BLOG TOUR: Best Kind Of Broken by Chelsea Fine

Welcome to the Official Blog Tour for Best Kind Of Broken, book 1 of the Finding Fate series, by Chelsea Fine!

Genre:

New Adult Contemporary Romance

Series:

Finding Fate series

Publish Date:

March 4, 2014

Publisher:

Forever

(Grand Central Publishing)

Synopsis:

SOMETIMES MOVING ON MEANS MOVING IN

Pixie Marshall wishes every day she could turn back time and fix the past. But she can't. And the damage is done. She's hoping that a summer of a free room and board working with her aunt at the Willow Inn will help her forget. Except there's a problem: the resident handyman is non other than Levi Andrews. The handsome quarterback was once her friend-and maybe more--until everything changed in a life-shattering instant. She was hoping to avoid hi, possibly forever. Now he's right down the hall and stirring up feelings Pixie thought she'd long buried...

Levi can't believe he's living with the one person who holds all his painful memories. More than anything he wants to make things right, but a simple "sorry" won't suffice--not when the tragedy that scarred them was his fault. Levi knows Pixie's better off without him, but every part of him screams to touch her, protecte her, wrap her in his arms, and kiss away the pain. Yet even though she's so close, Pixie's heart seems more unreachable than ever. Seeing those stunning green eyes again has made one thing perfectly clear--he can't live without her.

   

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*Character Interview*

Interview with Sarah Marshall (Pixie)

1. Hi Pixie, first off thank you for giving up some of your time for this interview. Tell me a little bit about yourself...say in five words.

Thank you so much for having me here today! Describe myself? Hmm… Messy, artist,

2. Being an Art major, what inspires you to paint?

Music! Many other things inspire me, like books and nature and other paintings, but music is what fuels my creative energy most often.

3. How did you get the nickname Pixie?

When I was six years old and Levi was eight, I put on my fairy Halloween costume and tried to jump of the roof—because I thought I could fly. Levi freaked out and he told on me. That day, he called me a crazy pixie and the name stuck.

4. You and Levi have known each other since childhood, what can you tell me about your history with him?

Levi was my best friend’s older brother. We grew up together, and even though he’s two years older than me, he was always a good friend of mine. But when we became teenagers and found ourselves attracted to one another, our friendship became more and more complicated. Until one day we kissed. Everything went downhill after that.

5. This is probably a touchy subject, can I ask how did you get your scar?

Last year, I was involved in a car accident with both Levi and my best friend. A large piece of jagged glass cut through my chest and left me with a scar that runs a full diagonal across my torso.

6. What is the first word that comes to mind when you think of Levi?

Safety.

7. If you could change anything in your past, what would you change?

I wouldn’t have let Charity and I get into her car that night we got in the accident.

8. Looking back, would you change anything that has happened, or not happened, this past summer?

Ooh! Good question. Hmm… No. I don’t think I’d change anything. I think Levi and I needed go through all that tension and awkwardness in order for us to heal and become close again. Moving into Willow Inn this summer was one of the best decisions I ever made.

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**About the Author**

Chelsea Fine lives in Phoenix, Arizona where she spends most of her time writing stories, painting murals, and avoiding housework at all costs. She's ridiculously bad at doing dishes and claims to be allergic to laundry. Her obsessions include: superheroes, coffee, sleeping-in, and crazy socks. She lives with her husband and two children, who graciously tolerate her inability to resist teenage drama on TV and her complete lack of skill in the kitchen.

Stay connected with Chelsea Fine

Website

    

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*My Thoughts*

Note: This review contains no spoilers

A story of best friends since childhood torn apart by tragedy. Pixie and Levi has not spoken or seen each other for almost a year since the accident. Then, they end up working and living in the same place. Day after day, awkward moments becomes an everyday routine for these two. And, everyday, they are reminded that they are "broken." When both Pixie and Levi are suffering the same loss in their own way, life and love finds a way to bring them together so they can heal.

Pixie's and Levi's struggle to live with this kind of loss definitely rocked me to the "core." I was brought to tears and laughter with every turn of the page. Told in both their points of view, I got a glimpse of how each of them are coping. Sometimes, I got frustrated with their ridiculous banter at trying to annoy each other...which in turn, I got a laugh out of it as well.

Chelsea Fine navigated these emotionally-marred characters smoothly with each chapter in which the story transitioned between characters. I didn't feel the urge to say, "huh?" I'll have to admit that this style of writing is somewhat new to me, but I liked it. I found that it worked in this telling of Pixie's and Levi's path to healing and finding friendship and love in the midst of all the heartbreak, heartache, guilt, and loss. I seriously could not put the book down...I was totally immersed in Pixie's and Levi's pain and guilt of that moment in time that changed everything. 

