Like Father Like Son by Leigh Lennon
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

She’s my responsibility and yet she’s become more than a simple promise to my late son.

I’m falling for my son’s girl— she makes me a better person.

I’ve been reading Leigh Lennon for about two years now, and I love her stories. Like Father Like Son, the first book in the Father/Son Duet, was instantly enthralling and I read this book in one sitting. It’s a taboo story for sure—Maguire and Holland are incredibly drawn to one another, and their relationship is completely forbidden. After all, he’s the father of Holland’s deceased husband. The age gap between Maguire and Holland was another lure for me with this story since I love age gap romances. I loved reading the progression of their mutual feelings of grief which soon are overcome desire for one another. Although they fight it, those feelings grow and created a sexual tension that nearly jumps off the page.

Tears fall on the beauty of the wood that holds my best friend, or his remains, I should say, when I swear his large muscular arms surround me— and I break. Every fiber of my being holds onto him because now that I have him back, I’ll never let go. Then I turn, only to see it’s not my husband. It’s my father-in-law.

Maguire’s very nature sets my soul on fire. Is it that Maguire is my husband in an older man’s body that has me craving his touch…

…it’s in his arms I can start living again.

Like Father Like Son is well written with a storyline that feels very much like a second chance romance. Primarily because Scott (Holland’s deceased husband) and Maguire are so very much alike, leading Holland to feel like she’s in a holding pattern with an older version of her husband. The story is told in dual POV and as always, I loved diving into these characters perspectives and innermost thoughts. Scott was in the military and ss a military spouse, I will say there were a few moments that I was teary eyed and had to take a few deep breaths. I think Leigh did a beautiful job of layering the grief, desire, and angst that a story like this one deserved. As the first book in a duet, of course, Like Father Like Son ends on a soft cliffhanger, as I expect with any duet or trilogy. This book is set to a slightly slower pace, but the storyline dictates such and combined with the emotional draws the story brings, I was compelled to finish reading the same night I picked up Like Father Like Son. The conclusion to Maguire and Holland’s story releases in about two weeks, and I can’t wait to get my hands on it. One-click Like Father Like Son immediately so you can be prepared to dive into Different as Night and Day as soon as it releases!

“You’re right, darlin’, there’s nothing normal about this. It’ll be hard. But we lost the most important person to us. A second chance at love rarely comes around. And we have it within arm’s reach.”

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