REVIEW : Broken by Colette Davison

Title : Broken

Author : Colette Davison

Genre(s) : contemporary gay romance
with angst, may/december

Release Date : March 5th 2019

Rating : 4.5/5 Stars

Rule #1: Keep running.

Jag’s rules have kept him safe and free since he escaped conversion therapy, but that was before he walked into Heaven and Hell. A no-strings fling with the club owner, Michael, turns into so much more as Jag finds himself breaking one rule after another.

Michael hasn’t been able to commit to anyone since his partner died, until Jag walks into his club. Falling in lust with the elfin young dancer is easy, and his heart is quick to follow.

Michael gives Jag a reason to stay, but fear rules Jag’s heart more than love. Despite his deepening feelings for Michael, Jag knows he can’t stay. Can he?

**Contains adult themes, content, and language.**

Rule number one: keep moving.
Rule number two: tell no one.
Rule number three: no freebies; he’d pay his way.
Rule number four: don’t get attached to anyone. 
Rule number five: set boundaries.

For four years Jag had survived by sticking to the rules he made to keep him safe.

Another thing he learned after escaping from the hell he’d been through is ‘trust no one’ and he’d learned that the hard way, when a ‘friend’ had betrayed him in exchange for money…

On his run, Jag wanted to be able to have a home and a job and not have to constantly look over his shoulder. He wanted someone he could love and hold on to. Someone he could trust. He wanted to feel safe and live without fear.

Then he meet Michael…

Jag saw desire in the way Michael look at him on the first day they met when he came to Heaven and Hell to become one of the dancer at the club owned by Michael. At first, Jag only want to ‘use’ Michael for his own pleasures by seducing the older guy for some meaningless sex before he move again for another run. But then he realize that he started to growing fond of Michael….

For a few minutes at least, he needed to be in someone’s arms. He needed to be held and comforted. He wanted to feel the man’s arms around him and forget how awful things were, how lonely he was, how empty and meaningless his life had become…

Michael made him feel worthy and wanted for more than just sex. He made him feel loved…

Jag then started lowering his guards, breaking one rule after another and risked himself for another danger that shadowing his path…

But could he trust Michael after what he’d been through in the past? Will Michael’s unconditional love could make him stop from running? Will he be brave enough to anchored his life to Michael heart? Or could this already broken soul worth Michael love?

Because for once…
Just for once he want to be free…
Because he really want to stay…

“You’re not broken.” Jag’s eyes filled with sadness, his lips, moist and glistening from Michael’s kisses, downturned. “Yes, I am. But I think you’re putting me back together again, bit by bit.” 

Michael shook his head. “No. I’m helping you put yourself back together.” 

“You make me happy. You make me feel worthy.”

I must admit I’m sold to the blurb instantly and have the feeling that this book will gonna be something, but I didn’t expect that the story will be THIS GOOD. I thought it would be another cliché story about a young pool dancer who fall for the club owner that twice his age mix with some hot smexy sex scenes. But when I’m digging more deeper to the story I found out that the story is far from cliché.

The way the author picturing Jag’s mysteriousness, anxiety and paranoia are enough to intrigued me and made me engaged to the story since the very first page. How the author woven the interactions by mix the emotional connections between the two main characters with the fragile feels both MC have and all the baggage from their past had made this story succeed playing the reader emotions until the very last page.

Broken come with the raw emotions that will broke your heart but at the same time will also warm your heart….

Recommended!