Breakable

Contours of the Heart, Book 2

By: Tammara Webber

Narrated by: Zachary Webber

Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins

Publisher's summary

As a child, Landon Lucas Maxfield believed his life was perfect and looked forward to a future filled with promise - until tragedy tore his family apart and made him doubt everything he ever believed.

All he wanted was to leave the past behind. When he met Jacqueline Wallace, his desire to be everything she needed came so easy.…

As easy as it could be for a man who learned that the soul is breakable and that everything you hoped for could be ripped away in a heartbeat.

Tammara Webber, the New York Time best-selling author of Easy, now delivers a daring and entirely new perspective on love, and why falling for it is beyond our control.

A college age, New Adult romance.

©2014 Tammara Webber (P)2014 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved.

Landon? Lucas?

Would you listen to Breakable again? Why?

I had a difficult time keeping up with the flashbacks vs. current Lucas/Landon flow of this story. If listening while driving or working I often found myself rewinding to catch up with the story-line because it was easy to lose track. I was glad to finally understand Lucas' perspective, although it was easy to speculate based on what I knew of him from "Easy." I will likely listen again to make sure I didn't miss anything the first time around.

What about Zachary Webber’s performance did you like?

His tone and inflections definitely fit Lucas' character and you could feel the darkness and depth and sorrow in his dry tone. He sounded exactly as I imagined Lucas.

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

No extreme emotional charge from me, although I did genuinely enjoy these characters and their story. I was glad to dig a little deeper into Lucas' heart and thoughts and see Jacqueline as he saw her.

Enjoyed

Really liked how the audible was done for this book. I initially thought I'd be bored if it only retold the 1st story. It added the back story in an interesting way.

Troubled teens find love

This is the best book ever ( unless you count the first book in the series). I have read this book so many times I've lost count. Lucas loses his Mom at an early age & is left with his father. His father decides to sell their house & move in with his father. He leaves his old job (where he makes lots of money) to living on the coast where he will help his Dad on his fishing boat (a place he swears he will never live again). It changes Lucas' life forever.

Lucas ends up in trouble until the Heller's find out & decide to help him. He ends up at the college where Mr Heller teaches. Here he meets the girl of his dreams. He saves her from being attacked, helps her pass a difficult class, & falls in love with her. She's majoring in music & has a great story of how she made it to a college that doesn't have a huge music program.

Narrator gets 5stars

The book is good; the Christian Grey narrator gets 5+ from me everytime! He had a very well written story to work with but not one I would have noticed it had not been for his name as narrator. I did enjoy the story, too! I hope she has more of these for Zachary Webber to narrate!

Zachary Webber + Beats Headphones = Eargasm!

Have you listened to any of Zachary Webber’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

I've listened to Lost and Found by Nicole Williams and Maybe Someday by Colleen Hoover. All great performances!

Any additional comments?

I still remember when I stumbled on the cover reveal for Easy years ago. I thought it was gorgeous (the pretty blue and hot guy with a lip ring) and was excited to see that this took place in college. I author stalked Tammara Webber and came across this post about Mature YA and I knew I had to have this book. I added it to my TBR and counted down the days until it was released. I bought it as soon as it was released and I’m pretty sure I read it all in one sitting. I looooooved it! I’ve been waiting for Tammara Webber to announce new boo since then (since I haven’t started her Between the Lines books yet) and was excited/nervous when Breakable was announced. As much as I loved Jacqueline’s story, Lucas totally stole the show and I wanted to have more of him. But, I’m not a fan (at all) of retellings in a different POV. They just don’t work to me because I’ve already read the story. I was so happy to see that Breakable was more of a prequel instead of a retelling of Easy. This totally worked for me and I fell for Lucas even harder than I did the first time.

Told in alternating ‘POV’s’, we have Landon’s scenes which show us how Landon came to be the guy we all know and love in Easy. Then we have Lucas’s POV scenes which are some of the scenes from Easy. Through the Landon chapters, we get an in depth look as to how his mother’s death affected him and how it led him down a dark path. I really liked getting to read some of the scenes from Easy in his POV, but my favorite parts were the Landon parts because this was new to me. We already knew a bit about Lucas’s past so it’s safe to assume he wasn’t a saint. This means that we do get drinking, drugs and girls from his past in the Landon POV scenes. The parts about him and other girls didn’t bother me because I know he ends up with Jacqueline. He just has a past, like everyone else, and those girls were a part of it. I loved that we got to read new scenes from Easy and I think Tammara Webber did a great job at adding new scenes while keeping the favorite Easy scenes without being repetitive.

