The author of Into the Blue and Fly with Me returns with the third high-flying Wild Aces romance…A year after losing her husband, Joker, the squadron commander of the Wild Aces, Dani Peterson gets an offer from his best friend, Alex “Easy” Rogers, to help fix up her house. Dani accepts, and their friendship grows—along with an undeniable attraction.Racked by guilt for loving his best friend’s … by guilt for loving his best friend’s widow, Easy’s caught between what he wants and can’t have. Until one night everything changes, and the woman who’s always held his heart ends up in his arms. Yet as Easy leaves for his next deployment, he and Dani are torn between their feelings and their loyalty to Joker’s memory.
But when Dani discovers something that sends them both into a spin, the conflicted lovers must overcome the past to navigate a future together…
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I’ve been reviewing books for almost four years now and I cannot recall a book, much less a series that garnered this kind of across the board accolades. To be honest, it’s hard to live up to the hype generated in the book world but Cleeton has written an incredible series in the Wild Aces.
When I read the first book in the series, Fly With Me, I wanted Easy’s story as soon as possible. After reading it, I understood that time needed to pass for Easy and (hopefully) Dani. She needed time to mourn the passing of her husband and Easy just needed time to be himself. And to Cleeton’s credit, she didn’t make us wait too terribly long for Dani and Easy to gravitate towards each other. Let me clarify that, though. Easy and Dani always had a close friendship, so there has always been a deep connection between them. Easy has harbored more than friendly feelings for Dani, since the day they met.
Easy always carried the guilt of being in love with the wife of his commanding officer and was there when Joker died. He tries everything he can to move on with his life but finally realizes that she is IT for him. At this point, Cleeton gently leads Easy and Dani along into a relationship of sorts and soon their lives become undeniably connected. I have the utmost respect for Cleeton and this book because the coupling of Dani and Easy felt natural and right. Not to mention, sexy as all get out.
The Wild Aces series will go on my reread shelf, I have all three paperbacks and heck, I’ve read these books at least three times since they came out and they never get old. There is a part of me that wishes there were more books in this series but then I wonder if it’s just perfect the way it is.
This is such an incredible, heartfelt book, Cleeton knows how to reach in, grab my heart, squeeze it a bit and then make it all worth it.
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I’ve never had a lovelier ugly cry than while appreciating and enjoying this romance that healed and remade what was irreparably broken. This was book hangover of the acutest kind as I clutch On Broken Wings to my chest and sighed deeply with satisfaction after experiencing the entire book.
On Broken Wings was the third of the Wild Aces books. Oh yes, it most definitely needs to be experienced in order so the reader gets the full impact of this romance. I have no idea if this is the end or just the end of this series arc or if there will be something more coming to go in a new direction. It felt like a finale to me and a well-written one at that.
Since Fly With Me, the reader has known that Alex ‘Easy’ Rogers is in love with Dani. First she was untouchable because she was his squadron leader’s wife, but then she was completely out of his reach when Joker dies. Or so he thought.
Easy loves Dani so much and grieved that he couldn’t have been the one taken instead of her husband so that he stayed away for nearly a year. He thought it would make things better, but one encounter in the store shows him that nothing he is feeling has lessened. Only now, he changes his approach and gives Dani the friendship she needs to help her from drowning in grief and emotions. His help is with a practical matter that leads to a restoring of their friendship. He struggles with this designation, but anything for Dani.
Dani has been lost inside herself for so long until she is startled awake when her friend Jordan talks her into a blind date and Easy helps her in getting her house ready to sell while providing his easy friendship. The date is a disaster, but the restored friendship is a success. Too successful because in one moment, she realizes there is something more. Will that something more cross a line with her love for her husband and fear of caring for someone, particularly a fighter pilot, again?
As you may have surmised from my earlier remarks, this was an emotional power house. I was bawling before I hit five pages, but that was nothing to the tears I shed during chapter nineteen- there, you know when to have tissues at hand. However, it was not one long sobfest. In between there was a beautifully crafted romance that paced out just right for this potentially risky choice of a grieving widow and a guilt ridden friend. I thought it felt authentic and respectful for the situation. Very mature writing to achieve what she did with the story.
