Pause

🌟3.5 STARS🌟What happens when two people suffer an accident and then create some unique connections? To know you have to read Pause by Kylie Scott. It had some loving characters and delivered deep feels in a light packet.Anna woke up after seven months in coma. A bad car accident has sent her in the coma. Now everything has changed. She has lost her husband, her best friend and her job. She feels disconnected and angry and frustrated. She decides to seek Leif. The tattoed tattoo artist with long hair and gorgeous body whose motorcycle was also in the same accident and who stayed with her during her coma reading her books. One thing leads to another. They become friends..then roommates..then coworkers..and finally friends with benefits. Is there a happily ever after?So the subject was pretty intense. Anna got a second life. Leif was badly injured and he is still having nightmares. They shared a morbid experience that has altered their lives. And I expected a lot more angst and emotional conflicts. But it was very laidback and simple. Almost sweet. Leif is such a good guy. He has great sense of humor and he is so supportive of Anna and careful of her feelings. Of course he can be dirty and bossy sometimes but mostly he is a good guy. Who has been hurt in relationship too. But Anna has the worse hangover and she cannot trust easily. She is a strong woman who has been hit physically and mentally and I am proud of the ways she got control of her life. This was an easy flowing romance where you see Anna and Leif's love coming alive piece by piece. It didn't have much drama. It didn't have too many twists and turns. It was low in angst and high on feel good moments.Pause by Kylie Scott was lighter than I expected it to be. I felt it was a bit one dimensional but it was a good read.I reviewed an early copy voluntarily

It Is Hard To Imagine How It Can Compete, Yet Leif’s Story Is Devastating, Too. They Both Grapple With Trust & Betrayal As Their Blossoming Friendship Grows.Anna, twenty-six, had a loving husband and a job in hospitality. She doesn’t remember the accident that happened last July. She just remembers waking up in a hospital bed and being told that it is now Valentine’s Day. She lost seven months of her life to a hit and run driver. Her parents had kept a vigil all those months, holding out hope against the odds. She was a medical miracle to have awoken after seven months and still be able to get her life back. But what she soon discovered was that while her life had been on pause for seven months, the world around her had continued on without her. That includes her husband Ryan. She and Ryan were the perfect couple since freshman year of college, and they had a perfect life together with everything planned out. But it seems that instead of Ryan playing the role of loving husband, he had been busy playing victim while she was asleep. And one of Anna’s two best friends from college took the opportunity to step into Anna’s shoes. It was a betrayal that she tried to forgive for the sake of her marriage, but ultimately she couldn’t yet do it.Instead, Anna spends the first three months of her long recovery hiding out at her parents’ home while she goes to doctor appointments and takes the time to figure out what she wants from life – and what her next steps are. Even when she is ready to return to work, working at the inn for the woman that slept with her husband – Celine, her ex-best friend – would never be a possibility. Ryan wants to repair their marriage, but when he gives her more reason to doubt, Anna finds herself coming to terms with the fact that her new life will be entirely different from the old one. Having lost her husband, most of her friends, and her job, she sets about trying to find a new path forward. But Anna is not the same person she once was. She always had her act together before, but now she is moody and pessimistic. She has issues of trust to deal with – both of others and of herself. Her OCD tendencies are put to the test, too.Leif Larsen, thirty-one, has long hair, tattoos, and rides a Harley. He has a smile that charms the ladies, though that is the last thing on his mind these days. He isn’t so much into people and going out lately, either, but rather prefers to keep to himself. He works as a tattoo artist at his brother Ed’s shop. While he had been temporarily living with Ed and his wife Clem, Leif moved into his own condo when the unit next door opened up. He likes having his own space, even if it less than homey. Chilling alone at home is his favorite leisure activity. He still has nightmares about the accident that happened last July, the one that could have ruined his career. And it had not been long after that other event that still tears him apart when he thinks about it. Guilt plagues him. He hasn’t even considered dating since then.Having learned from one of the nurses at the hospital about a man that had visited her nightly for a time, Anna decides it is finally time to get out of the house and meet him to show her gratitude for the kindness. That takes her to the doorstep of Leif Larsen, a man who couldn’t be more different than her, but to whom she feels an immediate attraction. Having been so long with Ryan, the feeling takes her by surprise. Despite his size and bad boy looks, she feels quite safe with Leif, and the two strike off a friendship. It turns out they were both involved in the same hit and run, and Leif had been for her rescue. As the two become closer, they work to heal the wounds and nightmares that still haunt them as a result of the accident. Having both also been through a notably horrible breakup, neither is really in the right head space for more than friendship, but their chemistry is unquestionable. They guard their hearts and send a few mixed signals as their friendship deepens and the question of becoming something more emerges. The couple eventually earns a happy ending.Leif and Anna’s story will break your heart from the very start. Anna’s story socks you in the gut. It is hard to imagine how it can compete, yet Leif’s story is devastating, too. It isn’t hard to see why they are both so tentative. They have each been burned badly by people they love and trust. Leif was altered by his experience, too. He had always been fun-loving and a jokester, but last year he turned inside of himself. He preferred to avoid people. Leif and Anna are broken, but their hearts heal when they are together.Leif and Anna’s romance is about the devastating loss Anna experiences after waking up from a coma seven months after her accident. She learns the hard way that life around her didn’t pause for her condition. Their story is serious in tone. They both grapple with trust and betrayal as their blossoming friendship grows. It might make you shed a few tears. It is nicely written. My ARC copy only has a handful of typos. It is written in first person in Anna’s POV. I rate this book four stars.I received an advance copy of this book and am voluntarily leaving a review.

