WyattHolding on to regret is poison and I take mine straight up. Fast cars and even faster women—they’re my drug of choice. Until I barely survive a crash that destroys my career. Now I’m staring my past in the face and she’s even more beautiful than when I walked away.IslaI’m wildly clutching at what’s left of my shattered life after a failed marriage when he shows up at my rehab facility. I … rehab facility. I didn’t think my life could get any worse. Now the one man who has the power to destroy me completely is asking me to heal his broken body.
Some things need to stay broken.
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I received an ARC of this second book in the series though a blogger and am voluntarily leaving my review. We met Wyatt, another drift driver, in book 1, and he played a prominent role in that story. In this book, Wyatt finds he needs to return home to Texas for an extended period of time, where he comes into contact with Isla, a girl from his past who is a physical therapist. They are drawn together, and unbeknownst to both Wyatt and Isla is that their shared past involves more than just their one night at the bar over ten years ago. There is much involved in each of their stories, and you go through a myriad of emotions throughout this book. The intense chemistry, devotion, and strength in both of these characters will have you cheering them on – individually and as a couple. I am so hoping that there will be more books in this series.
Wow, this book came out of nowhere and completely stole my heart! I had never heard of the author, or this series, until I was offered the opportunity to read this book, and I’m normally not one to read series books out of order, but I loved the sound of this one so much that I dove in and it’s so freaking good! The writing is fantastic, the characters are flawed yet loveable, the story is fantastic, and the romance is flirty, sexy, swoony, and just gorgeous. I loved it!
Wyatt’s career as a drift racer comes to a screeching halt when he crashes during a race and is badly injured. Needing intense rehab, he flies back home to Texas and his dysfunctional family, subjecting himself to their strained relationship so that he can get the help he needs.
Isla’s life has just been upended after finding her husband in bed with another woman. She knew things weren’t great between them, and she’s been tired of her husband’s controlling ways for some time, but she’s still devastated and betrayed. It’s her best friend that suggests a night out to forget about her worries, and in a bizarre twist, she runs into Wyatt and they recognise each other from a missed connection ten years earlier when they were teenagers. They both felt something really special that night, but a misunderstanding meant it never went any further. Now they’re both in the same place at the same time, and still feeling their attraction.
Things get complicated when Isla turns up to her job as a physical therapist to find that Wyatt is her new client. Of course she’s not supposed to have anything personal to do with her client, but seeing each other day in and day out, with all of that chemistry between them, the stage is set for all that is to come.
OMG, I love this relationship! Their night together all of those years together definitely left its mark, and I love that they never forgot about each other. But life in the present is full of complications. I’m not going to go into details, because there are ups, downs, twists and turns as Wyatt and Isla get to know each other again. It’s one of those books that you need to dive in and experience because I felt everything right alongside them, and I loved it every step of the way! Their attraction is sizzling, the flirtation had my heart pounding with anticipation, and when they finally get down to it… holy hell, it’s seriously hot!
But there’s so much more to them than just sex and attraction. They find something really special together – a connection that neither of them have experienced before – and I love the honest rawness between them as they follow their hearts and open themselves up to everything that is happening between them.
Wyatt and Isla both have painful pasts and are carrying a lot of emotional baggage from all that they’ve been through. Add to that Wyatt’s recovery, Isla’s separation from her husband, and the massive question of what happens between them when Wyatt returns home to California, and there is SO much for this couple to deal with. And I loved journeying with them while they do that, falling hard for each other along the way.
I loved Isla as a character, and I completely fell for Wyatt. The romance is definitely the strongest part of the book, but they have their individual challenges to overcome as well, and I really like the strength they showed in maintaining their independence and dealing with their own stuff. But as much as I love them on their own, they are magic together. Sexy, sweet, and swoonily romantic, their love story is just gorgeous and I love them together so much!
This book fits into the Drift series but it reads really well as a standalone. The couple from the first book appear as Wyatt’s friends, and they were fun to meet, and I’m going to go back and read their story as soon as I can. But this book belongs purely to Wyatt and Isla, and I loved their story. It’s emotional and beautifully romantic, and it ends in a great place with a wonderfully sweet epilogue.
