Review: Breakaway: A friends to lovers romance

Breakaway: A friends to lovers romance by Heather M. Orgeron
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This book kept popping up as a suggestion and I was hesitant to read it at first. I LOVED the idea of it based on the synopsis, but I was almost afraid that it wasn't going to meet my expectations... I'm only disappointed in myself for taking this long to actually read it!!!!

I'm a sucker for a friends to lovers romance and was in the mood for the category so this worked perfectly. I love that the book started off when they were younger and stopped at a couple key points that really had your interest peaked from the beginning. You got to know them better and get an understanding of how their friendship functions. Then when they would joke you would still get pieces of their history that reconnected you back to their past and made the moments between them that much sweeter.
There were parts that I couldn't help an eye roll... when simple solution of just communicating would have sufficed. The whole making someone jealous thing to get their attention, drives my up the wall. GAHHH! And if you really even felt a little bit of a possibility that the feelings were reciprocated, why wouldn't you take the chance. Even if there was a chance it would go wrong. Could it really be worse then never knowing?! ... But it's the heart pumping, anxious nerves expressed and repressed words that make it realistic in it's own way. I fell in love with the characters and wish this was a series so I could get more of Alexis and Colton!

I love Allie's sass and fun loving attitude and girl's got jokes. The banter was funny and the sexual tension was off the chart at times. She's not always confident and she may let her fear lead her in decision making, but she's just real. I could imagine being in her shoes and trying to protect myself from uncertainty in the same choices she made. Colton is kind of a whore... but in his defense, he's thinking he's fighting a loosing battle and needs to burry his feelings.

I really enjoyed this book if you couldn't tell...

*****

They have been put together their entire lives. Their parents were inseparable childhood friends, lived next door to each other, and pegged their future together as inevitable. Too bad they were like "brother & sister" .... Or at least that's the excuse they each give their parents. But that's a complete lie... at least for Alexis. She's been in love with her best friend Colton for as long as she can remember. They made "My Girl" pacts to be there for each other and for their first kiss. But with each girl Colt dated, she was crushed a little more. By 15, she decided that although she may always be in love with him, she had to at least try to get over him. Their friendship will always be the most important, so she moves on.
Colt set up Allie with his friend Dean the summer before their senior year and regretted it ever since. His best friend was falling for someone who wasn't him, and it was all his fault. They were supposed to go to college together but after a year of having to witness the two together, moving from Texas to California seemed to be his only option.
It's been a couple years. They may not see each other often, but their still best friends and talk every day. Dean proposed to Allie, and she said.... she needs time. She just needs the summer to figure out what she wants.
This is his last chance. Allie is coming to California for the summer and he has to show her that he's the better choice. But neither of them was ever willing to cross the line before. And it's still easier said then done. When the two play games to spike jealousy in each other, all they are finding is a lot of heart ache in the repercussions.
They both feel the spark that's always been there, the one that they have both been too scared to address. What if it's one sided? What if they built it up so much over the years that the reality fails to compare.
At some point, Allie and Colt have to make up their mind. Express their desire to be with one another, or let it destroy them.
They only have the summer. Dean's waiting on the sidelines. But is what they have something straight out of a fairytale or were they really never destined to be together?


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