Showing posts with label New Hope series. Show all posts
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Friday, November 1, 2013

Review: Unbreak Me (New Hope 1) by Lexi Ryan



“If you’re broken, I’ll fix you…”
I’m only twenty-one and already damaged goods. A slut. A failure. A disappointment to my picture-perfect family as long as I can remember. I called off my wedding to William Bailey, the only man who thought I was worth fixing. A year later, he’s marrying my sister. Unless I ask him not to…

“If you shatter, I’ll find you…”

But now there’s Asher Logan, a broken man who sees the fractures in my façade and doesn’t want to fix me at all. Asher wants me to stop hiding, to stop pretending. Asher wants to break down my walls. But that means letting him see my ugly secrets and forgiving him for his.

With my past weighing down on me, do I want the man who holds me together or the man who gives me permission to break?

Maggie is trying to redo her life, to fix herself from her past.  There has been so much that she has gone through, things that people wrongly have judged her for, things that no one knows about.  Maggie wants to heal from her past and never make the same mistakes again, but she is so broken can she ever be fixed?  I hated how Maggie was still judged by her mother and looked down upon by others in not only her family but the entire town.  She broke off her engagement to Will, the one person in her eyes who feels as if he can fix who she is.  When he ends up at the alter with her sister, people look at her to see if she is going to try to stop it.  Will is a special person in her life and will always be someone she cares about and loves but there is more behind why she called off the wedding than other people know.  When Maggie meets Asher the instant attraction and chemistry is ignitable and in a way heart breaking at the same time because she didn’t want to fall back into the same patterns as her past.  She doesn't want to open up to Asher, but could he be the one to fix what is broken inside of her and heal the pains from her past?

Asher, was just as broken as Maggie if not more.  He is famous, a rock star, and has his own demons he is facing.  He knows there is something special about Maggie, something that can possibly “unbreak” what has broken in him.  Asher begins to help Maggie heal and move on from the past that keeps being thrown in her face, even if it might mean losing something very important in his life.  He knows there is parts of her that she hasn’t shared with him, but there are major parts of his life that he hasn’t shared either.  One in particular that, when Maggie finds out, could possibly cost him her love and push her away for good.  

I really enjoyed this book.  The connection between Maggie and Asher was unmistakable and how they meet was almost in a way perfect.  I also felt Will’s pain because he loved Maggie’s sister and wanted to marry her but she wasn’t Maggie.  He was so conflicted and it tore at my heart.  For a while during reading I wasn’t sure who I wanted Maggie to end up with, Will or Asher.  Will because of the past they shared, or Asher because the new beginning he offers.  In the end Maggie ends up with who is the perfect person to heal not only her heart but her soul as well and put the pieces back together so she will be whole.

This is the first book in the New Hope series and personally I love the series name…New Hope because at times I think we all need some new hope to get past the hard times in our lives and heal from past hurts.  Sometimes it just takes that one special person to begin the healing process.  I highly recommend this book.  This series I have a feeling will soon be one of my favorites.  I will end this review with some of my favorite quotes.

“You're not the only one who's made mistakes. I have too. But I believe we're more than the sum of our mistakes. I didn't used to. I thought I was a piece of shit. I thought I was nothing.”

“IF you're broken, I'll fix you”

“Come back and break me, don't let this go unspoken. I'm numb when I'm whole and you left me unbroken.”



Amazon:  http://www.amazon.com/Unbreak-Me-New-Hope-ebook/dp/B00CZF87AS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1383248907&sr=8-1&keywords=unbreak+me
 


Blog Tour and Giveaway: Wish I May (New Hopw #2) by Lexi Ryan

 




I grew up wishing on stars.
 My father taught me to believe…in destiny, in magic, in happily ever after. Dreams were my scripture and the starry night sky was my temple. Then Mom stopped believing, left him, and took us with her. At the age of sixteen, I cashed in my dreams to pay the rent, pawned my destiny to keep my sisters together.
Now, seven years later, I’m returning home, grieving the death of my mother, and settling my sisters back into the life Mom threw away. I never intended to stay. I don’t want to deal with my father, who is so invested in the spiritual world he forgets the physical. I don’t want to face William Bailey, whose eyes remind me of the girl I was, the things I’ve done, and the future I lost.
This would all be easier if Will hated me. As it is, I have to hold my secrets close so they won’t hurt him more than they’ve already hurt me. But he wants to be in my life. He wants what I can’t bring myself to confess I sold. He wants me.
I find myself looking to my stars again...wondering if I dare one more wish.


Cally has not had an easy life.  She has had to do things to help her mom and sisters survive.  After her mom’s death she moves her sisters back to their home town to live with their dad.  She runs into Will, her first love, the boy whose heart she broke when she stopped talking to him when she moved away.  Cally has a past that she doesn’t want Will to know about and tries her hardest not to let the lingering attraction she feels for him blind her.  She has a plan and she has to stick with it.  Too bad her plans get derailed and she has to stay to help out with her sisters long than planned, just enough time for her and Will to pick up where they left off all those years ago.

Will’s heart continues to be broken.  In Unbreak Me, we learned about his past with Maggie and feel the pain and heartbreak he went through.  Will was in love with Cally, she was his high school girlfriend and when she was forced to move away with her mother he planned on making the relationship work and when all of a sudden Cally ended their relationship with no reason why.  Will wants to try again and convince her to start over again with him and stay in town.  He goes above and beyond for her and her sisters, but is it enough?

I will be honest, in this book I absolutely loved Will more than I loved Cally.  Maybe it is because he is such a giving guy who just wants to heal and help fix those who he loves, or maybe it is because even though his heart has been broken numerous times he hasn’t fully given up on love.  Cally had issues, understandable issues but instead of being upfront with Will about why she let him go in the past she tried to avoid him finding out.  The connection with Will and Cally I believe was stronger than anything Will ever had with Maggie, it was more pure in a way because they were each other’s first loves.  I loved that Will didn’t back down, he was going to fight for Cally even if she didn’t want him too.

Overall I really liked Wish I May, and I am falling in love with this series. I love how each book so far has shown there is hope even in situations that seem hopeless at the time.  Lexi Ryan has not disappointed with Wish I May and I for one an anxiously awaiting to see whose book will be next in this series.  While this book is technically can be read as a stand alone, I would recommend reading Unbreak Me first so you can truly understand some of Will’s heartbreak in the past.

 
 
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About the Author:
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Lexi Ryan, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, writes romances with humor, heat, and heart. A former college English professor, Lexi now writes full time from her home in Indiana, where she lives with her husband and two children. Please visit www.lexiryan.com 
 
 
Lexi is giving away 4 $25 Amazon or B&N Gift Cards and the grand prize winner will also receive a signed copy of UNBREAK ME during the tour! Open internationally.



 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 



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