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    Unbreak Me
    Unbreak Me
    Unbreak Me
    Audiobook6 hours

    Unbreak Me

    Written by Lexi Ryan

    Narrated by Nelson Hobbs and Lucy Malone

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    About this audiobook

    "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?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateDec 3, 2013
    ISBN9781452687063
    Unbreak Me
    Author

    Lexi Ryan

    Lexi Ryan is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of contemporary romance and YA fantasy. Her novels have sold over a million copies and been translated into over a dozen languages. She is also the recipient of the Romance Writers of America® RITA® Award for her novel Falling Hard. A full-time writer, Lexi is happiest when at home in Indiana with her husband and two children, where you can find her reading copiously, hanging out with her family, and thanking her lucky stars.

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    • 5/5
      Let me just be honest here for a minute and let you know I expected to give this book only 3 stars after reading the summary and getting this book for free from Amazon. Yes, I judged a book on it's summary. I was wrong though, so so wrong. I would've paid full price for this book in hard back had I known how good it was going to be. Not only was I so attached I couldn't hear what anyone said when they talked to me, but I read it in just 3 hours.

      I hate love triangles, I especially hate books about love triangles that are so unrealistic that there's humor in it. This was not the case. This book is told from the point of views of Maggie, the resident 21 year old with a bad reputation, William, the adorable good guy, and Asher, the much older, smoking hot rock star neighbor. Asher's description alone had me running away, I hate rock star books. Once again, I was dead wrong. Not only are the characters realistic and their stories completely true to real life, but I was ridiculously attached to them. Maggie is the connection for every character, from her past choices as a fifteen year old, later as a sophomore in college, and now as a 21 year old drop out with weight of the world on her shoulders. She's moved back to town after a year away and is the bridesmaid in a wedding, not just any wedding, but her sister's wedding to her ex-fiance, William. Maggie does everything to drop William, but he isn't giving up. To add fire to William's flame, Maggie has attracted the attention of rock star Asher, with a reputation of his own. William tries everything and you experience Maggie's frustration with everything, how she feels pulled in one direction only to run away. Asher brings out her story though, he coaxes her until she's trusting enough to let it all out, and there lies the love story.

      I love that we didn't get everyone's stories up front, Lexi Ryan feeds you the information over time and you don't get the full history of all three main characters until the very end. She was successful in describing all of the characters, even the supporting cast, without giving you the silly details that you really don't care about. It all takes place in a small tiny town with a tiny local bar, a river, and the small town drama that follows. There's art, affairs, unsuccessful marriages, babies, and really steamy love scenes. I was completely hooked and I definitely recommend it to pretty much all my girlfriends who love a realistic romantic read, fan of love triangles or not.
    • 4/5
      Unbreak Me was really good!
      It was fast paced and kept me interested throughout the whole book.
      It was emotional, romantic, frustrating at times, but all in all, A Great Read!

      I loved how well the characters were developed. It was easy to connect to each one of them. Maggie however was my favorite. My heart hurt for all she went through. She had been stripped of her self confidence and dignity. She blamed herself for past mistakes. When Asher comes into the picture he shows her that she is worthy. He was an amazing add to the story. Yeah, he had his own demons and secrets, but he was kind, compassionate, and protective... A TOTAL BOOK BOYFRIEND.

      This was an emotional story with tons of twists and turns. You are placed in the shoes of different characters and are left to feel the pulls of decision making. There was heart break, family struggles, and a little bit of a love triangle.

      I recommend it to all readers 18 . I would have given it 5 stars, but I did become annoyed at times with Maggie's Self Loathing.
    • 2/5
      This is a good story, plain and simple. This story could be made better with significant editing and minor tweaking in terms of passage of time, but is still a good story. I need to say that first and foremost because my observations below may not reflect this opinion. I like the characters so well that I wish the second book was completed so that I could continue to read about the other characters' stories (this assumes a second book would be edited significantly better than this first book).

      This review will remain spoiler-free. This review is an assessment of the author's presentation of her story, not a critique of the story itself. The story itself is a good story. The presentation is where I find this book needs work. If, in reading this review, you are interested in a story summary, please refer to the book blurb or the writings of other reviewers.

      I received this book from the author when I volunteered to read it in exchange for a review through Goodreads.com. The cover photo and layout caught my attention. The book blurb lured me in closer and I couldn't help but want to read this new adult contemporary romance despite a mere 3 reviews on Amazon and 7 reviews on Goodreads (I presume there is overlap between the two). I tend to shy away from books with so few reviews because there are too many well-crafted "finished" books available for me to use my precious few reading hours on books not already "tested" by others or not cleaned up by the author and/or an editor. When I volunteer to beta-read or read an ARC, I know that the said story is not fully polished and my expectations regarding consistencies, grammar, punctuation, story line flow and character development are lowered -- that is simply the nature of beta-reading or an ARC book.

