Book Review of Unbreakable
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About the Book
Title: Unbreakable
Author: Emma
Scott
Genre:
Contemporary Romance / Romantic Suspense
Alex Gardener has her life planned out, down to the
smallest detail. She has a skyrocketing career as a litigation attorney, a
close group of socialite friends, and is engaged to one of the most successful
businessmen in Beverly Hills. Everything is just as she wants it: comfortable,
predictable, secure…if lacking passion. Fire.
Cory Bishop is a struggling working man, trying to make ends meet while fighting to keep custody his young daughter. He knows that working hard is the only way to achieve his goals, but lately it seems everything he wants hangs just out of reach.
The bank robbery changes everything.
Alex and Cory spend three harrowing days as hostages locked in a bank with fifty frightened people and six criminals who grow more desperate--and dangerous--by the hour. Alex and Cory find comfort and safety with each other and reveal their deepest hopes and fears and secrets, unknowingly building a bond forged out of desperation and fear, one that they can’t break, even once outside the bank’s walls.
Their lives are turned upside down, irrevocably altered, and they seek to move on and put the robbery--and each other--behind them.
But some bonds, once forged, cannot be broken.
Cory Bishop is a struggling working man, trying to make ends meet while fighting to keep custody his young daughter. He knows that working hard is the only way to achieve his goals, but lately it seems everything he wants hangs just out of reach.
The bank robbery changes everything.
Alex and Cory spend three harrowing days as hostages locked in a bank with fifty frightened people and six criminals who grow more desperate--and dangerous--by the hour. Alex and Cory find comfort and safety with each other and reveal their deepest hopes and fears and secrets, unknowingly building a bond forged out of desperation and fear, one that they can’t break, even once outside the bank’s walls.
Their lives are turned upside down, irrevocably altered, and they seek to move on and put the robbery--and each other--behind them.
But some bonds, once forged, cannot be broken.
Author Bio
Emma Scott lives and works in the
California Bay Area with her patient husband and two feisty little girls.
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Book Excerpts
“Help us! Help him!” I
screamed again, and could have wept with relief as officers started my way.
“You’re going to be okay,” I told Cory. “You’re going to be just fine.”
Cory’s
response was to slump against me heavily, his head lolling to the side. His
breath had quieted to the barest whisper.
“No! Cory,
wake up!”
No response.
His eyes were open halfway, glazed with pain, and his mouth worked silently as
he struggled weakly to draw breath.
Then I found
myself in a sea of legs as S.W.A.T. and medical personnel surrounded us. They
took Cory from my clutching arms and bent over him, working frantically. An
officer knelt beside me and asked me questions but I hardly heard him. I just
watched, horror twisting my heart, as an EMT opened Cory’s shirt and jabbed
something into his chest. Blood spurted and Cory gasped, jolting upright, and
then sinking back down, his breath deeper now.
“Alex…”
I shoved my
way through and took his hand in my bloody ones, trying not to stare at the
instrument—that looked like a pen casing—jutting from his right pectoral.
“I’m here.
I’m right here.”
He smiled
faintly and then winced in a soundless scream as they lifted him onto to a
gurney. They raised the head so that he was partially upright, while another
EMT bent him forward to staunch the wound in his back. Then we were moving. I
jogged alongside into the morning sunshine for the first time in four days, and
then into an ambulance.
It seemed the blood would never stop
flowing. Blood from behind Cory, blood leaking around the tube in his chest.
They put an oxygen mask over his mouth and that became stained red as he
coughed.
I clutched his hand tightly, so
tightly. “Please don’t go,” I whispered. “Please stay with me. Cory, please.
Stay…”
He wheezed for breath. It sounded so
labored and thick with blood. His dull gaze landed on our entwined hands and
his lips curved up ever so slightly, a weak version of his crooked grin.
He held on.
Weakly, struggling, in agony, he held
on, drawing upon the great reservoirs of love and bravery I knew he possessed.
He held on for his little girl. For his father.
And I liked to think that maybe, if
only a little, he held on because I refused to let him go.
Review:
This story started off a little
slow. Actually a lot slow and I really
didn’t like the main character very much.
She was a b…ch, but she got over it.
I liked how the author took a catastrophic event and used it to show
growth with the heroine. After about
half of the book, it really picked up and I enjoyed the romance.
I give this book 4 out of 5 clouds.
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