Cade & Palmer’s story is FINALLY here!
Broken Love by Jillian Dodd is NOW LIVE!
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Review
3 second-chance stars!
“You marked my soul as yours a long time ago and never let go.”
Broken Love is the second book in the Love Series written by Jillian Dodd. I really enjoyed the first book, Vegas Love, and was excited to read about another Crawford brother. It is a sweet second-chance romance that is more than just a love story.
Cade and Palmer have loved each other for years but could not act on it when the attraction first began. The six year age difference delayed the inevitable, but also Palmer was Cade’s best friend, Pike’s, sister and everyone knows little sisters are off limits. The night Palmer turned twenty one, they finally gave into their desires and jumped into a secret relationship full of love and laughter. It was pure bliss before everything suddenly fell apart. In one fell swoop, Cade not only lost the love of his life but also his best friend. Cade and Palmer went their separate ways; it seemed that their love wasn’t meant to be.
Six years later, Palmer and Cade are reunited at the wedding of Cash and Ashlyn from Vegas Love. Cade and Palmer are frazzled by the attraction they still feel but are unwilling to address the past. They keep running into each other and it is clear that there is unfinished business.
As I walk down the beach alone, I realize that even after all these years I’m still broken. Because she’s not in my life.
Both Palmer and Cade feel regret, pain, and sadness for how things turned out and the years they lost. They still love each other but they are stubborn and hurt, and can’t seem to get it together. Then another chance meeting brings them together again.
The passion I feel now is bolder. It’s audacious, dauntless. Every touch—every kiss—is familiar, but it’s laced with the kind of desperation only true love can bring.
Can their love last a second time? Or will the past be too hard to overcome?
I really liked Broken Love. It’s a great second-chance romance that was sweet, steamy, and funny. I enjoyed the plot line and I liked how the past was told in flashbacks so we didn’t get the whole story right away. Cade and Palmer were great together and you could tell that they were meant for each other.
Cade was a swoon worthy character and I loved how sweet he was to Palmer. When they are together I loved that he is all in and didn’t question his feelings. I just wish he would have fought for her sooner and did something about how he felt.
Palmer was a confident, sexy woman who was fun to be around. I really liked her but I think that some of her actions could have avoided a lot of the heartache. Her stubbornness frustrated me and I wish she didn’t run like she did on more than one occasion.
I really enjoyed the side characters. Tory was a hoot and she was a great friend to Palmer. I loved that we got to see the other Crawfords and more of Cash and Ashlyn. The Crawford family is wonderful and I loved their support for each other.
I am not sure I loved all the detail about what Pike was going through even if he was a big part of the book. I liked that we got to see what was going on in his mind regarding Cade and Palmer, but at times it dove into Pike’s life that didn’t really seem to revolve around Palmer or Cade and I felt like it was a completely different book. I liked the content but I wanted more Palmer and Cade and less Pike.
Excerpt
We clink our glasses together then down the shots. The groomsman passes me a lime wedge, but I shake my head, causing him to pull me aside.
“My name’s Jared,” he says with a cocky smirk.
“I thought this was supposed to be a no-names night?” I reply, giving him shit, even though I have no interest in him.
“It is. But for you, I’ll make an exception. You need to know what name to say when I make you scream later.”
Cade comes up from behind Jared, clamping his big hand down on Jared’s skinny shoulder.
Jared glances back at Cade. They share some kind of a look that causes Jared to immediately ditch me. He saunters over to Tory and throws his arm around her, which earns him a hint of a smile from Cade.
“So does this mean you’re not married?” Tory asks Jared.
“Nope, I’m single as a Pringle,” he replies.
I expect Cade to say something to me, but instead he turns away.
I’m not sure what just happened, but I think it was some guy-code thing.
And it pisses me off.
Tory sees the rage on my face, takes my hand, and drags me off to the bathroom.
“What’s wrong?”
“Did you see that!?” I rant, as we step inside the ladies’ room, finding a long line. “Cade cock blocked me! Not that I wanted that guy’s cock, because you already called dibs on it, but Cade didn’t know that!”
“Since you don’t have a cock,” she replies. “I think it’s called blocking the box.”
“Oh, no,” the girl in front of us says. “It’s called twat blocking.”
“I thought it was boxed,” another woman says.
“Baseball players call cock blocking stealing signs.”
A voice from inside one of the stalls yells out, “It’s called clam jamming.”
Pretty soon everyone in the bathroom is giving us their opinions.
“Twat swatting or twat stopping.”
“Beaver dammed.”
“Va-jected!”
I shake my head at Tory. “Whatever. It really shouldn’t matter what part you have. I got cock blocked because I will be having no cock tonight.”
“There’s still time,” Tory says. “You can have the groomsman. You need to get laid worse than I do, honey. It’s been far too long.”
“But why would he cock block me and then walk away?!”
As soon as the words tumble out of my mouth, Cade’s mother steps out of one of the stalls.
I put my head down, hoping she won’t notice me and, thankfully, she squeezes past us without saying a word.
“Holy buckets,” Tory says when the door closes behind her. “Wasn’t that his mother?”
“Uh, yeah. You can kill me now.”
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About the Author
Jillian Dodd grew up on a farm in Nebraska, where she developed a love for Midwestern boys and Nebraska football. She has drank from a keg in a cornfield, attended the University of Nebraska, got to pass her candle, and did have a boy ask her to marry him in a bar. She met her own prince in college, and they have two amazing children, a Maltese named Sugar Bear, and two Labrador puppies named Camber Lacy and Cali Lucy. She is the author of the That Boy Trilogy and The Keatyn Chronicles Series.