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Blurb:
They say there are five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance.
Not everyone will grieve in this order, nor will everyone go through every stage. It’s during the stage of denial when Alex Hart meets Andrew Foster. He takes her one-step closer to acceptance: the stage when new, meaningful relationships are formed. The stage when the realization occurs that this is now the new state of normal.
Just when Alex thinks she is on her way to healing, she enters the bargaining phase. That’s the phase where you wonder what you could have done differently. You wonder “what if?” Specifically, what if the ones you loved hadn’t left you?
Leaving…this is what makes heading off to war so difficult and frightening for Alex. She knows all too well what it’s like to be the one on the losing end of life, which is why she’s made it her personal mission in life to save as many lives as possible. The extreme high she gets from treating trauma victims turns into Alex’s own form of therapy, or so she thinks.
When faced with her world being turned upside down, Alex may just find that her true therapy is in the one who has always saved her.
Bio:
J.B. McGee was born and raised in Aiken, South Carolina. After graduating from South Aiken High School, she toured Europe as a member of the 1999 International Bands of America Tour, playing the clarinet. While attending Converse College, an all-girls school in Spartanburg, South Carolina, she visited Charleston often. It quickly became one of her favorite vacation spots. She met her husband, Chad, during Christmas break her freshman year, and they married in 2001 and she moved back to her home town.
In 2005, the couple welcomed their first son, Noah. J.B. finished her Bachelor of Arts degree in Early Childhood Education at the University of South Carolina-Aiken in 2006. During her time studying children’s literature, a professor had encouraged her to become a writer.
In 2007, she welcomed their second child, Jonah, and she became a stay at home mom/entrepreneur. In 2009, the found out their two children and J.B. have Mitochondrial Disease. In 2011, a diagnosis also was given to Chad. Please take a moment and learn more about Mitochondrial Disease. Awareness is key to this disease that has no cure or treatments.
J.B. McGee and her family now reside in Buford, Georgia, to be closer to their children’s medical team. After a passion for reading had been re-ignited, J.B. decided to finally give writing a shot. Broken (This Series), is her first book and first series.
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Review:
Alex was 15 years old with an old soul when we the readers were introduced to her. She had everything a teenage girl wanted great parents and grandparents who loved her to the moon and back. Until one summer life took an unexpected turn and Alex’s whole world turned upside down and she felt like she couldn’t breathe and there was no moving forward. Until She met Andrew, Drew.
“He’s a ray of sunshine seeping in an empty otherwise black hole that sucks me in with each tear shed and every memory remembered.” -Alex
I loved Drew he was so kind and warm and made you feel like he would make even the worse day a little better. He always had the right words for Alex to make her feel life was worth living even though it was a black hole. He was her other half even at such a young age he completed her. Sometimes in books love can feel rushed when it is written but in this case it wasn’t at all. It was very fast but at the same time the circumstance was different, and I believed it fitted into the story very well.
“I know you feel like there’s no color left in this world. Like there’s no light, instead all darkness. But there’s sunshine. There are colorful flowers all around us. And for me, you’re the only thing… the only one I see. The only one I’ve seen in a long time. I know it’s hard to imagine, but one day you’ll see the colors again.” -Drew
These words that Drew said to Alex to comfort her is when I fell in love with him.
This story will make your heart ache but trust me the heart ache you feel is worth finishing Alex and Drew’s story. Life can throw us curve balls and make us feel like there is no way we will survive the cards we were dealt. Alex had these moments often in this book but she always fought and made it through. This is very inspiring! I give this book 4 stars
-Harper
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