Review: Mind Blowing...
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 14, 2014
First of all, I want to express that these are MY opinions. My thoughts and review are based on how this book made ME feel.Mia Asher: every feeling, spoken dialogue, and series of event throughout this book was said perfectly. To be able to accurately depict the characters feelings and actions, their highs and lows, throughout this book is mind blowing, and you did it exceptionally well.The words you wrote brought me to all time book-reading low, I commend you for that.My review: This book is more than disturbing; it is a soul wrenching, heart twisting roller coaster.. and then it gets worse.It didn’t make me laugh, it made me feel.I cried multiple times, at one point I was hysterical.Remember: everyone deals with pain and loss differently.Regardless of how wrong it is, we are human; we make and then, we learn from our mistakes.I hate that this could happen to anyone. ANYONE and I am not talking about the cheating, I am talking about the downward spiral of events that lead to the act.I am not sure who I hated the most: Cathy, Arsen or Ben..No, scratch that, I hate them, in that order.Seriously.I hate this book. I hate that I couldn’t put this book down. I hate that it was so good.I hate Cathy for not being stronger; not being able to identify that she needed help.I hate Arsen for persistently being a charming a - hole, for recognizing that Cathy was on a path of self-destruction and using it to his advantage.I hate Ben for belittling Cathy’s feelings, for being an ideal husband but not recognizing how badly his response was affecting Cathy, for not recognizing she needed help.Most of all, I hate that I could relate with Cathy, that I, too knew what it was like to suffer, and hate my other half’s existence, suppressing the lack of worth feeling is easy. The more the problem is ignored the easier it is to hate every word spoken, every stolen glimpse, kiss or touch until you become numb, or in Cathy’s case, until something numbs the pain “like a heroin addict… craving a fix”… And it makes sense, in a horrible way.The ending… well, it was shocking and broken.. A perfectly broken love story