Review: An amazing journey with a strong hero and heroine *spoiler free*
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 27, 2014
With a love for the other books in this series and their characters, I knew I had to read Lane’s story.  I went into Beautiful Broken Promises basically blind due to the vagueness of the synopsis, and I now know WHY the synopsis is so vague and am so happy it is.  I wouldn’t have missed the shock of what awaited me for anything.  Everyone should go into this story blindly to experience the intensified twist in Lane’s story.If you’ve read Beautiful Broken Mess, then you’ve met Lane, Audrey’s best friend.  I desperately wanted his book because I fell in love with Lane’s wit, laid back attitude, and devotion to Audrey.  He still had a mystery surrounding his character, but that mystery is revealed in this book.  This book will introduce you to a completely different side of Lane, the man with deep secrets he has kept hidden for years, secrets that left him broken and searching for something that was taken from him.  Only Jace knows his secrets, and that is only due to Lane’s need to share with someone he trusts and the need to take time away from his job at a moment’s notice.Lane  feels guilty over things that happened in his past.  He can’t seem to shed the disgrace he feels for fate’s cruel irony in his life.  He is fierce, yet kind and gentle.  He works hard to maintain control of the savage within him. Lane is a determined and scorned man with a purpose to right a wrong that was done to him.  His past has molded him into a protective alpha that will collide with any threat to his happiness.Reagan is TNT in a small package.  She is courageous, resilient, and bold, approaching everything head on with careful thought and haste.  She is everything a heroine should be, and her character is equivalent on the alpha scale to Lane’s.  Together, these two characters complement each other and work so well together.  They aren’t without their problems, but I found myself really wanting them to work.Told in both Lane’s and Reagan’s viewpoints, this book will take you from extreme tenseness to sweet smiles to grins that will make your cheeks hurt.  Our favorite characters from the first two books in the series are back as the much-needed support for Lane, and the author gives us an account of just how their lives have progressed.  There are a few new characters added in this novel that you will melt your heart, but they are for you to discover yourself.The prologue is filled with suspense and intensity, exposing Lane’s secrets to the reader and setting the mood for the novel.  The tone of this installment is very different from the previous books in the series.  It is not a dark novel, but it does have a raw edge and heightened dynamics in the beginning.  Beautiful Broken Promises can easily be read as a standalone, but I suggest reading the other books first due to the developments in the lives of the characters from the first two books.I received a complimentary copy in exchange for an honest review.