Review: When is getting dumped a very good thing?
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 3, 2013
Not your run-of-the-mill insipidly fluffy novel! This romance explores why women get into abusive relationships, healing from abusive relationships, and how the abused woman can recognize sacrificial love when she encounters it.On the list of characteristics of what no one wants in a man, Philip, Jasmine Williams' fiance has it all: he's an emotionally, spiritually, and physically abusive, narcissistic control-freak. So why did Jasmine agree to marry him in the first place?When Philip dumps her just days before the wedding, steals her money, evicts her from their apartment, and turns off her cell phone service, Jasmine begins to wonder that, too.She returns to her parents' home in Astoria, Oregon, and goes to work at their Book Shack--where her childhood friend Rory finds her when he returns from serving overseas in the military. As Jasmine and Rory become reacquainted, Rory's dark secrets from serving overseas and Philip's continued efforts at abusing and controlling Jasmine get in the way of their growing relationship and feelings for each other.Can Jasmine find freedom from the conditioning that led her to submit to Philip's abuse so that she won't continue along dangerous thought-patterns? Can she make Philip a finished part of her past, and embrace Rory as her future?What about Rory? Will his secrets destroy the love and trust that is growing between him and Jasmine, or can he find a way to explain to her what happened to him overseas, and exorcise his nightmares? Can Jasmine accept what has happened to him, or will she reject him when she knows the truth?You'll have to read the book to see!