Char's Review of Breaking Alexandria By KA Robinson

Book Synopsis:

Alexandria’s drug-dealing boyfriend, Joel, isn’t exactly the white knight she’s always dreamed of, but she can’t deny the crazy connection they have. She would do anything for him, including helping him sell drugs in order to fit perfectly into his world. 

After catching Alexandria dealing for Joel, instead of turning her into the cops, Alexandria’s mother forces her to move to her grandparents’ farm in West Virginia. Spending the summer in the country, away from Joel, is the last thing Alexandria wants to do. But lucky for her, the sexy farmhand, Landon, who helps out around her grandparents’ place, is a very nice distraction. She tries her best to ignore her attraction to him, especially since she still loves Joel. 

When Joel does the unforgivable, Alexandria turns to her new friend, Landon, for comfort, and it ignites an undeniable spark of attraction between them. Soon, she finds herself caught between two very different men, and the struggles within her heart just might end up breaking Alexandria


Char's Review:

This Review Does Contain Spoilers:

I was given this book in exchange for my honest review.

When I started reading the book I felt like Alexandria could have been me. The more I read the more it was like my life was written on the pages of this book.  I cried and felt all of Alexandria’s pains. 

The story is about Alexandria a 17 year old girl that falls in love with Joel a guy that is five years older than her. He was an abused child at the hands of his alcoholic father. Now an adult and living on his own, dealing drugs for income and having big parties on the weekends.  Alexandria and Joel are casual users of the drugs that he deals and weekend drinkers. Alexandria’s parents do not approve of this relationship so Alexandria sneaks out at night climbing down a big tree that is outside her bedroom window.  She is always getting into trouble in school from getting into fights and being expelled.  On the last time that Alexandria snuck out to be with Joel her Mom caught her in the act of selling drugs and makes her go home with her and was sent to stay with her Grandparents for the summer.

At first she is mad as heck to have to stay the summer and work the farm under the watchful eye of Landon, a 19 year old farm hand that is helping work the farm along with his father Kent.  As time goes by Alexandria and Landon develop a great friendship, but Landon wants it to be more. Landon even gave her a nick name “city” because her name is too long and she is such a city girl! She in turn calls him Cowboy.  She earns a weekend pass for being good and doing all of her chores so she and Landon go into the next town that has some entertainment. They go to dinner and then to the movies, afterward they go and sit out in one of the filed on the farm and star gaze. This is when the first kiss happens, but Alexandria feels it is wrong… she is with Joel and this is cheating. She has no contact with Joel do to the fact that cell service is not available in the small town where she is at. But once when she is out in the fields working she gets a message from Joel and immediately sends a message back. This makes her miss him even more and then he stops returning her messages and this really upsets her. On her next weekend that she is allowed to go out to town she takes off and goes back home to see Joel. Landon goes with her and thank goodness he does! She finds Joel with another woman and she flips out! There is a big fight and she tells Joel she never wants to see him again.  She leaves and goes back to her grandparent’s farm to face the music for disobeying orders. 

Everything gets back to normal and she is working hard to do all her chores and make the best of her time there. Things with her and Landon even change and they start to see each other as boyfriend and girlfriend. Until late one night when a phone call from her Mother telling her that something bad has happened to Joel. He was working as a snitch for the police and was killed. Alexandria completely looses it and blames Joel’s death on herself she believes if she had been there he would not be dead. She yells at Landon and tells him they can never see one another again. 

Alexandria goes back home and to deal with the loss. She has a lot of thinking to do and decisions to make. I feel I have already told too much of the story and I hope that I have left enough untold for you to want to read the book for yourself. This book was very well written with a great story line, I look forward to reading more books by K.A.Robinson and I hope there will be more to Alexandria’s story.

This book has with no doubt earned 5 stars! If the rating scale went higher this book would definitely earn them from me!