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Leave Me Broken
Payson
He did it. He earned my trust like no one has before, then lost it. I thought I was broken before Ash—it was nothing like this.
He didn’t mean to, I think.
Maybe I’m just a casualty of destruction.
Maybe I should have seen it coming—expected it.
Everyone disappoints you in the end, right?
Ash
Payson is breaking and I can’t help but feel it’s my fault. I hold her jagged pieces in my hands. Urging them to hold—to heal ; but they keep crumbling, slipping through my fingers. Leaving only remnants of the girl I love.
She’s lost.
And now I’m lost too.
Leave Me Broken is a continuation series that must be read in order starting with Break For You . Heavy triggers are mentioned throughout the series; if you have any triggers please proceed with caution. 18+
He did it. He earned my trust like no one has before, then lost it. I thought I was broken before Ash—it was nothing like this.
He didn’t mean to, I think.
Maybe I’m just a casualty of destruction.
Maybe I should have seen it coming—expected it.
Everyone disappoints you in the end, right?
Ash
Payson is breaking and I can’t help but feel it’s my fault. I hold her jagged pieces in my hands. Urging them to hold—to heal ; but they keep crumbling, slipping through my fingers. Leaving only remnants of the girl I love.
She’s lost.
And now I’m lost too.
Leave Me Broken is a continuation series that must be read in order starting with Break For You . Heavy triggers are mentioned throughout the series; if you have any triggers please proceed with caution. 18+
607 pages, Paperback
Published February 3, 2023
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April 11, 2024
i am in TEARS OH MYGOD
February 27, 2023
I have so many issues with this book.
June 24, 2023
DNF‘d at 38%. I can‘t get around that age gap
February 8, 2023
This is the second book in the Broken Series.
4.7-5 stars
Volleyball Player and Coach
Forbidden Age Gap
Childhood Hero
Comfort Trope
Jealous MMC
Daddy knk
Spicy AF 🔥
Spanking &🩸Play
Side Character Storyline 😙🤌🏼
Traumaaaa & Dramaaa
Check TW!
“The thing with deep, true love like that is if you do not choose to fight your battles together, you will end up fighting each other alongside those battles, and there are no winners in war.”
“Why do we let other people affect us so much we scar our body because of them?” 💔
What a rollercoaster!!!! After the first book I was surprised things could get crazier! But ohhhhh they did. Ending left on a cliffhanger and I'm currently foaming at the mouth! The third book cannot come sooner 😭
Side notes:
I would have rated a 5⭐ but the 🍑 incident got me fkd up.
Ash🙄 Luca🥵
Alyssa can eat a bag of 🍆's
"It’ll never be you, Alyssa. Get over it.”
Grandpa Paul is now my grandpa and idc❤️
Janelle is the definition of best friend! Freaking love her!!!!
Ronnis manager **side eye**
Payson & Parkers banter was A1 😂
Clay 👀 I got some questions...
4.7-5 stars
Volleyball Player and Coach
Forbidden Age Gap
Childhood Hero
Comfort Trope
Jealous MMC
Daddy knk
Spicy AF 🔥
Spanking &🩸Play
Side Character Storyline 😙🤌🏼
Traumaaaa & Dramaaa
Check TW!
“The thing with deep, true love like that is if you do not choose to fight your battles together, you will end up fighting each other alongside those battles, and there are no winners in war.”
“Why do we let other people affect us so much we scar our body because of them?” 💔
What a rollercoaster!!!! After the first book I was surprised things could get crazier! But ohhhhh they did. Ending left on a cliffhanger and I'm currently foaming at the mouth! The third book cannot come sooner 😭
Side notes:
I would have rated a 5⭐ but the 🍑 incident got me fkd up.
Ash🙄 Luca🥵
Alyssa can eat a bag of 🍆's
"It’ll never be you, Alyssa. Get over it.”
Grandpa Paul is now my grandpa and idc❤️
Janelle is the definition of best friend! Freaking love her!!!!
Ronnis manager **side eye**
Payson & Parkers banter was A1 😂
Clay 👀 I got some questions...
February 6, 2023
This is an arc review but all opinions are my own.
I really didn’t know I could fall more in love with ash and Payson but I did. I can’t remember the last time I read a book that fully consumed me. When I wasn’t reading it I was constantly thinking about it and I think I will be for awhile.
I would also like to mention how much I feel in love with alll the side characters aswell and how much I loved Payson and Janelles relationship as well as Luca and clay.
I want to be clear when I say this relationship is fucked up, toxic, is so messy and all over the place but god did I love it.
I can appreciate an author than can write the good and bad. I’ve not read a book/series like this in a long time and to be honest I don’t think I ever could. You can easily tell how much the author put her heart into this and it showed.
I can’t wait for the last book in the series.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🌶🌶🌶🌶
Please see the authors website for full content and TW list as I may have missed something.
Age gap
Cnc
Blood play
Knife play
Mfm scene
Snowballing
Slapping
Public sex
Anal (without lube)
Other women drama
Self harm
Addiction
Cancer
I really didn’t know I could fall more in love with ash and Payson but I did. I can’t remember the last time I read a book that fully consumed me. When I wasn’t reading it I was constantly thinking about it and I think I will be for awhile.
I would also like to mention how much I feel in love with alll the side characters aswell and how much I loved Payson and Janelles relationship as well as Luca and clay.
I want to be clear when I say this relationship is fucked up, toxic, is so messy and all over the place but god did I love it.
I can appreciate an author than can write the good and bad. I’ve not read a book/series like this in a long time and to be honest I don’t think I ever could. You can easily tell how much the author put her heart into this and it showed.
I can’t wait for the last book in the series.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🌶🌶🌶🌶
Please see the authors website for full content and TW list as I may have missed something.
Age gap
Cnc
Blood play
Knife play
Mfm scene
Snowballing
Slapping
Public sex
Anal (without lube)
Other women drama
Self harm
Addiction
Cancer
April 20, 2024
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 4.5 stars!
This book was so heartbreakingly beautiful. It frustrated me so much while reading it that I almost thought I hated it but now I miss the pain.
SPOILERS
I was so excited for this!! Never have I ever picked up a second book to a series as fast as I did with this one and what started off as a decent continuation to one of the most angsty books that I ever read, soon became the biggest disappointment that I couldn't wait to put down. At some point towards the end, it pained me to get through this book.
