Translate

Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Book Review: Ranae Rose - Battered Not Broken



Rating: Adult
Published: December 19, 2012
Format: e-book

Battered Not Broken is a full-length novel of approximately 110,000 words.
Categories: Erotic Romantic Suspense
ASIN:
B00AOP6E56
Websites:  Barnes & Noble , AmazonKindle, All Romance Ebooks

4 of 5 Stars
Ryan Moore forged his own path when he defied his wealthy family’s expectations by joining the United States Marine Corps as an enlisted man. After a period of service that’s cut short by an IED explosion, the lingering physical and mental effects of war result in an isolated struggle to exist in the civilian world. He throws himself into competitive MMA fighting – the one thing he’s still able to excel at, even if every match is a risk he can’t afford to take.

His first encounter with amateur female fighter Ally Rivera ignites a spark of desire he hasn’t felt since before a bomb left its marks on his life and his body, but his flirtation with her turns out to be anything but harmless. She’s struggling to hold together a family ravaged by violence – a feat that isn’t easy when her father has been imprisoned, leaving her vulnerable to relatives who run a local gang. Can two unrelenting fighters overcome challenges they couldn’t defeat alone, or do the wounds of war and crime run too deep for even love to heal?


~
This was a very enjoyable book for me.  Plenty of good steamy sex in between a really good story with a bonus bit of education about a fairly common condition for anyone who knows a “Wounded Warrior” returned from Iraq or Afghanistan or any of the other locations our brave troops are located.

Alexandra Rivera, Ally to anyone who cares, is a young woman working as a manicurist in her Aunt’s beauty shop, training and fighting in local MMA matches in Baltimore, having lived there all her life.  Between her job, sporadic winnings from fighting and the money her mother makes as a beautician, she and her mother are managing to keep things together for when her dad gets out of jail, having been there for 6 years already, with one more left to serve.  She is also a person who needs to feel safe.  She dates occasionally and then, only guys she has known forever.
Ryan Moore is a large, handsome stranger who appears at the MMA gym one day to train. 

I love how they meet:   

Twitter Updates

    follow me on Twitter