“Everyone needs to read this book. I’m certain you won’t feel a single regret. ” – Harloe Rae, USA Today Bestselling author.From USA Today and Washington Post bestselling author L.J. Shen comes a new, standalone romance about first loves, betrayal and loss.Not all love stories are written the same way. Ours had torn chapters, missing paragraphs, and a bittersweet ending.Luna Rexroth is everyone’s … bittersweet ending.
Luna Rexroth is everyone’s favorite wallflower.
Sweet.
Caring.
Charitable.
Quiet.
Fake.
Underneath the meek, tomboy exterior everyone loves (yet pities) is a girl who knows exactly what, and who, she wants—namely, the boy from the treehouse who taught her how to curse in sign language.
Who taught her how to laugh.
To live.
To love.
Knight Cole is everyone’s favorite football hero.
Gorgeous.
Athletic.
Rugged.
Popular.
Liar.
This daredevil hell-raiser could knock you up with his gaze alone, but he only has eyes for the girl across the street: Luna.
But Luna is not who she used to be. She doesn’t need his protection anymore.
When life throws a curveball at All Saints’ golden boy, he’s forced to realize not all knights are heroes.
Sometimes, the greatest love stories flourish in tragedy.
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Where do I even begin with this review. This book is indescribable!!! I am completely at a loss for words for how Incredible this book was. “Broken Knight” wrecked me. Like for real my heart went through such a workout with this story. I could not put BK down. I stayed up all night just so I could finish!!!! They way L.J. Shen writes is pure magic. This story is raw and real. It will break your heart but show you what true love really is and the fights we have to go through to get it. Luna and Knight are two broken souls who find love in each other through everything. They have such a strong Connection. There is no denying the Love these two have for each other. They are electric, written in the stars, destined to be, but they have to go through some really ruff shit to get to their well deserved Happily ever after. The misunderstandings, the fight, and the ANGST in this book make an for an epic ride. The Sexy times between these two will go down as some of the Hottest I have ever read. (I had to take a minute after reading it was that HOT!! ) Luna and Knight are best friends who need each other but are tired of waiting for the other to step up. This book is about growth. They need to grow apart so that they can be better together. I Love Luna and Knight with everything in me. I felt their heartache and their struggle. I felt the happiness they shared and all the pain. These two are beyond special. They are worthwhile. They are Everything. This whole book is so insanely good, even with all the pain it brings. Trust me it brings a lot of pain and tears. Even though this book broke my heart and completely wrecked me I know that I will read it again. Leigh has a way of breaking my heart but making it all ok in the end. I loved this story. This book will forever be branded in my mind and heart.
There needs to be something higher than 5 stars, when you come across a book like this. This is, without a doubt, the absolute best book I’ve read all year! Also, coincidentally, I feel pretty safe saying this is LJ Shen’s best book yet! I can’t even begin to explain all the emotions she ripped out of me during this book! It was breathtakingly beautiful, heartbreakingly sad, words can’t even describe the highs and lows she took me to! Knight is now, definitely, my favorite hero! And Luna was amazing, so strong and brave and beautiful. If you only read one book this year, it should be this one!!
I stumbled upon Leigh Shen a few years ago.. Thought “Blood to Dust” was unlike anything else I’d ever read. I fell in love with her style. Her characters. Her words.
Commence stalking.
I have read EVERY. SINGLE. L.J. Shen book.
Each and every one is so completely different.
So compelling. SO EVERYTHING.
But this book? This book kinda broke me. I mean.
ALL. THE. EMOTIONS. AND ALL THE D@MN TEARS!
What would we do without this woman’s talent in the world?
If there was EVER a book to start your love affair with L.J. Shen, this is it. I don’t know how to recover. Why’d you do this to me lady!?
THANK YOU for always bringing us the most wonderfully broken characters with the most beautiful journey that brings their stories to life. You feel them deep down in your soul. SO MUCH LOVE for this book. So you need to get it. 🙂
KJC stole my and melted my panties right off
There are no words, no damned words to convey what has been done to my heart while reading Broken Knight.