I had a lot of issues with this book starting with the personal attack that was the undoing of Ash's character. I absolutely LOVED Ash in the first book and I really appreciated the random POV chapter that we got. However, making this book dual point of view was really the start of the downfall of this series. This really should have just been Peysons story with maybe a sprinkle of Ash's pov when necessary as it was done in the first book because with giving us so much of Ash it really took away all of the mystery and angst that was done so perfectly in the first installment. Ash became the literal opposite of what he was in the first book. So much so that I couldn't believe I was reading about the same man. The confident, possessive, arrogant coach became needy, insecure, repulsive and a sharing push over and quite honestly it gave me the ick. The entire relationship felt so one sided which again was so opposite compared to how Peyson felt about him in the first book. In Break for Me, I could really feel how much Peyson admired and unhealthily worshipped the ground that Ash walked on and in this one it felt like she couldn't have cared less about him. In fact, she had her eyes on so many other characters ; Clay, Luca, Igor, etc that I honestly don't even know if they are end game or not and I honestly don't know if I want them to be.
SPOILERS
While Ash was using his chapters to express his undying love for Peyson, she couldn't even come to terms with rather she loved him or not and that just felt like a complete 180 compared to the first book where she states that she's been in love with him her whole life. Aside from that, the pacing of this book was absolutely horrible. Scenes jumped back and forth with half details that never get filled in. In one scene they go from being intimate, to talking about his dead baby mama, to being intimate again and it was just too much whiplash for me. I feel like the author didn't read her own book while she was writing it. Surely she would have seen how choppy the spice scenes felt and how weird it was to bring up some issues like Aylssa being pregnant once, and then never circling back to them again. There were so many unnecessary scenes in this book and most of them were spicy. This book was so vulgar, I literally had to skip over some scenes because I felt so disconnected from the characters and didn't understand how Luca was going from being with Janelle to being with Peyson, both underage by the way, in the same day and no one, not once called him out on it. It felt extremely unreal. Not even in a fiction way but in a bad writing for porn way. The author clearly wanted to write a 3 way scene but sacrificing entire characters personalities and morals was not the way to do it in my opinion. It made no sense for Ash to want to share Peyson and it took away my respect for them as a book couple. I no longer believe these two are soulmates, these two are just horny.
I despised all of the fluff that this book offers as well. 600 pages and nothing really happens. I was expecting a proposal, a surprise pregnancy, more lies from Ash, and just more development over all for the actual couple of the book but instead we got dead mothers, surprise uncles and updates on everyones love lives but the two people we are reading the book for. This book just felt so incomplete. It seriously made me feel sick reading about how much sharing was going around with this group of teenagers and adults. The point of reading taboo is that it's supposed to feel angsty and complexed but there were so many inappropriate relationships going on at once that it just lost its appeal. Luca being with Janelle was too much for me. Parker being with her right after - just makes me feel sick to my stomach. They are related. It's weird and the author doesn't say anything about it.
The writing wasn't anything special either. There wasn't many quotes or moments that made me feel emotional like the first one had. The flow was off. The pacing was off and the author completely forgot about the CNC that it felt like they were aiming towards in the first book. The pay off never happens. I will never forgive the author for making Ash such a simp after presenting him as the complete opposite. I would not recommend.
This book was so heartbreakingly beautiful. It frustrated me so much while reading it that I almost thought I hated it but now I miss the pain.
SPOILERS
I was so excited for this!! Never have I ever picked up a second book to a series as fast as I did with this one and what started off as a decent continuation to one of the most angsty books that I ever read, soon became the biggest disappointment that I couldn't wait to put down. At some point towards the end, it pained me to get through this book.
I had a lot of issues with this book starting with the personal attack that was the undoing of Ash's character. I absolutely LOVED Ash in the first book and I really appreciated the random POV chapter that we got. However, making this book dual point of view was really the start of the downfall of this series. This really should have just been Peysons story with maybe a sprinkle of Ash's pov when necessary as it was done in the first book because with giving us so much of Ash it really took away all of the mystery and angst that was done so perfectly in the first installment. Ash became the literal opposite of what he was in the first book. So much so that I couldn't believe I was reading about the same man. The confident, possessive, arrogant coach became needy, insecure, repulsive and a sharing push over and quite honestly it gave me the ick. The entire relationship felt so one sided which again was so opposite compared to how Peyson felt about him in the first book. In Break for Me, I could really feel how much Peyson admired and unhealthily worshipped the ground that Ash walked on and in this one it felt like she couldn't have cared less about him. In fact, she had her eyes on so many other characters ; Clay, Luca, Igor, etc that I honestly don't even know if they are end game or not and I honestly don't know if I want them to be.
SPOILERS
While Ash was using his chapters to express his undying love for Peyson, she couldn't even come to terms with rather she loved him or not and that just felt like a complete 180 compared to the first book where she states that she's been in love with him her whole life. Aside from that, the pacing of this book was absolutely horrible. Scenes jumped back and forth with half details that never get filled in. In one scene they go from being intimate, to talking about his dead baby mama, to being intimate again and it was just too much whiplash for me. I feel like the author didn't read her own book while she was writing it. Surely she would have seen how choppy the spice scenes felt and how weird it was to bring up some issues like Aylssa being pregnant once, and then never circling back to them again. There were so many unnecessary scenes in this book and most of them were spicy. This book was so vulgar, I literally had to skip over some scenes because I felt so disconnected from the characters and didn't understand how Luca was going from being with Janelle to being with Peyson, both underage by the way, in the same day and no one, not once called him out on it. It felt extremely unreal. Not even in a fiction way but in a bad writing for porn way. The author clearly wanted to write a 3 way scene but sacrificing entire characters personalities and morals was not the way to do it in my opinion. It made no sense for Ash to want to share Peyson and it took away my respect for them as a book couple. I no longer believe these two are soulmates, these two are just horny.
I despised all of the fluff that this book offers as well. 600 pages and nothing really happens. I was expecting a proposal, a surprise pregnancy, more lies from Ash, and just more development over all for the actual couple of the book but instead we got dead mothers, surprise uncles and updates on everyones love lives but the two people we are reading the book for. This book just felt so incomplete. It seriously made me feel sick reading about how much sharing was going around with this group of teenagers and adults. The point of reading taboo is that it's supposed to feel angsty and complexed but there were so many inappropriate relationships going on at once that it just lost its appeal. Luca being with Janelle was too much for me. Parker being with her right after - just makes me feel sick to my stomach. They are related. It's weird and the author doesn't say anything about it.