Loved it! 4.5 stars.
Broken Drift is an emotional, sexy romance!
Wyatt and Isla met briefly years ago, but their time together was magical. However, the time for them wasn’t right. Fast forward, and fate has brought them back together. The chemistry and pull they feel toward one another is still there, but there is one complication. Isla is the woman who is in charge of helping him heal his body so that he can return to his passion…racing.
Both Wyatt and Isla are broken and have been for years but for different reasons. Each have complicated families, and both have fallen short of very important goals they have set for themselves. However, through their respect, devotion, and love for one another might just help heal the broken places in their hearts.
From the beginning, these two share incredible chemistry. They are one of those couples that just naturally gravitate toward one another. When they realize that Isla is his physical therapist, they try oh so hard to remain “just friends.” That friendship lays the foundation of their future relationship. Both of them are flawed individuals, but that is exactly what endeared them to me. I admired the mutual respect they had for one another. These two really, really deserved each other and the happiness they brought to each other’s lives.
Like the characters, the story, itself, was great as well. The author threw some curveballs in there that I wasn’t expecting. Those made the story even better and kept the pace fast. I haven’t read this writer before. I really enjoy finding new writers, and now I have added Adrian R. Hale to my list of writers to watch for all of their new releases.
3.5* Wyatt and Isla met years ago but never made it past that first night of flirtation. Now when they’re at their lowest, they find each other again. Neither were looking for a relationship but both definitely got more than they thought they wanted.
They both had issues, both had problems that they had to work through. Was it going to be too much for one of them.? Would they be able to get where they needed to be personally so they could have the kind of relationship that they desired?
I received an ARC in return for an honest review. Isla and Wyatt didn’t really do it for me. You had a one night stand 10 years ago. She was on a break for her boyfriend and was planning to get back with him. The story didn’t really draw me in.
This is not my usual style of book, car race drivers, but the blurb was intriguing. A boy and girl, late teens, meet up and chat in a bar. There were the possibilities of many things, but fate intervened and they never met again. Wyatt leaves Austin, Texas, under the cloud of a tragedy and settles in California where he develops a career in car drifting. Isla was in a hiatus from her relation with a boyfriend who did not give her all the feels, but he was safe, Wyatt never came back, so she settled.
Ten years later, Wyatt has a broken arm and Isla has a broken heart. They meet by serendipity, in a bar, again, on the exact day that Wyatt returns to Austin and Isla decides to drink her bad marriage woes away. Another encounter and another goodbye, but two days later, they meet again. Isla is the therapist in charge of Wyatt’s physical rehabilitation.
Wyatt finally found the girl who got away and he was determined this time she would not get away again. Isla had so many insecurities and hurts that she was not in a good place to pursue anything. There was a secret in their past that threatened to blow away this second chance, plus Isla had her triathlon ambitions, while Wyatt had a championship he wanted to get back into. It seemed like they had a lot keeping them apart, and it only depended on their will to make it work.
I didn’t like Isla very much as a character. I saw her as a subdued woman who cringed at the first sign of a fight. She dithered a lot, she cried when she didn’t make her time at races, she didn’t seem to have the guts to make it. She was not an inspirational character. Wyatt was pushy in a good way, very supportive and understanding. I liked him loads more than Isla. I had some problems with the author’s writing style, I found it a little boring in some places and there was more introspection than actual dialogue and action. The story was great but it didn’t flow smooth for me.
Wyatt and Isla are two different people yet have one thing in common, Brendan. It has been years since they seen each other but the chemistry is still there. I loved that Isla knows what she wants but there are people trying to stop her from having happiness. Then we have Wyatt, a man still stuck in the past. Two people still not healed from the past yet determined to learn to let go. I loved that Adrian wrote Wyatts stort seeing him with Isla was beautiful and hot in each chapter. Hope to see Adrian do more of this series with the adrenaline of drifting and racing come to life it is fun filled with tons of sexy men.
“I received an eBook copy from the publisher for the purpose of an honest review. I was not compensated for this review: all conclusions are my own.”