Three Broken Promises dwells in the world of the Drew + Fable series, but centers around Jennifer and Colin, Fable's best friend and her boss. Jennifer and Colin have been friends since childhood, when Colin was best friend's with Jen's brother, Danny. When Danny dies, Jen leaves home and falls in to dark times. Colin is filled with guilt about Danny's death and the situation in which Jen finds herself. Feeling like he has failed his best friend and the woman he promised to take care of, Colin keeps himself separated from Jen, offering her a place to live and work but little else. All Jen has ever wanted was to love and be close to Colin, but her past keeps her from opening up, as does the fear that she is too dependent on Colin. Both have secrets they are keeping from each other, and those secrets keep each from trusting that the other will stick around when the secrets come to light. 
 I spent a good half of this book wishing the characters would just talk to each other. Colin spends so much time making sure Jen is safe, and Jen spends her nights comforting Colin after his nightmares, but neither one talks about why they are so willing to support the other. Nor do they recognize that the other is there for the same reason. The lack of communication added so much tension and conflict to the story that at times I wished I could reach in and smack them. Or that Fable would smack them for me. I noticed some points, especially in the first half of the story, that Colin and Jen seem to ignore everything around them. It seems that Fable, and even to a certain extent Drew, can see that they are both interested in more from the other, but they just ignore all the signs. 
 Once I reached the point where some of their secrets come to light, and Colin and Jen quit ignoring the signs around them, then it started picking up again for me and things flowed better. Characters that come in to play later in the book are really the reason Jen and Colin start talking. 
 It was a good story with conflicted characters. I'm kind of a sucker for these kinds of characters, so even with the pacing issues I had with the first part of the book, I enjoyed reading Jen and Colin's story. I found through my frustration with their lack of communication thinking, "OK, they have to talk about it now, right?" And that thought process kept me involved and moving with the story. 
 Thanks to Monica Murphy for providing me with an arc in exchange for an honest review.