Shen slayed it, slayed it so frickin hard. She proves once again why she is the Queen!!! The words on these pages, gutted me in the best possible way. She destroyed my heart, with this story! This beautiful, tragic, AMAZING story.
I love, LOVE Knight Cole. He is so broken, so damaged. Hes so tragic. I couldnt help but instantly fall head over heels in love with him.
And LUNA! LUNA! She is my favorite Shen Woman. My favorite. I love her.
But seriously, this is Shen’s best work! Her best work.
As a devoted LJ Shen reader it should come as no surprise that I loved the H#LL out of this book. It’s beautifully written, nailbitingly emotional, full of angsty deliciousness and enough steam to have your wallpaper peeling (if you have wallpaper–if not your paint will bubble).
Shen has the ability to write incredibly strong, relatable heroines, and Luna’s journey was both painful and empowering as she navigated the world outside the small, protected bubble. I won’t spoil it for you, but this book was unputdownable and a tear jerker, so expect a night of little sleep and some red eyes to go with your book hangover. All the stars and then some.
From USA Today and Washington Post bestselling author L.J. Shen comes a new, standalone romance about first loves, betrayal and loss.
Not all love stories are written the same way. Ours had torn chapters, missing paragraphs, and a bittersweet ending.
Luna Rexroth is everyone’s favorite wallflower.
Sweet.
Caring.
Charitable.
Quiet.
Fake.
Underneath the meek, tomboy exterior everyone loves (yet pities) is a girl who knows exactly what, and who, she wants—namely, the boy from the treehouse who taught her how to curse in sign language.
Who taught her how to laugh.
To live.
To love.
Knight Cole is everyone’s favorite football hero.
Gorgeous.
Athletic.
Rugged.
Popular.
Liar.
This daredevil hell-raiser could knock you up with his gaze alone, but he only has eyes for the girl across the street: Luna.
But Luna is not who she used to be. She doesn’t need his protection anymore.
When life throws a curveball at All Saints’ golden boy, he’s forced to realize not all knights are heroes.
Sometimes, the greatest love stories flourish in tragedy.
Just like Knight and Luna, your heart will be ripped open with their story! This is a book you’ll be thinking about long after the end.
Knight and Luna…children in a treehouse
Knight and Luna…best friends
Knight and Luna…in love
Knight and Luna…devastated
Knight and Luna…broken
Their love started forever ago, but can they keep it from continually falling apart, keep it from breaking again and again, can they piece it back together?
Tears, tears, so many tears, this book requires a box of tissue!
Where do I begin to explain this book. A toxic tale, of love and heartbreak, it’s a love story that will leave you in a tale spin, and almost gasping for breath through your tears. This book will break you and put you back together. You will never see these characters in the same light. You’ll never get over the total devastation this story delivers.
Luna for me came alive in this book. She is bold, beautiful and has a fearlessness that makes you proud of her. Her relationship with her family shows strains, that really don’t need to be there but I see that being stubborness from all parts.
Knight is a broken boy from the start. He could never cope with his mum’s illness, continuously hurting himself, his knuckles are what he tortures. As the time goes on he becomes more tortured. Fueled by drink and drugs he spirals and you really can see any way back for him.
Knight beats himself up over Luna and his relationship or none exsistant as it seems. They both are to blame for almost all of what happens through this book. Listening to hearsay and never having the guts to speak the truth, They forget how fight but fight is what they have to do. Alway, Whenever, Forever.
I still don’t know how I feel after this spectacular read. But I know it will be ok, because ” The Sun Will Rise Tomorrow” a touching quote from this story. To say I recommend this book is am understatement. But for me you have to start where it all began with the original Hotholes. The men these boys all learnt there ways from.
Ride Or Die…..
Omg, this book!!!! I’m still reeling and trying to put into words the feelings this book evokes. It’s absolutely incredible, brilliant beyond words, and an experience in itself. Mind blown! Heart, soul, words: stolen.
