Review: She broke them all
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 26, 2013
People say that if you play with fire, you'll get burned. Well, when it comes to Arsen, I not only want to get burned, I want to be incinerated.This is was a 5 star read for me, if for nothing else it made me FEEL and I walked away very affected by this book.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.Arsen is the story of a love triangle...it is a very true depiction of how love even in its strongest form can be broken. It is the story of how when we are weak and vulnerable, temptation can creep in lead us astray. It is the story of Cathy, Ben and Arsen.Cathy our heroine (or anti-heroine as some may say) is a woman suffering and she just doesn't know who to reach out for help. Cathy is a wife, a friend, a co-worker, a lover and a cheater. She doesn't set out to be the way she is, life just happens for her and she follows the path her heart takes her on. Is it right? Is it wrong? Who am I to judge, she did what she did and had to live with the consequences.I want what you have, though. Every woman wants that, a man who looks at her as if she were the only woman in the room.Ben is amazing, he is the man women search for, long for, dream about, read romance novels for and he is the man that Cathy breaks. There is nothing in this story that makes you root against Ben...even as you are reading his hate through tear filled eyes, you still hold out hope.I can't keep living a life where I question every word,every action of the person I should trust unconditionally.Arsen is selfish, immature, jealous, undeserving BUT he also is her savior, her breath, her friend. It is easy to hate Arsen, he is the other man, but remember - it takes two to tango.This book will pull on all of your emotions, you will feel anger, you will feel love, you will rejoice at times and you will cry at times and in the end you understand how the choices Cathy made along the way broke them all."Marriage is work, Cathy. You have to work at it every single day that you're together. You can't ever slack. It's hard being married. You go through great times, you go through terrible times, but it's all about what you make of those experiences. How you deal with them that sets you apart from other couples who throw in the towel....Because divorce is easy, it's the easy way out."Put on your literary armour and read Arsen, it is too good to pass on because you might think the subject matter is too deep. You never know - at the end of this story, you just might look at love a little differently.