Review: 5 Heart Wrenching Stars!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 23, 2013
I'm going to start by saying WOW WOW WOW!You thought the Synopsis gave you angst. You have no idea what this book will put you through!People you have no idea the ride I was on for a day or less because of this book. This book is so out of my comfort zone yet it is addicting, I couldn't put it down. No matter how hard it was on my emotions I was like a junkie addicted to the uncontrollable feelings that were cruising through my body.Broken.I'm lost.I'm drifting away...Cathy, the heroine, or better put the ant-heroine of this broken, heart wrenching story is a woman who finds herself grasping day by day to a life she no longer understands. To a marriage that is holding on by a thin delicate thread. Eleven years with the same man, six years of which they have been married. But in Cathy's troubled existence she no longer see's the man she had fallen in love with so deeply all those years ago. All she can see is her self-pity. Her brokeness."I can feel myself withdrawing from him . From his love. From my marriage. And there is nothing I can do to stop it"Yeah, you see where this is going and it's painful to be a somewhat outside observer to Cathy and Ben's love story. We get to see them in their glory days, from the first moment they met. As Mia so effortlessly wove's the present with the past feeding us readers with the love and the hope those two kids had for each other."I didn't fall in love. I walked smack into it and then fell flat on my ass."It is so beautiful and refreshing to see Ben and Cathy as sweet young innocent lovers. And you can't... well I couldn't help fall in love with them. Ben is a man who would do anything for Cathy, he would give his soul up for her. But in every relationship it takes two to make it work through the problems.If only I had known that it takes a lot more than love to make a marriage work, then maybe our story would be different.If only.True to Cathy's words "If only", I as the reader found myself repeating those words, if only Cathy could see beyond her broken thoughts, if only Cathy could see the choice she was about to make would be disastrous. If only she had listen to the voice of reason. If only....If only she weren't so broken temptation would have not been so enticing. Temptation for Cathy come with a name, Arsen." People say that if you play with fire, you'll get burned. Well, when it comes to Arsen, I not only want to get burned, I want to be incinerated."There are so many things going on in this story, in Cathy's head, heart, life, that make's it so easy for her to free fall in to an oblivious bliss that is not so much bliss, if you will... You cringe once you see the train wreck heading your way. I wanted to scratch my nails on something to stop the inevitable, scream to not only Cathy but Ben and Arsen to think about what they were doing, saying. I wanted to shake them and scream to them to act differently.The characters of this beautifully broken love story, are so complex that we only scratch the surface of what it is they really want. We get glimpses of what Ben is thinking as we do with Arsen, but the totality of their realness, we don't get until later in the book. You think you know what is going on in their heads but you really don't."When you were broken, I loved you for the two of us"Most times perfection and strength are a virtue, but sometimes they are your down fall. If only Ben and Cathy could really see each other rawly, see through the wall that is in between them... things could be different.Ben, well I am a big fan of his, not only is he a husband most ladies would love to have, he is caring and all that. And he has his alpha male side that most ladies melt for, not only that but he is handsome and successful. He's the whole package! I really can't come up with enough words to tell you how much Ben or as I love to call him Benny boy melted my heart. His raw, fierce, heart-wrenching love embedded itself in my soul. *sigh*Ben is a guy you will feel something for him. Love him..feel for him. But I doubt you wont care for him, never minding who your heart is with, this guy and his story will touch you some way or another."How can something so wrong feel this right?"I found myself asking the same question to Cathy...Ahhhh.You see Arsen he is something other, you meet him and you like him of the bat or you don't. I did truly like Arsen. It is easy to see the attraction towards Arsern, not only is he young, carefree, and sexy as hell, he is funny, and a cocky guy. He has no qualms of saying what he's thinking and what he wants. He's a straight forward guy. At first I was ...did he just say that?Arsen' the type you hate, or you love. He is one complex character, he is intriguing, and annoying sometimes. He is a character you really don't grasp in his entirety. As much as I love Ben, I didn't hate Arsen, I just didn't understand him, nor condone his behaviour. When you think you have him all figured out you'll be slapped with the truth that you have no clue what this guy is all about. That ladies and gents is great writing... Awesome character development.Mia is a genus in plotting and character writing.Cathy, or dear Cathy, well she is a big chasm.... You'll hate her, yet you'll feel her pain and her anguish. You'll want to reach out to her and soothe her sorrow and be a friend. Guide her through everything.Mia makes it so that no matter how wrong things Cathy does, no matter how much you want to hate her, it just is difficult to not be sympathetic towards her. And want her to have her happy ending.This was a hard book for me to read, maybe because I don't believe in things happening in this story, moral wise. I'm usually not a fan of love triangles but this book dragged me through the gutter, to imaginable highs of hope and want.I must applaud Mia Asher for this brilliantly hard story of love, mistakes, flaws, and broken characters. This is a raw story, the characters are so real they are almost tangible. You can feel them, taste them, and ache for them.This book is one that no matter how hard it is for you to read it seeps through your body, travels trough your veins, infiltrates your nerves, it occupies you mind and soul. As hard as the book is to read, it is even harder to stop thinking about it once you finish it.Something that comes to mind with this book are well a few:`Careful what you wish for' `Every action has a consequence' `When you love someone let them go, if that person was meant for you they'll find their way back to you'This book no matter what has a worthy message!ARSEN is BRILLIANTLY well written!Arsen by far is on my best read books of 20135 Heart wrenching Arsen Stars!