The writing wasn't anything special either. There wasn't many quotes or moments that made me feel emotional like the first one had. The flow was off. The pacing was off and the author completely forgot about the CNC that it felt like they were aiming towards in the first book. The pay off never happens. I will never forgive the author for making Ash such a simp after presenting him as the complete opposite. I would not recommend.
January 11, 2024
4🌶️ Don't believe anyone that says this is like the Off Balance series. It's an insult to that beautiful story. Nearly every single person in their lives knows they're together. They don't hide it. They're perpetually horny for each other. Then to make matters worse he starts cutting her for her. And carves his name into her. Then to make matters worse she becomes addicted to pills. This was also about 200 pages longer than it needed to be. There was no growth rule only regression for both of them. It's understandable that Payson spiraled given everything that happened to her and happens to her in this installment but Ash breaking down made this so chaotic. I really don't know if I'll read the last one. Maybe eventually just to know what happens and if it can actually get better but I have little hope for that.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
September 10, 2023
3 ⭐️⭐️⭐️ 1/2 Stars! An ok read.
March 15, 2024
I am loving this story. This one dives deeply into toxic situations, and not just those of Payson & Ash. This was a tough one to read and not cry through. I can’t wait to see how this one ends… well hopefully. (That was the authors last words.)
September 9, 2025
{4/5}
TW :
- self harm
- rape, sexual assault (not happening in the timeline)
- suicide
- kinky romance, spicy 🌶️🌶️🌶️
Yes, I read that in 48h…
I LOVED it.
TW :
- self harm
- rape, sexual assault (not happening in the timeline)
- suicide
- kinky romance, spicy 🌶️🌶️🌶️
Yes, I read that in 48h…
I LOVED it.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
February 23, 2023
This book will make you angry.
I have never found myself so angry and disgusted when reading a book… I wanted to DNF several times. The betrayal… I thought I could handle Ash’s first lie but the second? I was so sick to my stomach the more I saw that he preyed on her innocence and just lie after lie… but my god, THE LOVE. You can feel the love and I really liked that we got to see Ash’s POV a lot this book because the feelings didn’t seem to one sided. There are so many scenes that made me uncomfortable in this book and the cutting continues and only gets worse. I feel so deeply for Payson. The steam.. holy cow… not sure it is worth all of the secrets, lies and insecurities but it is hot.
Read at your own rick. Check triggers.
I gave the book 5 stars because I couldn’t put it down and the love story is TRUE, although majorly f’d up.
I have never found myself so angry and disgusted when reading a book… I wanted to DNF several times. The betrayal… I thought I could handle Ash’s first lie but the second? I was so sick to my stomach the more I saw that he preyed on her innocence and just lie after lie… but my god, THE LOVE. You can feel the love and I really liked that we got to see Ash’s POV a lot this book because the feelings didn’t seem to one sided. There are so many scenes that made me uncomfortable in this book and the cutting continues and only gets worse. I feel so deeply for Payson. The steam.. holy cow… not sure it is worth all of the secrets, lies and insecurities but it is hot.
Read at your own rick. Check triggers.
I gave the book 5 stars because I couldn’t put it down and the love story is TRUE, although majorly f’d up.
February 5, 2023
Leave Me Broken By KB Row.
Thank you KB for the ARC.
Leave Me Broken is the second book in the Broken series. I just finished this book and I feel so weird. Empty maybe? I don’t have the words or even the ability to gather my thoughts because my mind feels blank but chaotic at the same time, trying to process what I just experienced. I feel so many emotions but I’m mostly sad. I hurt for how broken Payson is and how loving her completely changed Ash. How their love together destroyed them both. How something so good can also be something so bad. Ash and Payson have an all consuming love. It’s obsessive, compulsive, possessive, but also supportive, nurturing and passionate. They are toxic together, but I don’t want it to end because I can see what they could be. I want them to fight to be better for themselves and for one another. This one is heavy and I’m going to need some time to sit with it. Heal For Me concludes the series and releases in August. I really need that one to heal me as well.
*The trigger warnings are off the chart and they are real. Proceed with care.
“I like when you can’t think straight ,”
“It’s you and me, babygirl. Always.”
“All I ever see is him.”
“Pain is not temporary. It makes you think it is but it's always there, living in the shadows, waiting to strike when you are at your best. Always there, reminding you that everything is a fucking lie.”
“Opening wounds we just patched pulls us backward, and all I want to do is move forward.”
“You bleed, I bleed. Remember?”
"I might be the reason you bleed, but I'll be damned if I leave you broken."
“Payson is mine at any and all times of the day.”
"The thing with deep, true love like that is if you do not choose to fight your battles together, you will end up fighting each other alongside those battles, and there are no winners in war."
“Physical pain eventually heals but the wounds to your mind never leave.”
"I worry that together we may burn too brightly."
“Peace. Safety. Happiness. Consistency.”
“I love you.”
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🔥🔥🔥
Description:
Payson He did it. He earned my trust like no one has before, then lost it. I thought I was broken before Ash—it was nothing like this. He didn’t mean to, I think. Maybe I’m just a casualty of destruction. Maybe I should have seen it coming—expected it. Everyone disappoints you in the end, right? Ash Payson is breaking and I can’t help but feel it’s my fault. I hold her jagged pieces in my hands. Urging them to hold—to heal; but they keep crumbling, slipping through my fingers. Leaving only remnants of the girl I love. She’s lost. And now I’m lost too.
Thank you KB for the ARC.
Leave Me Broken is the second book in the Broken series. I just finished this book and I feel so weird. Empty maybe? I don’t have the words or even the ability to gather my thoughts because my mind feels blank but chaotic at the same time, trying to process what I just experienced. I feel so many emotions but I’m mostly sad. I hurt for how broken Payson is and how loving her completely changed Ash. How their love together destroyed them both. How something so good can also be something so bad. Ash and Payson have an all consuming love. It’s obsessive, compulsive, possessive, but also supportive, nurturing and passionate. They are toxic together, but I don’t want it to end because I can see what they could be. I want them to fight to be better for themselves and for one another. This one is heavy and I’m going to need some time to sit with it. Heal For Me concludes the series and releases in August. I really need that one to heal me as well.
