Where Broken Wings Fly

Briar Valley, Book 1

De: J Rose

Narrado por: Elle Sonali, Drew Mehrtens

I'm on the run. Desperate and afraid.

After breaking free from the gilded cage of my abusive marriage, I have nothing to my name but a letter from a long-lost relative.

Come home, Willow. Your family is waiting for you.

I sacrificed everything to flee for the tiny town of Briar Valley and its promise of a better life for my young daughter. Hope often takes the unlikeliest of forms, but I didn't expect to find it nestled among the rugged, snow-capped mountains. Nor did I intend to surrender my heart to three tortured mountain men hiding from their own grief in the thick forest of pine trees.

Briar Valley offers a home to all lost things, but at what cost?

I have to make an impossible choice. Do I spend the rest of my life running from the demons in my past, or should I risk it all in the name of love?

From the bestselling author of Blackwood Institute and Sabre Security comes a small-town, why-choose romance featuring a determined single mother running from her past and the three smoking-hot mountain men who give her a new home. It is book one in a duet and ends on a cliffhanger.

©2023 J Rose (P)2023 Podium Audio

Drawn out

I couldn’t stop listening but it was very drawn out and I forced myself to push through. Depressing and dark. A lot of self reflection and self hate, on the moodier side and plays on your emotions more than anything.

Price of love

The plot was very good, grabs attention in first chapter and keeps it. It did slow down in the middle of story but it rebuilds after that chapter..

Good book

Overall the book was good but once it got to the 4 to 5 hours left mark the book was dragging it. I also believe the main character was still to naïve even after all her hardships.

Perfect for those who love dark RH romance

Why?
Why?
Why am I doing this to myself?
Probably because J Rose write the best dark romances, I’ve ever read. I've been fascinated by the Sabre Security series. And this one is as mindblowing as the others.
The list of TW is long and they are very detailed in the book.
Really, take them seriously.

You can only admire the strength of Willow because of the HELL she’s been through.
Killian is the caveman chopping woods.
Zack is the light, funny and flirty one.
Micah is the tortured and shy one.
Each embodies all the emotions around.

I am not particularly fond of the pregnancy trope. But the story is so raw that it keep me reading.

The audiobook is brilliantly narrated by Elle Sonali and Drew Mehrtens

WOW Heavy but TRULY A beautiful heart wrenchingly vulnerable story

Amazing super dark and heavy, so check the triggers. I couldn’t put it down. It has a huge cliff ending, so I’d get both books at once. I’ve read others by this author, but they’re just as gut-wrenchingly beautiful. This is my favorite series so far. Highly recommend if you’re looking for a dark worst-case scenario real-life trauma with a why choose romance.

Love this author

This is my review for both books in this duet.

I'm such a fan of J Rose's writing. She's truly such a talented author, her writing is just beautiful. I love how all her books are in the same world while being such different stories.

This is definitely the 'lightest' of her books. The first is a really sweet story of love, strength and the incredible power of a mothers love. While then the second book is more suspenseful.

I listened to these on audiobook and usually I'm playing games on my phone. But for the last hour of the this series I stopped playing and just lay in bed listening. I was completely captivated not noticing anything around me.

I always say it's been a good whychoose when I love all the guys and man did I love these guys. Though I think Micah is my favorite.

Can't wait for my next read by J Rose.

Where Broken Wings Fly

Willow, Killian, Zach, and Micah. Willow has been on her own since she was young. Her mother left her with her alcoholic father. When he died when she was 16, she got a job as a stripper. Her manager at the club sold her to a man called Mr. Sanchez. Mr. Sanchez forces her to marry him and other the course of 10 years she is forced to endure terrible things at the hands of her husband. When she gets an opportunity to escape she takes it, and goes to Briar Valley. When her father died, she received a letter from her grandmother who invited her to go there for a visit so when she escapes from her husband she ends up there with her daughter. In Briar Valley, she learns to trust again through the determination of Killian, Zach, and Micah.
I loved every min of listening/reading this book. All the characters, especially the daughter, were so good. I loved how all the guys, especially Killian, folded for Arianna so quickly. The relationship between Willow and the guys was a slow burn, but they helped her heal slowly after all she endured. Willow gets her own found family in Briar Valley. This book was definitely dark and there is some triggers in the beginning especially so read the list.

#2 please!!

Loved all of the emotions in this book! Not much spice so if you’re wanting a pantie drencher then this isn’t the book for you, but if you want hero’s, mountain men, a horrific ex and why choose then you’ll enjoy this book. It’s a powerful ex that’s a monster who won’t let his wife ever be with anyone else, but she finally gets away and finds herself in the arms of twin brothers and a grumpy mountain man story. Oh and she has a daughter that has all 3 of them wrapped around her little pinkie. It’s dark, but not the kind of dark book where it takes you a minute to get over what happened to them.

My heart 🥹🥹🥹

Beautiful and tortured! Cant wait for book 2 - this was so unexpected.. love why choose stories

Narrator Review

First— the story was bad. I’m sorry but if your going to have three men in a why-chose where they are all involved intimately… can we not make two of them twin brothers.

The female narrator did a great job. The male narrator is the same voice for all three and I wish he would have had a better cadence differentiation for the three of them.