FUELED (Driven #2) by K. Bromberg-a review

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date August 27, 2013

What happens when the one person you never expected suddenly happens to be the one you’ll fight the hardest to keep?

Colton stole my heart. He wasn’t supposed to, and I sure as hell didn’t want him to, but he crashed into my life, ignited feelings within me that I thought had died forever, and fueled a passion that I never knew could exist.

Rylee fell out of that damn storage closet and into my life. Now I don’t think I’ll ever be the same. She’s seen glimpses of the darkness within me, and yet she’s still here. Still fighting for me. She is without a doubt the saint, and I am most definitely the sinner.

How is it the one thing neither of us wanted—neither of us anticipated that fateful night—has us fighting so hard to keep?

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REVIEW: FUELED is the second storyline in K.Bromberg’s Driven series focusing on Rylee Thomas (a children’s service worker) and Colton Donavan (a billionaire race car driver) with some major demons in his past.

Fueled is not a storyline for the feint of heart. It is not an easy read as the storyline is graphic, gritty and leaves nothing to the imagination. K. Bromberg grabs the reader and pulls you in kicking and screaming. We experience the heartbreaking trauma and painful history of a young man whose demons runs very close to the surface threatening to emerge when the pain and sorrow begin to overwhelm. And it is these demons that control the man that Rylee loves.

At the end of Driven, Rylee and Colton were not in a very good place. As his past continues to haunt his days and his nights, Colton pushes away the one person who is willing to love and support the man hiding behind a Hollywood lifestyle and womanizing ways. But his refusal and inability to acknowledge Rylee’s acceptance fuels the drama and heartbreaking build up of betrayal and anguish.

Fueled is a story about falling in love and letting go. It is also a story about a relationship that is built on a foundation that is teetering over an abyss of unknown depths because at every turn something or someone is waiting to bring them down.

The storyline is also about a little boy who needed a ‘super hero’ of his own-someone to come in and save the child from the monsters threatening his very existence. But Colton’s superhero never emerged. Colton was and still is a little boy lost in a world of demons and monsters but one who has given up on the fairy tale of happily ever after and being rescued by the super hero at the end of the story.

“Spiderman, Batman, Superman, Ironman”

Fueled is a storyline ‘driven’ by the emotional and heartbreaking reality that there are monsters among us and many we know up close and personal. K. Bromberg has written a story that will forever be etched in your psyche and make you wonder if the little things in life are really worth the aggravation because at the end of the day there will always be the ‘real’ monsters waiting for you under the bed. And for a little boy, his super hero never comes.

“I race you, Ryles”

“I race you too, Colton”

“Spiderman, Batman, Superman, Ironman”

READING ORDER
1. Driven
2. Fueled
3. Crashed

Copy supplied by the author

Reviewed by Sandy.