Review: A long and Hard Short Read
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 26, 2013
My review title is A Long and Hard Short Read and this novella was just that for me as I turned from page to page reading of Mias rape and struggles with who she is who her family is and just needing to know if shes going to be ok made this novella seem so long but in reality it only took me an hour and a half to read but so much longer to digest. Rape is more of a taboo subject not one you would usually just grab and read on a hunch that it would be good but more of a (I hate to say it) but a curiosity type read. You always see a local news papers story or a tabloid while standing in the super market line but not many people would look at a book from the victim's point of view and I know in the beginning. There is a disclaimer stating that characters and events are fictional but still to see a story from even a fictional characters point of view required most likely a great deal of research on the authors part reading and learning just some God awful things. I cant see that Broken Beauty would be something that just anyone could pick up but I have never read much about rape and it never was in my mind so much but my eyes are open so much wider now as to it would be so easy to just get lost in the atmosphere at a party or bar and have an aquantience bring you drinks not knowing they may have alterrior motive. And the things I have done in my past, my carelessness could have ended so horrible it makes me shiver. I do give kudos to the author on bringing a bit of light to a dark subject and hopefully Mias future has a bright and happy ending once the rest of the novellas are released. This novella isn't for someone who is afraid to ugly cry and be compleatly enveloped within a story their is more pain, lies, and panic within these pages most emotions come from Mia but the reactions and people that say that their just helping "make it go away" sicken me. A full five stars for me I am drawn to this book and well the whole series I have been baited and caught.