Reviewed by True
TITLE: Every Broken Thing
SERIES: Far From Ruined #1
AUTHOR: Nik Knight
PUBLISHER: Self-Published
LENGTH: 241 pages
RELEASE DATE: January 17, 2025
BLURB:
Two strangers whose paths should never have crossed. One traumatic encounter that brings them together.
After high school senior Silas Brigs is rescued from an attempted assault, he finds himself indebted to a blond stranger. But he wants nothing to do with the calm, quiet Ben Adams. The California diver reminds Silas too much of what brought them together in the first place, an event he just wants to forget. Yet no matter how hard Silas tries to distance himself, the closer the two inevitably gravitate.
With Silas’s attacker lurking in the shadows combined with Ben’s mysterious history, their blossoming friendship seems doomed to failure. Both are haunted by their shattered pasts, but can they learn to face their demons together? Because, no matter how much Silas wants to resist, they’re exactly what the other needs. Even if they don’t know it, yet.
This is the second edition printing of the Far From Ruined trilogy. While it is the same general story/plot as the original publication (2019), it has been heavily revised and re-edited to better reflect Nik Knight’s style, voice, and principles.
REVIEW:
Silas doesn’t want anything to do with Ben. Ben saved him from an assault at school, and Silas just wants to forget the whole damn situation, including Ben.
Only Ben is regularly in his face, with understanding eyes. He’s kind and helpful.
“He was in my system now, and he was gradually taking me over, softening me to his charm against my will.”
An, at first awkward, friendship blooms. Silas has high walls and runs his mouth with insulting/funny comments to Ben. And Ben, the nice, quiet guy? Has quite some demons of his own.
Ben is so fond of Silas, he’s the one who understands him, even when Silas is bulldozing instead of being sensitive.
Silas has to face what happened to him, it’s so hard, and that horrible bully isn’t stopping.
There’s a lot to know about Ben and Silas’ personal situations, a lot!
Family, friends, enemies, school, parties, traumas, hurt, all this is part of their lives and intriguingly put into this story. Everything was interesting and convincing executed.
What a way to put these ingredients into this narrative. I was reading and reading and reading, it was absolutely amazingly done! Can’t wait to start the continuation.
I’m so lucky, I have already parts two and three!!
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