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Reviewed by Natasha Jackson for Readers' Favorite
Drake Braxton is looking for a fake girlfriend for one year and Liyah’s friend Ava thinks this could be just the job to help her with her financial woes. Unfortunately, her so-called friend doesn’t give her any details but is happy to tell the auctioneer that Liyah is “fresh meat”. Liyah is having serious financial problems; her university bills are past due and she needs a new place to live, so two million dollars to be the girlfriend and plaything of a tycoon is a small price to pay, right? In Broken: Dirty Secrets, we see what happens when an arrogant tycoon and a mouthy college girl become intertwined in each other’s lives. Liyah has issues with sex which J.K. Lewis hints at for most of the story and it works to build up the tension in the book.
J.K. Lewis has written a pretty enticing novella, complete with dirty talk, gangsters, billionaires and hot sex. Drake is definitely an anti-hero with his borderline disrespectful talk, his secrets and all his talk of his property and ownership. It becomes clear that he has issues with women as well as problems in his professional life that are spilling over, but it still seems difficult to see how Liyah could develop feelings for him. Broken: Dirty Secrets is a gritty romance that doesn’t bother to dress it up in fairytales and gentle love making. Nope, Lewis presents a dirty version that is quite effective in producing visceral emotions from the reader. Overall, this is a pretty good story, but it does end with a cliffhanger.
