Review: My head will never be the same again ...
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 21, 2014
It's been 48 hours since I finished Arsen. Forty-eight hours since I put it down and I'm still RAW. My head and my heart still hurt. Our blog did this as a group read since most of us were being chicken s&^%. Thanks to them I picked it up and kept going because I think I would have stopped from the agony I was in.It was that good!The tag line for this book couldn't be more accurate: A broken love story. Broken is the best word to describe each and ever character in this book. Cathy is a train wreck, Arsen is well... I'm still not sure. Ben gets his share as well.While I struggled with the story because of my own person emotions, it was a book that evoked such complex and gut-wrenching moments I couldn't put it down. I felt broken in the end. Unsure of what to do, what to think, or who I felt anything for. Life is hard, people suck, and mistakes are made. There was beauty beneath all the ugly in the story. There was hope beneath all the despair.I don't know that I will ever fully recover from the book hangover I'm still nursing. It's something that will stay with me for a long time.