Something Broken

📖🔎Book review

“Do people like us really deserve a happily ever after, Ash?”

“You mean when we worked so hard to get in our own way”

📚Something Broken (Wolf Mountain Ranchers #2)

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 4/5

✍️ Erin Fitzgerald

You can look forward to:

💖 Second Chance Romance

🏡 Small Town Setting

🫢 Tons of Miscommunication

🧘‍♀️ Mental Health Rep

👨‍👦‍👦 Single Dad

👯‍♂️ Best Friends Brother

📚 Part of a series, can be read standalone

Plot Perspectives 📖😍

The book follows Ashley and Travis as their romance unfolds over the span of two decades! They meet when Ashley comes over to spend a summer at her best friend’s ranch in Montana. There she meets Travis, her older brother for the first time and there are instant sparks. However, due to multiple unresolved issues and past trauma on both sides, it’s takes both of them twenty plus years, extensive therapy sessions, a divorce and a miscarriage each to finally find themselves together.

I adored the plot and the writing style of the author. The setting and the storyline was definitely very immersive, helped along by the fact that I read most of this book while vacationing at a country resort in San Antonio! However, I did find the characters a bit irritating, bordering sometimes on being immature even in their 40s and 50s. The miscommunication tropes used in the book, while being exasperating to read, are all too real. I appreciated the positive representation of therapy and how it can truly help relationships mature. I also loved the way the author did not wield it as a magic wand solution, but did her best to showcase the time and commitment it takes to truly be successful. The pacing of the story started to taper off about 3/4th of the way through and the book could maybe have been edited down a bit.

Overall, This story and these people could most definitely exist in reality. The only unrealistic part is possibly the HEA.

Papa Pick 🍼💕 For some of y’all who’ve been around my page for a while, you know that I like to assess if there is any male character in the book who would make for a great father. The only person in this book that comes to mind is Ashley’s father Eric Benson. He raises Ashley and her four brothers in the best way, enabling them to all be full human beings to the best of his ability. I wish I could say that post therapy Travis would be my Papa Pick, but I just don’t see that as realistic.

Poppy’s POV 🐣🔖 Poppy and I enjoyed our first vacation together tremendously and I’m sure she loved that I had a good book to read along for her nap times! 😴