It was a thing of beauty to see Easy finally get his chance and the caring and careful way he courted Dani. There was hesitation and lots of fear, but they were friends and deep friends at that before it became more. I don’t see it as often as I’d like in romance fiction, but this was superbly developed.
I also enjoyed how the couples from the previous books were dove-tailed into the story of Easy and Dani. Noah and Jordan mostly, but there were a few appearances of Eric and Becca, too.
So, all in all, this was fantastic and exceeded my high anticipation for the story. I strongly recommend this book/series to lovers of contemporary romance with a military element.
Ahhhhh, not going to lie, I was a little nervous about Easy’s book, but it was one that definitely needed. If you’ve been with the series since the beginning then you’re well-acquainted with Easy aka Alex Rogers. All I have to say was that Alex and Dani’s relationship/friendship is rather complicated and I was curious to see how Chanel was going to write their story. And she did not disappoint at all!
I did not expect this story to go the way that it did, but it just worked out so well. They’re both dealing with their own thing and being the best support for one another. We’re well aware of what Alex feels when it comes to Dani, but it takes a bit more time for Dani to recognize those feelings. And that’s totally understandable.
Everything that happened between, it all just seemed right especially with the pacing of their story. I fell in love completely with both Dani and Alex and was just so eager for their happily ever after.
Honestly, I can’t even come up with all the words to write this review. Just read the book because you will love their story. There’s absolutely doubt about that!
I’m so sad this series is over and I hope Chanel goes back and writes more romance, she does a phenomenal job!
The realistic, angst-filled series about the Wild Aces fighter pilots is the kind of book series that you grow attached to, where you think of the characters as your real life friends, and On Broken Wings was no different. Readers started begging for an Alex “Easy” Rogers story from the moment they met the handsome player in Fly With Me and Chanel Cleeton has given fans what they asked for. I knew there was going to be more to Easy than what we first see in Fly With Me. We’ve seen him party and sleep around, but we also saw him admiring Dani from afar. He’s a bit of a tortured soul, painfully hurt by the loss of his friend and fellow pilot, and even more affected by his endless pining for the girl he cannot have, that same pilot’s widow. I absolutely fell for him, swooned over every sweet moment and every moment where he held back his feelings, harboring his secret crush though it hurt him to do so. Dani, as a character, absolutely blew my mind. I don’t know how Chanel so accurately represented the loss of a significant other, how she perfectly took the feelings Dani experienced and allowed the reader to be affected by them as well. I wanted her to have her happily ever after, I wanted Easy to have his happily ever after, of course I wanted them to have it together, but I just wanted them both to be happy no matter how I got it. Y’all, I bawled like a baby from 75% to 100%. There was no stopping the waterworks once they started, I was just that invested into Dani and Easy.
Some women slid under your skin so deep, you couldn’t carve them out no mater how hard you tried.
This was heave and this was hell, and I swallowed up every single moment.
The story between these two is heartbreaking, yet at the same time it filled my heart with so much joy. Individually they seem to have nothing together, their lives in shambles, but together things make sense. The story is a roller coaster, predictable at times, but one you jump onto and ride all the way through. These two don’t fall together like a usual romance, things between them come with history that can’t be ignored. Both have heavy weights on their shoulders, but for me that is what made the love story between them just that much more realistic. Chanel Cleeton is the best type of writer, she brings ever scene to life, the situations are realistic, the dialogue flows naturally, and there’s no insta-love to be found anywhere. It’s heavy, real life stuff that makes the Wild Aces series just that good and it’s why readers have fallen head over heels for all the pilots, but especially Easy.
-I wouldn’t ever let her go again. Friends or lovers, we would always be in each other’s lives. There were some bonds that were forged when you needed them most, unshakable connections that spoke to a shared history, an understood pain.
On Broken Wings is definitely my favorite of the series, I loved getting to spend time in Easy’s head, to get to know Dani outside of her marriage to Joker, and to revisit some of our favorites from Fly With Me and Into the Blue. If you are looking for a contemporary romance with handsome men, smart heroines, and sexy, swoon worthy moments, the Wild Aces series is a must read.
Unrequited love is tough and it’s heartbreaking. Watching Easy and his love for Dani through two books has been difficult. That man loves and hides it so well in front of her. His friends see tight through him.