*The trigger warnings are off the chart and they are real. Proceed with care.
“I like when you can’t think straight ,”
“It’s you and me, babygirl. Always.”
“All I ever see is him.”
“Pain is not temporary. It makes you think it is but it's always there, living in the shadows, waiting to strike when you are at your best. Always there, reminding you that everything is a fucking lie.”
“Opening wounds we just patched pulls us backward, and all I want to do is move forward.”
“You bleed, I bleed. Remember?”
"I might be the reason you bleed, but I'll be damned if I leave you broken."
“Payson is mine at any and all times of the day.”
"The thing with deep, true love like that is if you do not choose to fight your battles together, you will end up fighting each other alongside those battles, and there are no winners in war."
“Physical pain eventually heals but the wounds to your mind never leave.”
"I worry that together we may burn too brightly."
“Peace. Safety. Happiness. Consistency.”
“I love you.”
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🔥🔥🔥
Description:
Payson He did it. He earned my trust like no one has before, then lost it. I thought I was broken before Ash—it was nothing like this. He didn’t mean to, I think. Maybe I’m just a casualty of destruction. Maybe I should have seen it coming—expected it. Everyone disappoints you in the end, right? Ash Payson is breaking and I can’t help but feel it’s my fault. I hold her jagged pieces in my hands. Urging them to hold—to heal; but they keep crumbling, slipping through my fingers. Leaving only remnants of the girl I love. She’s lost. And now I’m lost too.
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August 13, 2025DNF @ 43% this is just going nowhere and you know I really fucked with Balance but the age gap in this plus the fact that he’s her high school volleyball coach makes me feel a weird type of way they keep fucking in his school office and I just feel like it’s hitting too close to small town Lagrange for me. Also there’s like family shit going on and I just don’t feel like seeing where that’s going I don’t care
June 12, 2024
DNF @ 82%.
Yeah i really didn’t like this in comparison to the first one. I couldn’t get past some of the self harm trope and then when she started self medicating as well and Ash starts cutting her. Lost interest.
Yeah i really didn’t like this in comparison to the first one. I couldn’t get past some of the self harm trope and then when she started self medicating as well and Ash starts cutting her. Lost interest.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
January 23, 2024
This felt like watching a train wreck or a six car pile up. It was horrible to watch, but you couldn’t look away. There is a lot of drama and messiness.
October 11, 2023
I’m so torn on this. A solid 3 seems fair.
I rushed to download this after bingeing book 1 but this one did start to give me the ick pretty soon. TO BE CLEAR nothing about the age gap or coach/player dynamic bothers me… I don’t understand why people leave negative comments about this when it’s very clear the story is about this & an age-gap. We should all know from the blurb what we’re getting ourselves into!!
Anyhow.
My main issue is that Ash seems a bit of a d*ck in this one. He’s always being found out for shady behaviour & then his remorse turns into anger at her for being upset. It’s a little 🚩 for me as it keeps happening. Also it makes Payson tip over into total pushover territory & I liked that she wasn’t super annoyingly naive in the first book.
Other than that, my other issue is that everyone knows they’re together. Her friends. Teammates. They keep being busted by parents & yet no-one does anything… even the people who are always trying to cause trouble for them? It’s frustratingly stupid. You’d just tell the school board right?! Problem solved.
The spice is still *chefs kiss* no issues there 😉 but the holes in the story are starting to drag it down & I didn’t like a couple of later in the book elements… no spoilers but one feels mega shoehorned in & awkward & one feels like too much. Can we give the girl a break?!
I will say that I appreciate that the story moves along & doesn’t linger in things. Nothing is dragged out for long- great for the drama, but not great for me respecting Payson much
I rushed to download this after bingeing book 1 but this one did start to give me the ick pretty soon. TO BE CLEAR nothing about the age gap or coach/player dynamic bothers me… I don’t understand why people leave negative comments about this when it’s very clear the story is about this & an age-gap. We should all know from the blurb what we’re getting ourselves into!!
Anyhow.
My main issue is that Ash seems a bit of a d*ck in this one. He’s always being found out for shady behaviour & then his remorse turns into anger at her for being upset. It’s a little 🚩 for me as it keeps happening. Also it makes Payson tip over into total pushover territory & I liked that she wasn’t super annoyingly naive in the first book.
Other than that, my other issue is that everyone knows they’re together. Her friends. Teammates. They keep being busted by parents & yet no-one does anything… even the people who are always trying to cause trouble for them? It’s frustratingly stupid. You’d just tell the school board right?! Problem solved.
The spice is still *chefs kiss* no issues there 😉 but the holes in the story are starting to drag it down & I didn’t like a couple of later in the book elements… no spoilers but one feels mega shoehorned in & awkward & one feels like too much. Can we give the girl a break?!
I will say that I appreciate that the story moves along & doesn’t linger in things. Nothing is dragged out for long- great for the drama, but not great for me respecting Payson much
March 27, 2024
2.5⭐️
This was messy and not in a good way. I hate when it’s Age gap but the girls are so immature. I’ve never had a problem w age gap but the girls acting like actual 16 yr makes be like “why are you with her.” There’s a scene in here where he shares her and I HATE THAT bc how do you go from being possessive to “let me see how much I’ll hate this bc I know I can’t share you” but he still does it… to much drama from everyone. They way they don’t care about anyone finding out is annoying and unrealistic.
They way Luca hooks us w the heroin and then her bestfriend plus his newphew slept with the best friend too- it’s so cringe and big no.
This girl needs therapy, janelle telling her how fucked she is and they’re together 👏🏼
OHH AND I love daddy kink but you don’t make comments about pedophiles during smut bc that’s not okay.
This was messy and not in a good way. I hate when it’s Age gap but the girls are so immature. I’ve never had a problem w age gap but the girls acting like actual 16 yr makes be like “why are you with her.” There’s a scene in here where he shares her and I HATE THAT bc how do you go from being possessive to “let me see how much I’ll hate this bc I know I can’t share you” but he still does it… to much drama from everyone. They way they don’t care about anyone finding out is annoying and unrealistic.