I could almost say that, in a way, Best Kind Of Broken is a coming-of-age story for the new adult genre. It brought me to tears, then brought a smile to my face...even some laugh out loud moments. A book worth reading.

My rating:

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RELEASE DAY LAUNCH: Best Kind Of Broken by Chelsea Fine

Welcome to the exciting Release Day Launch for Best Kind Of Broken, #1 of the Finding Fate series, by Chelsea Fine!

Genre:

New Adult Contemporary Romance

Series:

Finding Fate Series

Publish Date:

March 4, 2014

Publisher:

Forever

Synopsis:

Sometimes moving on means moving in.

Pixie Marshall wishes every day she could turn back time and fix the past. But she can't. And the damage is done. She's hoping that a summer of free room and board working with her aunt at the Willow Inn will help her forget. Except there's a problem: the resident handyman is none other than Levi Andrews. The handsome quarterback was once her friend-and maybe more--until everything changed in a life-shattering instant. She was hoping to avoid him, possibly forever. Now he's right down the hall and stirring up feelings Pixie thought she'd long buried . . .

Levi can't believe he's living with the one person who holds all his painful memories. More than anything he wants to make things right, but a simple "sorry" won't suffice--not when the tragedy that scarred them was his fault. Levi knows Pixie's better off without him, but every part of him screams to touch her, protect her, wrap her in his arms, and kiss away the pain. Yet even though she's so close, Pixie's heart seems more unreachable than ever. Seeing those stunning green eyes again has made one thing perfectly clear--he can't live without her.

   

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*Excerpt*

Levi is so distracting. His arms are all raised, and his shoulders are all broad, and he’s fixing crap, and it’s just…it’s just…annoying.

With a huff and a puff and some choice words in my head, I grab my sliced bell peppers and force my feet to the stove. I throw the vegetables into a frying pan, grab a wooden spoon, and ignore Levi’s close proximity.

My body hums.

I ignore that too.

I steal a glance in his direction and watch as the corded muscles in his forearm flex as he unscrews something on the fire alarm box. Why does he have so many muscles in his forearm? That can’t be healthy.

I drop my eyes to the frying pan and focus on bell peppers, because bell peppers are interesting and they don’t have backs the size of Alaska or copious amounts of forearm muscles.

The forearm muscles that I’m not thinking about lightly brush my shoulder and the humming inside my body knots together and zips around like a bumblebee on crack.

I casually turn down the heat on the stove, like that’s the reason I’m suddenly a human vibrator, and go back to stirring. Levi goes back to screwing.

Bell peppers.

I’m thinking about bell peppers.

He brushes against me again, except this time his forearm grazes my breast and my body immediately goes wild like I’m some love-starved teenager and the humming dives low in my belly and the stove gets hotter and my breaths get shallow and suddenly bell peppers are the sexiest vegetable on earth.

From the corner of my eye, I catch his Adam’s apple bobbing with a nervous swallow, which can only mean one thing. The boob brush was an accident.

Well crap.

If he had been trying to cop a feel with his Hulkish forearm, I could have responded with some kind of snarky “you’re a pervert” comment. But it wasn’t on purpose and somehow that makes it sexier and now the cracked-out bumblebee is buzzing in my nether regions and my hands are starting to tingle and why the HELL is this stove so hot?

I turn the burner down another notch and take a slow, deep breath. I have a boyfriend. A great boyfriend. So this sexual frustration I feel around Levi is nothing to get my bee-loving panties in a bunch about. I just need to calm down.

Levi lowers his arm for a moment, his eyes still on the alarm, and stretches his neck.

Ah, the neck stretch. The universal sign of stress. Well at least I’m not alone in my frustration. My hot, distracting, pants-are-so-inconvenient frustration.

Wait, what?

Who said anything about pants? I am NOT thinking about pants—or lack thereof. Damn you, bell peppers!

I toss the wooden spoon to the side and move back to the counter where the threat of being turned on by a handyman or, you know, a sautéed vegetable is much less severe.

I bite back a groan. What was I thinking, living under the same roof as Levi? There’s no way I’ll survive the summer.

Hell, I can barely survive breakfast.

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Praise for Best Kind of Broken

"By turns humorous and heartbreaking, Best Kind Of Broken has become one of my favorites!" 

--- Cora Carmack, New York Times bestselling author of Losing It.

