Review: Review of Broken Beauty
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 21, 2013
This novella is just absolutely stunning and stunningly heartbreaking. It is stunning in the way it pulls the reader form the first page into Mia’s world. It’s heartbreaking in the circumstances that the reader finds Mia.I was really drawn to Mia. Watching her try to piece her life back together after her attack brought me to tears. I just wanted to hold her and tell her it would all be ok.  There are times I wanted to shake her, but only because she was believing the lies that others told her in regards to her rape in any way being her fault.As for the story itself, Broken Beauty takes on a very formidable subject, rape.  But the author handles it with amazing depth and honesty.  Both with how Mia handles her attack to how others around her react to it.  The sad part is that there are people out there who actually say and believe the things that certain characters do in the book.I think the only flaw is that it IS a novella and not a full novel. At the end of the story the author’s note explains that: “Broken Beauty” is the first of six novellas chronicling Mia’s struggles and triumphs.”  Honestly I think that Mia deserves her story told all at once.  But no matter how it is told I am definitely going to pick up the next novella as soon as it is available.I am only going to recommend this to the more mature crowd however. The subject matter is very extreme, and the author doesn’t shy away from it.