      While this book is neither stated as being in beta condition or ARC version, it is my opinion that this is not ready for readers because of the hundreds (yes, hundreds) of punctuation and grammatical errors. Indeed, there are times when fragmented sentences and run on sentences are appropriate to communicate the emotion or mood of a scene or scenes of the story. I do not believe, though, this is appropriate for nearly each and every page of a book. This story is significantly flawed by the rampant misuse and absence of commas, apostrophes, semicolons and even periods (sometimes compound sentences simply need to be broken into two or more sentences). There are a number of missing end quotes, misused pronouns and wrong words that forcefully pull the reader out of the story in order to reread the sentence(s) or passage to "fix" in the mind what was not written properly on the page. I am sorry to say that this caused me to remove two stars. I can guess that the author, other readers and potential readers will conclude that I am being overly harsh. The writing errors were so distracting and pulled me out of the story on nearly every page. I cannot honestly rate this as better than "it was ok", the description Goodreads associates to a two-star rating. In comparison, Amazon's rating system assigns three stars to "It's okay". So, that is how I have rated this book on these two sites.

      Putting the extensive writing flaws aside, I feel the story could be made better with minor tweaking of the timeline in two ways. First, by providing more information about the "gap" year, the reader can better believe Ari's lingering concern with men. Second, by lengthening the time frame within which our Hero and heroine develop their relationship, the reader can better believe that He and She have truly made a soul connection to last a lifetime.

      The opening chapter was fantastic in capturing the readers' attention and connecting the reader to the heroine, Ari. Despite being the naive age of 21, Ari comes across as intelligent, honest, and real. Once we are brought past this opener, this traumatic event, we jump in time by a year. This is an opportunity that the author did not take advantage of. I agree with another reviewer that this would be the perfect place in the story to reinforce to the reader how this traumatic event did indeed alter Ari's ability to be near men. Use this time to give Ari actions to support words. Instead, Ari and two of her closest friends declare her skittishness in a few sentences, but Ari's actions do not reinstate this understandable fear created by the traumatic event. Sometimes, whether in the real world or in a biblio-world, a person can make a statement and it is believable. Other times, the proffered statement is not believed because of contradictory actions. This is the case here; the author has Ari behave an a manner contradictory to what the reader is expected to believe. With two of the first three men she meets, she is remarkably, surprisingly not skittish. To the third (the best friend's boyfriend), she stiffens upon meeting when she shouldn't because of her love for, faith in and trust in this best friend and her judgment.

      The other timing issue relates to the primary action of the story. The relationship that develops between the He and the She takes place in one month, with two months of abstinence due to misunderstanding/miscommunication. This timing is simply does not sound plausible with two educated, independent, intelligent characters. If the timing simply must be condensed, with raw unharnessed lustful emotions driving some scenes and nurturing moments deepening the relationship in other scenes, then at the minimum swap the time -- two months to develop the relationship and one month of abstinence. As it stands, these twenty-somethings, to this reader, are not convincingly driven by thoughtful consideration, but, instead, my really strong lustful emotions.

      In an age when publishing and self-publishing books is barrier free, if an author wishes to make a career of story-telling, they need to "finish" their story -- spend time to edit, to clear the flaws, to fix the details, polish it to a gleaming shine. You wouldn't purchase a new car with scuffs, scrapes and scratches on the paint job, smoke infused into the fabric, missing side or rear view mirrors, or the wrong sized tires appropriate for the car. Indeed, the car may be a perfectly functioning machine, but the details, the selling points, are off and you will most likely move on to another option, another car. That analogy works with books, too. You may lure some readers, but a writing career cannot be made without a mastery use of your tool -- language. True, some readers may buy your first book, but they probably won't consider your next book or books if the writing is this marred.
    • 4/5
      I read this book in my quest to find an NA that ties literary fiction with this new category. I've read a lot of NA (hell, I'm writing NA!) and have been disappointed in many of the books that have done very well because while they tell a compelling story, they often forget that writers are meant to be masters of language -- that there are millions of ways to tell a story and that language is the medium of our art.

      Maybe I'll just stick to books by English professors. :) Lexi Ryan understands her medium and seems to really enjoy telling a story through beautifully crafted language.

      The story took unexpected turns and was satisfying because the reader often knew things that the characters did not, upping the tension. But beyond that, I really enjoyed Ryan's manipulation of language and appreciated the clean editing of this book.

