Review: Great Read!!!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 26, 2014
Life is too short to stop living because of the circumstances around you.  Embrace life and live it to the fullest, be happy, learn to love and be loved.  Live while you can because life is not forever.Well before anything if you haven’t read Shredded and are about to read Shattered I recommend reading the first one even though it’s not necessary.  The way I see it it gives you more insight to all of the characters and it will show you who Ash was before tragedy happens to him and Logan.  How was I feeling about this book well almost to the very end I felt shattered after everything that had happened to Ash, Logan and Tansy.  My heart broke for both Ash and Logan because of what happened to their parents but I’m surprised that Logan was the one that had it more together than his brother.  I don’t know why that surprised me since I knew that Ash was the guy serious one and he had his life planned out and now just like the title of this book it’s shattered.Ash Lewis was a big snow boarder he was looking forward to the Olympics but that was all shattered when his parents and little brother were in that accident.  Now he was the parent figure and he needed to take care of Logan.  He had no idea how hard this was how did his parents do this day in and out.  Ash was no longer snowboarding because of the risks and also because he was selfish.  I’m sorry but he was I could not believe his excuse of why he was no longer doing it.  I know that he was miserable but know one to blame but himself.  Then it all changed when a cute okay beautiful girl came into the place where he worked and she wanted to “talk”.  I could not believe him.Tansy Hampton lived her own shattered life.  She had just been given the clean bill of health and now she was trying to live her life.  She had found a job with Make-A-Wish Foundation and was working on her very first assignment by herself.  Tansy is such a vibrant, a breath of fresh air kind of girl.  I loved what she did with her hair.  I know I couldn’t pull off have nice pink hair or a strip of purple of blue hair but it sounded like she did.  I loved her way of thinking and how she wanted to experience life what it was to be with a guy and to finally be kissed.  She did her homework when she was assigned to go meet with Ash Lewis he was the person that Timmy wanted to know before he passed away.  Tansy just never thought that when she met with Ash and she told him she wanted to talk to him and that she would end up in a closet with his tongue down her throat.Logan Lewis was an awesome fourteen year old that loved to snowboard and now he was paralyzed from the waist down.  I’m not saying that that should have stopped him or from living or having fun.  Only that his brother Ash did not see it like that he was treating him as an invalid not as his brother.  Logan wanted for Ash to live his life just because he couldn’t walk didn’t mean that he needed to change his whole life not do what le loved and that was snowboarding.  I have to say that I loved his way of thinking and how he tried to make his brother see that he was still the same Logan nothing had changed that he was still alive.Shattered was an intense, emotional read that I loved reading every minute until it was over.  This is a read that has some emotional issues that just hit me right in the stomach.  These were two or should I say three characters that I was able to connect with immediately.  Ms. Wolff’s writing style is amazing, the way her writing comes together and captivated your attention.  Logan and Tansy are fighters and are willing to do anything in order to live their lives, how they want.  I wanted that for Ash I wanted to see him happy and quit harping on his brother.  At times yes I wanted to smack him over the head and maybe punch him a couple of times.  The one thing that could have been better was that Ash could have told her from the beginning why he didn’t want to go snowboarding and then there is Tansy why couldn’t she have told Ash what she had gone through.  Maybe that would have help him see much sooner that she knew what his brother was going through.  The chemistry between Ash and Tansy is there from the very beginning even that first time that their lips met.  They were perfect together and when Ash finally hot his head out of his behind then they could truly be happy, not only him and Tansy but his relationship with his little brother, Logan.  By the end of this story I was able to finally see Ash put himself back together the way it should have been.I totally recommend this book to all readers and if you haven’t picked up Shattered I recommend that you pick that one up also.  Enjoy the journey of Ash and Tansy to happily ever after but also the journey of Ash and Logan into finally understanding that because he is paralyzed it doesn’t mean that he can’t have fun and live.