They way Luca hooks us w the heroin and then her bestfriend plus his newphew slept with the best friend too- it’s so cringe and big no.
This girl needs therapy, janelle telling her how fucked she is and they’re together 👏🏼
OHH AND I love daddy kink but you don’t make comments about pedophiles during smut bc that’s not okay.
May 17, 2024
Rating: 3/10⭐️
& this is where they lost me. like i'm all for shit going down and coming at me from all directions but like make it make sense. can we not have it come out of nowhere? and idk, the daddy kink (especially when his son is her age) is NOT for me. ALSO i'm sorry but blood play as a kink when someone has a self harming past/still struggling with it? LETS BE FORREAL.
I'm not going to finish this trilogy i got the spoilers from a friend and I'm glad for that...
also, if you're going to make the side characters have so much of the story for fuck sake GIVE A CONCLUSION.
ok. im done. this is NOT like off balance. bye.
& this is where they lost me. like i'm all for shit going down and coming at me from all directions but like make it make sense. can we not have it come out of nowhere? and idk, the daddy kink (especially when his son is her age) is NOT for me. ALSO i'm sorry but blood play as a kink when someone has a self harming past/still struggling with it? LETS BE FORREAL.
I'm not going to finish this trilogy i got the spoilers from a friend and I'm glad for that...
also, if you're going to make the side characters have so much of the story for fuck sake GIVE A CONCLUSION.
ok. im done. this is NOT like off balance. bye.
September 18, 2023
I love these two so damn much. I am DYING for their final book.
February 10, 2023
5 FREAKING GLORIOUS STARS
Wow KB really out here leaving us broken. Still trying to find the words to do this book justice. This book made me feel EVERYTHING. Happiness, frustration, anger, TURNED THE F ON & last but not least – heartbreak. I’m not a crier, someone my friends refer me to being søulless and let me tell you…I BAWLED MY EYES OUT.
THE CHEMISTRY between Ash & Pay is out of this world. From start to finish I was HOOKED on this book. Ash will forever be my tox!c däddy – I will always come crawling back to him. And ugh my love for Payson...she has been through so much and goes to some very dark places in this book. I even love the supporting characters - especially LUCA, my Italian däddy. SO MANY THINGS HAPPEN IN THIS BOOK and it leaves you NEEDING the third one.
- Forbidden Romance
-Tab00
-Age Gap
-Toxic P0sessive Male
-Coach/Player romance
-Sports Romance
-HOLY GOD STÉAMY 😮💨😮💨😮💨😮💨
If you have not read Break For You, please go do that now – this book comes out February 10th and I promise you, YOU WILL WANT THIS.
Lots of TW, please check those before reading this series!! If you are struggling with your mental health, this is probably not the book for you.
Thank you for the arc, and for giving me one of my favorite books to date. 😭😭
Wow KB really out here leaving us broken. Still trying to find the words to do this book justice. This book made me feel EVERYTHING. Happiness, frustration, anger, TURNED THE F ON & last but not least – heartbreak. I’m not a crier, someone my friends refer me to being søulless and let me tell you…I BAWLED MY EYES OUT.
THE CHEMISTRY between Ash & Pay is out of this world. From start to finish I was HOOKED on this book. Ash will forever be my tox!c däddy – I will always come crawling back to him. And ugh my love for Payson...she has been through so much and goes to some very dark places in this book. I even love the supporting characters - especially LUCA, my Italian däddy. SO MANY THINGS HAPPEN IN THIS BOOK and it leaves you NEEDING the third one.
- Forbidden Romance
-Tab00
-Age Gap
-Toxic P0sessive Male
-Coach/Player romance
-Sports Romance
-HOLY GOD STÉAMY 😮💨😮💨😮💨😮💨
If you have not read Break For You, please go do that now – this book comes out February 10th and I promise you, YOU WILL WANT THIS.
Lots of TW, please check those before reading this series!! If you are struggling with your mental health, this is probably not the book for you.
Thank you for the arc, and for giving me one of my favorite books to date. 😭😭
February 26, 2023
🚨 ‼️ READ TRIGGER WARNINGS FOR BOOK‼️🚨
This book is basically emotional damage from the first chapter, and it cuts deeper all the way till the last word in the book. It took me a while to write my review because I resonated with poor Payson, and it literally threw me off the deep end for a few weeks. This book leaves you gutted, laying basically open and bleeding till you find out what happens in the next book. There was no comfort in this book, just brutal pain, betrayal, and all consuming toxicity. This is the book for you if you like your books emotionally damaging. The writing in the book was exceptional. So much so, the lines blurred between me and the main character. I felt her pain, suffering and agony over EVERYTHING. Not sure if this book had all consuming love that you would burn the world for, or if the connection between the main characters was just obsession feeding off their insecurities. But it’s a good example how love destroys, and how something amazing can quickly turn around and hurt you.
Payson is gorgeous, Ash is HOT. Both of them are rash, possessive, and TOXIC together. I wanted to forgive Ash, and every time I was just beginning to move past something, BOOM! *buzzer noise* NOPE! Ash is basically the word AUDACITY when you hear the phrase "men really have the audacity". Needless to say, I hope Payson gets some healing, and is able to find someone/something more stable in her life because good God, I am over Ash. LIKE CAN SOMEONE CTRL ALT DELETE HIM!? k thanks!
Ngl I was not a happy camper while reading this book and was even worse after I finished, glad I took time to process before writing this review. But honestly books that stay on your mind weeks, months, years after you’ve read them are top tier books. This is one of them.
This book is basically emotional damage from the first chapter, and it cuts deeper all the way till the last word in the book. It took me a while to write my review because I resonated with poor Payson, and it literally threw me off the deep end for a few weeks. This book leaves you gutted, laying basically open and bleeding till you find out what happens in the next book. There was no comfort in this book, just brutal pain, betrayal, and all consuming toxicity. This is the book for you if you like your books emotionally damaging. The writing in the book was exceptional. So much so, the lines blurred between me and the main character. I felt her pain, suffering and agony over EVERYTHING. Not sure if this book had all consuming love that you would burn the world for, or if the connection between the main characters was just obsession feeding off their insecurities. But it’s a good example how love destroys, and how something amazing can quickly turn around and hurt you.
