Finally Unbroken by Maria Macdonald

ARC given for honest review.

This book was amazing! It has me on a roller coaster ride with highs and lows. I laughed, I got angry, I cried and I feel in love!

We have a great story that shows us Anabel and Danny. These two were friends in High school but Anabel had a boyfriend. While things almost took off between the two the just never got together. Anabel's life has been anything but happy. Her marriage is horrible. She's treated like a servant who is mental and verbally abused by her husband who is a lazy drunken jerk. She has lost both her parents, along with their ice cream shop. Anabel retreats the the still closet shop to remember. This book switches pov and does flash backs. Danny comes back home and he is a billionaire looking to open another restaurant. He secretly bought Anabel's family ice cream shop and hasn't done anything with it.

This story takes use along a ride with Anabel. She regains a sense of pure and gain her life back after deciding to leave her husband. Then Amanda, her bff  from HS is coming back to town after ten years in Paris! These girls have so much going on until we learn about Amanda's terminal cancer diagnosis. Rubin, another friend is called back home by Danny. These four great such an amazing story about love and loss.

It's so beautiful written, with such depth and character development. This book is on par with Debbie Macomber, Nora Roberts and Nicholas Sparks. You will not be disappointed with this amazing story.

Life Blood by V. M. Black

I read Life Blood, by V. M. Black on a bonus day off. It was a super quick read. I had the heads up that this was more like a short story, that is left in a cliff hanger. There are several of these short stories, so I strongly recommend getting all of the short stories so you can read them more as a whole novel. I grabbed this book via kindle on one of the free days. 

So knowing that this story was short, and left a cliff hanger, I was surprised how fast I got sucked into this story! You have a young girl, a senior in college with her whole life in front of her, except she has terminal cancer. Her doctors have suggested hospice. But she also gives her a card with no name, just a phone number. She has so many questions, but you really don't get the answers you need to really understand what she's signing up for. The only thing we know is that we have a devilishly handsome man who she can't resist and the determination to live, even when everything says she's dying. 

The charter development of the female lead is really well done, especially within  such short number of pages. I get drawn in to this world, wondering who is Mr. Thorne really? And wondering first what choice Cora is going through make, and how will that choice play out for he. You definitely get sucked in because of the life or death h situation that Cora is in, the more curious when Mr. Thorne presents another option which has a 1 out of 100 chance of actually working. 

I definitely recommend grabbing this free version, and if you like it, grab the next five books in this series!