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What We Need - Book 2 in the Wishbone Tattoos Series: A broken hero angsty romance Kindle Edition

by Lizzie Stanley (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

4.7 74 ratings

Book 2 of 2: Wishbone Tattoos

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She gives me what I didn't know I needed. I don't know if I can do the same for her...

For years, I've lived as a broken shell of a man, the Prom Night survivor who doesn't deserve to live. I continue my stolen life for my family's sake, but my silent world is a dark one full of terrors, with no respite to be found anywhere.

Then Liaden comes along.

She's my polar opposite. An extroverted, highly successful professor, always smiling, always a sparkling ray of quirky pink sunshine. This woman makes me feel things I never even felt with the girl I lost. The girl who died in my arms many years ago when the world exploded around us.

The girl I failed to save.

Liaden, though... She draws me to her like a magnet, pulling me into the light in ways I don't deserve.

But I'm broken, weak, sinful. I can't even speak the words to tell her how much she means to me.

This can't work out.

Can it?

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0CTJ6LG1H
Publisher ‏ : ‎ (February 10, 2024)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 10, 2024
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1073 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 420 pages

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Lizzie Stanley realised the other day how long it had been since she graduated from university, and resolved never to think about it again. She has a demanding but satisfying day job, and still manages to find pockets of time here and there to write. She lives in the UK with her Very Sexy Husband and her Doc Martens collection, and enjoys binge reading, watching true crime documentaries on Netflix, playing Dungeons and Dragons, singing the music of the eighties very badly in the shower, and tormenting her friends with puns.

Lizzie loves to hear from her readers, so if you’d like to make her day by dropping her a line, her email address is lizziestanleyauthor@gmail.com. You can also hit her up on Instagram: @lizziestanleyauthor. She is still getting the hang of Twitter, bear with her. Please also feel free to join her Facebook group, Lizzie Stanley’s Wishbone Readers, where she will post info on the upcoming titles in the series.

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Mickenzie

whoa!

Reviewed in the United States on February 17, 2024

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This book is so deep and had me feeling everything right along with the characters. Heartbreaking, but full circle I love this group and the care they have for each other. The strength and perseverance of the main characters is incredible. Love love love!

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Bookfreak79

Why this book will both crush your heart and give you hope:

Reviewed in the United States on February 11, 2024

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It's so painfully real. Dean is a beautiful character but so realistically flawed. The trauma (take the TWs seriously) is unfathomable but realistic. You're not just invested in love story and rooting for a couple of fictional characters. You are dropped in their world and they become friends to you and it's like you're hurting and rooting for real people you care about.
I could say that this is a book that has an HEA that's worth the pain to get there but that would hardly do it justice.
I love a good "found family" and this group of characters will truly make you feel like they are your friends and you will miss them when the book is over. But on to the best part...
Liaden is one of my favorite heroines ever, no joke. She is not just beautiful with an upbeat personality, she's also sharp and witty, not to mention a go-getter. Watching Lizzie take this delightful FMC and have her turn the dark, grey character of Dean into technicolor was one of the best and most satisfying reading experiences, I've ever had.
Do not let this story (nor the one before it) pass you by.

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Vanessa Hilario Mata

Rollercoaster of emotions

Reviewed in the United States on March 4, 2024

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Phenomenal book that was worth the wait and tears! Rollercoaster of emotions on the realistic topic of anguish, tragedy, trauma, PTSD, anxiety and heart-wrenching theme. Dean is a damage soul who is suffering in silence for a traumatic past. Liaden is an beautiful soul that help him heal and find love.
⚠️ Reading Triggers Warnings ⚠️

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Sanora

Worth the wait

Reviewed in the United States on February 13, 2024

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Ive been chomping at the bit for Dean's story since I read what we deserve. And while I wish it would have been out sooner I'm in no way disappointed.
This story dove deep into the PTSD and trauma response that some people struggle with. I love how the relationship built, how supportive all the characters are and how the tough subjects that come up weren't glossed over.
I felt Dean's pain and hopelessness. And his journey took me through his healing and I could feel his desire to get better.
10 starts, I can't freaking wait for Leo and Sadie. ❤️

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Sarah Beth

Poignant and riveting love story!

Reviewed in the United States on February 16, 2024

This is the second book in Lizzie’s Wishbone Tattoo series, and it can be read as a standalone. I have not read the first book, but I was easily able to follow along and understand the dynamics of all the characters. However, with that being said, I plan on going back to read 𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘞𝘦 𝘋𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘦, because Eli and Emily’s story has me really intrigued, and I can’t wait for Leo and Sadie’s book next!

Before diving into this book, I highly suggest checking out the TWs. Lizzie discusses some very dark and extremely heavy topics that can be difficult to read. The Prologue will absolutely decimate your heart and leave you an emotional mess. Lizzie does a fabulous job in exploring the main character who experiences PTSD and the repercussions of it while also trying to overcome and rise above with the utmost tender care.

