Review: Broken and Beautiful---Deep, penetrating, heartache!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 26, 2013
ANOTHER FAVE of 2013!!!What the heck did I just read????It was a beautiful train wreck.It was intense.It was raw.It was brutal.It was painstakingly great.It was numbing.It was real.It was brilliant.Lordy, lordy, lordy! Talk about a ride of a lifetime. This is a soul sucking book. It was so intense, that I couldn't stop reading. I ate everything up. EVERYTHING!! I haven't been this mesmerized with writing in weeks. It was perfection and it was flawless. I was so drawn to this story....the synopsis had me reeling and I feel like I just got hit by Mack truck, because my heart was just pulverized into itty bitty tiny bits.I was so sucked into Cathy's life. I felt that I was her, experiencing her every move, step, and breath taken. She has her perfect unsettling world at her fingertips. She is beauty-marked by past scars. She has her happiness bottled up but stored away. She is scared and unnerved. She is breathtaking, and deep. But most of all she was lost and needed to be found. I don't feel like she was a weakling at all. In fact, I felt that she was brave and marred with past worries. She has so much to live for but all in all she needs an anchor....one that will always stay true to her. Hold her in place long enough to fulfill her every want, need, and desire.Men can either be pure bliss or down right deceiving in stories. But the men in the book rocked my world. Totally devoured all of my thoughts. These men are gorgeous, sinful, swoony, dirty, and captivating. I was so enthralled with each guy that I am still not too sure who I love more. Am I Team Ben or Team Arsen? Either or, they made my mouth water. One was deliriously swoony, the other was a down right panty dropper. Ok they both were panty droppers, they both had that quality that made me want to lick them...and other things. But each stole a big part of my heart, no questions asked. One minute I am trying to wrap my brain around who, what, where, and why, the next I am practically on my knees praying that these men drop everything and make all right in Cathy's world. The chemistry is off the wall steamy. The things that were said, the things that happened, and the way Cathy felt when all was said and done, had me practically drooling. Yes, drooling---It was intense steaminess.Can I get an AMEN?!?!?! I love when books this RIDICULOUS, (in a good way-I might add) POP-UP in the Indie world. It takes my breath away. It is my own personal dose of Calgon. And this is an astounding DEBUT NOVEL by Author Mia Asher. The fluidity in her writing and the choreography of the characters left me breathless and wanting more. These three characters have me all sorts of screwed up. But all in great ways. I don't know if I can get over them. Really, I am stunned and know that I will be in book hangover hell, come later this evening.I devoured this book. I took to it like a moth to a flame, because it had disaster written all over it. I am always iffy when I get wrapped up in a love triangle/affairs-type read. I get scared, I don't like walking in blind and feeling around to grip that edge of nothingness....it's like my mind is betraying all of my morals and thoughts about these relationships. But then it's like BAM!, I am so in love with them. Always! And Arsen. A Broken Love Story, didn't change that for me. In fact, I am still stumbling over everything that happened within this beautiful train-wreck. And this book isn't for the faint of hearts, it will catapult you into a downward spiral of uncertainty and the angst will have you screaming, so if you're not ready to take the leap....now isn't the time. But if you are, then grab hold of your big girl panties, pull them on, and begin the adventure into scorching madness.5+++ STEAMING STARS!!