Fractured Refuge was a good follow up to book one. It was intense and at times brutal. In a world of survival they did the best they could. There is heartaches and sacrifices. This world was a bit dark for me but well written. I have a hard time with too much description of dark moments but others will love it .
Well done.

This book is such a good book , the i have purchase the first book from this series.

Having loved the previous book True Refuge (yes you need to read that one first, you'll miss out on so much if you skip it) I was excited yet apprehensive about Fractured.

The excitement is obvious True had been so good I was desperate to continue on but I was also worried I'd be let down, could the second book be anywhere near as good as the first?

This book follows straight on from True which took place three years after the first signs of the plague, the plague which went on to decimate the United States.
A plague for which there was no cure the few survivors survived through natural immunity, the scientists were dead long before they could develop this immunity and as we know life for the survivors is hard.

Euan, Nick and Kira are together in their underground bunker and they should be happy after all they have each other, food, shelter and comfort but the threat of the outside world is hanging over them along with the feeling that they're living on borrowed time.
After the tripwire incident Euan has forbidden Kira from going outside and after nearly two months she's going stir crazy. Then the intruder alarm goes off and everything changes. Their small cozy safe world suddenly gets bigger and a whole lot less safe and as always Euan carries the burden and while he's a huge strong man there's a limit to how one person can take but he loves Nick and Kira and would do anything to see them safe.

For a lot of this book I was anxious, I've grown to love and care about these three but the world that's been created here is a cruel and frightening one.
This isn't always an easy read but it's an addictive one and I can't wait for the third and final book Eternal Refuge.

This book like the previous one is a very descriptive read and again if I'm being honest it was a little too much for me in places, but that could just be me.

'His world exploded; the detonation cracked his heart wide open. His lifeblood flowed profusely inside his chest. It filled all those crevices, fissures and gaps. The crimson flood drowned the indistinguishable dark creatures that ate at his confidence, that gnawed at his assumed viability to be cherished and chewed at his understanding of how unconditional love could be attributed to an inept behemoth like himself. As the tidal wave receded, the regeneration was instantaneous. Flora and fauna flourished, a garden of springtime flowers pushed through that nourished earth and bloomed in the thousands. He was awash in the essence of rebirth and renewal. With these two incredible humans by his side, he really did feel like a god among mortal men.'

I voluntarily read a review copy kindly provided by NetGalley and Escape Publishing.

My Rating: 3.5 Stars
They thought they were relatively safe in their secluded bunker. They had supplies, weapons, medicines and each other. Seeing himself as the protector, Euan will risk his very life to keep his lovers Nick and Kira safe…especially Kira, a female, now a rare commodity in what has become a barbaric and deadly world. If anything would happen to her, mankind has one less chance to survive.

FRACTURED REFUGE by Annabelle McInnes is a high tension, gritty tale of survival in the face of evil, of hanging on by a thread, isolated and lone, trusting in no one but each other. It is a story of one man, who must leave the cocoon of those he loves to save them, how he used their trust in him to trick them into staying behind and hopefully safe. It is a story of truths revealed, misconceptions wearily righted, the vile brutality that one human will willingly inflict on another.

Annabelle McInnes does a marvelous job of setting a bleak atmosphere where little shines but that said, while her prose IS intense, it is too flowery at times and very repetitious, particularly in describing each other. In a world so dark and desolate, where a person must be a warrior to survive, it just seemed out of place to me. Then again, if the world around me was pure Hell and I had only one small oasis, perhaps I would see things differently.

I received an invitation to read and review this ARC from Escape.

Series: The Refuge Trilogy - Book 2
Publisher: Escape Publishing - Harlequin Enterprises, Australia Pty Ltd (November 1, 2017)
Publication Date: November 12, 2017
Genre: Dystopian LGBT
Print Length: 219 pages
Available from: Amazon | Barnes & Noble
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