On Broken Wings Easy finally gets his HEA but it took its time. I appreciated that it took time cause Dani was grieving for her dead husband, Easy’s close friend Joker. I enjoyed how Dani and Easy slowly found each other and how Dani came to see Easy as more and in a different light. They both struggled with guilt for moving on, for wanting more and letting go. The other characters from the previous books appeared and were a great support to both Dani and Easy.
The Wild Aces has been a fabulous series and ends on a high with Easy and Dani.
4 My Home Stars
Oh god, I was impatiently waiting for this book and all because the story between these characters was something too complicated that I didn’t know how the author would handle it.
I’ll start with Easy, I love this character! From the beginning he caught my attention and in this story I ended up loving him so much more, besides being sexy and funny (which we had already seen in the previous books) he was super sweet, sensitive and very beautiful, my heart broke in a thousand pieces for him several times, poor Easy! Now Danny, I suffered a lot with her and for her, her pain was very strong, but I loved to see how she came forward and didn’t let herself be overcome by her pain or her loss. Obviously I loved seeing the characters from the previous books, although I would have liked to see much more of them, I feel that their participation here was the just the necessary.
The story had a very good development and caught me from the beginning; I could not stop reading because I wanted to know what would happen to these characters. There were certain things that happened that became quite predictable and sort of clichés but in spite of that I was very pleased. I really suffered with the pain of both characters, I didn’t know how this story would have a happy ending and on several occasions I thought it would not. I was pleased to see how the characters overcome their problems, although a bit easy for me, but it was enough, they have suffered so much! At least something had to work out for them.
Every time it mentioned Joker, my heart was torn to pieces and I would remember several scenes from the first book. I honestly feel that the author could have taken much more juice out of this story and made her readers suffer even more, though not everyone enjoys as much drama as I do. It was not a bad story; in fact I just want to read it again! I liked it a lot and I couldn’t stop laughing, sighing and crying a little, but there was something that I personally needed to be much better than it already was.
I highly recommend this series, at the same time I am sad that it has already finished but also I was dying to read this book, I assure you that you will not regret it, it is an amazing trilogy, not so light but not heavy, has its fair dose of fun, drama and crying that doesn’t become overwhelming, plus there are super-sexy fighter pilots that you cannot pass up!
Without even realizing it Dani Peterson has been falling for Alex “Easy” Rogers for most of their friendship, little by little he found a way to sneak under her radar undetected and slowly find a place in her heart. Their relationship started out strictly as a friendship, but as things in her life became unbearable she found herself depending on him to pick-up the pieces more and more. The problem was that he was her deceased husband’s fellow squadron member and that is a line no one should ever cross, but no matter how hard they both tried to fight their feelings for one another, life continued to put them in each other’s paths and helped them to realize that they needed one another…
The instant Dani Peterson waltzed into Easy’s life he fell head over heels in love with her, but her heart belonged to someone else, one of his best friends, and so he did his best to bury his feelings for her out of respect to his friend and their relationship. But when things in Dani’s life became overwhelming she turned to Alex for support, and he had to admit it felt good to be a man in her life that she could depend on. When her husband lost his life in a tragic accident he made it his personal mission to take care of her and see to it she had everything she could want or need, and he soon found himself growing closer to her than ever before… and it scared the hell out of him. He knows she is off limits, but for some reason his head isn’t communicating that to his heart, and before long things between them go places he only dreamed of… places that have him never let them leave!
I have been dying to read Easy’s story for some time now, he quickly became a favorite of mine after reading the first book in the series, and after the second I knew I HAD to learn more about this sexy pilot!! I am not sure what it was about him that first drew me in, but he had my attention the minute he walked onto the page, and after reading his story I think it is safe to say he will stay with me for a long while. He exudes this undeniable sexy charm, that lures you in, and has you wanting to follow him to the ends of the earth, or to the last page of the book, and oh my what a story it is, Ms. Cleeton how outdone herself with this one!! This series has been one of my hands down favorite literary discoveries this year, the minute the first book fell into my hands I was completely taken with these characters and left with an insatiable urge to learn more about them!! Everyone one of Ms. Cleeton’s pilots are sure to score a special place in your heart and leave with a newfound appreciation for the men who do their best work in the air!!