Beautiful Broken By Nazarea Andrews Blog Tour + Giveaway!

Welcome, readers! I hope you are enjoying the Beautiful Broken blog tour. Below you will find the book blurb, a character snapshot, and a fabulous giveaway!

From the publisher:

She's been broken by her past. He's been breaking for as long as he can remember.

Together, they can make each other whole--or destroy each other.

When his best friend asks for something, Dane rarely says no. But babysitting a newly sober Scout Grimes for three weeks isn't exactly a normal request. And with their history, it's a recipe for disaster. Not to mention, she's drop dead gorgeous and he can't touch her.

There are few people Scout trusts as much as Dane Guillot. He's always been her safe place, where nothing can hurt her. He's also been the only man she's never let herself want--screwing up their friendship isn't worth one amazing night together.

They have too much history, and too much personal baggage to ever work. But if they are willing to take a chance on love--it might be worth the risk.

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Nazarea Andrews is kindly letting readers in on a sneak peek at Scout, the heroine in Beautiful Broken. Here is a page out of Scout's journal. Enjoy!

Scout Journal—An entry from the journal written during her stay at New Horizons

Why am I here? It’s hard being in rehab. More so because I know he means it—Dane doesn’t make idle threats and if I don’t take this serious and at least try, he’ll walk away. That terrifies me. Dane has been my stability, my touchstone since we were kids.

Atticus is a good brother. He takes care of me, makes sure I get a good apartment and a decent boyfriend, makes sure I come home or major holidays and my bank account stays in the black. But he’s been wrapped up in his own life for so long. It’s who he is—he pours everything into his work and his relationships and if family phone calls fall to the wayside, it’s just what happens. It was the same way growing up, when he got caught up in some history book. Dane and I were used to it—we learned to entertain each other while we waited for him.

Dane was attentive, almost annoyingly so. He was protective and interested in who I spent time with. He helped me with papers and homework. He even took me and Louisa shopping for homecoming in Baton Rouge, our freshman year. He was patient—he never made me feel like a bother or ‘Atti’s kid sister’.

I trust him. In all the years since the attack, Dane has never judged or demanded explanation. He’s only ever been there to put me back together when I land at his house. I won’t risk losing that. I won’t risk him turning away from me—I think that would kill me.

You asked why I’m here. That’s it. I’m here because I’m terrified of losing my best friend. 

Makes me wonder what will happen in Beautiful Broken and if Scout will come close to losing her best friend. Thoughts?

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Author Bio:

Nazarea Andrews is an avid reader and tends to write the stories she wants to read. She loves chocolate and coffee almost as much as she loves books, but not quite as much as she loves her kids. She lives in south Georgia with her husband, daughters, and overgrown dog.

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***GIVEAWAY TIME***

During the Beautiful Broke blog tour, participants have an opportunity to enter an amazing giveaway! 

One lucky winner will get a loaded MP3 player, 2 signed bookmarks, bookplates, and the first 25 pages of Beautiful Broken with editing marks and special extras from Nazarea. 

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Review: This Love by Nazarea Andrews

Needing money to attend her sister’s destination wedding and for rent, Avery Emili searches for a summer job—not how she planned on spending the summer before her senior year at Branton University. When Avery comes across a research assistant’s position, she could not be happier. If she is going to have to work this summer, why not do something up her ally? The summer position sounds perfect, until she meets her boss, Professor Atticus Grimes.

Atticus Grimes needs to find a research assistant for the summer or face losing his research grant.  The minute he sets his eyes on Avery, he knows this is a bad idea. How can he have a research assistant who looks like that and manage to keep the business strictly professional?

Avery and Atticus, both, are broken and have unresolved pasts. When their past relationships refuse to let go peacefully, they each must find a way to help the other overcome the pain and the past before they can move forward.

As I read, I began wondering if Nazarea’s characters had a limited vocabulary. The amount of expletives used was staggering. The F-bomb, or a derivative of, was used a total of 139 times in this 331 page novel. And that’s not mentioning the cornucopia of other colorful words repeatedly used. Now, I do not mind swear words or crass language in a novel; I am fully aware that this is how some people talk. And if it is used for effect, even better. However, the superfluous swear words became grating.

Andrews gives her readers one steamy novel. I enjoyed seeing the lack of restraint Avery and Atticus have. In spite of their efforts to keep their relationship strictly professional, their closeness and desires get the best of them. I kept finding myself asking how, exactly, their relationship was going to work out. While I feel any girl would be lucky to have Atticus as a boyfriend—the dude has some mad skills—I wasn’t a fan of every juicy detail each time they copulate. Sometimes more is less. It would have been nice to have had something left to the imagination, but that was taken away by each detailed scenes.

While I have these two issues with This Love, they are not too deterrent as I am eager to read Andrews’s second Branton University novel, Beautiful Broken.

This Love is a fun summer novel. I suggest reading it by the pool, so when things get too hot, you can take a dip and cool off.

FTC disclaimer: review copy provided by author

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