Freed Love by Joni Martins

Book Blurb

After her escape, Lydia’s relationship with Rob changes. Then Sam returns. Will Lydia’s love and life once more be in danger?

Rob thought he lost her forever. Now she has returned home, will he be able to declare his love?

And what will happen when Sam is discharged from the psychiatric ward? Will a chance meeting lead to the destruction of a brittle love?

Read it all in Freed Love, the sequal to Captive Love which can be read as stand-alone.

Warning:

This book is an 18+ version and contains scenes of an erotic nature. Freed Love is also available in a censored version, where the erotic scenes have been removed or altered to fit a younger public.

Other books by the author:

The Friends, family and love series:

Captive Love
Freed Love 18+ / Freed Love censored
Hidden Love
Lost Love
Holiday Love

Non-Fiction:

Diary of a Female GP
Some of the author’s favourite authors are: Karen Rose, Karin Slaughter, Kathy Reichs, Lee Child, J.K. Rowling, but her work is all her own.

Best Book Editors Review

A Sweet Love Story with a Head of Steam!

This is a multi-POV book told mostly from the two MC’s POV—with chapters included with their best friends’ take on things.

It’s a beautiful, sweet love story, and after reading some involved and concentrated books lately, this was a great fast-paced read to relax with.

The book is encapsulated by miscommunication—or in this case, no communication at all.

Lydia and Rob, housemates, like each other. But do they let on? We follow the story of their attraction. First, we follow scenes inside Lydia’s head, and then we switch to Rob’s feelings about the same event.

There are dozens of opportunities for them to talk. Like when they are studying, when they have a meal together, or as they watch TV sharing a bucket of popcorn. But, as often happens in real life, they are too frightened of rejection to bring their feelings into the open.

Then their best friends get involved—they know the housemates like somebody—but don’t know who. They discuss it in Rob and Lydia’s flat one evening in front of them. And in true rom-com style, it all gets uncomfortably awkward for our secret keepers.

The author touches on erotica in this book, beginning with intense dreams from both MC’s, but it’s done with great delicacy and never drops into vulgarity

This is a lovely book. A sweet tale of ‘If only we’d said something.’

I thoroughly enjoyed it and recommend it to anybody who wants to connect with a good old love story.

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About Joni Martins

About the author

Joni Martins was born in the Netherlands and now lives in the United Kingdom with her family. She is in her fifties and she has so far written and published five books in her ‘Friends, family and love’ series. Four are available in both English and Dutch, the last one only in English. The first book, Captive Love, was published in December 2017.

Joni has always loved writing, but only seriously took up this hobby during her year of retirement. She is now working again and her writing has subsequently taken a bit of a backseat.

Joni is working on the sixth book in the series, and also is editing a supernatural romantic murder mystery.

Diary of a Female GP is a non-fiction book based on real-life General Practice in the UK and started as a NaNoWriMo project in November 2018. It was published in August 2020 in the midst of the Covid pandemic.

Meet up with Joni on her blog (https://jonimartinsauthor.blogspot.co.uk/) and website (https://sites.google.com/view/jonimartins), on Twitter (@JoniMartins3), Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest. She would be happy to meet you there. The latest developments regarding her work can also be found there.

Tracey Gerrard

Enjoyable and entertaining friends to lovers read!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 31 August 2022

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It’s three months on since Lydia was abducted then rescued by her roommate Rob. Since that day, where they shared a kiss, things have become a little awkward between them and the friendship they shared.
Living together has roommates and been heavily associated due to families, they both struggle with revealing just what they feel for each other and as the story unfolds as a reader you wonder if they ever will. There was many times I was willing for them to just see what was right in front of them.
Freed Love is a well written friends to lovers story, which keeps you engrossed throughout. It’s told from both POV with the added bonus of a couple of friends views as they try to intervene to bring their friends together.
This is the second book in the series that I have read, and I look forward to reading the next. A recommended read.

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Bill

An enticing, heart-warming romance

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 14 July 2021

‘Freed Love’ tells a gripping story of two couples, which romance readers are bound to enjoy. Short chapters keep this book easy to follow and the novel has a plot that will satisfy readers of the genre. The story kept me rooting for the protagonists right up until the end, and there were enough twists to keep the reader’s attention. Joni Martins cleverly alternates between PoVs to give all the characters depth. While I found this occasionally became too repetitive, I was, on the whole, engaged enough with the story not to mind and this was certainly outweighed by the believability it gave the protagonists.
The book is generally well-edited. I noticed a few missing commas, especially in the dialogue but nothing major enough to hinder my engagement with the story. While this book is far from the sort of genre I would normally read, I still enjoyed it and can see that strong characters and a compelling plot will ensure this appeals to the target market.

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Amazon Customer

An Entertaining Read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 February 2023

The book begins a few months after Rob rescued his housemate, Lydia, from Sam. Sam is a young man, besotted with Lydia, and he mistakenly thinks she returns his feelings. Following the rescue, Rob and Lydia shared a kiss and now their relationship has become a little awkward. Each of them is aware they have feelings for the other, but they do not want to jeopardise their friendship and so they are frustrated and unhappy, especially when they both date other people. The book is told in the first person by several of the characters and this allows the reader to appreciate the perspective of each of them. I read the 18+ version of the book which contains some saucy sex scenes, but there is a milder version for readers who prefer not to read that kind of thing. The book was an easy read which I enjoyed and I will be moving on to the next book in the series.

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