Title: Broken Series
Author: Maegan Abel
Book Blitz: March 23 – 25, 2015
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Perfectly Broken (Book One)
Zane Tishler moved in with his brother after his nightmare divorce to find that his brother had taken in a “stray”, a punk chick with a bad attitude. Liliosa Cortez found a place to start over in a city built for hiding. But when her roommate’s brother moved in she pegged him for a pretty boy with enough baggage to fill a semi and major hostility toward women. But now, after two years, Lili and Zane have become best friends and the perfect “wingmen.” They’ve developed a system for tagging and bagging tourists. No strings attached. They are partners in crime who have managed to have the time of their lives in the City of Sin.
Life would be perfect if they could keep it this way, but a new player in the game makes both Lili and Zane face the feelings they had not been prepared to notice. What happens when dangerous shadows from a forgotten past find their way into the neon spotlights? What happens when the fuse is lit on all those emotions they have deeply buried?
Can they survive the explosion or will the backlash tear them and everyone they love apart?
When two pasts become one present in the searing Nevada heat…
When two realities collide under the lights of Vegas…
When two lives are threatened due to secrets and lies…
What do you do when you find out your perfect world is Perfectly Broken?
So, let me go ahead and put this out there-- I read this book in less that 24 hours.
I'm typically a fairly quick reader, but this book- I just did not want to put it down! There was so much angst and so much need to know what was going to happen next! It wasn't too angsty, but it was just enough to have me on the edge of my seat and ready to get to the next page.
Ugh, I just want to shake Zane and Lili, sometimes! Shake them together, shake them individually, just shake shake shake! These two are so perfect for each other. They understand one another, they have been there for one another, and the other can fill that void each one seems to have.
Zane has been broken in the past. His first love, his high school sweetheart, broke his heart into a million pieces, multiple times. If it were just Zane's heart she broke, he may have been able to get past it but she had to do even worse. She lied, cheated, deceived, and destroyed him. So did his ex-best friend. Zane became the Dad he didn't have to be and it's been the light of his life. Connor is his world, and he'll do anything for that little boy. You gotta love a man who is such a caring, loving father!
Lili has a past she's running from. She's escaped to Vegas and has started to build a life for herself here. Ever since she left home, Lili has been on the run, trying to stay away from whatever made her run in the first place. She's never really put down roots because she's afraid to get tied down in one place. But, then she met Tish. Tish took her in when she had nothing and has been her protector ever since. I love the relationship between Lili and Tish. It's so comforting to see a strong friendship between a man and a woman without it developing into something more. Sometimes it's just great to see a solid friendship! Not to mention, when Zane starts acting crazy, Tish can get his brother in line! Lili is great at keeping everyone at a distance, but once she's joined in on the little family she, Tish, Zane, and Kas create... she's having a hard time keeping her shield up.
So, something pretty major happens in the book that is really intense. First, it makes you really worried about Lili. Then, it makes you super ticked off at Zane. Next, it makes you feel a little compassion for Zane. Then it makes you feel super worried again, and lastly it leaves you crazy with what's happened. This is the best way I can describe it without spoilers, so it may be better for you to just go ahead and snatch this book up so you can see what I'm talking about! Either way, without knowing the details, know that the broken pieces of Lili and the broken pieces of Zane go perfectly together to make something really beautiful!!
Read it, and read it soon!
Unforgivably Broken (Book Two)
It took a near-tragedy for Zane and Lili to admit their feelings for one another. If they could survive that explosion, wading through the debris left behind should be a breeze, right?
Lili has spent years hiding from her past. Now, she's being forced to admit her mistakes and make a decision. Can she conquer her demons head-on, or will she remain by Zane's side while he fights his own?
Zane learned early in life that charm and deception are easier than hard truths. Sometimes, old habits die hard. When his past mistakes start making continuous reappearances, he is faced with some of the most crucial decisions he's ever made.
When you have secrets, they can rip ragged holes in the ties that bind even the strongest relationships.
What do you do when you realize you're unforgivably broken?
SPOILERS IF YOU HAVEN'T READ BOOK!!!!!!!!
Moving on... OMG, Zane! How do you not love a man who will take a bullet for you? But, as we learn more and more about Zane-- that's just who he is. He is a protector, and he will protect what is his and who he cares about, no matter what the price.
