A Life Less Broken

Margaret McHeyzer

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Release date : May 9th 2014

Rating : 3 Stars

On a day like any other, Allyn Sommers went off to work, not knowing that her life was about to be irrevocably and horrifically altered.Three years later, Allyn is still a prisoner in her own home held captive by harrowing fear. Broken and damaged, Allyn seeks help from someone that fate brought her.Dr. Dominic Shriver is a psychiatrist who’s drawn to difficult cases. He must push past his own personal battles to help Allyn fight her monsters and nightmares.Is Dr. Shriver the answer to her healing?Can Allyn overcome the broken?

Contains distressing content. Only suitable for 18+. Standalone.

A Life Less Broken by Margaret McHeyzer was a hard review for me to write – because this is actually one of the rare cases that I finished a book and could not decide if I like or hat the book.

So this was really no decision if it would be like 3 – 4 or 5 stars – no this was more a decision if it would be a 1 star NO-GO or a 5 star HELL-YESSS.

As you can see I went the safe (cowards) way and took the 3 stars because of this controversial feelings

A 1 star rating was impossible as I finished the book – but after coming to this decision I had to face the facts of the actual plot

The book moved me – well not in a way that it made me cry or so – but it got me thinking …so it is def more that 2 stars

But everything after this is really only my personal feelings about the way the author handled the plot. Let me start by saying – The plot is good and the writing itself is a refreshing approach on this very sensitive matter.

Also the story starts of well – It adds to the storyline that the plot is told from both of the leading characters PoV but … and here comes my biiiig BUT

Allyn’s situation is put under the microscope as you would expect it to be for this kind of plot – but the fact that we get also Dominics PoV lets me as a reader expect to also get a little more of his background. But there simply is not enough of him for me in this story.

Also as nicely as the beginning is handled – during the reading I felt that the speed suddenly changed and for such an intense trauma Allyn suddenly moved by far to quick for my feeling.

There were also minor things like Dominics “lie” about the children subject that was kind of never really addressed by Allyn for what it really was – and it was in fact a LIE … I get why he told it to her but I wonder about her reaction …

But so far I could life with the plot but than the BIG BANG … well there I think the author went “overboard” honestly …. If a person as traumatized as Allyn really would have been in THAT situation I honestly doubt that she would have survived those revelations without any further damage ….

But really … this is a very controversial story I would like to invite you to judge for yourself…

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