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Just a warning...there are a lot of spoilers in this review and I sort of mixed the whole Contours of the Heart together :)

Landon Lucas Maxfield aka LM. The man I fell in love with. His bad boyish facade, his complicated rebellious teens that seemed so familiar to me or the chivalrous and delicate side of his hidden under the tattoos and piercings - they all got me hooked within seconds to those books.

After I had read the Beautiful Disaster series I thought that I would never be more swept of my feet by any fiction character more than by Travis Maddox but boy was I mistaken...

I started of...well, Easy. I related to Jackie who followed her self-interested boyfriend Kennedy to college immediately. Having been at the college-relationship-HS boyfriend crossroads myself I felt the sadness, loneliness and heartache all over again with Jackie and it all seemed very familiar when Jacqueline tried to start fresh and just get her life together. One night, one party, one parking lot and one drunk aka "her roommate’s boyfriend’s best friend" did not make it very Easy. But Mr Maxfield did. Whether as the econ tutor smartarse Landon or the always working, tattooed bad-boy Lucas. He watched her from afar, lusting her but his courteous self restrained him from whatever his rebellious self wanted. Until she went MIA and missed the econ classes. He became Landon or LM, her tutor who was friendly, funny and carring through emails, just helping her with the worksheets and catching up. Little did she know that behind this very LM was hidden the same boy who saved her from her roommate's boyfriend's best friend and sold her coffee in Starbucks.
They played with each other. She falling for Landon and planning her bad-boy phase rebound with Lucas and he living double life as both the econ wizard and the boy who scribbled his number on her coffee. But it all began much ore than just an innocent game. They fell in love. Unconditionally.

When I reached the last page I was craving for more, so I though well it worked with Travis it will work with Landon as well. I picked up the Breakable. Maybe it is because I am biased and I had my own rebellious years and struggles and I have a soft spot for boys with long dark hair or because I listened to Goo Goo Dolls a bit too much but reading Landon's perspective of events made me addicted to the book and I read it in one go. I could not stop. I was feeling every bit of pain when he struggled the night his mum passed away and I was sharing his don't care attitude when Mrs Ingram gave lecture after lecture about being expelled.

It was not just a love story of a bad boy and a golden girl who magically fall in love together. It was a journey of two souls that knew that it was Easy to become Breakable but found the way to be themselves again.

Even though I loved Breakable much more I recommend to read it in order. Start with the Jacqueline's story and work it through to Landon's complicated life.