When Wrecked Meets Ruined: Lost Stars, Book 4

This book is a winner!It’s one of the best second chance romance novels I’ve read. Ridge and Evie are great characters. There’s the constant tension between them, the pull, the chemistry is off the charts. There’s a very real feel to them and to the whole story regarding second chances and recovering from trauma. Very well done!

This book was emotional. Two people who had been let down by the people who should have loved and cared for them. If anyone one was soulmates it was Ridge and Evie. Both gave off an indifference attitude only to hide the hurt they suffered. Loved them both when they were together. The author took a different route with these two and all the time you wondered would they make it back . So much to love about Ridge and Evie .

I enjoyed this story and got a few hits to the feels while reading but have you ever had book deja vu? None of my records show having read it before but it was so familiar. I'm still confused.

Another fantastic book. I love how the stories Emery writes span such a long time and desire the heartbreak, there is always a HEA. Such an emotional and poignant story teller. Been waiting for Ridge's story for so long and Evie was the perfect for him.

Absolutely brilliant book loved it - no spoilers just read this 👏 👍 all 4 books were good but this one is the best

Enjoyed this book from start to finish. I loved the characters, story line. I had everything crossed for them. Brilliant

This book was another childhood sweetheart one I read just after reading Maestro by Auden dar, but this book was so bitter sweet, the tough times, the journey the fighting the love and everything else was all I could have dreamed for the two of these babies 💕😫🔥🥵 such a good book I loved everything ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

I loved this whole Series but Ridges book is definitely my favourite one I fell in love with him thank you for a fab read xx

I have so many books in my Kindle that I have yet to read. But this book? I just could not stop myself from reading it again. I loved it the first time and cried. I read it again and cried...AGAIN! This love story is so perfect. We have two main characters, male and female, who are both so broken from what life has thrown at them for the last 16 years. Ridge is a bad boy, handsome, with muscles in all the right places. He would be a cougar magnet. He has just discovered his extended family in Texas, after living in the Chicago slums until his mother dies of a drug overdose. Evie is just as broken, living with her drug taking stripper mother, her 2 year old sister Wren, and at times, Wade, a scum bucket who is Wren’s father, and a drug dealer.Evie is a gorgeous, sexy teenager who has high morals, but because of her mother, everyone assumes "like mother, like daughter". When Ridge and Evie meet, he knows she's the one, but she uses her sass and her fear of becoming like her mother to keep him away. But like Ridge, she also feels his pull, and they finally agree to date over the summer after they graduated from high school. Over that summer they fall in love. Evie knows she has to stay at home to make sure Wren is cared for, but plans on going to a community college to become a nurse. Ridge has a full athletic scholarship 40 minutes away playing football.As is always the case, the two try to keep their romance going, but life and a traumatic event in Evie's life steer their love affair off-course. This is the part where you start crying.Suffice it to say, there's an HEA, but getting there is torture.I love Emery Rose's books....have read them all, and they all give you the feels. But THIS book is special. You will never regret reading a book with well defined characters and a plot that can easily be turned into a movie. My only criticism is that the cover model for the book was not acknowledged, and I would LOVE to see other pictures of him. Yes.. shallow, I know. ..but don't care.

This book had me experience every emotion. I couldn’t put it down. Every book in this series is like a roller coaster of ups and downs. I couldn’t put it down.

When it comes to Emery Rose and her Lost Stars series, I know that I’m going to be a sobbing mess, angry and feeling all the feels. Every book in this series has put me through all my emotions and I honestly don’t know how to handle all of it. So I went into When Wrecked Meets Ruined knowing that I would be wrecked and ruined. And this book did all of that and so much more.While Brody and Shiloh from When The Storm Breaks are still my all time favourites, Evie and Ridge really pulled a number on me when I started this book. Because all of these stories happen parallelly, we’d been introduced to Ridge before and we’d seen his complicated relationship with Brody unravel and how he was with the other McCallister men as well. But to have his whole story, told through three parts and three different times in his life really made it so great.To keep it simple, Evie and Ridge are complicated. He’s the new guy and a popular jock and she’s the girl who everyone likes to pick on. Everyone but Ridge. He’s drawn to her and can’t help himself, even when she keeps pushing him away. Their push and pull in the first few chapters was pretty entertaining. While I didn’t like the characters right away, I loved their chemistry. I knew they were going to be hard to like at first, because both of them come from such tragic and traumatic backgrounds—please go gently into this book and take all trigger and content warnings seriously—but as they grew up and their relationship evolved, they started to become slightly more interesting. Their friendship and enemyship (as it were) and relationship could only be defined as intense, chaotic, painful, loving and hot. They go through so much and it rips you apart, puts you back together and then rips you apart again.Because Emery Rose is good at all of the angst, this book delivers that in spades. Part 1 covers their high school relationship and how they poke and prod at each other till the other gives in. Even though they’re enemies, you can see just how much Ridge feels for Evie and vice versa. Part 2 covers post graduation and into college and this was honestly my favourite part of the book. Seeing these two damaged souls come together and slowly fall in love was truly something so special. The characters evolved as well and once you got sucked into their world, it was hard to walk away. Part 3 was heart wrenching. I might have cried a few times, I definitely felt everything too deeply, but I have zero regrets about it.At times, their relationship felt a little toxic, but there’s no cheating or lying, it’s just a little hard to read. But Emery does such a good job of immersing you in this story that you start to feel like one of their friends and suddenly all of that toxicity doesn’t matter.I loved seeing all of the McCallister boys again, I liked seeing their relationships through Evie and Ridge’s eyes. I loved how they welcomed her into their world without a moment of hesitation. Knowing that there’s one more and knowing that we haven’t fully met Gideon yet has me all kinds of excited. I can’t wait to see what happens in that one!

Most definitely my favorite story out of this series, despite going in a bit dubious. Ridge and Evie are so perfect together and yet they are so far from perfect, they mess up, they fail, they fall, they break and they hurt... And together they make pure magic.Thank you for such a story!

Don’t read this one without the tissues handy. Two broken people. One big love. One big obstacle after another. Highs, lows, and a separation that will make you weep. The ending is worth the journey.