Payson is gorgeous, Ash is HOT. Both of them are rash, possessive, and TOXIC together. I wanted to forgive Ash, and every time I was just beginning to move past something, BOOM! *buzzer noise* NOPE! Ash is basically the word AUDACITY when you hear the phrase "men really have the audacity". Needless to say, I hope Payson gets some healing, and is able to find someone/something more stable in her life because good God, I am over Ash. LIKE CAN SOMEONE CTRL ALT DELETE HIM!? k thanks!
Ngl I was not a happy camper while reading this book and was even worse after I finished, glad I took time to process before writing this review. But honestly books that stay on your mind weeks, months, years after you’ve read them are top tier books. This is one of them.
February 15, 2023
"Leave me broken" by KB. Row
I usually know what I want to write about a book I've just finished. This one had me thinking long and hard.
...I mean, it delivered it's threath and left me broken because I don't know what to say!!!
I highlighted so many quotes but they don't fit with the way I'm feeling right now so I think they would be inappropriate.
Ash's and Payson's story continues in this second book and it's so much more dramatic than the first one. The first book focused on the fun and easy part of their secret relationship, the second book describes what happens when shit hits the fan. Every page from the beginning has been a downfall to the point where it seems it can't get any worse than this. But it got worse, way worse and now both of them have dug themselves a hole that seems impossible to get out of. I am positive, though that they will find their light together and everything will be alright.
Every emotion Payson felt, I felt. I knew she was the one on the destructive path, yet it felt like I was there with her, going through everything she did to the point where everything was too much. I didn't cry, but only because I knew there's a third book coming and the author wouldn't have left things like that but I did have a strong urge to throw my freaking phone against a wall and choke someone.
This whole series is a damn emotional rollercoaster, and although it's not nice to swear and cuss and scream from fury in front of your family because you can't handle your emotions, it's still always appreciated that the author is able to bring that out with just words on a paper, you know?
I usually know what I want to write about a book I've just finished. This one had me thinking long and hard.
...I mean, it delivered it's threath and left me broken because I don't know what to say!!!
I highlighted so many quotes but they don't fit with the way I'm feeling right now so I think they would be inappropriate.
Ash's and Payson's story continues in this second book and it's so much more dramatic than the first one. The first book focused on the fun and easy part of their secret relationship, the second book describes what happens when shit hits the fan. Every page from the beginning has been a downfall to the point where it seems it can't get any worse than this. But it got worse, way worse and now both of them have dug themselves a hole that seems impossible to get out of. I am positive, though that they will find their light together and everything will be alright.
Every emotion Payson felt, I felt. I knew she was the one on the destructive path, yet it felt like I was there with her, going through everything she did to the point where everything was too much. I didn't cry, but only because I knew there's a third book coming and the author wouldn't have left things like that but I did have a strong urge to throw my freaking phone against a wall and choke someone.
This whole series is a damn emotional rollercoaster, and although it's not nice to swear and cuss and scream from fury in front of your family because you can't handle your emotions, it's still always appreciated that the author is able to bring that out with just words on a paper, you know?
March 2, 2023
OH MY GOD - Insert Janice voice- IYKYK
“𝘎𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘨𝘪𝘳𝘭𝘴 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘧𝘶𝘤𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘢 𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘮 ��𝘦𝘥.”
“𝘉𝘢𝘥 𝘨𝘪𝘳𝘭𝘴 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘧𝘶𝘤𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘤𝘢𝘳 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘢 𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘱 𝘸𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘦."
Can we just appreciate Ash MF'ING Pearson because my god 🫠🫠 he is FINEE and that mouth would put me in an early grave! I feel like Ash was misunderstood in this book, he is a baby deep down. The love he has for Payson is unmatched, the pure obsession is absolute fire! He can't leave her alone, he can't stand to be away from her, he loves every single inch of that girl and will do anything to make her happy. Yes that means some questionable things but love makes you do crazy things don't it?
Payson was breaking my heart in this book, if she hasn't gone through enough, life serves her with another knockout and another anddd another! The girl can't catch a break and how she handles it breaks me and literally made me want to reach through the book and help her. Janelle is the best friend we all need. I love her so much and felt for her with the decisions she had to make. Luca is just fucking life. How can you not love him?
𝘐 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶. 𝘐’𝘮 𝘴𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘺 𝘪𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴𝘯’𝘵 𝘦𝘯𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩.
The ending ruined me. Like fully ruined me. I'm not ok and I hate you a little, KB.
This book is one whole ball of emotions, you will go through every single emotion possible reading this I think🤣. It's going to hurt, yes but hopefully our girl can heal us 🫶. However, thank you so much for bringing Ash Pearson into our life.
SPOILER- Clay is mine. Im the girl Payson refers to who he will end up with and Hero will get his own book, this will be a life goal of mine to make this happy. OK. Bye.
“𝘎𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘨𝘪𝘳𝘭𝘴 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘧𝘶𝘤𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘢 𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘮 ��𝘦𝘥.”
“𝘉𝘢𝘥 𝘨𝘪𝘳𝘭𝘴 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘧𝘶𝘤𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘤𝘢𝘳 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘢 𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘱 𝘸𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘦."
Can we just appreciate Ash MF'ING Pearson because my god 🫠🫠 he is FINEE and that mouth would put me in an early grave! I feel like Ash was misunderstood in this book, he is a baby deep down. The love he has for Payson is unmatched, the pure obsession is absolute fire! He can't leave her alone, he can't stand to be away from her, he loves every single inch of that girl and will do anything to make her happy. Yes that means some questionable things but love makes you do crazy things don't it?
Payson was breaking my heart in this book, if she hasn't gone through enough, life serves her with another knockout and another anddd another! The girl can't catch a break and how she handles it breaks me and literally made me want to reach through the book and help her. Janelle is the best friend we all need. I love her so much and felt for her with the decisions she had to make. Luca is just fucking life. How can you not love him?
𝘐 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶. 𝘐’𝘮 𝘴𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘺 𝘪𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴𝘯’𝘵 𝘦𝘯𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩.
The ending ruined me. Like fully ruined me. I'm not ok and I hate you a little, KB.
This book is one whole ball of emotions, you will go through every single emotion possible reading this I think🤣. It's going to hurt, yes but hopefully our girl can heal us 🫶. However, thank you so much for bringing Ash Pearson into our life.
