Publication date : 4
May 2014
Book blurb:
Start the Assumption Series with book 1 – Broken
A girl’s senior year in high school should be a special time. Ayma’s expectations are not very high. She is the daughter of a control-freak mother and a father who has been absent for the past three years. She is ridiculed by the popular kids in school because of her unfortunate name and the way she dresses. Although she’s nearly eighteen, her mother controls every aspect of her life, including what she wears, who her friends are and even what foods she is allowed to eat. The only bright spot in her life is her friend Tabby. Until she meets Colton.
Colton is unexpected. He’s gorgeous, popular – the guy all the girls want and the one all of the other guys want to be like. When he begins to pay attention to Ayma, she doesn’t know what to think. Things like this just don’t happen to girls like her. One obstacle after another is thrown into their path, but they can’t deny what they feel for one another. Their new-found love will be threatened by secrets from their past, challenges in their present and a future they can only dream about. Ayma struggles to find an identity apart from her mother’s controlling nature while Colton faces the results of an arrest that took place the summer before his tenth grade year.
Can they find love and happiness? Or will they be destroyed by events beyond their control?
My synopsis:
Ayma Kuntz is a spunky 17 year old
going into her final year in high school.
Despite having the mother from hell, a father who’s fallen off the radar
and being ridiculed by all but her handful of friends at school, she’s still
managed to turn out to be a pleasant young girl. Like any teenager, Ayma goes through the
usual teenage events but nothing that she’s been through before has prepared
her for dealing with Colton Greyson. He’s
part of the popular crowd so how could he ever possibly be interested in her?
Colton Greyson was one of the in crowd until his fall from grace takes
him away from Bay Shore Academy. When he
returns in the final year of high school he meets Ayma Kuntz, and, from the
very beginning, there’s something about her that makes him sit up and pay
attention. Her quirkiness draws him to
her. But with all that he’s been through,
and her dysfunctional life, can he and Ayma find a way to work through
everything to be able to be together?
What I thought:
A really well written story that
offers a little bit of everything … humour, tension, teenage angst and all that
being a young adult falling in love and dealing with life entails. I didn’t know what to expect from this “Young
Adult” book when I started reading but, I have to say, I thoroughly enjoyed
Broken. It was an easy read, from the
point of view that you kept turning the page to see what else life planned on
handing this poor young girl and how she would show her mettle in the way she
dealt with it. You can’t help but cheer
for Ayma and, of course, Colton. I am looking forward to reading the next book
in this series.
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