyone ever sees. Everyday is a fight for survival on the cold streets of Seattle, everyday a struggle to find food and keep warm. Alone in life—a life that’s dangerous and cruel—her will to keep going is an ever-losing battle. In her world of silence, Elsie has given up hope that her life will contain anything but constant struggle and pain… until the beautiful boy she has severely wronged comes to her rescue at precisely the right time.
New Adult novel—contains sexual situations and mature topics. Suited for ages 18 and up.
“Carillo. You got twenty more sprints,
then you can hit the showers,” Coach shouted, as I took my place back on the
field. Putting my head down, drawing myself down to focus, I got it done.
Twenty sprints later, I threw a wave to
Jake and Ashton who were still hitting their sprints. I made my way inside. I
always finished first. Football was my life. It was what I did best. It was the
only constant I’d ever had; I could trust football, I could trust the routine.
It never let me down.
It never left.
My cleats tapped on the tile floor of the
locker room as I toweled off sweat from my face. I hit the showers, and in less
than five minutes under the boiling spray, with only a towel around my waist, I
headed into the locker room. I entered the change area, just as a movement
caught my eye, right in front of my station.
A girl. A petite, thin girl—scraggly long
blond hair sticking out of a pulled up hood; dressed in dirty black jeans,
chucks riddled with holes, and a scuffed black leather jacket.
I froze, startled by what the hell a girl
was doing in here, in the football locker room. Then my eyes widened when I
realized exactly what she was doing. Her left side was to me, her rail thin
body showing me most of her back.
Her hands were in my bag.
Instinct kicked in and I stepped forward.
“Hey!” I shouted. But the girl didn’t move. I shouted again, my heart beating
fast. It seemed like it took her a minute to hear me. She froze, and flashing
me a quick glimpse of her shocked dirty face hidden under her black hood, she
pulled something to her chest and sprinted out of the locker room, then
straight outside.
I stood rooted to the spot, completely
shocked, until I remembered that my bag was wide open. I rushed forward and
looked inside. At first I didn’t think anything had been taken, then I noticed
my wallet was missing from the inside pocket. I began throwing my clothes and
sports crap out onto the floor, searching the entire bag. But as I reached
inside the hidden compartment, there was nothing.
Nothing.
She’d taken my wallet.
Great!
Standing straight, I ran my hands through
my wet hair. My eyes darted around the room. I questioned how the hell she’d
gotten in here? In a secure room?
I breathed out through my nose, trying
like hell to calm down, when shards of ice sliced, like spears, down my spine.
Every part of me stilled as a further realization kicked in. My wallet. My
wallet not only contained all my cards and ID, but also the one thing that
mattered the most to me—in my whole life.
The rosary.
Tillie Cole is a go to author if you are in need of a heartfelt read. Whether it be her Sweet Home, Hades Hangmen or Scarred Souls series she guarantees to leave you with a lump in your throat and smile on your lips. Sweet Soul is no exception to that.
Bar his passion for playing football, Levi Carillo is shy and withdrawn character. The youngest brother to Austin and Axel, Levi so far has had a quiet role to play in the series. In Sweet Soul Levi not only finds his voice but his purpose.
My greatest triumph when reading any romance novel is the absolute belief that my MCs are made for each other. I can say without a doubt Elsie Hall was made for Levi Carillo. Like him, her childhood was fraught with hardship and insecurities. In Young adulthood the scars remain. It's only through the sweet purity of their love do they begin to heal.
As much as I enjoyed Levi and Elsie's story, it was cloaked in so much sadness that at times it was difficult for me to not feel overwhelmed by it. There were also moments when I felt the declarations were too unrealistic for that of a young couple. That said, sweet soul was a perfect title to this story as it possessed just that.
Amazon & USA Today Best Selling Author, Tillie Cole is a Northern
girl through and through. She originates from a place called Teesside on that
little but awesomely sunny (okay I exaggerate) Isle called Great Britain. She
was brought up surrounded by her English rose mother — a farmer’s daughter, her
crazy Scottish father, a savagely sarcastic sister and a multitude of rescue
animals and horses.
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