SPOILER- Clay is mine. Im the girl Payson refers to who he will end up with and Hero will get his own book, this will be a life goal of mine to make this happy. OK. Bye.
October 11, 2023
OOF... I want to preface this whole review with something very important. I think I may have found my first trigger. The MMC did not honor her safe word in this book. She called it out and he basically said "too bad, I'm continuing". Her reason for calling out the safe word was stupid but that was NOT up to him to decide. I am still upset about it. There is also a sharing scene which is COMPLETELY out of character for our MMC. I did not ever expect it to happen, but it was still super hot. Not my trigger BUT be careful reading if you are sensitive with SA, cutting, suicide, cancer, death of family, addiction, drug abuse, abortion, cheating, etc. This book hits A LOT of harmful topics.
Anyway, the more I read of this trilogy, the more mad I get that its not living up to the HIGH expectations I had. I just devoured Off Balance by Lucia Franco and was wanting a similar vibe. This is similar but its just not quite what I want. It took me 12 days to read this book! TWELVE DAYS! (I typically read at least 30 books a month (including audiobooks). The story is DRAGGINGGGGG. There is so much nonsense added in and its just not super captivating BUT I am invested in their love story, so I can't put it down and move on. I NEED to know how their story ends. This book took me so long to read that I don't even remember all the events that happened to properly summarize. Just know that this one is HEAVY and packed full of drama and almost everything that could possibly go wrong. I immediately started book 3. I am ready to put this series behind me and move on but I need that conclusion first.
Anyway, the more I read of this trilogy, the more mad I get that its not living up to the HIGH expectations I had. I just devoured Off Balance by Lucia Franco and was wanting a similar vibe. This is similar but its just not quite what I want. It took me 12 days to read this book! TWELVE DAYS! (I typically read at least 30 books a month (including audiobooks). The story is DRAGGINGGGGG. There is so much nonsense added in and its just not super captivating BUT I am invested in their love story, so I can't put it down and move on. I NEED to know how their story ends. This book took me so long to read that I don't even remember all the events that happened to properly summarize. Just know that this one is HEAVY and packed full of drama and almost everything that could possibly go wrong. I immediately started book 3. I am ready to put this series behind me and move on but I need that conclusion first.
February 9, 2023
K, I hate you because of that ending but I also love you as your words are addictive. I knew it wasn't going to be plain sailing, an an easy ride or a nice ending to this book. This one hurt.
For a girl that was so tough on the outside, everything inside her was at war. Her fears, her pain, her suffering.
She's in her own head and automatically thinks the worst. As that's all she's ever known. My heart really hurt for her.
Ash is still so swoony and so filthy, he fell hard and fast and it was beautiful to see his love, care and possessiveness over Payson although she feels undeserving of love and really struggles with abandonment issues. Even with their age gap they both encourage each other to be childish but can also have them grown up moments.
But saying that the toxicity in this relationship stems back to both their issues and traumas. They are both so painfully broken.
Luca broke my heart at one point. You'll know when you get there. There was one part that I wasn't overly happy with but I get why it happened, yeah it had gone a bit mental when Luca got involved.
Ash changed so much. The difference in him throughout the book was crazy to see.
But in all the dark there was lots of light and seeing them moments was beautiful. I did cry at certain points and when the last page came I was sobbing. My heart had been ripped out my chest and trampled all over. This cliffhanger is a 100 times worse compared to book 1.
For a girl that was so tough on the outside, everything inside her was at war. Her fears, her pain, her suffering.
She's in her own head and automatically thinks the worst. As that's all she's ever known. My heart really hurt for her.
Ash is still so swoony and so filthy, he fell hard and fast and it was beautiful to see his love, care and possessiveness over Payson although she feels undeserving of love and really struggles with abandonment issues. Even with their age gap they both encourage each other to be childish but can also have them grown up moments.
But saying that the toxicity in this relationship stems back to both their issues and traumas. They are both so painfully broken.
Luca broke my heart at one point. You'll know when you get there. There was one part that I wasn't overly happy with but I get why it happened, yeah it had gone a bit mental when Luca got involved.
Ash changed so much. The difference in him throughout the book was crazy to see.
But in all the dark there was lots of light and seeing them moments was beautiful. I did cry at certain points and when the last page came I was sobbing. My heart had been ripped out my chest and trampled all over. This cliffhanger is a 100 times worse compared to book 1.
February 12, 2023
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🌶🌶🌶🌶🌶
Wow was this book heavy. Honestly don’t know where to start, it’s fucked up but in a beautiful way.
I adore ash and pey together their chemistry is fucking phenomenal and their love for each other is heart wrenching. When the author gave us the warning for ash being toxic in the first book I didn’t think it was too extreme but this book - this is where the toxicity really comes out, but it’s not just ash that’s toxic it’s their relationship and those codependencies that really spiral out of control.
I’ll admit some parts did make me a bit uncomfortable in particular ash and peys knife play was what really got me because you can’t blame either of them - she’s unwell and he’s being told this is the only way to help her, it’s a lot especially if you’ve dealt with SH personally so I’d take it as a serious TW.
But even with these massive red flags for their relationship you can tell that the bones of it is pure love, I’m hoping maybe it’ll be a situation of them having some time apart to heal their insecurities and come back stronger. IVE INVESTED TOO MUCH EMOTION FOR THIS TO NOT END WITH THEM BEING HAPPY AND HEALTHY TOGETHER 😭😭😭
Also living for Janelle, she is truly the best of best friends and also Luca is amazing please more of them both! Side characters are so much more fledged out am so attached to them all. Cant wait for book 3.
🌶🌶🌶🌶🌶
Wow was this book heavy. Honestly don’t know where to start, it’s fucked up but in a beautiful way.
I adore ash and pey together their chemistry is fucking phenomenal and their love for each other is heart wrenching. When the author gave us the warning for ash being toxic in the first book I didn’t think it was too extreme but this book - this is where the toxicity really comes out, but it’s not just ash that’s toxic it’s their relationship and those codependencies that really spiral out of control.
I’ll admit some parts did make me a bit uncomfortable in particular ash and peys knife play was what really got me because you can’t blame either of them - she’s unwell and he’s being told this is the only way to help her, it’s a lot especially if you’ve dealt with SH personally so I’d take it as a serious TW.
