Reviewed by Kat

TITLE: Unbreak Him

AUTHOR: Sam E. Kraemer

PUBLISHER: Kaye Klub Publishing

LENGTH: 226 pages

RELEASE DATE: Re-release July 25, 2022

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M/M BDSM – Dark – Slow Burn – RomanceHow do you heal a broken spirit?
Is there any way to unbreak a man?

Kyle Rance has made bad decisions. He’s also paid the price for his past mistakes and worked hard to try and redeem himself. When he’s offered the opportunity for a fresh start, he decides to make the most of it because it might be his last shot.

When Kyle comes into possession of damning material about one of the partners at the marketing firm where he’s been given a job in the mailroom, he has a difficult decision to make. Should he bring the matter to someone’s attention or keep his head down and do his job even if that means the wiz-kid marketing director will be irreparably damaged should the material ever see the light of day.

Meeting Grant Cummings strikes a chord in Kyle—there’s something about the man that Kyle can’t turn his back on. Kyle quickly learns that the man is broken… damaged… lost. Kyle has to decide if there’s a way to bring Grant back from the abyss and not lose himself in the process. There is a question that looms, however—is Kyle doing it for Grant or for himself?

Please Note: This M/M romantic novel contains mentions of self-harm and adult situations involving BDSM relationships. This fictional story is approximately 64,000 words in length and is a standalone H-E-A that doesn’t end in a cliffhanger.

REVIEW:

Talk about a book that broke my heart and then their love for each other put it back together again.

Yes, Kyle Rance made a HUGE mistake in college. Forgery is prison time. But he did his time, and along the way lost his family, and has learned his lesson. Now he keeps his head down and to the grindstone so to speak. Thankfully he was part of a state program for ex-con’s on parole and the company’s CEO and the HR director saw that he was one to keep. Fast forward to Kyle getting a thumb drive for printing, in the copy center he works in, of a huge project one of the ad teams was preparing for presentation to a big name client. Imaging Kyle’s shock when the thumb drive didn’t contain said project but was of one of the junior partners in a very compromised position. When he presented the evidence to Grant Cummings the blond haired ad executive broke down in tears and came completely apart. For Grant this was the last straw that literally broke the camel’s back. He has tried so hard to hold it together every since his master literally just dumped him after carrying on another relationship with a woman in New York. But, without that support, no matter how wrong it was, he couldn’t function any longer. Kyle is promoted to his assistant after the incident and now his new position is in jeopardy if he can’t get his boss to function. What started as self preservation is quickly transforming to concern for the man he is growing fond of. But can he possibly Unbreak Him or is it simply too later???

How you couldn’t care about both these two men I would never know. Poor Grant! He has never known anything except pain and self perceived disappointment to others. He has never experienced what true love is since he was a very small boy. His great aunt was really a wack-a-doodle! I remember researching self-flagellation when I read Dan Brown’s book and was horrified about what those monks did. I can’t even imagine how crazy that woman was to teach that to an eight year-old child! How that shaped his life was cruel and down right child abuse. Then add in that miserable excuse for a Dom that was really a sadistic Slave Master that really just used and abused him and then threw him away for a new model. Your heart can’t help but to go out for him and desire that he is found and saved from himself.

Then there is Kyle. Yes Kyle made a really stupid mistake in college that cost him dearly. It cost him his family. It cost him his freedom. It cost him respect. However Kyle did learn from his mistakes and vowed not to make those kind of mistakes again. And having the firm see through his mistake to the hard worker he is was gratifying. I know it was a bit of self-preservation at first that motivated him to help his new boss. But the caring  man he really is broke through and his compassion and desire to help Grant get better shone strong.

I loved the side characters of Connie and Brian along with Lance and Felicity. Without Felicity’s guidance, insight and support I don’t know if Grant could have overcome his demons. But it was Kyle that made the true difference. He would not give up on Grant. And his love showed Grant the light he needed to finally move forward.

This was a strong and moving book but I will warn you that it’s on the darker side. Grants demons were hard to read and I worried how they would eventually effect Kyle. However dark this was I still highly recommend this thoughtful and insightful novel.

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