I’m calling it now, Broken Knight by L.J. Shen is absolutely going down as one of the best books written in 2019!!! I feel like I’m still not quite recovered from the intensity of Broken Knight. This book changes you. As you take in each word, each chapter, you slowly give your heart away, piece by broken piece, and friends, I don’t want it back. Broken Knight has my heart, soul, and mind captivated.
There are few authors and books out there that have affected me quite like this one. There are truly no words powerful enough to describe the magnitude of this story. Nor are their appropriate adjectives to describe it. Captivating, raw, intense, angst-filled, heart wrenching, swoon-worthy, earth-shattering, all the things. None of these do it justice. You can’t just take my word for it – you must experience it for yourself. Don’t wait another second and one-click this compelling, once in a lifetime read!
OMG! A beautiful and epic addition to this incredible series.
Knight is so much more than i thought he would be, i was stunned with a few things(no spoilers here) i love him, my heart broke for him a few times.
Luna is knights everything and their relationship is sweet, endearing and it captivated me. They go through a lot together and apart but fight though it all with help from their family and friends.
I was so enthralled in knight and Lunas journey i felt like i was right there with them and oh god my heart broke, full on tears.
An absolutely stunning story that is gripping, endearing, angsty and all off the emotions with this one. EPIC!
I was beyond eager to start on this novel. Dean Cole is my favourite hothole, and his love story with Rosie in Rukus is one of my favourite second chance romances. Naturally I was super curious to see how their son turned out and learn more about Luna. The girl he has followed around since he could crawl, a girl lost inside her own mind, non verbal by choice and hiding from the world.
“You fill up the empty, dark space – like the moon owns the sky. It is quiet. It is bright. It doesn’t need to be a ball of flame to be noticed. It simply exists. It forever glows” He called me Moonshine every single day since. I called him nothing because I didn’t speak.
I am pleased to say that Luna and Knight’s story did not disappoint. It is a beautifully broken and complex romance, full of growth, mistakes, heartache and salvation. There are many moments in this book that dug under my skin more with the masterful way Leigh wrote the scenes. Moments that were heightened because of Luna’s reluctance to verbally communicate, it highlights the deeper connection that Luna and Knight have, they know without words what the other is saying and those ‘words’ can shatter a soul or piece it together again.
“My regal, rebel boy. My legendary hellraiser, my sad price, my unlikely saviour, my beautiful broken Knight”
There is so much more to this story than just the central characters, we have glimpses into friendships, into marriage, into addiction, deception, betrayal, loss, love, hope, new beginnings and new endings and some that have yet to be written. I cannot applaud Leigh enough for writing this book and how she handled elements of the story that I can’t discuss for spoiler reasons. All I can say is read it, absorb it and see the heart underneath it all.
“Don’t be a Rosie. Be a Dean. If you want something, no matter what it is, go for it. Falling in love is rare.”
Knight had one of the greatest love stories in his parents to learn by so does he follow in their footsteps? Read Broken Knight and find out!
She keeps getting impossibly better and better with each book! This story is authentic and brave and will take you on a journey that feels more like real life than fiction. It’s a heartbreaking enemies-to-lovers/friends-to-lovers. This is LJ Shen’s masterpiece and you don’t want to miss it!
A beautiful journey. There is no other way I can describe the perfection that is this book.
Luna and Knight are as necessary to each other as breathing is to living. Which just so happens to be how necessary Shen’s words are to my heart. I needed this book, these words, these characters, and this amazing author’s unrivaled insight into the human condition.
I took a beautiful journey through this world that I’ve come to crave with characters so flawed in the most epically fantastic way, as well as a journey through my own ideas, experiences, and beliefs. This book challenged me. It challenged me to think. To love more. To live more. When a book can do this, how can you not scream to the world they should read for the experience as well?
You will love, at times hate, and love even more fiercely. You will cry from heartbreak and joy. But you will never question Shen’s choices because by the end the story’s twists and turns paired with its perfect pacing the book leaves you feeling that all is right in the world – both the real world and this world shared so lovingly with us by LJ Shen in Broken Knight.
