Make It Right

Make it Right by Megan Erickson

Max Payton lives by two rules:
Size and strength win any fight, and never show weakness.

When a rash of assaults sends Bowler University for a tail spin, Max volunteers to help teach a self-defense class. One of the other instructors is the beautiful pixie-faced girl he keeps butting heads with…and who challenges everything he thought he knew.

Lea Travers avoids guys like Max - cocky jocks who assume she's fragile because of a disability caused by a childhood accident. She likes to be in control, and something about being with Max makes her feel anything but. But during the moments he lets his guard down, Lea sees a soul as broken inside as she is outside. Trusting him is a whole other problem...

When the assaults ramp up and hit close to home, Lea and Max must learn, before it’s too late, that true strength can come from vulnerability…and giving in to trust is sometimes the only way to make things right.**

As soon as I finished reading Make it Count, I jumped right in to Make it Right. I wasn't expecting to like Max at all. He was sort of a tool in the first book. I was wrong. I really do need to stop making assumptions. 

Max is a senior at Bowler University, his path is planned, there is no other options. His dad is a jackass and if he wants his dad to keep paying for school then he has to do everything his dad says. Growing up it was just his dad and two brothers; and he's always felt like his dad would rather he had never been born. Mostly due to the fact that his mom is gone. From the first time he saw Lea he was attracted to her but she wouldn't give him the time of day. After he and Kat broke up and she ended up with his best friend, Alec, he knew he needed to change and after the secret he'd been holding in was out he was ready to change. Maybe now he could convince Lea that he wasn't the meat-head he was before. That he could think about others feelings but still do things for himself. 

Lea doesn't think that Max is wanting to be with her because he is interested, its more because he can't get to her, she keeps everyone at arms length. There have been a few assaults around campus including her own cousin, so Lea tries and succeeds in getting a self-defense class started and Max ends up being the classes 'attacker'. Lea realizes that Max isn't a bad as she thought and maybe she should let him in. 

Max was an enigma, he was totally that meat-head guy but there were layers to him. He really wanted to change his major but was afraid to say anything to his dad since it was just an assumption that he would go home and work at his dads car repair shop. Something happens that makes them all sit back and realize that life is too short to do things you don't love, and to not let the ones you love in. Lea has to learn that Max has changed and is constantly trying to be the guy he thinks she needs.

I really enjoyed Lea and how strong she was. No matter what was going on she was positive even when she had plenty of reasons to be weak. Max thought he could work his way through life all brawn and strength and meeting Lea showed him that sometimes walking away and getting help is the best thing. I really loved Max after getting to hear his story. Seeing the way he grew up explained a lot of things. Run, don't walk to get this book. It really is a great book! Leave the author love in the form of a review. 

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