"You'll fall for Pixie and Levi, just like I did!"

--- Jennifer L. Armentrout (J. Lynn), #1 New York Times bestselling author of Wait For You.

"Tangled with friendship, history and heartbreak--not to mention a huge dose of humor--Chelsea Fine's New Adult novel is not to be missed! Beyond an incredibly HOT read, Pixie and Levi's longing for each other will have you rooting for them till the very end."

--- Jay Crownover, New York Times bestselling author of Rule

"This book destroyed me. Tore me into little tiny pieces. But somehow with lots of laughs and some very steamy times, Chelsea put me back together again! Chelsea Fine's style is witty, visceral and fresh. All I wanted to do was crawl inside this book and live with the characters. And now all I want is MORE."

--- Chelsea M. Cameron, New York Times bestselling author of My Favorite Mistake

"Sandwiched between laugh out loud moments and some serious heat, Best Kind of Broken is an unforgettable story of loss and forgiveness that will leave your heart aching."

--- Lisa Desrochers, USA Today bestselling author of A Little Too Far

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**About the Author**

Chelsea Fine lives in Phoenix, Arizona where she spends most of her time writing stories, painting murals, and avoiding housework at all costs. She's ridiculously bad at doing dishes and claims to be allergic to laundry. Her obsessions include: superheroes, coffee, sleeping-in, and crazy socks. She lives with her husband and two children, who graciously tolerate her inability to resist teenage drama on TV and her complete lack of skill in the kitchen.

Stay connected with Chelsea Fine

Website

    

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***The Giveaway***

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EXCERPT BLAST: Best Kind Of Broken by Chelsea Fine

Welcome to the exciting Excerpt Blast for Best Kind Of Broken, #1 of the Finding Fate series, by Chelsea Fine!

Genre:

New Adult Contemporary Romance

Series:

Finding Fate Series

Publish Date:

March 4, 2014

Publisher:

Forever

Synopsis:

Sometimes moving on means moving in.

Pixie Marshall wishes every day she could turn back time and fix the past. But she can't. And the damage is done. She's hoping that a summer of free room and board working with her aunt at the Willow Inn will help her forget. Except there's a problem: the resident handyman is none other than Levi Andrews. The handsome quarterback was once her friend-and maybe more--until everything changed in a life-shattering instant. She was hoping to avoid him, possibly forever. Now he's right down the hall and stirring up feelings Pixie thought she'd long buried . . .

Levi can't believe he's living with the one person who holds all his painful memories. More than anything he wants to make things right, but a simple "sorry" won't suffice--not when the tragedy that scarred them was his fault. Levi knows Pixie's better off without him, but every part of him screams to touch her, protect her, wrap her in his arms, and kiss away the pain. Yet even though she's so close, Pixie's heart seems more unreachable than ever. Seeing those stunning green eyes again has made one thing perfectly clear--he can't live without her.

   

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Praise for Best Kind of Broken

"By turns humorous and heartbreaking, Best Kind Of Broken has become one of my favorites!" 

--- Cora Carmack, New York Times bestselling author of Losing It.

"You'll fall for Pixie and Levi, just like I did!"

--- Jennifer L. Armentrout (J. Lynn), #1 New York Times bestselling author of Wait For You.

"Tangled with friendship, history and heartbreak--not to mention a huge dose of humor--Chelsea Fine's New Adult novel is not to be missed! Beyond an incredibly HOT read, Pixie and Levi's longing for each other will have you rooting for them till the very end."

--- Jay Crownover, New York Times bestselling author of Rule

"This book destroyed me. Tore me into little tiny pieces. But somehow with lots of laughs and some very steamy times, Chelsea put me back together again! Chelsea Fine's style is witty, visceral and fresh. All I wanted to do was crawl inside this book and live with the characters. And now all I want is MORE."

--- Chelsea M. Cameron, New York Times bestselling author of My Favorite Mistake

"Sandwiched between laugh out loud moments and some serious heat, Best Kind of Broken is an unforgettable story of loss and forgiveness that will leave your heart aching."

--- Lisa Desrochers, USA Today bestselling author of A Little Too Far

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**About the Author**

Chelsea Fine lives in Phoenix, Arizona where she spends most of her time writing stories, painting murals, and avoiding housework at all costs. She's ridiculously bad at doing dishes and claims to be allergic to laundry. Her obsessions include: superheroes, coffee, sleeping-in, and crazy socks. She lives with her husband and two children, who graciously tolerate her inability to resist teenage drama on TV and her complete lack of skill in the kitchen.