Pause was the second book in the Larsen Brothers series by Kylie Scott. To avoid spoilers from the first book, Repeat, the series was best read in order.I enjoyed both characters, Leif and Anna. They were opposites but I enjoyed them together. Anna had been in an accident and in a coma for seven months. When she woke up, she found her life completely changed on every front. Leif was also involved in the accident and had both physical and mental repercussions.Pause was told from a single POV, Anna. I enjoyed her strength and humor. I’m under the impression that Anna was not as strong prior to the accident, yet afterwards, she found her voice and strength in a new way. Scott took us through both lives and how they crossed paths afterwards. She also took us through their friendship development while Anna was navigating a new normal.All in all, I thoroughly enjoyed the book. The storyline was captivating, the characters were fun and lovable, and the end result was exactly as I desired. It also included a lot of self help therapy through Leif and Anna’s discussions. It was a heavy dialogue book to express some heavy emotions. However, I also wanted a little more - a little more depth and detail from the antagonists and a little more detail surrounding events. Also, there was a key development near the end of the storyline that felt a little rushed and out of place - I wanted more development from that event as well. And as much as I enjoyed Anna’s POV, I desired Leif’s POV as well - even if it were only sprinkled throughout the book. Otherwise, it was a fairly quick, emotional, entertaining and worthy read! I can’t wait to see what’s next!

ARC received in exchange of an honest review.I couldn’t wait to read this new book by Kylie Scott, since it happened to be in the same universe as “Repeat”, a book I loved when I read it in 2019. In “Pause”, we are following Leif and Anna’s story. Anna just woke up after being in a coma for a while, only to find out that her husband cheated on her with her best friend… As it wasn’t enough, she has to find a new job and learn how to walk and do many things again. She is a bit lost and terrified, until she meets Leif, the guy who saved her during the crash. The connection between us is immediate. Leif is determined to help Anna to move on from her old life and build a new one. But it’s not quite easy, especially when Leif has to battle his own demon from this faithful night as well…I really liked this story. It’s heartwarming, full of emotions and humor. I loved to find out more about Anna and Leif. Anna is a bit lost but determined not to let people use her as a doormat anymore, especially her ex-husband, and she can count on Leif to help her with that. Leif is funny, generous and help her to try new things and open her horizon. I found their relationship full of hope, humor and many other things. It’s not boring at all. I also liked to read about Ed and Clem (“Repeat’s main characters). The story is quite interesting as well and gives rhythm to the book. Although I just find the end a little bit too abrupt. I didn’t really understand what was going on. Some parts of the story have not real answer and it’s too bad because with just one more chapter or two, the story could have been perfect.Though I still had a great time reading Leif and Anna’s story. It’s a really good book that I recommend, and I only want to read more of Kylie Scott’s books now. She is amazing at creating strong characters and interesting universe, therefore I can’t wait to find more about her stories in the foreseeable future!(Sorry for the possible mistakes, English is not my first language)

The second in the Larsen Brothers series, Kylie Scott has brought another fabulous contemporary romance to the table. And despite it being the second book in the series, you will be pleased to hear that you do not have to have read book one to make sense of this one, it standalone beautifully…although if you have the chance then I would really suggest giving book one: Repeat a try, you won’t be disappointed.Anna is involved in a road traffic accident, and although she survived her past didn’t, she lost more than the recovery time from her wounds that day, she lost her memory and having recently awakened from a coma, she is finding life tough to come to terms with, especially the fact that what she knows that what she once had is now gone and despite the fact she can’t actually remember exactly what that was, it is till tough to deal with.After a few months she finally feels up to talking to the other person involved in the accident, little did she know that her plan to say her piece to the man she had forced off the road that day would transform her life.Told from Anna’s point of view it was lovely to read her inner thoughts on the whole relationship from the very start with Leif. She had so much to overcome, her memories had gone but when she discovered that her husband was far from faithful, she really was starting all over again.I liked Leif, I liked that he had purpose, that he had stayed with Anna whilst she was in hospital, that he had taken time out of his day to stay with her, to read to her, to just look out for her and despite the scars of the injury that he had suffered his heart was pure gold, but he wasn’t exactly struck on anything more than friends, so this romance had a way to work it magic before this pair got any sort of happy ever afterThe epitome of friends, Leif was the first to offer her a place to stay when she needed help, but keen to keep things less than romantic, it didn’t take long for the pair of them to reach a point where denying where this was heading as an impossible task, overcoming their past hurts and getting to a place where they could be comfortable calling what they have more than just a physically intimate friendship, they had work to do.The story was positive, it had a strong undertone of not just family and friendship but also love and understanding. Both the characters had experienced more than most, but they were packed full of determination and with the authors, gentle touch they were able to allow their chemistry to positively sizzle.Highly recommended

I loved the contrast between the characters but I also liked what they had in common. The banter was excellent. Another great book by this author.