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The Broken Vows

Catharina Maura

3.89 AVERAGE


i cried and stayed up til 5 am to finish this
emotional funny hopeful reflective sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Second Chance
Rivals to Lovers
Arranged Marriage
Overcoming past trauma
medium-paced

Love blossoms between rivals. Trust is broken, years pass, Zane and Celeste try add hard as possible to destroy each other and then they are forced into an arranged marriage to salvage the damage they have done to each other company. Can what was broken be fixed? They made each other vows and broke every single one of them. This story is my favorite Windsor sibling story so far. I love watching the love and heartbreak alike unfold.
challenging hopeful inspiring sad tense medium-paced

They were high school rivals, yet his was never intended to be mean, but to gain her attention
Now it is years later and they are back at rivals of the hotel industry but truths come out. With the truths out in the open, they secretly start dating for 2 years, only for everything to go up in flames.

Now 6 years later and they are forced to marry and nothing can stop it from happening. Both make a vow to never love or trust each other again but emotions rise and feelings develope. Can they find a way to go back to what they used to be or will they go their separate ways.
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Heart-breaking

I found this story absolutely heart-breaking despite its HEA. No wonder the author found it difficult to write. The emotional journey is so raw.

This books is an amazing addition to The Windsors series.

When love isn't always enough....

This book was a love story that proves that even when you know there's a happy ending, the journey there can be a bumpy ride!
emotional medium-paced

Trust this author to write a book with so many twists and turns as to give us whiplash! Zane’s and Celeste’s story is full of back and forth hate and love episodes, starting from when they were school kids and Zane used to bully her. Under all that hate was love, of course, but the scars were hard to get rid of. During the course of this book, they did a lot of harm to each other, and underneath all that war of revenge, was a very strong and passionate love. Trust and jealousy work hand in hand to make this a very angsty and riveting story.

I was mostly angry at Celeste, she trusted in the words of others and didn’t listen to her instincts, thus causing a lot of harm and then suffering with the consequences. I felt for Zane who repented from his bullying years but didn’t get the redemption he needed. I loved all the family around them, with their banter, poker days, high fashion dressing, family dinners. There were lost friendships, reconciliations, bad grandparenting, and financial high stakes warfare. As with all books by this author, it was very satisfyingly angsty!