But even with these massive red flags for their relationship you can tell that the bones of it is pure love, I’m hoping maybe it’ll be a situation of them having some time apart to heal their insecurities and come back stronger. IVE INVESTED TOO MUCH EMOTION FOR THIS TO NOT END WITH THEM BEING HAPPY AND HEALTHY TOGETHER 😭😭😭
Also living for Janelle, she is truly the best of best friends and also Luca is amazing please more of them both! Side characters are so much more fledged out am so attached to them all. Cant wait for book 3.
February 10, 2023
Leave Me Broken
by KB Row
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5
“The thing with deep, true love like that is if you do not choose to fight your battles together, you will end up fighting each other alongside those battles, and there are no winners in war.”
These books man. HO-LY CRAP.
KB Row is driving this joy ride and we are all just holding on for dear life through this intense, traumatic, toxic as hell, passionate, obsessive, HOT AF ride…
This is book 2, and if you haven’t read Break for You then I’m telling you GO DO IT RIGHT NOW, because you need the utter toxicity that is volleyball student Payson, and her 33 year old coach (and utter a*hole at times 🤣😏) Ash, in your life.
Those books that hit every feeling you’ve got available? This is one of those! You’re following on from that one huge cliffhanger at the end of BFY, and the bombs don’t stop dropping there LET ME TELL YOU.
Crap. I don’t even know how to write this review because I’m very much still feeling my feelings folks.
I got my spicy high I was chasing full force. I GOT IT AND I THANK YOU FOR WRITING THAT juice 😂😏, but dear lord did I also get the worst damn lows. My goodness. I have constant anxiety through these books. I’m terrified about what is going to drop next the entire time!
If you love angst, anxiety and books that have you gripped whilst simultaneously making you want to vomit with nerves, with a side of some damn good slightly BDSM, blood play spice then these books are for you!
In this book you’ll get:
✨Forbidden/Taboo (coach, volleyball student)
✨Age Gap
✨Posessive AF Alpha-hole (he’s also gonna make you angry 😂)
✨Blood Play
There’s so many triggers in here it’s really just safer to check before you head in. As I mentioned in book 1, there’s a HUGE amount of self harm mentioned/described as it’s one of the main topics of the story.
by KB Row
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5
“The thing with deep, true love like that is if you do not choose to fight your battles together, you will end up fighting each other alongside those battles, and there are no winners in war.”
These books man. HO-LY CRAP.
KB Row is driving this joy ride and we are all just holding on for dear life through this intense, traumatic, toxic as hell, passionate, obsessive, HOT AF ride…
This is book 2, and if you haven’t read Break for You then I’m telling you GO DO IT RIGHT NOW, because you need the utter toxicity that is volleyball student Payson, and her 33 year old coach (and utter a*hole at times 🤣😏) Ash, in your life.
Those books that hit every feeling you’ve got available? This is one of those! You’re following on from that one huge cliffhanger at the end of BFY, and the bombs don’t stop dropping there LET ME TELL YOU.
Crap. I don’t even know how to write this review because I’m very much still feeling my feelings folks.
I got my spicy high I was chasing full force. I GOT IT AND I THANK YOU FOR WRITING THAT juice 😂😏, but dear lord did I also get the worst damn lows. My goodness. I have constant anxiety through these books. I’m terrified about what is going to drop next the entire time!
If you love angst, anxiety and books that have you gripped whilst simultaneously making you want to vomit with nerves, with a side of some damn good slightly BDSM, blood play spice then these books are for you!
In this book you’ll get:
✨Forbidden/Taboo (coach, volleyball student)
✨Age Gap
✨Posessive AF Alpha-hole (he’s also gonna make you angry 😂)
✨Blood Play
There’s so many triggers in here it’s really just safer to check before you head in. As I mentioned in book 1, there’s a HUGE amount of self harm mentioned/described as it’s one of the main topics of the story.
August 26, 2023
I'm going to write the same review for both book one and two, because I truly just have so much and so little to say. What the actual fuck have i just read and why does everything just keep going bad? Why is everything up in the air all the time, and why can the main character never be happy? I'm actually just so tired. I've spent like five days reading these two books and it's just traumatic. There is so much hurting of themselves, of others. Theres drug abuse, self harm, sexual abuse, what i can only assume is super intense grooming because BROOOOO ash and paysons relationship is healthy by NO MEANS EVER. I still want to read the next book whenever it releases, purely because I have grown so desperate to see where it goes that I physically can’t not. I feel permanently damaged. I still don't know whether I love or hate it. Draw your own conclusions.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
October 5, 2023
I’m still processing my feelings over this book…these two are messy AF…it’s dark and angsty…two things I love. But I guess the main bone I have to pick with it is how careless these two are with keeping their relationship a secret it feels unrealistic to me that so many people could know about them and not only be okay with it, but not say anything.
But as messed up and problematic as the whole thing is, I’m still rooting for them.
They both pissed me off in this book. And Payton’s life is so tragic, that I badly need him to help her.
But I have questions…why is no one getting this girl into therapy? Why is no one discussing where she will go when Paul dies? How is Ash so in tune with her and not notice her knee swelling and her being high.
Regardless of all my frustrations though, I still need to know how their story ends and it better be with an HEA 😂
But as messed up and problematic as the whole thing is, I’m still rooting for them.
They both pissed me off in this book. And Payton’s life is so tragic, that I badly need him to help her.
But I have questions…why is no one getting this girl into therapy? Why is no one discussing where she will go when Paul dies? How is Ash so in tune with her and not notice her knee swelling and her being high.
Regardless of all my frustrations though, I still need to know how their story ends and it better be with an HEA 😂
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
February 10, 2023
God lord... i feel speechless. I loved the first book and thought it was rough on my heart but this one will dig even deeper into your heart. Add about 30% more angst to this second book. I literally had to take breaks several times just to process all that happened along the way. lol. These characters go through hell but it is SO GOOD! If you love toxic but sexy as hell ash-holes served with a side of angst, amazing sex with kink and big sprinkle of heartache - this book is for you! And that ending, OMG. I won't be waiting very patiently to find out what happens next. Absolutely 5 star book and will be buying the books for my bookshelf! Everything about this series is fabulous, from the cover, to the writing, the plot, the spice, the drama.
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