Review: Wow! Very dark.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 2, 2014
Holy moley what have I just read?  Now I know I read some stuff that a lot of people out there wouldn’t touch with a barge pole but I love reading it, I love Dark.  But this one…well…it is brutal.Break Her is set over 36ish hours and features two characters, we never find out their names so I will refer to them as Him and Her.  The whole story is set in Her’s house where she wakes up to find Him raping her.  We don’t find out much about their backgrounds but we do find out that Her has some kind of security/Black Ops company and that Him has been hired to get vengeance on Her by breaking her mind.  Him on the other hand leads a normal life, well with the exception that people pay him to rape men and women.So the breaking/torturing of Her begins by Him raping her and saying the only way for him to stop is if she comes.  Her, we find out is an amazingly strong woman and somehow she manages to have an orgasm.  Him is very pleased that he has himself a worthy opponent and thus the game begins where he tries to break Her and she tries to keep her mind.The story that then follows is very dark and brutal.  Him repeatedly rapes Her and forces her into humiliating acts.  As I said though Her is extremely tough and just will not break for him so this process goes on and on.  There are times when we they discuss what is happening and dissecting it and each other’s responses and lives.This isn’t a sexy erotic book full of titillation.  There is no Hero and you don’t know until the very last few pages who will win this battle of wills.  The author writes in such a way that the story did get a bit confusing with large sections of nothing but dialogue and the plot jumps about from past to present.  I did find this a bit discombobulating, but really it just helps with the mind mess that is Break Her.This is a fantastic book unlike any other book that I’ve read.  For goodness sake though if Dark is not really your thing DO NOT read Break Her otherwise enjoy!