Review: Came across this book and almost didn't get it.....
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 8, 2014
That would have been a great loss on my part.  This book is about Mimi, an IRS accountant who gives up all the creature comforts of the metropolitan lifestyle to naively buy her own version of Green Acres.Her ranch house turns out to be little more than a critter condo but she heroically overcomes her fears to evict her rogue tenants and claim her corner of the sky.  This 500 acres comes with an additional tenant of the two-legged variety.Gabriel is a veteran who, like every other service member of the last dozen years, returns to America a changed man.  Their alliance is forged slowly, methodically and carefully with frustration, humor and the best first-sex scene I've read in...well forever.  It wasn't that the sex was uber hot or overly romantic.  It just happens.  And it swept me into this relationship with a sense of wonder.  Mimi and Gabriel's ideals work to weave a tale of inspiration I just wasn't expecting to find.The reason I almost didn't buy the book was the title.  When you "break" a Ming vase it goes from priceless to so much worthless crockery.  Our service men and women are priceless and no matter what they experience NEVER return worthless.  So the use of the term "broken", in my opinion, is a disrespectful reference.With that said, I totally understand the vernacular, and will admit that "broken" is how the hero sees himself.  Thus the word does wind up being very appropriate.HIGHLY RECOMMEND.