Review: My favorite emotional read of all time - WOW
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 13, 2013
Let me start off by saying that this has got to be one of the most powerful, raw, and emotional reads I have read to date and I am so glad that it was recommended to me because I thoroughly enjoyed every word written on every page.  Mia did such an amazing job taking a character like Cathy and putting her character into words that were so gut wrenching so believable you felt her pain, her confusion, her sadness and grief.  Not every story has happy hearts and sunshine, this one is no different and that is exactly what makes this story so amazing.Arsen: A Broken Love Story will stay with your long after you finish it.  It is a story that will have you feeling almost every emotion in the book.  I have NEVER read a book where I didn't know who I wanted the girl to end up with and even though this story is over and done I am still not sure on who I would have chosen for her if I had the choice.  The writing was magnificent I felt every scream, every cry, every laugh, every break of the heart, every sigh of relief, everything.  This is defiantly a story that will last a lifetime!----Every action has a consequence.  It doesn't matter if you try to run or hide.  It eventually it catches up to you.  Call if karma if you must, but said karma can totally kick you in the a_s. - Arsen: A Broken Love StoryCathy is a beautiful woman on the outside and broken on the inside.  Having married the love of her life, Ben, and being with him since she was 18 she was living the fairy tale romance that we read in storybooks when we were children.  There was one glitch in her life and that glitch ultimately made her feel less of a woman and after having suffered the latest blow caused her to question everything including her marriage.  She was broken, lost, and just wanted to throw in the towel and not care anyone.  She never questioned her love for Ben, ever.  He was the perfect husband, handsome, smart, funny, and sexy as sin, and worshipped the ground she walked on. He was her everything until that fateful day where something inside her snapped and she needed to break free.  She wanted a different life one where she didn't have to be perfect Cathy, perfect wife, a life where she can make mistakes and it would be okay, a life where she could be selfish and take what she wants.----William Shakespeare said that the eyes are the windows to your soul.  When our eyes connect, I see danger, and maybe something exciting.  Something forbidden.  Some basic instinct in me instantly recognizes that this man doesn't make love to a woman.He f___s her. - Arsen: A Broken Love StoryMeet Arsen.........................(okay give me just a second - my heart is pounding)..........................................OKAY....I am good - sorry about that...Arsen is your typical rich kid.  Lives off daddy's money, can have and does have any girl he wants, good looks, deep pockets, and knows how to work what his momma gave him.  He is used to getting any woman he wants, well what do you know he has his eyes set on good perfect Cathy.  Cathy knows that she can't avoid Arsen all together - I mean his dad is the new owner of the hotel where she works and Arsen is now working under her to help him learn how to become an "adult".  So between the easy banter and harmless flirting the feelings start to grow.  He is the complete opposite of Ben which why I think Cathy was attracted to him.  He was carefree and lived life by the seat of his pants, he was messy and reckless exactly everything that Cathy wanted to be.  She wanted to be reckless and careless for the first time in her life and Arsen was her lifeline to that life.  He had the ability to break her heart so treading lightly around him is what she had to do.  There was a different side of Arsen that people didn't see underneath all that tough exterior lived a man that just wanted love and acceptance and maybe Cathy was that person for him.  That one person who could love him and accept him for who he truly was.Ben played a major part in this story.  He is everything a woman would want in a husband and more.  My heart broke for him because of the things that were going on with Cathy he didn't know what to do.  He tried so hard and fought so long for the both of them because he truly loved her, she was the love of his life and he was willing to fight until the very end for her but communication was lacking and that was the hardest blow of all.  My heart broke for Ben because of what Cathy was doing to him, she was hurting him and he didn't deserve it.  Ben needed his happily ever after and whether that was with Cathy or not was no up to me.  I could almost feel his emotion in this story because of the way it was written, I wanted so badly to wrap my arms around him and hold him and tell him everything will be all right."Yes, you do.  And I wish I could save you, Cathy.  Take the pain away; erase it from your body.  I wish I could hurt for you, but I can't.  You have to save yourself.  All I can do is love you.  Through it all, just love you.  But you need to let me back in."Some of you after reading this may hate Cathy - and I can understand why.  I don't hate Cathy I totally got her, I related to her on so many levels that I understood her pain and her in decision.  There were times where life just got to be too much that you just wanted to say "fudge it" and start all over again with a new life and I understood that.  I also understand her indecision on who she wanted and having to make a choice - when you come to a cross roads and you have to choice it's hard because in the end you are scared that your choice, your decision will ultimately be the wrong one and that scared her - I got that.  My heart broke for her because of what she went through.  Do I think she handled everything in the right manner - absolutely not - but I don't judge her because until I am in that situation I can't say what I would do, easier said than done and all that.Can a person love 2 people at once - yes I do believe that can.  I think that you love those two people differently and for different reasons but I think in the end our hearts are big enough to let more than 1 person in and that is exactly what happened to Cathy.  But life isn't like that is it - you can't always have you cake and eat it too.  Cathy was broken and she needs to find herself in order for her to be happy again.  She needs to heal and sometimes that means being alone.---Holding both my hands over my head, he looks down at me as he slowly and gently slides inside me.  He looks so lost, so hurt, so vulnerable....it is so tender, so sweet, and so painful.  Our emotion guide us through the dance of two bodies trying to communicate at their most honest, vulnerable, basic, and raw moments together what they can't with words.I love you.Please forgive me.Don't leave me.How could you.I hate you.I love you.I will f___ing die without you.You are mine.Only mine.I belong to you.Only you.It is beautiful.  It is soul shattering. It is good-bye. - Arsen: A Broken Love StoryThere are no more words left for me to pour out onto paper to describe what this book did to me.  It opened my eyes and made me look at the ugly part of life differently.  Life isn't always pretty and that is exactly what Mia showed us.  Sometimes we have to fall down and break into a million pieces for before we can be put back together in a better way.  Sometimes you need to have karma kick you in the ass for you to save yourself.  You are responsible for your own happiness.  Open up to the ones you love, let them in, and love yourself no matter what.  Beautiful, raw, emotional, soul crushing, and honest story that will stay with me forever.