Review: Not for the fainthearted!!!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 20, 2014
This was the first book I've read by author T.J Loveless and as a first it was memorable to say the least.Let me say this first, if you're looking for a happily ever after then you picked the wrong book, cause this aint it.This is a book about survival. A book about dealing with all the bad things that life deals you with. A book about getting up, dusting yourself off and carrying on. Something that Karen knows to well after a tour of duty in Iraq a decade ago.Following your gut instincts can sometimes be a good thing, along with split minute decisions, but in Karen's case they both backfire and she finds herself in a nightmare situation just like she did in Iraq. She now how has to find it in herself to survive the situation she finds herself in as well as try to figure out how this involves her.Just when you think that things are going her way, something happens that knocks the wind out of her and leaves her reeling. She doesn't know who to turn to, who to trust.Reading Fractured Steel was hard. I can relate to Karen in so many different ways. The issues she has with trusting people. Trying to pick yourself up when you've been knocked down so many times. Dealing with anxiety and PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder), something I had no idea about till I saw a psychologist last September. Seeing a person, even a fictional one endure what you do on a daily basis is staggering and i take my hat off to the author for giving voice to Karen's story.The book left me reeling, angered but enthralled from start to finish. Its definatly not a book for the fainthearted, but if you have guts then i highly recommend it.***** stars :)