Si vous me suivez, vous saviez que je suis une grande fan des écrits de Brittainy C. Cherry. Lorsque j’ai appris la parution de son dernier bébé en VO. Je n’ai pas hésité un seul instant. Car je savais que j’allais passer l’un de ces fameux moments marquants. Et je suis heureuse de vous confirmer que cela faut effectivement le cas…
« The Wreckage of Us » suit l’histoire d’Hazel & Ian. Un duo fort attachant qui m’aura littéralement prise au dépourvu.
Elle est une âme blessée qui n’a pas eu la vie facile. Mais cette force de caractère est déterminée à travailler dur et se sortir de la situation complexe dans laquelle elle se trouve. Mais ce qu’elle n’avait pas prévu c’est d’être à ce point troublée par ce mec quelque peu abrupt qui éveille en elle cet infime sentiment d’espoir…
Et parlons-en de ce musicien qui fera tout pour protéger ses grands parents. Aux premiers abords, il vous apparaîtra brut de décoffrage. Vous ne saurez jamais sur quel pied danser avec lui. Et pourtant à force de passer du temps avec lui, comme moi et notre héroïne vous finirez par lui succomber totalement…
Dire que tout les oppose est un pur euphémisme. Leur histoire ne sera pas un long fleuve tranquille. Loin de là. Cependant, ils vont vous prouver de la meilleure façon qui soit que malgré les plaies encore à vif, les faux-pas, les doutes, les coups bas de la vie ou encore les démons du passé, l’amour guérit tout…
Que dire des autres personnages ? Là encore Brittainy C. Cherry a fait un super boulot. Tous sans exception ont leur importance. Certains vont beaucoup vous plaire. Comme ces grands parents uniques dans leur genre. Tandis que d’autres vont vous exaspérer avec leurs éternels préjugés.
En bref… Si Brittainy C. Cherry fait partie de mes auteurs préférés ce n’est pas pour rien. Sa plume est toujours aussi enivrante. Ce n’est pas tout. Avec un naturel désarmant, non seulement elle aborde des sujets sensibles de notre société tout en nous laissant un très beau message d’espoir. Mais en plus elle arrive à nous insuffler des émotions brutes comme personne. C’est tout simplement magnifique ! Si vous cherchez une bouleversante lecture riche en sensations qui vous ébranle tous vos sens alors « The Wreckage of Us » est exactement ce qu’il vous faut. Une belle leçon de la vie qui marquera les esprits et qui donnera à réflexion…
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Hazel
I needed the job at Eres Ranch in order to save up money for my sister or brother. I needed money to buy prenatal vitamins for Mama. Money to make sure her fridge was full. Money to make sure that somehow the baby could come into the world with a little bit more than I had.
Then, with the rest of the money, I’d buy a one-way ticket and leave Eres and never look back. Somehow, I’d convince Mama to come with me, too, with the new baby. The last thing she needed to do was raise a child with Charlie around.
Mama was right—we did have a roof over our heads because of Charlie. But just because someone gave you four walls to stay in didn’t mean they weren’t a prison. I couldn’t wait for the day that I collected enough money to get myself my own four walls. Those four walls would be filled with love, not threats. With happiness, not fear.
And the name Charlie Riley would be a distant memory.
Big Paw rubbed the back of his neck. “We were looking for ranch hands, not some girl who’s probably too afraid to get her hands dirty.”
“I’m not afraid of that at all. I’ll get down and dirty with the rest.”
“You have to be able to lift over sixty pounds.”
“I’ll lift seventy.”
He cocked an eyebrow and leaned forward. “You have to be here before the sun rises, and if you don’t finish the task, you stay after dusk, and there ain’t no overtime. You get paid by the daily tasks being completed, not by the hours you spend here. If you get done early, you can leave early. If you get done late, you’re stuck here late. Also, I don’t
believe in three strikes. I believe in one. Mess up, and you’re gone. You understand, girl?”
If anyone else called me “girl,” I’d slam my fist straight into their nose to show them just how much of a girl I was, but hearing it come from Big Paw wasn’t an insult. He called it as he saw it in a straightforward way. He’d call any man younger than him “boy,” too, because he could. I was sure people who identified differently would be offended by the title Big Paw would give them, but he was too old to bother correcting himself.
Old dog, new tricks and all.
“I understand.” I nodded. “I’ll be the hardest worker out there, I promise.”
He grumbled some more and rubbed his beard. “Fine, but don’t come complaining to me when you ruin your favorite pair of shoes in the pigpens. You report to the stables tomorrow at noon sharp for training with my grandson, Ian. He’ll be in charge of getting you up and running.”
I sat up a bit straighter as my stomach tightened. “Wait, Ian is training me?” I frowned. “Are you sure Marcus or James or someone can’t take me on?”
“No. Those boys are already training a few other ranch hands.” He raised his brow once more. “You aren’t already making yourself difficult, are you?”
I shook my head. “No, sir—er—Big Paw. Sorry. That is fine. Noon tomorrow. I’ll be there.”
The idea of being trained by Ian Parker made me want to gag. He was known as the playboy rock star of Eres. Ian had graduated three years before me, and I’d been the lucky girl with my locker right beside his during my freshman year. Which meant I’d had a front-and-center viewing of him swapping spit with whatever small-town groupie was wrapped around his pinkie at the time.
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