Book Description:
What do you do when your soul mate marries your best friend?
If you're Kate Evans, you keep your friend Rachel, bond with her kids, and bury your feelings for her husband. The fact that Shane's in the military and away for long periods helps-but when tragedy strikes, everything changes.
After Rachel, pregnant with her fourth child, dies in a car accident and the baby miraculously survives, Kate upends her entire life to share parenting duties. Then on the first anniversary of Rachel's death, Kate and Shane take comfort in each other in a night that they both soon regret.
Shane's been angry for a year, and now he feels guilty too - for sleeping with his wife's best friend and liking it . . . liking her. Kate's ability to read him like a book may have once sent Shane running, but their lives are forever entwined and they are growing closer.
Now with Shane deployed for seven months, Kate is on her own and struggling with being a single parent. Shane is loving and supportive from thousands of miles away, but his homecoming brings a betrayal Kate never saw coming. So Kate's only choice is to fight for the future she deserves - with or without Shane...
Buy Links:
Amazon UK: http://amzn.to/1te1gD0
Amazon US: http://amzn.to/1VJDB84
Our Review:
Reviewed by Donna ~ 4.5 stars
***ARC received for an honest review***
“I don’t need you to save me. I
never needed you to fucking save me.”
Nicole Jacquelyn is a new to me author and this book was
sold to me because of “angst.” Yes, this is an angst fest, unrequited love,
childhood frenemies, this book had it all. But, I love angst, I crave those
reads that make you feel, that make you cry, a story where you get so involved
you can’t help but be affected by what you are reading and that was certainly
the case with Unbreak My Heart. These characters hit me hard, the kids even
more so, all the above and kids…heaven.
This book is emotional…gut wrenchingly emotional, with a
selfless heroine that you cannot help but love and a hero who you would love to
throttle and then will desperately fall in love with too. This was a book I
couldn’t put down, I was totally engrossed from start to finish with my heart
aching and breaking, time and time again. Those flip flopping emotions, the
back and forth, the drama, the pain, I felt it all, I lived and breathed it, it
was heart breaking but most of all, I loved it. I’m an emotional sadist…sue me!
“I didn’t know how to be with
someone like Kate. She’d demand more from me than anyone ever had before, and
that was terrifying. Because even though the history between us had proven that
she wasn’t going anywhere, I’d learned over the course of my life that people left.”
Shane is a hard to love hero, he didn’t have the best start
in life and that kind of defined his attitude in the very beginning. Shane and
Kate met when they were kids, Kate had always loved him but Shane always kept
Kate at arms-length and then he went in for the kill, he fell for her best
friend Rachel, her only friend. Shane gets married, has four kids all the while
being in the military. Rachel struggles to cope and so Kate ups sticks and
moves to be near them so she can help, even if that only brings with it more
emotional torture. She makes the ultimate sacrifice, her heart and her
happiness.
“I’d pushed her aside for so long
that there was no foundation to build on. Just a mess of shattered pieces that
I’d crushed with a sledgehammer every time she’d grown closer than I was
comfortable with.”
Kate was far from a doormat though, so please don’t think
that she is one of those spineless heroines that will irritate you. She was
just a kind, considerate and selfless person that stood by her friend and put
her own heart and life on the back burner. Kate adored those kids and when
Rachel passes, she steps in, Kate becomes mum.
“It was time to step into shoes
that were not my own.”
Kate takes an emotional battering throughout the majority of
this book. My heart broke for her time and time again and every tear that fell
belonged to her pain and her hurt but you cannot help but become invested in
her story. Her strength and determination and her love for those kids are what
keeps her going and she really needs to pull on every single reserve she has to
keep herself together and to keep the family a cohesive unit. But one thing
that Nicole Jacquelyn really gets across is Kate’s growth in character
throughout. As each page turns, Kate gets stronger and stronger and the
stronger she gets the more you love her. She really was a character that was
extremely hard not to love and you will be fighting in her corner throughout
this book.
“I took your shit like I was
thankful for the fertilizer! I took care of everything so you wouldn’t worry.
Even when you were gone, even when you acted like you’d never known me. What
the hell else could you want from me at this point?”
I am not going to go into plot details, you really do need
to experience this as the author intended and live each bone crushing blow as
and when it happens. This is far from doom and gloom though, there is light at
the end of the tunnel but it is just an incredible journey to get there. Nicole
Jacquelyn seemingly takes great pleasure in wringing out every single emotion
from your heart and soul, you will laugh, you will cry…a lot, but most of all
you will experience the mother of all emotional highs and lows. By the end you
will be emotionally exhausted, but you will know that you have read a great book.
One that you will be thinking about for days after, these characters still
haven’t left me, weeks later. It is great testament to Nicole Jacquelyn’s
writing that she has delivered two characters that have left an indelible mark
on my heart and soul. Yes, it was a tough read, but a fantastic read none the
less…now…where is the vodka?
“Easy? You’re the least convenient person I’ve ever fucking met.”
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