Unbreak Me

De: Maria Vickers

Narrado por: Andrew Joseph Perez

They were supposed to be together forever. That was the plan, but through a cruel twist of fate the night before their three-year anniversary, Tex Davis lost the one man he would ever love, Memphis King. A year has passed, and he still hasn’t been able to move on. Everyone tells him it’s time, but what do they know? Memphis was his partner in love and life. Losing him broke Tex.

Tex has been given an opportunity to move from New York to Seattle. His friends and family are encouraging him to take it, but he has already decided to decline the offer because that would mean leaving Memphis behind.

Then, something happened.

Whether it be fate or something else, Memphis came back to him. Tex’s first love is supposed to help him move on, but not even Memphis can bring himself to force Tex to let him go.

Is it so wrong to want to spend forever with the person you loved most? Both hearts are begging to be unbroken.

©2019 Maria Vickers (P)2021 Maria Vickers

Unbreak me

Thank you for the ARC, I voluntarily give this book an honest review. Narrator Andrew Joseph Perez brought this book alive with such a emotional and physical struggle  of each side of characters that you can feel Tex's pain and Memphis's frustrations. Okay wasn't excepting  the emotional impact right from the start. The overall book was very well written that keeps you interested from page to page, as you get to know all the wonderful if irrational take from side characters. After all everyone grieves in their own different ways.

Entertained

Well, I was entertained, but there was a lot of character POV hopping. Also, for two characters that professed to be soulmates, they bickered an awful lot.

I Don't Know Where to Begin

I guess let me start off with the narrator who I absolutely loved. He's voice is like a lighter version of Micheal Ferraiuolo but it's missing something I can't put my finger on.

The story is third person and switches characters a lot. I got a little confused from time to time but it didn't take long to figure out who you're seeing the story through. I loved the neighbor and would have loved to see more of her.

So this is the story of Tex (AKA Barney) and Memphis. A once in a life time soul mate match. In the beginning of the story Memphis is killed (this really isn't a spoiler.) and the rest of the story is how Tex is dealing with that, which is not well. One day a huge job opportunity presents itself which happens to be the day of what would have been their fourth anniversary and the day after the one year mark of Memphis's death. Friends and family are all over Tex to move on with his life but Tex is tried of no one understanding. Memphis has been with Tex since the day he died but was only able to offer comfort in the darkest of times. Now that Tex is at a cross roads Memphis is suddenly becoming more corporeal and is able to communicate fully with Tex. Knowing this has an end date they are trying to let each other go but it's not going so well. There's is just no moving on from one another.

I want to go on but I'd ruin the book. I was not a huge fan of the ending. I would have gone a totally different way, but it was heart warming and happy. The story made me cry at parts. Get very angry at family members in other parts. But most important there was a happy ending.

Polarizing book

3.25 Stars Overall
4 Stars Narrator
2.5 Stars Story

I’m gonna start by saying this book is going to be a bit polarizing. You’re either going to love it, or you’re not. Spoiler alert: I did not.

This is an emotional story. It will gut you. It will leave you feeling strongly one way or another. The fact that an author can do that, have such power in their words, should be applauded—no matter which way your emotions land. I cannot go into why I dislike it so much because it would absolutely spoil the story, and I refuse to do that. I will warn you that the way the third person POV is used, could be jarring at times, unnoticeable at others.

This is the first time I’ve heard a book narrated by Andrew Joseph Perez. I felt like he did a good job portraying the emotions in this story. I would be interested in hearing from him again in the future.

Interesting!

I liked the storyline and setting of the book but the multiple character POV'S left me a tad bereft at times.

I didn't feel a lot of chemistry between the MC's which was disappointing.

The dialogue was interesting enough and the narration was smooth and enjoyable overall.