Lili tries to stay fearlessly independent while taking into consideration Zane's feelings. She's never been in a relationship before, much less one with someone who is as protective as Zane. Lili fights against the restraints her relationship with Zane presses on her, but then backs off a little when she realizes why Zane is fighting so strongly to protect her.
So much happens in this book. There are a lot of new updates with Adam, Lizzie, Conner, and of course Zane and Lili. Adam continues to be a jerk on the loose, leaving Lili more jumpy and terrified than we've ever seen her. She almost seems like a completely different character to me. Lizzie continues to use and make poor choices, earning some pretty severe consequences for those behaviors. Conner has some major changes in his life, both good and bad. Zane is dealing with a lot. He's dealing with all of the things mentioned above, and basically becoming a full-time Dad for the first time in his life. On top of that, he's dealing with the emotions of being in love and in a new relationship. And of course, it's not just any relationship. It's a relationship with Lili, that has her own demons to deal with.
Then, there's Lili. After everything that happened with Adam, Lili has been forced to acknowledge and go back to her past, to her real life. She has to go back to her family and the life that she ran away from. This will prove to be one of the hardest things Lili has ever had to do, but she'll be able to do it- with her new family by her side.
At the end of Unforgivably Broken, there's another MAJOR cliffhanger. I am STILL mad at Maegan Abel for doing this to me. I mean, SERIOUSLY?! Ah. This is the only reason this isn't a 5 star book for me. Maybe I should've been prepared, maybe I should've known ahead of time, but that is a SERIOUS cliffhanger and I am dreading however long this wait is going to be until the next book begins and this cliffhanger is resolved! After reading this series, you fall in love with these characters, you get invested and then ...this happens! It's got to end up better that it's portrayed at the end of this book, it's got to!
Broken Holidays (Book two and half)
Before Perfectly Broken, before a beautiful relationship can start, the bond that solidifies who Lili and Zane are together must form. Beginnings are always the first step in building something stunning, something undeniably perfect…
The first holiday…
Things are tense between Zane, Lili, and Tish. They’re all still adapting to living in the house, Zane’s divorce has just been finalized, and he’s pissed off at the world. A bright light, however, shines in his world of darkness. Will the person he's hated since their first meeting be the one to help him turn things around?
The second holiday…
One year later, we find a much more settled family. Zane and Lili are falling into a pattern, learning to trust and lean on one another, but one wrong move, just the tiniest of slips, could ruin what is finally feeling solid for the both of them.
The beginning of tradition…
New Year’s Eve brings a fresh start, a chance to wipe the slate clean and begin again. Knowing your history, and where you come from, might be all that keeps you going when your whole world falls apart.
The strength of the holidays, family, new beginnings, and acceptance, is how their broken pieces begin to glue themselves back together again, if only for a little while…
What I did love most about this book was New Years. I love the tradition Zane and Lili create, as friends, for New Years. Broken Holidays really shows the development of the friendship between Zane and Lili, which I really love reading about. I find that the best lovers are also best friends, too so I like to read how they become that way.
This was a short read, but I was glad about that. Sometimes I feel frustrated when I'm reading a book in a series that's pretty short, but that's all we really needed for this part of the story. I think I would've been thinking it was drawn out if it ended up being longer than it was.
Overall, I think this was a good read. It was great if nothing else, to keep reading and keep developing my love for Zane, Lili, Tish and the family. Now, GIVE ME SILENTLY BROKEN, Please Ms. Abel!!!
Maegan despises writing about herself in the third person. She also hates touting her accomplishments like she thinks she’s really done anything special…
Now that we got that out of the way, I’ll tell you what you need to know. I was born and raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma. I went back to school in my late twenties and studied Stage Production Technology. I now work full-time in the alterations shop of a major department store and part-time backstage in the various theatres around the area.
I’ve been an avid reader from a very young age and the top goal on my list of things to accomplish in my life was to write and publish a book. During the summer of 2013, while working backstage on The Lion King, I read eleven books in four weeks. I read my first New Adult book and was introduced to a genre I felt I could totally relate to. The idea for Perfectly Broken and the character of Lili was born backstage during that time.
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