Check out my review of Shredded (Extreme Risk #1) I absolutely adored Shredded and the emphasis on snowboarding in this series. After the cliffhanger/lead-in at the end of Shredded, I couldn’t not pick this one up! Shattered is Ash’s novel and follows his life after his parents die and his brother becomes paralyzed in an accident on the way to watch Ash at a competition. Ash has decided to give up snowboarding because of it and to take care of his little brother. Tansy is a cancer survivor working for a company that grants terminal children a wish. Her first assignment is to get Ash Lewis to agree to board one last time so the little boy, Timmy, can have his wish. However, it isn’t easy at all because Ash refuses to get back on a board. After some conniving planning from his manager, though, and a mysterious donor, Ash and his gang are off to grant little Timmy his wish. Like Shredded, Shattered is big on following Ash’s emotional journey after a tragedy. The story was compelling and heartfelt and it made me feel everything from anger to sadness. The characters were very relatable and realistic and the events in the novel were as well. We see a lot of internal struggle in this novel like we did in Shredded, although snowboarding doesn’t have quite as big of an […]

 “He’s got his snakebites in this afternoon, and suddenly I want to know what the little silver balls will feel like against my lips when I kiss him. If I kiss him. Which I won’t. I’m done with adrenaline junkies just asking to get killed. And even if I wasn’t, the glimpses I’ve seen of him—of the scars on his body and the ones that lurk beneath his pretty-boy façade—scare the hell out of me. So that’s it. I’m grateful for what he did, but I’m done. Finished. I’ll dry his clothes, but then he has to go.” “‘Just because something bad happened to him doesn’t mean it’s going to happen to me, too,’ I tell her, because I have to make her understand. ‘Just because you think you’re invincible doesn’t mean you really are,’ she counters.” “Hell, she deserves so much more than me—a selfish prick who spends too much time playing around with his own fucking death wish. But that’s just too damn bad because I’m not going to give her up. It’s obvious she has ridiculously fucked-up taste in guys—present company totally included—so it’s not like I can turn her loose on the world and hope she ends up okay.”  “I can’t help wondering if there’s something pathologically wrong with me that the only two guys I’ve ever been interested in have been like that. Remi always […]