Broken Wings by Erika Ashby

 

 

Lynsie Fox has what she considers to be a perfect life. Married to Lincoln, a military pilot, she's living the Army life she's always loved. Being a sucker for great love stories, Lynsie makes it her mission to find Lincoln's best friend and co-pilot, Dax Adams, a good woman. Losing the one woman he's ever loved, Dax attempts to be a good sport by playing along in Lynsie's match-making scheme. However, Dax is certain he will never get the woman of his dreams. But life doesn't always fly smoothly. When turbulence strikes, Lynsie watches her world crash and burn around her, leaving her empty with broken wings. Despite her grief, can she mend the pieces back together and learn to fly again?

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We waste no time stripping each other down once we make it back home.

“You know what I love most?” Lincoln asks as his tongue dances across my bare stomach.

“Hmm,” is all I can manage as I lift my back, pressing myself closer to his mouth of goodness.

“The way you taste.” He licks circles around my navel, teasing my body in a way only he knows best. “The way you taste, baby, it puts every rainbow to shame.”

“Taste the rainbow,” I moan as his mouth continues its path down my waist.

“I plan on licking my way to your pot of the gold.” His hot breath against my inner thigh shoots a jolt of electricity through my body.

I giggle and moan all at once. “All yours, baby,” I gasp as I turn to putty beneath him.

“Say it again,” he demands as he nips and licks, teasing my skin.

“I’m yours. Only yours. Always yours,” I manage to pant before he swipes his tongue right where I want him most. My hands are firm against his head pulling at his short locks, holding him in place as he licks and fingers me until I come undone around his mouth.

He kisses his way back up my body and slides between my legs. I feel him at my entrance, but he stays put until he’s face to face with me. Grabbing me by my chin, he tilts my face up to look him square in the eyes.

“And I am yours. Only yours. I will always be yours,” he breathes against my lips before claiming them. His lips against mine are firm, needy, and full of passion as he pushes himself inside me.

I moan into his mouth as our tongues battle for control. He’ll win. He always does, but in cases such as this, I gladly accept defeat. 

Review: 

Broken Wings is a bittersweet love story.  It is heart breaking and beautiful.  It is a story of a life being torn apart and how our heroine, Lynsie learns to love and trust again.

This is a really hard book to review without giving too much away, so I won’t go into any specifics.  I really enjoyed Broken Wings.  I loved that it was a realistic story.  The characters were believable and well developed.  There were strong connections, especially between Lynsie and her best friend, Dax.  They had such an easy friendship.  Their friendship got them both through the hardest, most devastating time of their lives.

Although ultimately I ended up REALLY liking this book, it started off pretty slow.  It took me a few days to reach 30%.  I just really had trouble getting into it and then BAM, I couldn’t put it down.  I also guessed everything that would happen very early on and there was no shock when things finally went down.  I think that ruined a little of the emotional connection for me.  Which is the reason I won’t say much, just in case you don’t figure it out… I don’t want to be the one to mess it up for you. 

If you are looking for a good cry and a soul touching experience.  Read Broken Wings!  It is different and it is beautiful.  Great job Erika!

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Being born an "Army Brat", Erika Ashby has been residing in Oklahoma the last 10 years finally putting an end to the nomad tendencies she had grown accustomed to. She's a happily married woman who has 5 kids between her and her husband. She has an insane passion for music and embraces her Inner Groupie any chance she has. It wasn't until the age of 29 that she realized she also had a hidden passion for reading; before then she claimed to have hated it. Six months after unlocking that deep desire she never knew she held, she turned the key to another chapter of her life which has become the desire to write. And the rest is still history in the making.

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