Pause by Kylie Scott

What happens when you wake up from a coma to discover your husband has been unfaithful and the stranger that saved you has been by your side throughout the ordeal? Sounds intriguing, right? If you want to learn more about Pause, keep reading…

When Anna wakes up from a coma after a car crash, she discovers life has gone on without her. Her husband has been unfaithful—with her best friend—and she’s been long since replaced at work. While her old life is a distant memory, her new life feels like an empty shell. Then she meets the stranger who saved her life during the crash, and he changes everything.

 

Leif Larsen—tattooist, joker, and player—has his own scars thanks to the crash that put Anna in a coma. Helping her move on from her failed marriage, and create a new life, sounds like a perfect distraction. So when he needs a new roommate, he invites Anna to begin her new life with him.

 

Although their lives may have been put on pause, together they just might find a way to heal.

 Series: Larsen Bros #2 | Publisher: Audible  | Narrator: Andi Arndt | Length: 6 hours 17 minutes  | Genre: Contemporary Romance  | Source: Publisher  | Rating: 4 Cups

When Anna wakes up from a coma, she discovers that her husband has been cheating on her with her best friend (who also happens to be her boss). Needless to say, her world’s been turned upside down. Wanting to create a new life for herself, she’s surprised and pleased when an offer comes from Leif, another victim of the wreck and the man who saved her. Leif’s been in need of a distraction and helping Anna seems like the perfect fit plus it doesn’t hurt that they’re both attracted to each other. While the two could be perfect together, they have a lot of healing to do.

Kylie Scott’s writing is raw and realistic. The plot and characters seems as though they’ve been plucked from the real world and the reader’s been invited in to watch them heal and figure out who they are.

Anna and Leif were so good for each other. They’re both going through a lot of things—and some of them occurred before the wreck—so there’s a lot of healing, a lot figuring out who they are, learning to trust, and soul searching going on. We get to see a lot of their emotions on the page and I love that, especially with this type of book.

The romance in this one is a slow burn romance, which is exactly what this book needed. They needed to heal and to trust each other. While Leif was there for Anna during her coma, they don’t really know each other and they allowed themselves that time before jumping into a relationship.

This book is very much an emotion/character driven book so there are not a lot of outside things going in and I didn’t mind that. It gave me the chance to watch the characters grow.

Pause is the second book in the Larsen Bros series and while you technically don’t need to read the first book in the series, Repeat, I would recommend reading them in order as there seems to be a lot that happens in the first book that attributes to the way Leif acts. I didn’t read the first book (honestly, I completely forgot that I had the audiobook) and I wasn’t lost as the book does explain what happened but I would have liked to have known more of the backstory.

Andi Arndt narrates this book brilliantly but I would have liked a male narrator for Leif. Lately I have been enjoying dual narrators as I find it enhances the listening experience.

Overall, another great book from Kylie Scott. It was the perfect starting over romance. 

Larsen Bros Series

Repeat #1

Pause #2