I had no idea going into Broken Knight what I was going to be up against, because you never know what you are going to get with LJ Shen, all you know is any thing is possible. And yet, she absolutely astounds me. Her words and characters, I swear on everything there is nothing like them. I can’t even rationalize my feelings right now. Broken Knight wrecked me in the best possible way. I was not expecting such an array of emotions, and yet that is all I have left besides a flipping book hangover. Holy Moly! Knight and Luna are everything I dream of in a book. It was not easy, it was an uphill battle that literally f’d me sideways. Amazing, AMAZING story development! With astounding character development, and a love that quite honestly showed no bounds. The side characters, I could not get enough of. It was brilliant move on this authors part to show past and present characters, they also made this story what it is. Overall, I could give this book a million stars and it would still not be enough.
Luna was always like the weakest link that remained silent, but over time she truly shines like the brightest moon. She has always been reserved, but has the most caring heart. She would give up anything for those she loves, but also has enough sense not to stick around when she knows she deserves more. She is a genius in the literal sense/
Knight is a force to be reckoned with. This author choose the perfect name for this character. He has this tough as heck exterior, but a heart that bleeds silently at night. He does have a softer side, but it only comes out for certain people, otherwise his words could melt ice. My heart physically hurt for him, he was raw and human. PERFECTION!
Two different personalities, and two hearts, that are bonded together for a lifetime.
* I RECOMMEND THIS BOOK
*REVIEWED FOR REVIEWS FROM THE HEART
~ Ashley
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LJ Shen writes the most captivating stories. Get your angst fix with Broken Knight!!!
From USA Today and Washington Post bestselling author L.J. Shen comes a new, standalone romance about first loves, betrayal and loss.
Looking for an angsty, enemies to lovers romance, that will keep you on the edge of your seat? Well, look no further! Broken Knight is HERE!
From USA Today and Washington Post bestselling author L.J. Shen comes a new, standalone romance about first loves, betrayal and loss.
Not all love stories are written the same way. Ours had torn chapters, missing paragraphs, and a bittersweet ending.
Luna Rexroth is everyone’s favorite wallflower.
Sweet.
Caring.
Charitable.
Quiet.
Fake.
Underneath the meek, tomboy exterior everyone loves (yet pities) is a girl who knows exactly what, and who, she wants—namely, the boy from the treehouse who taught her how to curse in sign language.
Who taught her how to laugh.
To live.
To love.
Knight Cole is everyone’s favorite football hero.
Gorgeous.
Athletic.
Rugged.
Popular.
Liar.
This daredevil hell-raiser could knock you up with his gaze alone, but he only has eyes for the girl across the street: Luna.
But Luna is not who she used to be. She doesn’t need his protection anymore.
When life throws a curveball at All Saints’ golden boy, he’s forced to realize not all knights are heroes.
Sometimes, the greatest love stories flourish in tragedy.
I knew this story would be emotional. I thought I was prepared. I was not. This book is chock full of raw emotion that left me breathless. Amazing characters and beautiful story. Definitely keep the tissues on hand.
Phenomenal page-turner! Do yourself a favor and avoid spoilers. Trust that LJ Shen will take you on a ride you won’t soon forget.
There are some books you read that touch you, and then there’s Broken Knight….a book that completely consumes you and burrows itself so deep into your soul you can’t think about anything else.
I am not a very articulate person by nature but even if I was, there is just no amount of words to properly do this book justice. It is literary gold. LJ Shen outdid herself and perfectly showcased her talent as a writer. Her ability to make the reader feel as the characters did is unparalleled. My heart was bleeding and my eyes were tearing during most of Knight and Luna’s story.
The character development of Knight and Luna was exceptional to witness. To see them grow through the trials and tribulations of loving someone so fierce brought tears to my eyes. Broken Knight is a story of love and loss, addiction, friendship and so much more. Thsi book made me want to hug all my friends and family and tell them how much I love them. It made me wonder if there is a love out there as deep as Luna and Knight’s.
I can confidently say Broken Knight is my absolute favorite LJ Shen book to date and probably my top book of this year. It’s been a long time since a book has touched me as deep as this one did. I wish I could afford to gift this book to everyone I know because EVERYONE needs to read this book.
I give this book ALL THE STARS!!!!
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