I heard the Easy audiobook earlier this year, which really helped me remember the story. (I read this back in May 2012 so I was a little rusty on some of the specific details) This is more than just a retelling of Easy. This is Lucas’s story, and if Easy left you wanting more of him then this right here is perfect for you. Now that the final book in the Between the Lines series is out, I need to finally get them off my TBR. I’m planning on listening to the audiobooks and I’m excited because I’ve heard they ‘re really good. Side note: I’m happy they decided to go with this couple for the cover. Even though I’ve seen them on a bajillion other covers, this will always be Lucas and Jacqueline for me.

Audiobook Comments: Zachary Webber + Beats Headphones = Eargasm. Not even joking. I’ve been a fan of this narrator since I heard Lost and Found last year (by Nicole Williams). I remember thinking: ‘I wonder if he’s related to Tammara Webber?’ then thinking how stupid that was because how many people must there be with the last name Webber. I found out a few months ago that he really is related to her (her son) and now I feel kind of pervy for crushing on Tammara Webber’s son. But that voice, I love it! I’ve gushed about his voice to my bloggy friends and in my review of Maybe Someday, but he’s my favorite guy narrator. I think he has the perfect voice to pull off NA, YA, and Adult books. I really hope that he narrates more audiobooks because I will listen to all of them! I knew I wanted to go with the audiobook route for this book when I saw he was narrating and I’m so happy I did. There’s something so fucking awesome about a good narrator being able to bring life to these words. That scene when his mom is killed: Chills! I had to stop the book a few times just to get through it. Then I had to rewind it to listen to it again. A fantastic performance all the way!

Dude!

It really was better than just a repeat on the first book. And Zachary Webber can narrate the phone book and I think I would love it!

Landon + Lucas = New Love Story

Would you listen to Breakable again? Why?

Absolutely. Landon/Lucas broke my heart. He's such as sweet, fractured, complicated but simple, lost boy that I just wanted to hug and tell him it'd be ok. The narrator was great and emotional when he needed to be and the material really struck a cord with me.

What was one of the most memorable moments of Breakable?

When Jacqueline tells Lucas she Googled his mother. The air was sucked out of my lungs and I was crying a lot. That's really hard to do without air, btw.

Which scene was your favorite?

The self-defense scenes at the end when Jacqueline and Erin are beating up Lucas and the instructor. Erin's the best wing woman ever and she's hilarious while she's doing it.

If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?

I don't know, without giving away the plot and what happened to Landon to turn him into Lucas.

Any additional comments?

Without giving too much away, this story focuses on the aftermath of a tragic event that split a father and son apart. It also focuses on how the son healed himself while taking care to make certain that horrific event didn't happen to another person he knew and cared about. I ended up loving Landon and Lucas about two paragraphs into the story and didn't fall out of love with either one of them. I'm so glad that Jacqueline was as deserving of Lucas and Landon as they were of her.

BTW- Landon and Lucas are the same character, but the event splits them into two different people. Landon is the boy and Lucas is the man, but they're still lost until Lucas meets Jacqueline.

Breakable

Amazing story. Amazing narration. Would love to see where these two end up in the future.

Great read and refreshing newness I hadn't expected

What's not to like about Lucas? If you adored Lucas from Jackie's story Easy, you'll complete, fall for, want to shake him awake and hug him all at the same time and never let go. This wasn't like other stories that attempt to retell the previous book. It was deeper, intuitive of another experience rarely with entire separate story which made live the character more. Just when you thought you knew the Lucas you adored, Tammera Webber finds a way to give you the more and it's so refreshing you can't simply put it down until the end. Narration was wonderfully perfect with every emotion articulated that I didn't feel like I was peeking through the window of someone's life but rather on the journey with them.

Breath taking point of view....

This is a beautifully written book in Lucas/ Landon's point of view. The companion book was amazing and I read it first, but there is so much more detail to the story that comes out in this version. I loved hearing about his adolescence spent on the beach :)
The narrator is awesome. Sometimes they don't match up with the tone/ feel of the book, but this one absolutely does :)
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