When getting into this series, I will be honest I was a bit worried when it came to Aiden's book. He was the brother that I felt the most disconnected from. At the end of the second book, we see Aiden as a disheveled younger brother to Sean, who we discover has been sleeping with Sean's best friend Elijah. We leave the Bell family at the devastating loss of their mother to cancer. As a precursor to my review, I will never think of Psalm 121 verses 1-2 the same way ever again.

We pick up this book with Aiden, who is not a monk and it's been almost six years that have passed and as we learn more about Aiden, we learn what brought him to this path of wishing to become a Trappist monk. Now, I grew up Roman Catholic and I have my fair share of issues with the church, as many of the characters do in this book, however, like the characters in this book they find themselves continuously tied to the church. One of the only reasons I understood most of the religious aspects of the book was due to my undergraduate degree in religious studies. All that to say, choosing to become a Trappist is not for the faint of heart, even for a very religious person. We follow Aiden as he is pushed back to his ex Elijah again and again while traveling the world looking at Trappist monasteries where he might want to stay, and Elijah is there to write about the brewing of beer that the monks do to be self-sufficient. While together, we learn more about the relationship between Aiden and Elijah and what drove Aiden to leave in the middle of the night to become a monk after living a very non-religious lifestyle. After a few hundred pages of not knowing if they will end up together, Sierra Simone does not disappoint us. There is a happy ending that includes all the monk friends that Aiden made crying at his and Elijah's wedding, which also made me cry a little.