This story 𝘪𝘴 Dean’s story. He has suffered the most unimaginable tragedy at a very young age, and these demons dig their claws into the depths of his soul and never let up. He lives in the shadows of his past, deep-rooted mental health issues, and survivor’s guilt. He truly believes he’s not worthy of having a life to live, and this is touched upon when we witness his struggles from night terrors, flashbacks, and triggering events. But when a pink haired linguistics professor stumbles into the tattoo shop, he works at wanting him to do her first piece, a light sparks in Dean’s heart. Liaden is the balm to his scars, his penchant for embracing happiness, and showing him how resilient he is and his ability to come out the other side of the tumultuous storm.

Dean and Liaden’s love story is raw, emotional, gut-wrenching, and riveting, but it is also healing, beautiful, and full of love, understanding, patience, and forgiveness. Dean and Liaden were meant to cross paths and form an everlasting relationship. Liaden is the light to Dean’s perpetual darkness, and with her kindness, support, and gentle soul, she helps Dean grasp his demons and fight them head-on. By the end, he was able to find some semblance of peace in the aftermath of devastation. Their love story will leave an everlasting mark on your heart and soul, even long after reading the last page.

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Jess

Worth the wait

Reviewed in the United States on February 11, 2024

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I waited so long for this book and it was worth the wait. It was heartbreaking, beautiful, funny and so well written. I love the characters, the development of the story, the way they work through their pain and come out the other side.

Reviewed in the United States on March 8, 2024

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I have no words, absolutely no pun intended. This book will wreck you in all the most gut-wrenching, soul searing, epically painful ways and put you right back together again in the most touchingly beautiful ways. I knew someone spectacular was meant for Dean, but I expected Leo, a quiet, unassuming, but beautiful soul. Instead, we get a motormouth, fiesty linguist, and boy does it work. Absolutely perfect

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SutjaK

Emotional read

Reviewed in the United States on February 20, 2024

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This series keeps getting better. The first book was all right but didn’t get to me that much.

The final chapters here made me bawl my eyes out. Survivor story made just right amount of angst and plenty of hope.
I loved how the characters from the first book were intertwined here too. Can’t wait the inevitable third book. Hopefully it shows us what’s going on in the other couples’ lives too.

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Jenn M

Gut Wrenching, Heart Warming Read!!!

Reviewed in Canada on April 13, 2024

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I started ugly crying within the first couple of pages of this book. It broke me. They slowly, my heart was pieced back together. I can’t imagine what Dean had to live through, nor do I really want to. Bravo to this author. You didn’t just jump, you leaped - leaped so far that you wrote such an amazingly beautiful story that I know will be on my re-read list forever. How you pieced Dean back together was a work of art and bringing Liaden into his life - well - simply perfection. She was exactly who Dean needed to not just live but to reclaim his life that an awful trauma took from him. I can’t say enough about this read. This is the second book I have read from this author and I will be a forever fan of hers. This book blew out my expectations and I think that everyone should read it!

S.Anne

Dean ❤️💔

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 24, 2024

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I loved the MMC Dean from the first book (you do not need to have read the 1st to read this)

Dean has had to live a nightmare that some would never even think was possible. The victim of school massacre at his prom, his survivors guilt is what has become his identity. No matter how hard he tries he can’t move past the terrors he saw.

The FMC Liaden has always been smart, but with the above average IQ comes a loneliness and sense of never fitting in. She’s getting her first tattoo and she’s lucky enough to be under the care of Dean. Maybe it’s because she doesn’t know how to stop talking and he can’t but there’s something about him that makes all her senses fire.

The book was strong and hard. It has some major trauma, something that as a British person I couldn’t imagine the fear for people who have suffered it or have to think of it in their day to day. The strength that Dean showed trying to get over his past, trying desperately to be ‘normal’ to want what he could feel with Liaden to be real.

Deans was so strong to try and get help but it didn’t mean that Liaden had it any easier falling for a man who needed support even against himself sometimes, sometimes love can conquer all.

I also loved that for once it was the MMC who was a V, it was such a nice read that for once it wasn’t the man who ‘was doing the teaching’

Loved this book, loved this series. The writing is strong and in capturing and you just fall into this world with such ease. I hope there’s a book about Leo!!

5⭐️2🌶️

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Worth the wait

Reviewed in Canada on February 10, 2024

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I'm wrecked in the most beautiful way ! It was definitely worth the wait ! I loved everything about Dean's story

ThoughtPlotHotBooks

Wow! Raw & Beautiful!!!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 10, 2024

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How do I even begin to write a review on this amazing book, who knows?!?! But here goes…
Wow, what a thought provoking, gut wrenching, emotionally charged story this was.
My heart absolutely ached for Dean the MMC. He was permanently and irrevocably, both physically and emotionally damaged from an a catastrophic and senseless event that happened when he was 18.
Now as an adult, a shadow of his former self, he is “living” but no longer a living a life in the here and now. Then he meets the vivacious and confident, Professor Laiden O’Brien the FMC. Through perseverance, patience and love she slowly brings him back to life and shows him all that life can offer.
Laiden, what a strong, astute, confident and caring character she was. She was exactly what Dean needed to see that he could have it all, he just needed to believe he was capable and worthy of a life that was not shadowed and marred by the past.

5 Raw & Beautiful Stars!!!
This is a story that will stay with me and will think about often.
*Please* Read the authors note and trigger warnings at the beginning of this book because it deals with some very harrowing and heavy topics but if you are strong enough to carry on and read this book in its entirety, you will be rewarded with the most beautiful love story.

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