Beautiful Broken Love is an amazing book about love, loss, grief and finding yourself. It is such a beautifully crafted story with discussion of heavy topics so please keep that in mind. Williams does truly weave an emotional tale but addresses it with such finesse in her words. The story unfolds at the right speed truly showcasing the reality of the entire situation and the emotions felt.

The characters are created with so much depth. They're feeling real, valid emotions that are absolutely justifiable at all times. The love story unfolded in a perfect way, the interactions between both, the vulnerability, the chemistry and the spice was absolutely perfect. They truly felt like real people and I loved them so much.

Beautiful emotional, gut wrenching read about grief and learning to love again. The writing was flawless creating an unputdownable story that will grasp you from the start.

🎧 The narration by Aure Nash & Sean Bassett was really good. They played their characters perfectly. The emotions were absolutely unreal, I truly felt them. The spice was hot. A truly great listen !

✨️Thank you to @netgalley, @brilliance & @shanorawilliams for my gifted ALC in exchange for an honest review.

5⭐️ 3🌶️
This story had me hooked from the beginning. There was great grief representation. There were other heavy topics addressed in this book such as suicide, and domestic violence. My heart hurt for both Davina, and Deke. I also loved that the main characters were both people of color, this is something I don’t see super often in books. I’m not going to lie I cried a lot while reading this book as I felt like I could relate to the characters so much.

Wow!

Shanora is an absolutely amazing author and this audiobook is FIRE. I cannot say enough good things about the narration of this book. This is the first audiobook in a while that I have not had to rewind several times because I missed something; I was completely engaged the entire time I was listening to Beautiful Broken Love.

This is a highly emotional story with several trigger warnings that the author does warn about in the beginning. Listen with caution if you are sensitive to these triggers. Deke and Davina have a beautiful but difficult story with a tremendous amount of grief and pain. One of the aspects of the audiobook that make it so intense, is the portrayal of the despair the characters are feeling, through the narrator's voices. They do a phenomenal job. In the same breath, be prepared to turn down the volume at red lights when the spicy scenes come because they are just as intense!

I loved the character development throughout the story and appreciated learning their backstories. Knowing some of Deke and Davina's past history can help readers have a better understanding of their present struggles with relationships and love. There are also several side characters that help bring everything together and I loved Deke and Davina's interactions with them.

If you are a Shanora Williams fan already, this novel will just make your love her and her writing even more!
I appreciate this author, NetGalley and the publishers for providing me with this ARC in return for my honest opinion!