Review: Break Me Slowly
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 01 4, 2014
Overall, Break Me Slowly was a solid and reasonably enjoyable story. It definitely had the trappings of all the other polished billionaire/young naive woman stories that many of us have read ad nauseam since the popularity of such books. Adam and Katelyn were not much different from the protagonists in similar books. They were both damaged and the two of them were bound together by their brokenness. Katelyn's shade came as a result of the damage--mental and physical--inflicted on her by a disturbed mother. Adam's darkness was a bit more deeper, or so we can assume. My issue with this book is that Adam dug all into Katelyn's past. He new about everything that happened to her. Adam's past. Seriously, not even an honorable mention. The reader is able to glean what happened to Adam based on the clues provided but the situation was never discussed between he and Katelyn, and I do not count the ending when Adam handed her his psychiatrists file. File does not equal discussion. I also had a problem with the way Adam treated Katelyn when my Kindle was at 95%. Frankly, I had issues with the inequity in their relationship of him taking everything from her and giving nothing of himself. However, that ending when he basically turned their relationship on its axis ticked me off. I'm not joking...my Kindle was at 95% and I was thinking, "What the heck was that? What just happened here?!?!" I felt like clawing his face off. His emaciated apology was nothing to combat how he treated Katelyn. Sure, I understand he was damaged but you do not treat someone you love and who loves you that way.But I could have tolerated all of that. The book was still a four star read for me even with those issues. What dropped the story a full star for me was the scene in the town car after Katelyn and Adam left the restaurant after running into his stepfather. His response...his physical reaction...with Katelyn was absolutely unacceptable. There was no reconciling that behavior for me.The ending felt rushed because as I mentioned, at 95% there were major unresolved issues with their relationship. Ryan had 3% to resolve the story which felt hastily done. An epilogue of some sort would have been nice to show their lives in the future.