Measure of Devotion Trilogy by Caethes Faron

A slave's devotion, a master's love, the strength to forgive, and the promise of peace. It all starts with Measure of Devotion.

Jason Wadsworth is finally headed to university. Leaving behind his father's cattle ranch in favor of the posh, gaslit streets of Perdana, Jason is determined to climb the social ladder and forget his country roots. If only his father had gifted him with a more upscale slave.

Kale's been a country slave his whole life. All he wants is to keep his head down and live as comfortable an existence as possible. Unfortunately, his dramatic master despises him and makes life difficult at every turn.

Humbled by his first breakup, Jason grows to appreciate his ever-faithful slave and soon discovers that Kale is everything he's ever wanted. Now he needs to prove to Kale that his love is genuine.

Kale, meanwhile, tries to convince himself that he simply feels the devotion of a slave to his master, but his actions prove what his mind is unwilling to accept: he's falling in love. When Jason's future happiness is in jeopardy, Kale sets himself on a course to make Jason's dreams come true, even if it means facing up to the fact that, for the first time in his life, he loves someone else more than he loves himself.

Follow Jason and Kale as they rely on the strength of their devotion to each other to weather the storms they unwittingly enter in their quest for peace.

Measure of Devotion is a bittersweet love story that contains sexual content and adult language.

Measure of Devotion

5 stars

Jason is heading off to University because he wants to be in the social scene and get out of the country.  His dad gives him a slave named Kale to take with him because every respectable free man has their own personal slave.  Jason and Kale have a bit of rough start but as time goes on  Jason learns that Kale is just the slave he needs and maybe more?  Once things change in their relationship it is a beautiful thing to read about.  Almost fairytale like, but can a free man and slave really have it all when society says no and what happens when a woman named renee enters the picture what will happen to Kale?

I was very unsure when I started reading this book as it is out of my comfort zone considering it does have some historical characteristics.  This book is set back when there were slaves and before electricity.  I was never so glad to be wrong about a book.  This book had me turning pages from the very beginning and I quickly fell in love with the main characters Jason and Kale.  I also became very emotionally invested in them.  through out the whole book I was on pins and needles to see what was going to happen next.  Jason and Kale stole my heart even if there was a few times I wanted to slap them and by the end of the book I couldn't wait to read the next one.  I had to see what was going to happen.  The story is written very well and is not your typical M/M romance.

Measure of Strength

5 stars

This picks up 3 years after Measure of Devotion ended.  Jason's life has taken a turn for the worse and he is has closed himself off to everyone.  Although on the business side of things he is one of the best.  He runs the leading company in the country for producing steel, but yet every night he sinks into a deep depression that he drowns in alcohol.  While going to do an inspection of one of his mills he runs into someone that he never thought he would see again and he can't believe his eyes at what he sees.

Kale thought he was doing the right thing but making Jason get rid of him 3 years ago, but life as a slave has only gotten worse.  He works everyday and doesn't know if that day will be his last.  He never thought he would see Jason again until one day Jason comes to the mill and then his world is turned upside down again.  When Jason purchases his title again in hopes that everything can be the same as it was both men soon realize that each of them has changed in their own ways.  Jason hanging onto his guilt and love. Kale hanging onto his anger and fear.  Will these two ever get their happy ending or is it just not possible for a master and slave to be together and be happy!

Once again Jason and Kale will pull at your heart strings and take you on one heck of an emotional rollercoaster. Caethes Faron knows hot to write a novel that makes the readers feel the emotions  that every character is going through.  I could not pull myself away from the journey that Jason and Kale go on.  I felt like I was living it with them.  Once again I found myself wanting to slap both characters for not being able to see the other point of view.  This book made me even more invested in Jason and Kale and  I could not read to more.  I cried tears of both sadness and happiness while I read this! 

Measure of Peace

5 stars

This book has a 2 year time jump from Measure of Strength.  Things seem to finally be looking up for Jason and Kale.  Kale finally has a purpose and Jason's business is still growing.  Their relationship is going great now that Kale is a citizen of a country that does not believe in slaves, but what happens when the guilt of leaving his mother and brother behind gets to be too much for Kale.  What about when Jason receives a letter about the father who disowned him.  Will traveling back to where it all started tear them apart or will the be able to find peace.

This book takes you back to both Jason and Kale's past.  The reader gets to see things from their memories that helped shape these characters into who they are.  Getting to know these two characters on a deeper level meant that I as a reader felt even more emotionally invested in them then I did in the first two books.  This book has a lot of tragedy in it for both characters and it broke my heart to read about the things that Jason and Kale had to go through both in the past and now in the present also.  I cried more during this book than I think I ever had because I felt like it was my friends and family that the author was writing about.  I cried both tears of happiness and sadness.  While there was tragedy for both characters there was also very good things that happened that improved lives as a whole!

Measure of Devotion Trilogy(whole)

5 stars

Caethes Faron did an amazing job at bringing Jason and Kale to life, making them feel like real people and making me fall in love with both of them.  This trilogy has it all.  There is angst, tragedy, love, happiness, humor, some steamy scenes.  I was so caught up in these books and so emotionally invested in the characters that I did not want it to end.  There are tough subjects discussed in the books that have to deal will things in the past , but its a reality of what some people have had to go through.  It was done tastefully, but still with a shock factor that can make readers really stop and think.  This is one of the best series that I have read in a long time and I would highly recommend it anyone!

Reviews by Melonie