Stay connected with Chelsea Fine

Website

    

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EXCERPT BLAST: Best Kind Of Broken by Chelsea Fine

Welcome to the exciting Excerpt Blast for Best Kind Of Broken, book 1 of the Finding Fate series, by Chelsea Fine!

Genre:

New Adult Contemporary Romance

Series:

Finding Fate series

Publish Date:

March 4, 2014

Publisher:

Forever

Synopsis:

Pixie and Levi haven't spoken in nearly a year when they find themselves working -- and living -- at the same inn in the middle of nowhere. Once upon a time, they were childhood friends. But that was before everything went to hell. And now things are...awkward.

All they want to do is avoid each other, and their past, for as long as possible. But now that they're forced to share a bathroom, and therefore a shower, keeping their distance from one another becomes less difficult than keeping their hands off each other. Welcome to the hallway of awkward tension and sexual frustration, folks. Get comfy. It's going to be a long summer.

   

Coming March 4, 2014

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*Excerpt*

          “I will pee on your bed.” This is my big, scary threat.

          Levi used all the hot water again this morning, so I marched into his room in a rage.

          I never go into Levi’s room. It’s a personal rule of mine. Our relationship—if you can even call it that—works because it’s simple. We never talk about the past. We sometimes argue. And we always stay out of each other’s business.

          But here I am, in the business of Levi’s room, gripping my towel as cold, wet hair drips down my back. I haven’t had a hot shower for four days. Four days. This nonsense has got to stop.

          “You seem stressed.” Levi, whose jeans are so low on his bare hips that I can tell he’s going commando, tilts his head. “You know what you need? A nice hot shower…oh wait.” He gives me an impish smile.

          I might just pee on his bed right now.

          “Joke all you want, Levi. But the next time you’re out fixing a broken window or a fire alarm, I will sneak into your room and pee on your bed.”

          I’m dead serious here. And yes, I know it’s completely childish for a nineteen year-old to threaten such a thing, but I’m fresh out of maturity this morning. If I don’t get a hot shower tomorrow, I really will pee on his bed. Or at least find a cat to come pee on his bed. But either way, there will be urine on his sheets and I won’t feel bad about it.

          The impish smile grows. “I can think of better things for you to do in my bed, Pix.”

Silence.

          If his plan was to make me uncomfortable by flirting with me, it totally backfired. Because the second those words left Levi’s mouth, his body stiffened in awareness and the space between us became electric. So now we’re staring at each other’s lips and we’re both breathing heavier than necessary, and neither of us is really dressed.

          I shift in my towel and feel the material slip a bit as I pull my eyes from his mouth and try to coax my face into a look of something less come-and-get-me and more ew-you’re-pathetic.

          I’m gearing up for my comeback—which will be brilliant and kick-ass as soon as I nail it down—when his eyes drop to my chest, and all the air leaves the room.

          He’s not looking at my cleavage.

          He’s looking at the raised red scar peeking out from the top of my towel. The scar that cuts diagonally across my torso, running from my left hip bone to the top of my right breast. The scar I normally keep hidden under strategic shirts and dresses.

          It’s hideous and jagged, but I don’t hide my scar because it’s ugly. I hide it because it’s a reminder of pain and loss. And Levi’s eyes are fixated on it.

          Pain. Loss.

          My heart starts to pound and I no longer care that my shower was cold or that we have weird sexual tension. I don’t care about Levi’s forearm muscles or the way the bathroom smells like his soap.

          I care about my scar and what it means. It hurts me. It hurts him.

          It’s the only thing we still have in common, the only thing we absolutely avoid, and now it’s glaring at us; marked on my skin in permanent red; rising along with each of my breaths.

          The horror in his eyes has me hollowed out and helpless, and I have no words. I numbly turn and head down the hall to my room, shutting myself inside a millisecond before my body starts to shake. I lean against the door and try to take a deep breath.

          I’m fine.

          I’m fine.

          I hear Levi’s bedroom door slam closed with a heavy thud and the vibration runs down the wall and shakes against my back.

          He’s not fine.

          I’m not fine.

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**About the Author**

Chelsea Fine lives in Phoenix, Arizona where she spends most of her time writing stories, painting murals, and avoiding housework at all costs. She's ridiculously bad at doing dishes and claims to be allergic to laundry. Her obsessions include: superheroes, coffee, sleeping-in, and crazy socks. She lives with her husband and two children, who graciously tolerate her inability to resist teenage drama on TV and her complete lack of skill in the kitchen.

Stay connected with Chelsea Fine

Website

    

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