      I became choked up at one point while reading this one -- the characters are compelling and heartbreaking. I enjoyed it from start to finish and would recommend this to other readers hoping to see the NA category become established through excellent writing and beautiful stories.
    • 5/5
      Wow this book was very well written and very good. I really love the characters in the book especially Maggie, Asher, and Will. I think out of everyone I love Will the most. He was an upfront standup guy who wanted to be with Maggie no matter what. I mean he truly believe he wanted to be with her and loved her forever. I just don't know if that was lust or if it was true love.

      I feel like Will just really wanted to save her. He knew her when she was young and needed him. In his mind he was her Prince but this is 2013 and we don't need Princes anymore we are Princesses, we make mistakes but we rule the world.

      Though she was promiscuous (got to love her) Maggie ruled the world and she did it well.

      I really like the growth, the forgiveness and the realist factor of this book.
      Of course I am curious about the characters. Does Asher go on tour and does the distance affect him and Maggie? Will he become an alcoholic again? Will he still be married because of alimony? Will Will come back in the picture and save Maggie from herself or will she save him? Will loves her for her but she is strong now, he may find that he loves this Maggie more (the strong shattered (mosaic) Maggie)
    • 4/5
      Unbreak Me by Lexi RyanSource: AToMR Tours/Author for a fair and honest reviewRating: 4/5 starsIf you can imagine page one of a book being the crest of a roller coaster hill then you have a pretty good idea of how Lexi Ryan’s novel Unbreak Me begins. Oh yes, shortly after page one and a disastrous almost-wedding you plummet, at breakneck speed to the foot of the hill and then begin the whole ride over again. Welcome to Unbreak Me . . . . WOW!! Maggie is some kind of screwed up: she is a bridesmaid in her sister’s wedding to her (Maggie’s) former fiancé; the entire town knows she’s a raging slut; her former fiancé is still totally and completely in love with her but marrying her (again, Maggie’s) sister and; after a year away, Maggie has moved back to her painfully small hometown where memories are long and the past isn’t ever far enough behind you. Maggie has come home to attempt a sort of reinvention of herself but almost immediately her plans are thwarted. First of all, there is the almost wedding; of course, Maggie is so damn damaged she truly believes everyone in attendance is sure she ruined the ceremony so she could have her ex back. As if! Second, in order to clear her head, Maggie decides to take a little midnight skinny dip in her rich neighbors’ pool, and he catches her. Third, she is insta-attracted to the rich neighbor (aka Asher) and comes on to him. Epic. Fail. Finally, confused by both her thoughts and feelings about Asher and his reaction, or non-reaction as the case may be, Maggie decides to barrel ahead and see what fate has in store for her. So much for the new Maggie The bulk of Unbreak Me is Maggie’s story more than anyone else’s and in the beginning it is really, really hard to like her. Maggie has let what others think of her sink into her skin and her psyche and she has come to believe that everyone must be right about her. To Maggie’s way of thinking, she is a slut so why not jump Asher, give him what he wants, and then move on with her life? That’s what she does, right? Maggie sleeps with anyone and everyone regardless of their marital status and social position/standing. The notches on Maggie’s twenty-one-year-old bedpost include her ex-fiancé, the married and significantly older town sheriff, and her married professor. But everything is not as it seems and Maggie has to face her past, the truth, and her current situation before she can give Asher what he really wants and that is, just Maggie. While Asher certainly plays a significant role in Unbreak Me, it is hard to see him as equal to Maggie in terms of significance. This is not a bad thing at all: Asher is a good man with a few bad moments in his past who adores Maggie and wants to help her break down the barriers that are keeping her from moving forward. Asher is so strong, so solid, and so smoldering hot; he is perfect for Maggie if she can just get out into the open all the things that haunt her. In time and with more than a little patience on Asher’s part, Maggie begins to open up and finds that with Asher by her side, she can face her past, heal and, move forward toward a happy future. The Bottom Line: Unbreak Me is an emotional roller coaster ride from start to finish. Liking Maggie (and I did in the end!), wanting to lick Asher (and choke the life out of him at one point), and wanting to bitch-slap a few other characters (William the pathetic ex, Maggie’s mom, and her old professor) took it out of me and by the end I felt wrung out. Please note, dear reader, I mean this in a good way! Ryan has created a book with very high emotional intensity that revolves around one very dominant personality. If you like this kind of read as well as some naughty bits then Unbreak Me is definitely for you. *Due to the naughty bits, I cannot recommend this read to those under the age of 18**