Review: Real Raw Perfection
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 23, 2013
Is real life contaminating our fairy tale romance with all its ugliness?I love this question I think it is so valid for this story!! I was broken reading this story. Mia Asher broke me, broke me because of the way she was able to capture this real emotion. This is her debut novel and it was everything I was hoping for and I am still shocked it is her first. The way she wrote, the power she wrote with was spot on and I am still in shock over what she managed to do to me."Cruel reality has a way to always catch up to you, no matter how fast or how far you run; reality has a way to destroy one's hopes and dreams. Reality doesn't caress your cheek, letting you know what's to come. No, reality slaps you across the face harshly reminding you that a dream is just that - a dream."This book was a huge reality slap for me and I literally found myself closing my kindle with tears saying Oh My God I can't. This book shows the true ups and downs of life. It is a vision of life we tend to gloss over, the secrets you keep to yourself. This book was one that pushes you as a reader and leaves you speechless and not knowing whether you want to hug to Mia or cuss her out for her writing ability. Is this book for everyone? Absolutely not, this isn't an easy book. This book makes sure you feel every single emotion but in the end it is the truest love story I have experienced in a long time."Falling in love with the wrong person is easy. Falling in love with the right person is easier. But falling in love with your soul mate is easiest.""It's meant to be."I feel like this statement was symbolic in a way because that's what happened to Cathy. She fell in love with two men, one was a wrong misplaced love and one was right, easy and you knew her soul was connected with him.. I have a love/hate with Cathy meaning as much as I wanted to hate her I could not. Cathy hates herself, her curse of infertility is a badge so many women wear. She has this emptiness that leaves her wondering how Ben can even want her. Do I approve of cheating in a marriage? No but I understood why Cathy did it."Ben makes colors seem brighter when he walks in a room, he makes my heart feel as if it wants out of my chest everytime I see him or think of him. He makes my world spin."Ben beautiful, loving, PERFECT Ben. Ben is easy to love, easy to attach to and he is so amazing you can't help yourself but fall for him. I don't know anyone that won't love this man. Unfortunately, that also hurts him when it comes to Cathy because he doesn't understand how to help her."I'm sure of a few things in life. These are that no matter what you do death will always catch up to you, you've got to work hard to pay for life, party harder to enjoy life, and love hardest to live life, and now, you."Cathy's reaction from her miscarriages were so dead on coming from someone who lives with infertility and has literally sat in her shoes however instead of on my bathroom floor I laid in a hospital bed by myself screaming why god chose to torture my soul, and wondering what I did to deserve what he tortured me with. I said Cathy's words to my own husband and when I read them coming out of Cathy's mouth I knew that was Arsen's one way ticket into her life. I knew at that moment she was going to shut Ben out and that she was going to walk away, because that was easier, that was a way to put a band aid on the wound. She called Arsen Kryptonite"It's funny that his name reminds me of fire because he certainly looks like someone who could burn you to the ground. With just one look by him it feels as if my body was burning scarlet."People say that when you play with fire you get burned. Well when it comes to Arsen, I not only want to get burned, I want to be incinerated. He's my chance to be unguarded and content. To be wildly, incredibly, fiercely happy.I love Arsen, he was just as broken as Cathy and if I am honest this man is maybe the hottest thing on paper. Honestly I wanted to jump in bed with him and not think about tomorrow. Arsen and Cathy together is explosive to the point you want to feel it. It is so HOT you forget at moments that this is wrong. You find yourself questioning where you stand and what you thought you would never question.Love can destroy you.Love can erase you.Love can heal you.Love can reinvent you.And, if you are lucky enough, Love can make you whole again. That's what Cathy has done to me.Mother hell, that's what Mia Asher did to me. I love Cathy nope I hate Cathy, I love Arsen nope hate him, and Ben I HATE HIM nope Love him too. See I was a mess of emotion and I had no idea what was going on with my heart!! The only thing I was sure of was I LOVED MIA ASHER and her ability to manipulate my emotions.Can you hear it? The sound of my heartbreaking, seizing to beat.Can you feel it? Excruciating pain, eating me alive, slowly tearing me apart limb by limb.Brilliant, Moving breathtaking MUST READ!! I promise you will not be disappointed, you maybe raw and in the fetal position but you will love it all the same!!Oh and Mia I want another book please!!